Timothy Orwig

Timothy Orwig is an architectural and social historian who teaches at Boston College, UMass Lowell, and Lesley University. He graduated from Boston University with an MA in Preservation Studies and a PhD in American and New England Studies. Tim wrote his master's thesis on the history of the poorhouse in Massachusetts and his dissertation on architect Joseph Everett Chandler, restorer of the Paul Revere House, the House of the Seven Gables, and Storrowton. Historic New England magazine has published articles by Orwig on the history of American architecture and historic preservation, including the careers of Chandler, early preservationist Henry Charles Dean, and Frederick "Tad" Stahl, the Boston Modernist pioneer who also restored Quincy Market. Originally from Iowa, Orwig has a B.A. from Morningside College in Sioux City, and an M.A. from the University of Arkansas.