Seth Hinshaw
About the Author
Seth Hinshaw is a building documentation specialist working in the Mid-Atlantic states and former 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 began work in this field as Senior Historic Preservation Planner for Wise Preservation Planning LLC in 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 served several years on the HARB in Pottstown, Pennsylvania.
You can contacted me by e-mail at sethhinshaw @ yahoo.com.