Historic Boulder Board of Directors

Heather Boyle-Noland,  is originally from northern California and has been a resident of Boulder since 1985 and is a graduate of the CU School of Journalism and Mass Communications. As a seasoned creative professional Heather has produced numerous special events, arts and film festivals, and fund-raising projects for non-profits throughout Colorado and Wyoming. A self-described architecture nut and avid preservationist, she has attended every Historic Boulder Holiday House Tour since 1988 and is proud to say that her two children both attended the oldest continuously used school in Colorado, Whittier Elementary in downtown Boulder. Her current projects include co-producing the Cheyenne International Film Festival and raising funds for a documentary project about Boulder architect Charles Haertling.

Photo courtesy of:  Cliff Grassmick

Joyce Davies, Past President, is a Rhode Island native with a life-long appreciation of historic architecture. She moved to Boulder in 1958.  When three of Boulder’s most historic buildings were threatened with demolition, Joyce helped organize a community meeting in December of 1971.  The standing-room only meeting led to the birth of Historic Boulder, officially incorporated in March 1972. Following service as Historic Boulder’s first president, Joyce became the organization’s first executive director from 1975 to 1984.  After Historic Boulder hired a professional preservationist as executive director in 1984, Joyce rejoined the Historic Boulder board.  Even after her board service expired, Joyce remained active in the organization by serving on committees and volunteering.  In 2006, Joyce once again agreed to serve as president of the organization.  In February 2012, Joyce rejoined Historic Boulder’s board.  

Marcelee Gralapp, Past President, after 43 years working in the Boulder Public Library, she retired four years ago and then took up the banner of support for several non-profits in the cultural and arts areas. She joined the Historic Boulder board about six years ago at the urging of Dan Corson, and very much enjoy the involved folks who understand the values of historic preservation. 

Margaret Hansen, Past President, one of the founders of Historic Boulder and has had the pleasure of serving on the Board ever since.  Margaret has been president for three terms, on the Preservation committee since its inception, and its chair for five years.  Preservation is the way to keep a living record of a community's past.  For example, it can educate newcomers and other non-natives that Boulder was not always a high tech center or even a university town.  They can learn that Boulder started as a mining supply town and there were farms west of Crossroads/Twenty Ninth Street.  As an architect who does a lot of preservation work, Margaret's particular interest is in saving the structures that illustrate this history.

Kris Lewis, Kristin Lewis Architects, A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley with a Master of Architecture, she has been a principal with Kristin Lewis Architects since 1982.  She has served as a board member of the Chautauqua Association, City Projects and has been the Chautauqua Building and Grounds Committee chair.  She currently serves on the Preservation Committee.

Catherine Long-Gates (information coming soon)

Hugh Moore, Hugh worked closely with Historic Boulder in 1973 on its first project, the purchase and restoration of Highland School at Ninth and Arapahoe, when he was the Community Free School’s Director of Development. Except for one room on the first floor used by Head Start, and Historic Boulder’s tiny office on the third floor, the rest of the building was rented by the Community Free School and its rent kept Historic Boulder solvent.  Hugh helped make Highland a successful project.  After moving to Cambridge, Mass., in 1977 to be an editor of scholastic curriculum books, he returned here to purchase and preserve the Gold Hill General Store, now the Gold Hill Store and Café.  Hugh is currently chair of Historic Boulder's preservation committee.

Bob Myers, Although he and his wife, Francine, have owned property in Boulder occasionally since 1985, they moved to Boulder permanently 6 years ago. Southern California was their home for 38 years with stops in Connecticut, Houston and Long Beach, CA before taking up Boulder residence. With nearly 50 years in the propane gas industry, Bob still consults part time to various clients both domestic and international. Bob and Francine lived in Paris, France for 3 years while under contract to one of his clients. Their work and leisure travel have taken them to nearly 80 countries including a trek to the base camp at Mt. Everest and a trip to Antarctica. They recently returned from Cuba. Travel, hiking and reading are favorite hobbies. Francine is a former real estate agent and travel advisor who, now retired, currently volunteers at the homeless shelter and makes sure that the shopping malls are never without traffic. In addition to Historic Boulder they are supporters of the humane society, various music organizations at CU, and are active in their HOAs at Wonderland Hill lake. A prime reason for moving to Boulder is their daughter, Tiffany, who went to CU and never came home. Tiffany and her husband, Steffan, are also residents of Boulder and active in Historic Boulder.

Susan Osborne, former Boulder mayor and city council member and past co-president of Historic Boulder,  is a city planner by vocation and avocation. Susan worked in Boulder's long range planning division for 22 years, retiring in 1999. She taught city planning history, American housing policy and energy and environmental planning at the University of Colorado, and completed PhD coursework and dissertation research there.  Her research focus was on twentieth century new towns in America and Europe. She believes in the importance of preservation as the best way to tell a community's story - that its past has made its present.

John Sand (information coming soon)

Chuck Sanders (a.k.a. Eben G. Fine) has lived in Boulder for 22 years and has been a Historic Boulder Board Member for much of that time. He is a practicing architect with many years of experience, and has done a lot of work in the areas of renovation and adaptive reuse of historic buildings.  Before coming to Colorado, he lived in New Orleans from 1965 to 1990, where he was also actively involved in historic preservation activities.  He still maintains close ties to the preservation community there, especially now after the city's catastrophic losses.  Chuck believes that "selective and thoughtful preservation of a community's historic and cultural assets from the past provides a physical basis for a much needed sense of identity and continuity for its citizens, in the face of the rapidly changing and often disorienting world we live in."

Paul Saporito, a longtime Boulder architect, returned to the board after an absence of several years. He first became active in Historic Boulder in 1993 when he was honored for his restoration of the Ruth Cave Flowers house in Goss-Grove, and was named Preservationist of the Year in 2002. He has continued to serve on Historic Boulder’s Preservation Committee and assists citizens and developers in historic property redevelopment. Paul studied architecture at Cornell University.  He taught architecture and urban design at the University of Colorado between 1989 and 2000 and serves on the Downtown Design Advisory Board for the city.

Teresa Toulouse, a Professor of English at the University of Colorado, relocated to Boulder from New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina after living there for 28 years. As director of Tulane University's interdisciplinary program in American Studies, Terry taught a course on New Orleans with architect and preservationist Malcolm Heard.  They focused on how food, architecture, music and ritual combine to create a distinctive cultural "system" in New Orleans, and emphasized its fragility in the face of multiple internal and external stresses.  Concerned about the ways in which historical and cultural memory matter to a community's self-understanding and its motivations to act on its own behalf, she recently designed a similar course at CU about Boulder. 

Deon Wolfenbarger, Co-Chair, Hannah Barker House Committee, has lived in Boulder County for eleven years, moving here from Kansas City, Missouri.   She has worked in the field of historic preservation for almost thirty years, starting with the National Park Service at the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site in Atlanta.  She has also worked at the Georgia State Historic Preservation Office, and as a preservation planner for the cities of Liberty, Missouri; Kansas City, Missouri; and Boulder.  More recently she served as the Survey Coordinator for New Deal project in eastern Colorado for Colorado Preservation, Inc..  Primarily, her career has focused on historic preservation consulting, working on historic resource inventories, National Register of Historic Places nominations, preservation plans, and design guidelines for a variety of communities in the Midwest and Colorado.

Helene Willis (information coming soon)