Timothy Orwig

Timothy Orwig is a preservation consultant who teaches at Northeastern University. He graduated from Boston University with an MA in Preservation Studies and a PhD in American and New England Studies. Tim wrote his master's thesis on the history of the poorhouse in Massachusetts and his dissertation on architect Joseph Everett Chandler, restorer of the Paul Revere House, the House of the Seven Gables, and Storrowton. Historic New England magazine recently published articles by Orwig that examine the careers of Chandler and of Frederick "Tad" Stahl, the Boston Modernist pioneer who also restored Quincy Market. Originally from Iowa, Orwig has a B.A. from Morningside College in Sioux City, and an M.A. from the University of Arkansas.