Osher at RIT Hosts Lectures on the History of Graycliff and Bicycle Museum

Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Rochester Institute of Technology is offering a lecture on “Architecture and Wheels” for the third in a series of summer seminars. The event, which is free and open to the public, will be held from 10 a.m. to noon on Tuesday, July 22, at Osher’s Athenaeum Building, 150 Research Blvd.

Susan Nurse, archivist at the Memorial Art Gallery, will speak on the history of Graycliff, the summer retreat designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for Isabelle and Darwin Martin. Built between 1926 and 1929, the estate is set on a cliff with sweeping views of Lake Erie.

The second speaker is Carl Burgwardt, who will discuss the Pedaling History Bicycle Museum located in Orchard Park.

For more information about the lecture, call Osher Lifelong Learning at (585) 292-8989 or visit www.rit.edu/osher.

Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at RIT is a membership-led organization that stimulates minds and forges friendships among people ages 50 and older who live in Greater Rochester. Members participate in classes, discussions, lectures, social events and travel, while engaging in a range of courses to include the arts, literature, sciences, history and government. The organization was founded in 1987 as The Athenaeum, an affiliate of Rochester Institute of Technology. In 2006, it became an Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, joining a growing national network of more than 100 university-based centers.