Join the WTHP and members of Milwaukee’s historical preservation community to meet special guests Mike Jackson and H. Russell Zimmerman.
Mike Jackson, FAIA
National Building Arts Center, St. Louis, MO
Mike Jackson, FAIA, is a preservation architect in Springfield IL, where he was the chief architect for the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency for more than 30 years. He is the founding director of the APT Building Technology Heritage Library and the current board president of the National Building Arts Center.
This presentation will bring together the complementary artifact collection of the NBAC and the archives of the BTHL as research sources for the historic built environment.
H. Russell Zimmerman
Milwaukee’s Architectural Historian
H. Russell "Russ" Zimmerman is an accomplished author, historian, architect, founder of the Milwaukee-based Zimmerman Design Consultants and the Chairman of the Wauwatosa Landmark Commission from 1976-1980. Zimmerman currently resides in Wauwatosa.
Topics for Discussion:
National Building Arts Center
The National Building Arts Center (NBAC) holds the largest collection of built environment artifacts in the Unites States. The core of the collection comes from buildings in St. Louis but also includes artifacts from New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, and other U.S. cities. This collection was assembled by Larry Giles over a 50-year period starting in 1973. The NBAC aims to be a leading lender of building artifacts from exhibition and research on the historic built environment. In 2023, the NBAC partnered with the Pulitzer Arts Foundation on a major exhibit - Urban Archaeology: Lost Buildings of St. Louis.
Apartment Building Technology Heritage Library
The Association for Preservation Technology (APT)’s mission is to advance appropriate traditional and new technologies to care for, protect, and promote the longevity of the built environment and to cultivate the exchange of knowledge throughout the international community. In 2010 APT launched the Building Technology Heritage Library (BTHL), an online archive of period architectural trade catalogs, builders’ guides, house plan books and related technical publications that are rarely found in traditional libraries. Since that time, the BTHL has grown to almost 15,000 publications from North America, Great Britain and Australia. These documents, as primary source materials, can assist in the preservation of the historic built environment and other research goals.