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The paint and finish analysis conducted by the Historic Preservation Graduate Students at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago was completed as an assignment for the Building Conservation course, directed by Anne Sullivan in the 2014 Fall semester. The students extracted samples from three exterior sides of the house while carefully documenting the location of the removed paint. Students then performed a microscopic analysis of the layers of paint from the exterior trim, bargeboard, and clapboard siding.

Located at East 43rd Street and South Calumet Avenue in the Grand Boulevard Neighborhood, The Forum served the community as a hub for entertainment, a meeting hall for both labor and civil rights groups throughout its early years. After standing vacant for almost four decades, the building was purchased with the goal of restore the Forum to its original function as a hall to help serve the cultural and social needs of its community. 

A Building Diagnostics class from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s M.S. Historic Preservation Program was tasked in Fall 2010 with documenting conditions and proposing recommendations for the restoration of the facility’s exterior windows.

Students featured as they take part in an annual survey focused on mid-centure architecture within the Chicagoland area.

I primarily focus on the use of art as an advocacy tool in protecting significant historic resources.

Throughout the summer of 2013, I served as an intern in the department of Historic Preservation at the Wisconsin State Historical Society located in Madison, WI. It was there that I worked with the 2,382 National Register Sites listed in the state of Wisconsin.