Preservation Consultants
Greg Farmer/Agricola Corporation
Contact: Greg Farmer
PO Box 861
Chicopee, MA 01015
Phone Number(s):
413-592-3875
Fax Number(s):
Email Address(es): agricola.corp@yahoo.com
Web: www.agricolacorporation.com
Description (most of these have been taken from contractor’s/consultant’s website or
other information created by the contractor/consultant): Agricola Corporation offers
consulting services and technical assistance in historic preservation to
architects, engineers, contractors, developers, and non-profit
organizations in Western Massachusetts. Professional services include:
Historic Structure reports, National Register nominations, Certified
Rehabilitation Applications, Planning, and Regulatory Reviews. With
twenty years of experience, Agricola Corporation can help make your
project a success.
Bonnie Parsons
Contact: Bonnie Parsons
Phone Number(s):
Fax Number(s):
Email Address(es): bonnielparsons@yahoo.com
Description (most of these have been taken from contractor’s/consultant’s website or
other information created by the contractor/consultant): Bonnie Parsons was Principal
Planner and Manager of Historic Preservation Programs at the Pioneer Valley Planning
Commission 1991-2012.
Parsons, who joined PVPC in 1991, worked in the region helping to identify and
preserve historic resources through inventory, research, and planning. Notably, she was
responsible for the nomination of thousands of properties to the National Register of
Historic Places. While at PVPC, she has also worked with a number of developers on
obtaining historic tax credits for the rehabilitation of historic buildings. She was
instrumental in the creation of western Massachusetts' first scenic byway, Jacob's
Ladder Trail, and is a founding member of the Barn Task Force of Preservation
Massachusetts. Parsons has presented programs to many of the region's rural
communities on the history and significance of barns, and has written two booklets on
the architectural history of the Highland Communities and their barns. She has also
made numerous presentations to various organizations and historic commissions on a
variety of preservation-related topics.
Pfeiffer, Brian, Preservation Advisory Services
Contact: Brian Pfeiffer,
147 Brattle Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone Number(s):
617-661-4753
Fax Number(s):
617-661-4753
Email Address(es): brpfeiffer@verizon.net
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Description (most of these have been taken from contractor’s/consultant’s website or
other information created by the contractor/consultant): Extensive background in
preparation ofconditions assessments for historic buildings and in the negotiation and
monitoring of preservation restrictions. Marketing of historic properties subject to
preservation restrictions. Management and development consulting to non-profits
involved in preservation.
Specialties: Architectural History; HABS/HAER Documentation; Historic Resources
Survey; Historic Structure Reports; Materials Conservation; National Register
Nominations; Preservation Consultants; Preservation Planning; Preservation Restrictions;
Section 106 Reviews; Tax Credit Applications
Purple Gables
Contact: Lynda Faye, Preservation Consultant
232 East Pleasant Street
Amherst, MA 01002
Phone Number(s):
413-549-0705
Fax Number(s):
Email Address(es): faye.lynda@gmail.com
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Description (most of these have been taken from contractor’s/consultant’s website or
other information created by the contractor/consultant):
Specialties: Architectural History; Cemeteries & Burial Grounds; Historic Resources
Survey; National Register Nominations; Preservation Consultants
VHB/Vanasse Hangen Brustlin, Inc.
Contact: Rita Walsh,, Senior Preservation Planner
101 Walnut Street, PO Box 9151
Watertown, MA 02471-9151
Phone Number(s):
617-924-1770
Fax Number(s):
617-923-2336
Email Address(es): rwalsh@vhb.com
Web: www.vhb.com
Description (most of these have been taken from contractor’s/consultant’s website or
other information created by the contractor/consultant): VHB is an engineering, planning,
and applied sciences firm that provides integrated transportation, land development, and
environmental services to public, private and institutional clients. VHB’s preservation
planners are highly experienced in historic preservation compliance, rehabilitation tax
credit applications and guidance, National Register nominations, structure and building
documentations, exhibits and history publications.
Specialties: Architectural History; Cemeteries & Burial Grounds; Environmental
Consultants; Environmental Impact Documents; HABS/HAER Documentation; Historic
Resources Survey; Historic Structure Reports; Museum Exhibits; National Register
Nominations; Preservation Consultants; Preservation Planning; Section 106 Reviews;
Structural Engineering; Tax Credit Applications
Quid Tum Historic Structures Consulting
Contact: Lisa Sasser,
106 Horace Greeley Road
Amherst, NH 03031
Phone Number(s):
603-554-1562
603-930-4508
Fax Number(s):
603-554-1563
Email Address(es): lisa@quid-tum.com
Web: http://www.quid-tum.com/
Description (most of these have been taken from contractor’s/consultant’s website or
other information created by the contractor/consultant): Consulting, teaching and
technical services for documentation, conservation, repair and maintenance of historic
structures.
Lisa Sasser, Principal
Lisa has worked in preservation since 1972, beginning as a Museum Technician at the
Ranching Heritage Center in Lubbock, Texas. In 1977, she received a Bachelor of
Architecture degree from Texas Tech University, completing as a thesis project, a
Historic Structures Report and restoration plan for a post-1680 houserow at Tesuque
Pueblo, New Mexico. From 1979-1984 she was employed as a Historical Architect on the
Northeast Team of the Denver Service Center, the centralized planning and design office
of the National Park Service. In 1984, she became the first woman to enter the National
Park Service preservation trades training program at the Williamsport Preservation
Training Center in Williamsport, Maryland. After completing the trades apprenticeship
program, she remained on the Training Center staff as a Supervisory Preservation
Specialist and Senior Historical Architect. In 1993, she became the Assistant Chief
Historical Architect for the National Park Service in Washington, D.C. She worked in the
Northeast Region of the National Park Service as a Project Manager and Facility
Mangement Coordinator from 1996 until her retirement from the National Park Service in
August 2009.
Project work has included; planning and project supervision for stabilization of hospital
structures on the south side of Ellis Island, project management for the rehabilitation of
the entry level of the Washington Monument, and work on dozens of 18th-20th century
structures in National Parks in the Mid-Atlantic states and New England. She has also
worked with the Forest Service in the Pacific Northwest to preserve CCC-era rustic log
structures, and encourage the development of in-house preservation teams. Since 1987,
she has helped to develop training programs, and instructed workshops in preservation
philosophy and "hands on" preservation methods for federal agencies, universities, and
state and local groups. Publications include the articles What Historical Architects Can
Learn from the Preservation Trades – and Why They Should, New Paradigms for
Preserving Old Buildings, and Setting Up a Preservation Workshop in the journal CRM.
In 2001, Lisa received the Askins Achievement Award, presented annually by the
Preservation Trades Network for significant contributions to the preservation trades.
Specialties: Education; Historic Resources Survey; Historic Structure Reports;
Historical Research; National Register Nominations; Preservation Consultants; Project
Management; Restoration Contractors
Sagerman, Paula, Historic Preservation Consultant
Contact: Paula Sagerman,
PO Box 365
Brattleboro, VT 05302
Phone Number(s):
802-345-1092
Fax Number(s):
Email Address(es): pj.sage@live.com
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Description (most of these have been taken from contractor’s/consultant’s website or
other information created by the contractor/consultant): Since 1998, Paula Sagerman,
Historic Preservati on Consultant, has assisted owners and stewards of historic properties
with services such as National Register of Historic Places nominations, compliance
review for State and Federally-funded and permitted undertakings, Rehabilitation
Investment Tax Credit applications, historic resource surveys, and preservation planning.
Specialties: Cultural resource management; Historic resources survey; National
Register Nominations; Preservation Consultants; Preservation Planning; Tax credit
applications
Doherty, Jennifer
Contact: Jennifer Doherty,
5 Stewart St.
Hopkinton, MA 01748
Phone Number(s):
508-259-0578
Fax Number(s):
Email Address(es): jbe.doherty@gmail.com
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Works for Mass. clients:
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Description (most of these have been taken from contractor’s/consultant’s website or
other information created by the contractor/consultant): Historic research, including
resources surveys and building reports. Preservation planning.
Specialties:
Historic Resources Survey; Historical Research; Preservation Planning