Courtney Fisher Collection - Historic Preservation Program

Heritage Resource Collections

Courtney Fisher Slide Collection

Courtney Fisher was a preservation planner and professional who spent most of his working career in Vermont. Born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1946, Courtney grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He received his undergraduate degree in History of American Art and Architecture from Dickinson College in Carlisle, PA in 1969. He earned his Master of Science degree in Historic Preservation from Columbia University in the 1970s. Courtney was associated with a variety of planning and architecture firms and ran his own consulting business for many years. He was a founding member of the Society of Industrial Archaeologists and served on the Vermont Advisory Council on Historic Preservation. He was also a guest speaker in UVM Historic Preservation Program classes. As an openly gay preservationist, he provided confidence, leadership and inspiration to others drawn to pursue careers in this field. Towards the end of his life, Courtney was instrumental in plans to rehabilitate the North Hero Community Center in North Hero, Vermont. He passed away in 2009 from complications due to leukemia. In 2010, Courtney Fisher's slide collection was donated by his estate to the University of Vermont Historic Preservation Program. The exhibit below that is drawn from this collection documents Vermont community landscapes in the 1970s and 1980s and examples of early preservation planning projects that followed the passage of the National Historic Preservation Act in 1966.

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Courtney Fisher worked on preservation planning projects throughout Vermont.