About

Jackson Preservation Consulting

Jackson Preservation provides consulting services to clients with historic preservation projects of all types in New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont. Our familiarity with the preservation regulation requirements throughout the northeastern United States is uniquely informed by firsthand experience working for the government agencies that administer historic preservation programs, including the National Park Service and the Massachusetts Historical Commission.

We understand that the timely integration of design development, regulatory review, and building construction is vital to the success of preservation projects. Our close relationship with regulatory agencies throughout the northeast, including local historical commissions and state historic preservation offices, ensures that our projects are approved and progress as seamlessly as possible. 


Firm principal, Carter Jackson
 
Carter Jackson has worked for over a decade as an architectural historian and preservation professional on projects throughout England and the United States. His career began as an architectural designer in Kentucky, producing construction drawings and documenting historic buildings for rehabilitation projects. Realizing his interest in the historic built environment, he went to England for his MA in the History of Art and Architecture at the University of York, UK. He then moved to Boston, where he completed his PhD in the History of Art and Architecture at Boston University, studying nineteenth and twentieth-century architecture in Britain and the United States.
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Carter has worked with historic buildings through positions with institutions including Historic New England, the Library of Congress, the MIT Museum, and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Most recently, he has worked for the Massachusetts Historical Commission (MA SHPO), reviewing applications for historic rehabilitation tax credits—a role which has provided him with a uniquely thorough understanding of the tax credit application process. Carter has also worked as an historian for the Historic American Buildings Survey; he has served on the Board of Directors at Boston’s Gibson House Museum; he is an alumnus of the Attingham Summer School; and he currently is on the building committee at Boston's Old North Church. His writing on architecture has been published in venues including Commonwealth Beacon and Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide.

When not working on historic buildings, Carter enjoys tinkering with old cars and airplanes. He has his private pilot's license and loves to fly whenever he can.