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Calder Loth’s Mission to Preserve & Protect

November 25, 2009

Style Weekly CoverPosted by Kimberly Allen

"To Preserve and Protect," the cover story of the current issue of Style Weekly, features none other than Calder Loth, St. Paul's parishioner and devoted member of the Property Committee. This expansive article chronicles Calder's decades of work to preserve and protect the architectural richness of our city and state.

Here at St. Paul's, we glimpse his devotion to the cause through his caring service on the Property Committee. Calder has been involved in almost every aspect of preservation projects in the church. He also delights in educating any and all who will listen. Ever wondered about the stories behind the memorial windows of St. Paul's? Calder wrote the book. Want to know more about the Greek Revival architecture? Calder will explain. Amazingly, he has touched hundreds of places in this way.

“It’s impossible to think of preservation without Calder — he’s been the mainstay for the complete 40-year span of the state’s historic preservation program,” says Kathleen S. Kilpatrick, director and state historic preservation officer of the historic resources department. “His connoisseurship is unsurpassed, and combined with his depth of knowledge, good humor and cheerfulness he has given people a sense of what’s important.”

And he does it all with grace. The article's author, Edwin Slipek Jr., explains:

Protecting the past — and the present — while being realistic about the always-changing bigger economic picture, requires technical knowledge, command of a range of details, a deft communications touch and some degree of steeliness. Loth is the whole package. By elegantly perfecting his skills over a long career he’s established himself as an official — and unofficial — arbiter of taste as historic preservation’s éminence grise both statewide and beyond.

Calder currently teaches and lectures about preservation around the country and up until this summer, he served the Commonwealth as full-time Senior Architectural Historian. 

Thanks, Calder, for all that you do!

 

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