Preservation Burlington: Duck Decoy Collection

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Host Ron Wanamaker speaks with Liisa Reimann Rivera and Nancie Ravenel, the head conservator at Shelburne Museum, about the soon to open duck decoy collection in the newly renovated Dorset House at Shelburne Museum.

For more info visit: https://shelburnemuseum.org/collection/decoys/

https://shelburnemuseum.org/2016/07/21/papering-town-interview-nancy-ravenel/
 

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Liisa Reimann Rivera - Originally from England, Liisa has lived in Burlington since 2006. She earned her Master's in Historic Preservation from the University of Vermont and is a principal with Blue Brick Preservation. Liisa lives in a 1954 ranch house, whose historic wooden windows she thinks are of a genius design seldom seen since, in Burlington's New North End. Liisa's passions include historic industrial buildings, firehouses and little-known builder-architects of the vernacular landscape.

Ron Wanamaker - Ron has been a member of the Board since 2007 and has served as Vice President and President. A passionate preservationist, he continues to serve on the Education Committee for Preservation Burlington and is also a member of Burlington’s Design Advisory Board. A contractor since 1988, he has lived and worked in Burlington since 1998 and managed Wanamaker Restoration as well as Champlain Valley Millworks.

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