| Speakers |
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| Robert Adam |
Mr. Adam
conceived and developed Preservation Carpentry at the North Bennet
Street School (NBSS), where he is the Department Head/Instructor. NBSS
is the only school in the country that teaches Preservation Carpentry.
His approach is to train adult learners through skills training
demonstrated by on-site projects at historic sites. He is an active
consultant to architects and museums on many historic building and
preservation issues. |
| William Finch | Mr. Finch is a principal
in, Finch & Rose, Preservation & Design Consultants for conservation,
repair and restoration of historic buildings. Their work includes field
investigation, restoration specifications, design, and construction
review. Prior experience as an Associate at Preservation Technology
Associates involved substantial hands-on work i a broad range of
preservation, rehabilitation and restoration of 18th and 19th century
historic structures. |
| Anne Forbes | Ms.
Forbes is a
preservation consultant and architectural historian with twenty years of
experience in historic properties surveys and National Register
documentation, and a member of the Board of the Barn Task Force. She
has conducted surveys in over a dozen Massachusetts communities,
including two projects that concentrated on farms, farmsteads and
outbuildings. She is currently Vice-President of the New England
chapter of the Vernacular Architecture Forum, a member of Preservation
Mass’s Regional Advisory Council, and a longtime member of the Acton
Historic District Commission |
| Malcolm Phinney | A former teacher
of environmental science, Mr. Phinney is employed part time by "The
Trustees of Reservations" where he uses timber framing and blacksmithing
skills along with his interest in barns in the preservation,
restoration, and interpretation of old barns which the Trustees own.
For over four generations, his has been involved in the cultivation of
cranberries. This, along with his involvement in the Wareham Historical
Commission and the Barn Task Force, has led to his interest in the
preservation of cranberry screenhouses. Mr. Phinney is a member of the
“Timberframer's Guild” and “The New England Blacksmiths |
| Richard Potter | Mr. Potter is a
principal in Potter Homebuilders, Plainfield, MA, a small family-owned
business that specializes in finely crafted, traditionally joined framed
buildings He has focused on new timber frame construction and
historical restoration since 1976. Mr. Potter has conducted numerous
workshops on all aspects of the craft of timber framing in Western
Massachusetts |
| Christopher Skelly | Mr. Skelly is the Director of Local Government Programs at the Massachusetts Historical Commission. He has been at the Commission for almost 10 years. His degrees include a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture and a Masters in Regional Planning from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. At the Massachusetts Historical Commission, he primarily assists the volunteer local commissions around the state in community-wide historic preservation planning. MHC publications prepared by Mr. Skelly include Preservation through Bylaws and Ordinances and A Guidebook for Historic District Commissions. Most recently, he has assisted several towns in western Massachusetts prepare a community-wide historic property survey plan. His interest in historic preservation goes back to growing up in Northborough, Massachusetts and exploring old buildings, stonewalls and farms. He currently resides in western Massachusetts |
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