Raising Canes

Conor is the Endangered Properties Manager and Northeast Texas Program Officer for Preservation Texas. He is a graduate of Stephen F. Austin State University (SFASU) and worked as a high school social studies teacher for five years before earning a master’s degree in public history from SFASU. In 2017, he spent the summer in southeastern Alaska with HistoriCorps restoring an Adirondack-style cabin built by the CCC in the Tongass National Forest. Here he developed a passion for hands-on preservation and learning about vernacular buildings and construction methods. From 2018-2021, he worked for the city of Bloomington, Indiana as the Historic Preservation Program Manager where he facilitated local preservation ordinances and applied design review to hundreds of projects impacting historic buildings throughout twelve local historic districts. He worked in cultural resource management from 2021-2022 as an architectural historian, where he made numerous NRHP eligibility assessments and participated in drafting and implementing Programmatic and Memorandum Agreements for projects involving adverse effects to culturally-significant properties. Since 2021, Conor has lived with his wife and two children in Tyler's Brick Streets Historic District. He is a member of Historic Tyler, Smith County Historical Society, and currently serves on the Tyler Historic Preservation Board.