The SC State House Grounds with Dr. Brandt - LibraryVoicesSC Podcast Episode 139

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Dr. Curtis Rogers discusses a new guidebook to the SC State House with Dr. Lydia Mattice Brandt. Lydia is an architectural historian, historic preservationist, and associate professor of art history at the University of South Carolina here in Columbia. She is the author of First in the Homes of His Countrymen: George Washington's Mount Vernon in the American Imagination and many articles published in Winterthur Portfolio, Antiques & Fine Art, and the Public Historian, and her recent publication is The South Carolina State House Grounds: A Guidebook published by the University of South Carolina PressListen online at PodbeanStitcherTuneIn Radio, or your favorite podcast app today! 

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