MacDonald and Mack Architects, Ltd., Minneapolis, MN

1997 - present

MacDonald and Mack Architects a full-services firm specializing in the preservation, restoration, and adaptive reuse of historic properties.  Their mission, with any building, is to respect and preserve the structure’s original significant, character–defining architectural details and integrity while making the necessary changes to keep it relevant and vital for modern use and the client’s specific program and goals. Their extensive experience and expertise go hand-in-hand: lessons learned and solutions created in one project inform subsequent projects. With more than 30 years of experience, they have become adept at handling projects of all scopes, sizes, and budgets from modest to substantial.

International Council of Monuments and Sites Intern Exchange
Summer 1998    

In collaboration with US/ICOMOS and the Transylvania Trust Foundation in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, I spent the summer documenting 18th and 19th century vernacular churches and farmhouses.

• Preservation Alliance of Minnesota
• Minnesota Society of Architectural Historians, Program Committee
• National Trust for Historic Preservation
• CARAIG Neighborhood Design Review Board

• Preservation of Washburn Crosby Company Elevator No. 1, Minneapolis, Minnesota
• Historic Roadside Property Restoration, Minnesota
• Mount Olive Lutheran Church Renovation, Minneapolis, Minnesota
• Alexander Ramsey House Restoration, St. Paul, Minnesota
• Charles Lindbergh’s Boyhood Home, Little Falls, Minnesota
• Fort Bliss, El Paso, Texas
• Omaha Union Stockyards, Omaha, Nebraska

• Minnesota Historical Society Statewide Conference, 2010, Preserving the Recent Past in Minnesota
• Modern Tour, ongoing, A walking tour exploring the development of downtown Minneapolis from  1955 to 1980.
• Breakfast with Preservationist, 2008, Sustainability and Historic Preservation
• University of Minnesota Public Health Group, 2008, The Architecture of Minneapolis
• Lustron Walking Tour, 2008-2010, A tour to discover the unique Luston Houses in south Minneapolis.

University of Minnesota, Department of Architecture 2004 – present

• Architecture 4/5671, Historic Preservation
• Architecture 4/5672, Historic Building Conservation
• Architecture 4/5673, Historic Building Research and Documentation

University of Oregon, Architecture and Allied Arts 1998

• Graduate Teaching Fellow for AutoCAD at the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon.  The class specifically utilized the HABS documentation of Historic Timberline Lodge on Mount Hood, Oregon to learn the aspects of AutoCAD.                                                     

1997 -1998

• Lead teams to prepare HABS documentation of Historic Timberline Lodge on Mount Hood.