Mark Rabinowitz

Interim Director of Historic Preservation

Christovich Visiting Professor of Historic Preservation

Mark Rabinowitz, FAIC, FAAR, FAPT, has decades of experience in the assessment, testing, and treatment of major historic and artistic works in the US, Canada, Europe, and the Caribbean. He currently serves as President and Principal Conservator with EverGreene Architectural Arts. First trained as a sculptor, he has worked on preservation of collections, monuments, sculptures, historic structures, fountains, industrial artifacts, and historic sites.

Mark has worked on preservation of collections, monuments, sculptures, historic structures, fountains, industrial artifacts, and historic sites.

Recent significant projects include the laser cleaning and chemical consolidation of the north and south extensions of the U.S. Capitol, laser and steam cleaning of the Jefferson Memorial, assessment and removal of ancient mosaics and medieval stonework from the Princeton University Art Museum.

Other projects include restoration plans for the Paul Manship Celestial Sphere at the UN in Geneva Switzerland, George Washington’s Mount Vernon, the Carnegie Library, Washington, D.C., and Astor Library in NYC, assessments and treatment of the Atlantis Space Shuttle, A-12 CIA spy plane, and 2 Saturn V rockets, the assessment of the Egyptian Obelisk in New York City, assessments and studies at the U.S. Capitol, U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Dept. of Justice, Senate and House Office Buildings, and U.S. Supreme Court buildings, Washington, D.C., direction of restoration of exterior stonework at the West Block of the Canadian Houses of Parliament, assessments and treatments of the Grant, Lincoln, Jefferson, and WWI Memorials on the National Mall, Washington Square Arch in NYC, conservation of monuments in Arlington and other National Cemeteries around the country, restoration of major elements of Louis Comfort Tiffany’s Laurelton Hall, conservation of works for the Brooklyn Museum, Metropolitan Museum in NYC, the Smithsonian Institute, and National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., Crystal Bridges Museum, Morse Museum, The Hispanic Society, the Mariner’s Museum, the Biltmore Estate, John D. Rockefeller’s Kykuit, Doris Duke’s Rough Point, Vizcaya Museum & Gardens, The Ringling Museum of Art, Cheekwood Estate, and hundreds of other federal, state, local, and private clients throughout North America.

Major public sculpture collections that have been assessed and treated include The City of New York Dept. of Parks, Columbia University, Cheekwood, Smithsonian Institution, Miami Beach, Jacksonville, and others.

Collection care and management assessment and planning projects have included: the City of Calgary, Canada public art, U.S. Capitol campus metals, the collection of artifacts from the carving of Mount Rushmore, ND, assessment and planning for the archeological collection, California State Dept. of Parks, environmental conditions study and collection care assessment, Blair House, U.S. State Dept, Washington, D.C., and others.

His sculpture is held in private and public collections including the City of New York, Commune of Lasa, and Sant’ Ambrogio, Italy, Town of Greenwich, Connecticut.