Lance Humphries, Ph.D., executive director of the Mount Vernon Place Conservancy, kicks off Homewood Museum's fall architectural lecture series with a talk titled "A 'House in Town': Charles Carroll of Homewood's Residences in Baltimore City."

Well known for having built Homewood, one of the most beautiful Federal-era country houses in the United States, Charles Carroll Jr., like many wealthy Baltimoreans of his time, spent most of his winters in the city. Dr. Humphries, co-curator of the Homewood Museum exhibition A Winter's Residence: Charles Carroll of Homewood's Town Houses, 1800-1816, will trace Charles's seasonal movements and Baltimore town houses, both owned and rented, to better illuminate his domestic life.

Guests are invited to attend a 5 p.m. reception at Homewood Museum to see the related A Winter's Residence exhibition, before the 6 p.m. lecture in Gilman Hall 50.