On the first day of summer, more than 50 years ago - June 21, 1972 - nearly 200 friends and colleagues of Richard Nickel gathered in the courtyard of Glessner House to pay tribute to the dedicated preservationist and talented architectural photographer who lost his life while salvaging ornament in Adler & Sullivan’s Chicago Stock Exchange building.

This is a recording of a live event on the 50th anniversary of that gathering as we celebrated the life and enduring legacy of Richard Nickel, which included saving Glessner House in the mid-1960s. The program includes a conversation with Nickel’s lifelong friend John Vinci, who worked beside him in salvaging ornament in numerous Sullivan buildings, and preserved Nickel’s irreplaceable archive of photographs and other materials through the Richard Nickel Committee.