Margaret Oldfather

Margaret Oldfather is the preservation program associate at The Pocantico Center.  She works under the direction of the Assistant Director, Operations in preserving and maintaining the building and landscape resources of the Pocantico Historic Area.  Ms. Oldfather came to the RBF in June of 2006 after completing her Masters of Science in Historic Preservation at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation.  While at Columbia, her studies were focused mainly in materials conservation and she wrote a thesis, Sustainable Preservation: Leading Beyond LEED, in which she examined the historic precedents for and feasibility of the marriage of historic preservation with sustainable building practices.  She incorporates her interest in sustainability into her work at the Pocantico Center where the staff strives to operate the buildings and grounds in an environmentally conscious manner.