welcome
If you have ever wondered about the history of your home, family or organization, and want to know how best to preserve its legacy, my multidisciplinary approach will help you, your family, your organization, or your company to investigate your past and how to best preserve and tell your story. I specialize in serving the broad needs of my clients, from limited research projects such as investigating the renovations to their property or complete family histories, to the archiving and preservations methods of a large organizational history.
With a lifelong passion for history and preservation, I earned my MS in Historic Preservation from The Art Institute of Chicago and my BA from DePaul University in Architectural History and Urban Planning. I have worked in architecture and preservation since 1999 and seeking to have a closer relationship to my work and clients I decided to launch my own consultancy in 2009.
historic preservation
historic context
The circumstances that form the setting for interpreting history, such as through common themes of geographical location, time period, etc; used as a foundation for decisions about planning, identification, evaluation, registration, and treatment of historic properties, based upon comparative significance.
integrity
A measure of the authenticity of a property’s historic identity, evidenced by the survival of physical characteristics that existed during the property’s historic or prehistoric period in comparison with its unaltered state; for example a building of high integrity has few alterations or ones that can be easily reversed.
archival science
ar•chive
noun: a collection of historical documents or records providing information about a place, institution, individual or group of people. Archives consist of primary resources worthy of preservation for their enduring cultural, historical or evidentiary value.
cat•a•log
noun: A complete list of items, typically one in alphabetical or other systematic order.
in•ven•to•ry
noun: a complete list of items such as property, goods in stock, or the contents of a building.
