The Portland Preservation blog is a project of the Bosco-Milligan Foundation / Architectural Heritage Center in partnership with the National Trust for Historic Preservation. This blog is an extension of our Partners in the Field efforts. In 2008, Bosco-Milligan received matching grant funding as part of the National Trust’s new Partners in the Field program, aimed at helping historic preservation organizations around the country expand their technical assistance and field services capabilities.
Portland Preservation is written by Val Ballestrem, Education Manager at the Bosco-Milligan Foundation / Architectural Heritage Center in Portland, Oregon. Val serves as the primary point of contact for the Bosco-Milligan Foundation’s Partners in the Field efforts. He has an Master of Arts degree in History from Portland State University and has lived in the Portland area his entire life. He has also served on the board of the Hosford-Abernethy Neighborhood Development Association and been active in historic preservation issues around the city.
Occasional entries will be written by Cathy Galbraith, Executive Director of the Bosco-Milligan Foundation. Cathy has more than 30 years of historic preservation and city planning experience in Portland and the Pacific Northwest. She is a Masters of Urban Planning Graduate from Portland State University and was Executive Director of Historic Seattle from 1987-1992.
Additional entries may be written by Morgen Young, current chair of the Architectural Heritage Center’s Education Committee. In addition to her volunteer work for the Bosco-Milligan Foundation/Architectural Heritage Center, Morgen is the owner of Alder LLC, a public history and historic preservation consulting firm in Portland, Oregon. She holds a Master’s Degree in Public History with specialization in Historic Preservation.
More information about the Bosco-Milligan Foundation / Architectural Heritage Center can be found at www.VisitAHC.org.
