Wermiel, Sara E. 1950-
WERMIEL, Sara E. 1950-
PERSONAL: Born August 31, 1950, in Washington, DC; daughter of Nathan (an accountant) and Ruth (a homemaker; maiden name, Glass) Wermiel. Ethnicity: "White." Education: Oberlin College, B.A., 1972; Hunter College of the City University of New York, M.U.P., 1977; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ph.D., 1996. Politics: Democrat.
ADDRESSES: Home—70A South St., Jamaica Plain, MA 02130. E-mail—[email protected].
CAREER: Boston Redevelopment Authority, Boston, MA, planner, 1978-80; City of Chicago, Chicago, IL, budget specialist in Office of Budget and Management, 1981-83; Philadelphia Housing Development Corp., Philadelphia, PA, director of planning and management information systems, 1983-86; Boston Redevelopment Authority, Boston, MA, planner, 1986-87; Department of Housing and Community Development, Boston, MA, computer specialist, 1987-2000. Consultant in historic preservation.
MEMBER: Construction History Society, Society for Industrial Archeology, Society for the History of Technology, Boston Society of Architects (coleader of historic resources committee).
WRITINGS:
The Fireproof Building: Technology and Public Safety in the Nineteenth-Century American City, Johns Hopkins University Press (Baltimore, MD), 2000.
Army Engineers' Contribution to the Development ofIron Construction in the Nineteenth Century, Public Works Historical Society, 2002.
Contributor to scholarly journals and trade magazines.
WORK IN PROGRESS: A book about nineteenth-century American architect-engineers.