Jeffrey C. Bourke, R.A.

Architecture & Preservation Services

1281 W. Strasburg Rd.

West Chester, PA  19382

Tel: 610-696-5683

E-mail: jbra2@worldnet.att.net

Education

B. Arch.            Illinois Institute of Technology                                           Architecture          1972

 

Experience Profile

 

Mr. Bourke has been involved in the field of historic preservation on a full-time basis since 1973. Prior to opening his own office in 1987, he served for fourteen years as a Project Architect/Manager with the firm of John Milner Associates in West Chester, Pennsylvania. In 1998 Mr. Bourke co-founded 1:1:6 Technologies Incorporated, a consulting firm specializing in building materials conservation located in Media, Pennsylvania. His responsibilities have included project management, business development, quality control, and technical oversight of projects, as well as period- and adaptive use-design. Mr. Bourke has had extensive experience in preservation planning and architectural restoration, including field investigation, building analysis, documentary research, master planning, interpretive planning and CAD documentation. His unique restoration and period design skills have included the identification and documentation of a full range of historic building types and periods, dating from the late-17th century to the mid-20th century. He has directed more than fifty historic preservation projects in the states of Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Michigan, Georgia, Tennessee, and Virginia. The scope of services on these projects has ranged from the preparation of historic structure reports and master plans to construction documents and construction administration. Mr. Bourke is a licensed architect in the states of Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia.

 

 

Representative Projects

 

2003                         Longwood Gardens, Kennett Square, Pennsylvania. Existing conditions survey of the Ballroom, Music Room, and PBX Hallway, including computer-generated base drawings for future assessment of decorative and architectural finishes; future phases will involve coordination of a specialized team of consultants, leading to eventual construction documents and restoration.

 

2002-Present Master Plan for Irish Village, East Durham, New York. Historical Architect for Master Plan of an Outdoor Museum featuring the proposed recreation of a 32 acre 1870s rural village from the province of Munster, involving documentary and field research in Ireland.

 

2002-2003                 Radnor Hall, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Exterior restoration of a circa 1887 Collegiate Gothic style dormitory designed by Cope and Stewardson, involving rubble and cut-stone masonry restoration, wood window rehabilitation and slate roof replacement.

 

2000 Hajoca Building, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  Measured drawings of a circa 1930 Art Deco industrial facility.  Drawings to be used as base plans in the adaptive use of the building as a technology center (now the offices and studios of WXPN Radio).

 

1999                         Quadrangle Dormitories, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Survey and construction documentation for the multi-phased rehabilitation of the extensive roof systems of an historic, Collegiate Gothic style dormitory complex.

 

1998-2001                 B&O Water Street Station, Wilmington, Delaware. Principal-in-charge for exterior restoration and adaptive-use of an abandoned nineteenth century freight depot, designed by Philadelphia architect Frank Furness.

 

1992-1993                 Dymaxion House, Wichita, Kansas. Princi­pal-in-charge for CAD recordation of Buckminster Fuller's circa 1946 prototype prefabricated aluminum house (in advance of disman­tling and restora­tion at the Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village, Dearborn, Michigan).

 

1986-1987                 Noah Webster House, Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village, Dear­born, Michigan. Project Manager for the interior restoration of Noah Webster's circa 1823 New Haven frame house (relocated in Dear­born and altered circa 1930).

 

1985                         Erasmus Hall Academy, Brooklyn, New York. Project Architect for the exterior restoration of the large, previously relocat­ed, and extensively altered circa 1786 frame building, involving survey and preparation of construc­tion documents.

 

1984-1985 Firestone Farm Homestead, Dear­born, Michigan. Project Manager for survey, preparation of construction docu­ments, and construction administration for the disman­tling, reloca­tion, and restor­ation of a large, circa 1835 brick farmhouse from its original site in Salem, Ohio to the Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village.

 

1981-1982                 Growden Mansion, Bensalem, Pennsylvania. Project Archi­tect in charge of Historic Structure Report for the circa 1740 Mansion and outbuildings, and emerg­ency stabili­zation of the outbuildings.

 

1980-1982                 Sun Inn, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Project Manager for restoration of the circa 1760 Inn, one of the most important of the surviving buildings in the mid-18th century Moravian settlement.

 

1980-1981                 Pieter Claesen Wyckoff House, Brooklyn, New York. Project Archi­tect (Con­struc­tion Phase) for restoration of the important circa 1710 Dutch frame house.

 

1978                         Circa 1796 Burlington County Courthouse and circa 1811 Pris­on, Mount Holly, New Jersey. Project Manager for Historic Structure Report for Courthouse and Pris­on, the latter designed by architect Robert Mills.

 

1976-1977                 William Scarborough House, Savan­nah, Georgia. Project Archi­tect for restora­tion and adaptive use of the circa 1819 Regency-style mansion designed by English architect William Jay.