Recent Projects 

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Plum Island, WI

Since 2014, I have been working with the Midwest Regional Office of the US Fish and Wildlife Service to preserve historic maritime resources located in the Green Bay National Wildlife Refuge on Lake Michigan.  The properties include a Life-Saving Station (2016, top) and Range Light complex (above), both built on Plum Island in 1896. Projects have included preparation and implementation of a condition assessment and stabilization plan for the structures, researching and writing a comprehensive history of the sites for a historic structures report, and overseeing rehabilitation work, including structural repair (inset), roofing, lead abatement/painting, and window restoration.  

St. Martin Island, MI 

Located on a remote island in Lake Michigan, off the coast of the Garden Peninsula, is a traditional-style logging camp built in 1947. This small-scale operation was established by four enterprising brothers from a local family, who harvested hardwood logs from the island’s dense forest and transported them to lumber mills in Appleton, Wisconsin, with the help of a surplus World War II landing craft. For this project, I documented existing conditions at the site, researched and wrote a comprehensive narrative history, and evaluated the camp’s potential eligibility for the National Register of Historic Places.

Marion, IL 

Built in 1950 to provide respite and recreational opportunities for disabled veterans from a nearby Veteran’s Administration Hospital, the Haven is located within the boundaries of the Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge. Designed as a collaboration between a regionally-prominent architectural firm and a Chicago-based team of landscape architects and planners. the building is an excellent example of the Modern Rustic Style. With heavy timber beams radiating outward and upward from a massive hearth, and wide expanses of glass set between rustic stone piers, the structure is fully integrated with its natural surroundings on the lakeshore. I prepared a condition assessment and rehabilitation plan to guide preservation of the Haven.

The Life-Saving Station crew quarters building – mid-restoration, 2021.