CURRICULUM VITAE
Paula A. Mohr, Ph.D. 7005 Horton Avenue Urbandale, Iowa 50322 (515) 783-2167 [email protected]
EDUCATION
2007 Ph.D. University of Virginia, School of Architecture, Department of Architectural History, Charlottesville, Virginia Major field: nineteenth and twentieth-century American architecture Minor fields in American art and medieval architecture Dissertation: “‘Artificial Constructions’ and Object Lessons in a Sacred Landscape: The Art and Architecture of Central Park, 1858-1880” Dissertation advisor: Richard Guy Wilson
2002 Attingham Summer School for the Study of British Country Houses and Collections in Britain Giles Waterfield and Annabel Westman, Directors Full scholarship
1999 Victorian Society Summer School in London Ian Cox, Director
1987 Victorian Society Summer School in America, Newport, Rhode Island Richard Guy Wilson, Director Partial scholarship
1986 M.A. State University of New York (Oneonta)/Cooperstown Graduate Program, Cooperstown, New York Major: Museum Studies
1983 B.A. University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa Major: History
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TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2013 Co-Director and Scholar, Frank Lloyd Wright and the Prairie School in the Midwest, National Endowment for the Humanities Landmarks of American History and Culture: Workshops for School Teachers, Mason City, Iowa, July-August 2013
2007 Adjunct Professor, Department of Art and Design, Drake University History of American Architecture, Fall 2007
2006 Adjunct Professor, Department of Art and Design, Drake University History of American Architecture, Spring 2006
2004 Instructor, School of Architecture, Department of Architectural History, University of Virginia History of Architecture, Summer 2004
2001-2003 Teaching Assistant, School of Architecture, Department of Architectural History, University of Virginia Architecture of Thomas Jefferson, Spring 2003 Nineteenth-Century American Architecture, Spring 2001 Survey of Architecture, Summer 2001, Fall 2001, Spring 2002, and Fall 2002
OTHER EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE
Jan 2007-present Architectural Historian and Certified Local Government Coordinator, Iowa State Historic Preservation Office, Des Moines, Iowa
Aug 2006-Jan 2007 Interim Certified Local Government Coordinator, Iowa State Historic
June 1994-June 2000 Curator, Office of the Curator, Department of the Treasury, Washington, D.C.
May 1990-June 1994 Curatorial and Preservation Specialist, Office of the Curator, Department of the Treasury, Washington, D.C.
May 1989-May 1990 Museum Curator, White House Liaison, National Park Service,
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Washington, D.C.
June 1987-May 1989 Assistant Curator, Preservation Office, Old Executive Office Building, White House Office of Administration, Washington, D.C.
Feb 1987-June 1987 Research Assistant, Montgomery County Historical Society, Rockville, Maryland
Feb 1986-Feb 1987 Curatorial Assistant, Woodrow Wilson House Museum, National Trust for Historic Preservation, Washington, D.C.
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS (CO-AUTHOR)
1988 Co-author of Creating An American Masterpiece: Architectural Drawings of the Old Executive Office Building. Washington, D.C.: American Institute of Architects Press, 1988
CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOOKS
2010 “Architecture: Early America” in Encyclopedia of Religion in America, Charles H. Lippy and Peter W. Williams, eds. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 2010
2008 “Charles August Ficke” and “George Evan Roberts” in The Biographical Dictionary of Iowa, David Hudson, Marvin Bergman and Loren Horton, eds. Iowa City, Iowa: University of Iowa Press, 2008
2006 “God in Gotham: Medievalism and Nature Worship in Central Park” in American Sanctuary: Exploring Sacred Spaces, Louis Nelson, ed. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2006
2004 “Architecture” in The South: The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Regional Cultures, Rebecca Mark and Rob Vaughan, eds. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2004
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ARTICLES
2000 “The Treasury Fire of 1996: Protecting Cultural Resources in a Non- Museum Environment,” Journal of the American Institute for Conservation 39 (2000): 57-63
NATIONAL LANDMARK/NATIONAL REGISTER NOMINATIONS
2012 National Historic Landmark nomination for Meadow Brook Hall, Rochester, Michigan
2005 National Register nomination for Salisbury House, Des Moines, Iowa
1984 National Register nomination for the Benson Block, Ottumwa, Iowa
1982 National Register nomination for Meek’s Flour Mill, Bonaparte, Iowa
BOOK REVIEWS
2009 Review of Historic Preservation for Professionals by Virginia O. Benson and Richard Klein (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University, 2008) in Annals of Iowa (Summer 2009)
2008 Review of Buying Time for Heritage: How to Save an Endangered Historic Property by J. Myrick Howard (Raleigh, North Carolina: Preservation North Carolina, 2007) in Annals of Iowa (Fall 2008)
2008 Review of Gothic Arches, Latin Crosses: Anti-Catholicism and American Church Designs in the Nineteenth Century by Ryan K. Smith (Chapel Hill, North Carolina: The University of North Carolina Press, 2006) in Winterthur Portfolio 42.4 (Winter 2008)
2006 Review of Henry Shaw’s Victorian Landscapes: The Missouri Botanical Garden and Tower Grove Park by Carol Grove (Amherst, Massachusetts: University of Massachusetts Press, 2005) in Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes 26.4 (October-December 2006)
2004 Review of Designing the Centennial: A History of the 1876 International Exhibition in Philadelphia by Bruno Giberti (Lexington, Kentucky: The 4
University Press of Kentucky, 2002) in Vernacular Architecture Newsletter 99 (Spring 2004)
2002 Review of When Church Became Theatre: The Transformation of Evangelical Worship in Nineteenth-Century America by Jeanne Halgren Kilde (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002) in Winterthur Portfolio 37.4 (Winter 2002)
2007-present Book reviewer for the Library Journal
LECTURES, CONFERENCE PAPERS, PRESENTATIONS, AND EXHIBITIONS
2013 “Building Bridges Between Iowa Museums and the Historic Preservation Field,” panel discussion, Iowa Museum Association Conference, Sioux City, Iowa, October 2013
2013 “A History of the Historic Preservation Movement and How We Got Here,” presentation for Section 106 Workshop, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, September 2013
2013 State Historic Tax Credit Workshop, presenter, Le Mars, Iowa, June 2013
2013 “From Lillian Russell to Ashton Kutcher: Iowa’s Opera Houses and Movie Theatres” (with Ralph Christian), lecture at the State Historical Society of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, May 2013
2013 “New and Improved: Modern Architecture in Des Moines,” lecture for the RaySociety, Des Moines, Iowa, April 2013
2012 “The Architecture of Downtown Des Moines,” course for the Iowa Architectural Foundation, Des Moines, Iowa, October and December, 2012
2012 “But wouldn’t you like this kind of ‘modern?’: Wright’s influence through Popular Home Magazines,” paper delivered at the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy Annual Conference, Mason City, Iowa, October 2012
2012 “Preservation at the State Level,” guest lecturer for historic preservation class, Art History Department, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, 5
October 2012
2012 “Preserving a Sense of Place With Downtown Design Guidelines” (with Laura Carstens), presentation at the Iowa Downtown Summit, Keokuk, Iowa, August 2012
2012 “Hollywood in the Heartland,” lecture at the Sioux City Public Museum, Sioux City, Iowa, May 2012
2012 “American, New and Improved: A History of Modern Architecture,” lecture delivered at the Restore Omaha Conference, Omaha, Nebraska, April 2012
2011 “Local Landmark Design Review and the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Rehabilitation: The Basics” (with Jack Porter), presentations for the Spencer Historic Preservation Commission, May 2011 and the Davenport Historic Preservation Commission, December 2011
2011 “Architecture of Downtown Des Moines” (with Tom Wollan), lecture for the Iowa Architectural Foundation, Des Moines, Iowa, October 2011
2011 “Nurturing Partnerships: An Action Plan That Works,” panel discussion, National Main Streets Conference/National Trust for Historic Preservation, May 2011
2011 “The Rural Church,” lecture for Architecture Month, Iowa Architectural Foundation, Warren County, Iowa, April 2011
2011 “Historic Preservation: Place and Time,” guest lecturer for public history course, Grand View University, Des Moines, Iowa, April 2011
2011 “What Style is My House . . . and Why Does It Matter?” lecture delivered at the Restore Omaha Conference, Omaha, Nebraska, April 2011
2011 “Midwestern Regionalism and the University of Iowa’s Danforth Chapel,” paper delivered at the Missouri Valley History Conference, Omaha, Nebraska, March 2011
2010 “Gathering, Sifting and Putting Together the Pieces: Researching Your Historic Property,” presentation for the Iowa Library Association Annual Meeting, Iowa City, Iowa, October 2010
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2010 “How Historic Buildings are Green,” moderator for the Green Architecture Lecture Series, Iowa Architectural Foundation, Des Moines, Iowa, April 2010
2010 “Hollywood in the Heartland,” lecture for the RaySociety, Des Moines, Iowa, March 2010
2009 “Rehabilitation of Iowa’s Opera Houses and Movie Theatres,” panel discussion, Preservation in Progress Conference, Ottumwa, Iowa, May 2009
2004 “God in Gotham: Architecture and the Development of Sacred Space in New York's Central Park," lecture delivered at the Turpin Bannister Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians, Albany, New York, November 2004
2003 “God in Gotham: Medievalism and Nature Worship in Central Park,” Winterthur Seminar for graduate students from George Washington University, Winterthur, Delaware, October 2003
2003 “A World Apart: Jefferson’s Academical Village,” lecture delivered during Alumni Weekend, Charlottesville, Virginia, June 2003
2003 “Corporate Modernity and the Quest for Autonomy: The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library,” paper delivered at the Mid-Century Modernism in Washington, D.C. Symposium sponsored by the Latrobe Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians, Washington, D.C., March 2003
2002 “God in Gotham: Medievalism and Nature Worship in Central Park,” paper delivered at (Un)Common Ground: Rethinking American Sacred Space Symposium, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, November 2002
2002 “Patriarchy and Medievalism in Antebellum Virginia: Belmead, The Gothic Revival Castle of Philip St. George Cocke,” paper delivered at the annual meeting of the Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians (SESAH), Mobile, Alabama, October 2002
1998 “The Treasury Fire of 1996: Protecting Cultural Resources in a Non-
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Museum Environment,” paper delivered at the annual meeting of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works, Washington, D.C., 1998
1988 “Creating An American Masterpiece: Architectural Drawings of the Old Executive Office Building,” co-curated exhibition at the Octagon Museum, Washington, D.C.
SERVICE
2013- Advisor, Iowa Main Street Advisory Council, December 2013-
2012-present Vernacular Architecture Forum Board Member and Chair of Fellowship Committee (Pamela H. Simpson Presenter’s Fellowships and Ambassadors Awards)
2012-present Advisor and Ex-officio Board Member, Preservation Iowa, Des Moines, Iowa
2012-present Board Member, Partnership Panel, Silos and Smokestacks National Heritage Area, Waterloo, Iowa
2008-present Grant Reviewer for Historical Resource Development Program, State Historical Society of Iowa
2009-2010 Grant Reviewer for Small Operating Support Grants, Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs
2010-2011 Board Member, Iowa Smart Planning Task Force, Des Moines, Iowa
2008 Member, Feasibility Committee for the Stockdale Double House, Des Moines, Iowa
2008 Evaluator for Humanities Iowa, Building a Modern Campus: Eliel and Eero Saarinen Symposium, Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa
2008-present Member, Architecture in the Community Committee, Iowa Architectural Foundation, Des Moines, Iowa
2007-2009 Great Places Panelist, Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs, Des Moines, 8
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2004-2010 Chair of the Publications Committee, Treasury Historical Association, Washington, D.C.
2004-2005 State Representative (Pennsylvania), Recent Past Preservation Network
2001 Awards Committee/Publications Committee, Association for Preservation Technology International (APTI)
2000-2008 Board of Directors, Treasury Historical Association, Washington, D.C.
1999-2004 Board of Directors, Latrobe Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians, Washington, D.C.
1999-2000 Member of the Preservation Roundtable, Washington Arts Club, Washington, D.C.
1999 Reviewer for “Save America’s Treasures” grants, White House Millennium Council, Washington, D.C.
1997-1999 Member of the Historic District Committee, Capitol Hill Restoration Society, Washington, D.C.
1992-1998 Member of the White House Comprehensive Design Plan Committee (including Pennsylvania Avenue), representing the Deputy Assistant Secretary on the Executive Committee (Treasury Department designate), Washington, D.C.
1987-2000 Member of the Federal Curators Roundtable, Washington, D.C.
GRANTS, HONORS, AND AWARDS
2013 Landmarks of American History and Culture: Workshops for School Teachers Grant (with Pat Schultz), National Endowment for the Humanities, $179,993 awarded to Wright on the Park
2008 Preserve America Grant, $45,300 awarded to the State Historic Preservation Office
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2004-2006 Philip Francis du Pont Fellowship, University of Virginia
2003 McNeil Dissertation Fellowship, Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library
2002-2007 Raven Society (honor society), University of Virginia
2002 Samuel H. Kress Fellowship
2002 Raven Scholarship, University of Virginia
2001-2002 Governor’s Fellowship, University of Virginia
2000-2003 President’s Fellowship, University of Virginia
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
National Alliance of Preservation Commissions National Trust for Historic Preservation Preservation Iowa Society of Architectural Historians Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians Vernacular Architecture Forum
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REFERENCES
Dr. Richard Guy Wilson Chair and Commonwealth Professor of Architectural History Department of Architectural History School of Architecture University of Virginia P.O. Box 400122 Charlottesville Virginia 22904-4122 (434) 924-6462 [email protected]
Dr. Maura Lyons Associate Professor of Art History Department of Art & Design 282 Fine Arts Center Drake University 2507 University Avenue Des Moines, Iowa 50311-4505 (515) 271-3858 [email protected]
Ms. Barbara Mitchell Howard Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer State Historic Preservation Office Minnesota Historical Society 345 Kellogg Blvd. W. St. Paul, Minnesota 55102-1903 (651) 259-3466 [email protected]
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