Seth Hinshaw
About the Author
Seth Hinshaw is a building documentation specialist working in the Mid-Atlantic states and adjunct professor of historic preservation at Rowan University.
I assist architectural historians with resources to cover any gaps in their education or knowledge to help them produce higher quality work.
I earned an M.A. in History from the University of North Carolina-Greensboro and then an M.S. in Historic Preservation from the University of Pennsylvania. I worked as Senior Historic Preservation Planner for Wise Preservation Planning LLC from 2001 and have worked as an architectural historian in the greater Philadelphia area since that time. I was chosen as the inaugural historic preservation professor at Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey in 2022 (an adjunct position).
I have documented thousands of buildings in historic resource surveys in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and I have contributed to 21 nominations that resulted in a historic district or an individual resource being listed in the National Register of Historic Places (two as National Historic Landmarks). I have contributed to dozens of historic structure reports, historic property documentation projects, and historic resource impact studies.
The lectures and presentations I have given on a wide variety of architecture-related topics, including residential architecture, colonial religious architecture, and barns have assisted in training requirements for members of historical commissions and HARBs in southeastern Pennsylvania.
I also serve on the HARB in Pottstown, Pennsylvania.
You can contacted me by e-mail at sethhinshaw @ yahoo.com.