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Sharon Wells
PRESIDENT, Island City Heritage Press, Key West, FL 1982 | 2003

> Historic Preservation Consulting
> Rehabilitation Tax Certifications (38 submissions,38 successful)
> Gingerbread Biographies-House Histories

Publications
> Portraits: Wooden Houses of Key West
> Forgotten Legacy: Blacks in Nineteenth Century Key West


Education 1966 - 1970 University of Florida Gainesville, FL
> B.A., History and Political Science
> Graduated Magna Cum Laude

As HISTORIC PRESERVATIONIST from 1978-1995 in Key West, Sharon Wells worked for the Historic Florida Keys Preservation Board, Florida Department of State, a Florida state agency.

Responsibilities: Designed and implemented projects, including public presentations, public relations and community coordination. Authored Design Review guidelines and provided expert witness testimony in legal matters related to historic preservation Represented city government's preservation issues and efforts to local, county and state groups from l983-l990. Supervised volunteers for historic cemetery survey project. Administered special grant projects, including preparation of project budgets and publications.

> Implemented Historic Survey of 1847 cemetery in Key West. Supervise volunteers for historic cemetery survey project. Inaugurate and co-ordinate local historic preservation awards program.

Provided professional services as historian and historic preservationist on a county-wide basis for state agency. Seek and administer grant funds from state and federal agencies.

> Preparation of National Register nominations and oversight of two National Register Historic Districts in Key West.

 

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Sharon Wells Consulting
Historic Preservation Consulting; Historic Architectural Projects
P.O. Box 56,
Key West, Fl 33041

sharon@seekeywest.com

Tel. 305.294-8380
Cell. 305.923.5133
Fax. 305.294.0566

> A Partial list of Clients
1982-2003

> Rehabilitation Tax Credits for Historic Buildings