Selected Projects

Selected projects

                         Unraveling the Threads of
                         Community Life: Work, Play, and
                         Place in the Alabama Mill Villages           of West Point Manufacturing
                         Company. An award-winning piece
                         in Constructing Image, Identity, and
                         Place: Perspectives in Vernacular
                         Architecture IX, 2003. The essay
                         examines how families in five
                         company towns made use of
                         public and private space.

                        "Catalogue of the Library of
                         Kérivon Château" (in French),
                         unpublished typescript, 368 pages,
                         December 2007. A bit outside of
                         my usual range, but it was an
                         opportunity that a bibliophile
                         could not pass up. Click on the
                         image at left for a complete
                         description of this project.

Comprehensive historic buildings survey, housing type analysis, and National Register of Historic Places nominations for the City of Valley, Alabama. Valley has four cotton mill villages of the West Point Manufacturing Company. Existing company records were combined with field work to provide an in-depth examination of these company towns. Carried out under three one-year contracts with the City of Valley, 2000-2002.

Martin Luther King Junior National Historic Site Historic Resource Study, written with Maureen Carroll and Steven Moffson, National Park Service, 1994. This was the first of six historic resource studies that I co-authored while with the NPS. It received the 1994 Paul E. Buchanan Award of the Vernacular Architecture Forum.