Conference Presenters

is involved in the evaluation and editing of every National Register nomination that comes through the Wisconsin SHPO office. She is available for questions about the National Register program and the eligibility of historic properties. You’ll likely interact with Elizabeth if you have a historic district in your community or a new National Register nomination for a district or individual property. Elizabeth studied Historic Preservation and Community Planning at the College of Charleston in South Carolina and received a Master’s degree in Historic Preservation from the Art Institute of Chicago. For the past 15 years, she has been an architectural historian for an environmental consulting firm based in Los Angeles where she worked on National Register nominations, Multiple Property Submissions, & local Landmark nominations.

After Chris Howard graduated college, he moved back to Wisconsin and rented the lower half of a country duplex near Powers Bluff in Wood County. When the duplex was put up for sale in 2002, he bought it and created a com-pany called Lazy Meadow Homes LLC. A few years later, Chris bought a second property located at 111-121 S. Central Ave., met & married Erin and so began the Howard Family’s love affair with Downtown Marshfield and a hobby grew into a full-time business. While the company owns a number of prop-erties outside of Marshfield, the Howards’ passion for history in general, and Downtown Marshfield more specifically, led them to specialize in developing projects in this area. With the majori-ty of their properties Downtown, the company started “doing business as” Howard Properties in 2018. Howard Properties owns and leases 77 spaces in Downtown Marshfield—24 to commercial businesses & 53 to residential tenants.

is currently employed with the State Historic Preservation Office with the Wisconsin Historical Society, where she manages archaeological and burial sites data and assists Wisconsin’s citizens with archaeological questions. She received her BA in Antiquities at Missouri State University, a Masters in Archaeology at the University of Wisconsin-Fayetteville, and her PhD at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her areas of expertise include effigy mounds and mortuary rituals, burial preservation statutes, the archaeological culture history in Wisconsin, and ceramic stylistic analysis.

living in central Wisconsin for a majority of her life and a high school teacher for 30 years, Vickie has been a genealogist and local historian for over 35 years. She has served numerous offices for the Marshfield Area Genealogy Group in Marshfield (Wood County), of which she has been a member since 1984 when the group started and served as president for the Wisconsin State Genealogical Society for 7 years. Vickie and her husband, Don, were instrumental in writing and collecting information for two history books for the city of Marshfield, “The Marshfield Story, Piecing Together Our Past” and “The Marshfield Story, Windows to Our Past.” Vickie and Don received numerous awards for their work and research on the Marshfield History Project, “The Wisconsin Main Street Award” (1997) and “Volunteer of the Year Award” from the City of Marshfield (1997). She also is responsible for the QR Codes of Historic Marshfield project which can be found at https://www.marshfieldgenealogy.com/QR-Codes-of-Historical-Marshfield.html and this past year, was very active, with the City of Marshfield’s Sesquicentennial Anniversary committee. Vickie serves on the City of Marshfield’s Historic Preservation Committee, 2012-2021, and the City of Marshfield Historic Preservation Commission, 2021-current., and as their Chairperson for the past five years, where she continues working on the city’s Historic District brochure series and other historical projects and webinars. Vickie has been on the WAHPC Board of Directors since 2019, serves as WAHPC Board Secretary, and is on the WAHPC Newsletter team.