Contributors

KIRK HUFFAKER has served as executive director of Preservation Utah since 2008. Since 1998, he has provided assistance throughout Utah to build local preservation leadership, develop policy, and save historic buildings. A native of the Chicago suburb of Wheaton, Huffaker holds a master’s degree in Historic Preservation from Eastern Michigan University. He is the author of Salt Lake City, Then and Now (2008).

BIM OLIVER is a Salt Lake City consultant specializing in the study of Utah architecture of the twentieth century. His book about the changes that occurred along South Temple Street in the middle of the twentieth century, South Temple Street Landmarks: Salt Lake City’s First Historic District, was in January 2017. In 2015, Oliver completed a major survey of post– World War II buildings on the University of Utah campus, which is the basis for his article in this issue.

RICHA WILSON earned a Bachelor of Architecture and a Master of Science in Historic Preservation before joining the Forest Service as its first architectural historian. She wishes to thank the anonymous reviewers of the Utah Historical Quarterly for their suggestions and insightful comments.

THOMAS CARTER’S graduate studies were in folklore at the University of North Carolina and Indiana University, but he slowly morphed into an architectural historian while working first in the Utah State Historic Preservation Office and then the University of Utah’s School of Architecture. Carter’s publications include (with Peter Goss) Utah’s Historic Architecture, (with Elizabeth Cromley) Invitation to Vernacular Architecture, and Building Zion: The Material World of Mormon Settlement. He is currently professor emeritus at the University of Utah.

SHERI MURRAY ELLIS is an archaeological and historic preservation consultant with more than twenty-five years of professional experience in Utah. She holds a Master of Science in American Studies from Utah State University, with an emphasis on western American history, folklore, and architectural history.