Bob Muckle
Elected in 2005, he served on the Louisville City Council for 14 years, the last 8 as Mayor. In 2009 he wrote and helped to pass a ballot question to impose a .125% sales tax to support historic preservation which created a fund that offers incentives for property owners to landmark their historic structures. The fund provides grants for owners of landmarked buildings to assist them in maintaining their historic structures. Renewal of the historic preservation tax in 2018 passed by 65%/35%. The tax has allowed Louisville to hire a preservation planner to support historic preservation, save the Louisville Grain Elevator, restore and expand 740 Front, restore the facade of the Waterloo, landmark and repair two historic (Blue Parrot and Empire/Colacci’s) neon signs on Main Street, to landmark two false front buildings on Main Street and landmark multiple historic residences in Old Town. Bob is a preservation enthusiast, heritage tourist, and regular attendee (and speaker once) at the annual Colorado Preservation Inc. Saving Places Conference.
Patrick O'Rourke
Patrick served eight years on the Glencoe, IL Preservation Commission. As a Glencoe resident, he relocated and restored the “Howard House,” a three-story, 6,000 square for Queen Anne and the Carson House (moved two miles, across two bridges, and stored in the train parking lot for six months. Yes, he did have to pay for 12 parking spaces).
Patrick’s commercial preservation projects include the restoration of the Ziegfeld Building, an 18,000-square foot gateway building to Glencoe, and he currently owns the Woodstock Stock Exchange, also in Glencoe, IL. His “hands-on and get it done” approach to preservation in Boulder will help Historic Boulder continue its mission.
Mary Ellis
After retiring, she received masters degrees in Urban and Regional Planning and in Landscape Architecture from Virginia Tech, and moved with her husband to Crested Butte. She served for six years on Crested Butte’s Board of Zoning and Architectural Review, honing a strong appreciation for and knowledge of historic preservation. Mary now lives on Boulder’s University Hill, where she is active in the neighborhood association and continues her work as a freelance translator. She’s the author of “The Business of Drugs” (CQ Press), as well as articles published in Landscape Architecture Magazine and other journals.
Trudy Gannon
Kathryn
Since then, Kathryn has been involved with HB in most capacities – President, Preservation Committee member, holiday house tour house captain, a spirit during Meet the Spirits events at Pioneer Cemetery, and as a host for member and Ghost Walk, Ghost Talk events. She firmly believes that Historic Boulder IS Boulder, and is looking forward to Historic Boulder’s 50th anniversary celebration in 2022.
Laurie Friedeman
In both her professional and volunteer careers, she has provided dynamic nonprofit leadership; directed fund development planning; executed major and annual giving campaigns and created enduring events. The heart of her volunteer leadership rests with Chicago’s Rush University Medical Center where she held several executive roles during her forty year tenure with the Woman’s Board. She has recently moved to Boulder to be closer to her daughter’s family. Immediately prior to moving here, Laurie worked with the Sonoma Ecology Center, the Sonoma Valley Hospital Foundation and the Jackson Hole Children’s Museum on strengthening these nonprofit organizations and now does so professionally as an independent consultant.
Cheryl Gray
Cheryl studied economics at Stanford and has advanced degrees in public policy and law from Harvard. She and her husband now live in the landmarked Scott Carpenter house at Aurora and Seventh Street in the University Hill neighborhood.
Linda Haertling
Linda has served on the boards of the CU Art Museum, the Museum of Boulder, the Convention and Visitors Bureau and on Boulder’s Arts Commission. She’s been an intrepid volunteer on several Historic Boulder house tours, and helped secure houses for The Month of Modern 2018 Haertling tour and helped with the 2019 Papachristou tour.
Sue Morea
Sue has volunteered and attended many Historic Boulder events and is passionate about historic preservation. She firmly believes that in order to know who we are today we need to understand how we got here.
Steve Wallace
Steve was an owner and managing partner of the Boulder Inn, a Best Western property. He served as a director of the National Best Western organization, and locally is (and has been) the president of Boulder’s Hotel/Motel Association, is (and has been) on the city’s Liquor Board and has been a member of the Convention and Visitors Bureau.
Stephanie Bingham
Stephanie Bingham has been working on preservation issues in Boulder for over a decade. Her emphasis has been on the Mid-Century Modern era of design that is particularly strong in Boulder. She and some colleagues created the Month-of-Modern celebration that takes place annually in September. Over the past 18 months, Stephanie has been providing a myriad of valuable services for Historic Boulder programs, including graphic design, website review, advertising, membership outreach, and event planning. Her work has helped raise the quality of this organization.
Len Segel
He is an architect, having earned his master’s degree from the University of Michigan. Over his 40 year career he has achieved a wide perspective, working in design offices in Pennsylvania, Michigan, New York and Colorado. He’s taught at CU and served on the boards of the Museum of Boulder, the Urban Land Institute, the Modern Architecture Preservation League of Colorado and, of course, Historic Boulder. Len co-authored the “Historic Context and Survey of Modern Architecture in Boulder” and he knows more about modern architecture here than just about anyone.
He and his wife Rachel renovated their home in the Mapleton Hill Historic District and have enjoyed the qualities of that neighborhood for many years. In Len, we believe we’ve found Historic Boulder’s perfect match.
Melanie Muckle
Meet Historic Boulder’s Office Administrator
Melanie Julian Muckle served on Historic Boulder’s Board for six years (two years as Treasurer) until she was term limited in 2021. These days she serves as HBI’s bookkeeper, membership chair, database manager, tech assistant, event planner and “just about anything that needs doing” person. She grew up in Boulder (Arapahoe, Douglass, Platt, Fairview), has a BA in Human Biology from Stanford and a JD from the University of Michigan. She practiced law in both the public and private sectors, including plaintiff’s environmental (oil spill) litigation in Alaska.
Melanie and her husband Bob live in Louisville where she was elected to the city’s Charter Commission in 2000. There she fought hard to get a plank in the Charter creating a Historic Preservation Commission, helped draft Louisville’s preservation ordinance and served on the first Commission. She campaigned successfully for the town’s Historic Preservation Tax, as well as for local candidates who understand the importance of saving old buildings.
Contact Melanie at melanie@historicboulder.org.
