Prior to the establishment of Milner + Carr Conservation, LLC, John served for two years as Senior Architectural Conservator with John Milner Architects, Inc. Mr.Carr has an extensive background in conservation, project management and fundraising. His previous experience includes nine years working with the Fairmount Park Historic Preservation Trust, four as its Director, to preserve the Park's remarkable collection of historic buildings and outdoor art. After leaving the Trust, the Board of Directors presented the F. Eugene Dixon, Jr. Award to John honoring his years of dedicated service. He has also received preservation awards for his conservation work at Christ Church Cemetery, Historic Rittenhousetown, Sedgely Porter's House and Ridgeland. He served two years as the secretary/treasurer of the architectural subgroup of the American Institute of Conservation. Mr. Carr currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Preservation Alliance of Greater Philadelphia and PennDesign Alumni Association.
Mr. Carr's educational background includes a MS and Advanced Certificate in Architectural Conservation from the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate Program in Historic Preservation. He completed coursework in stone conservation at ICCROM in Rome, Italy before attending the University of Pennsylvania. During his Advanced Certificate study, he completed a materials assessment and conservation plan for the Rendez-Vous Folly in the Czech Republic under the stewardship of the Worlds Monument Fund. John co-authored Historic Masonry Deterioration and Repair Techniques an Annotated Bibliography in 1994, and Conservation of a Public Amenity: Martin Puryear's Pavilion in the Trees in 2003.
In private practice since 1968, John Milner, FAIA specializes in the restoration of historic structures. In the historic preservation field, Mr. Milner's particular expertise is in the detailed analysis of historic buildings to document their physical and cultural history, and the development of strategies, technical procedures and design solutions for their restoration and adaptive reuse.
In addition to his professional practice, Mr. Milner has, since 1976, been an Adjunct Professor of Architecture in the
University of
Pennsylvania 's Graduate School of Design. He was selected by the National Endowment for the Arts and the General Services Administration to serve as a National Peer Architect for the review of designs for major new federal buildings. Mr. Milner serves as Chairman of the Historic Preservation Board of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. In 2005 he received the James Biddle Award from the Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia for lifetime achievement.
For the past 30 years, 26 of which have been in professional practice with John Milner, Mary Werner DeNadai, FAIA has focused on the preservation, restoration and adaptation of historic institutional, commercial and ecclesiastical buildings in the full spectrum of architectural styles and periods. Her specific expertise is in the management of large, complex projects including historic structure assessment, feasibility analysis, development of preservation priorities, master planning for multi-phased projects and creative approaches to adaptive reuse programming and design.
Ms. DeNadai's organizational and leadership skills have also enhanced her contributions to non-profit and quasi-public organizations at the local, state and national levels, where she has been an active and visible steward. Currently she serves on the Board of Trustees of the National Trust for Historic Preservation and on the Boards of Directors of Preservation Action (past chair), of Cliveden of the National Trust and of Preservation Pennsylvania (currently vice-president and formerly president). In 1999, Ms. DeNadai was the recipient of the F. Otto Haas Award,
Pennsylvania 's highest recognition for contributions by an individual for lifetime achievement in the field of historic preservation.
Staff
Andrew Fearon, Architectural Conservator
Andrew Fearon received an MS in Historic Preservation from the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate Program in Historic Preservation and a BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He wrote his masters' thesis A Technical Investigation of Coatings on Woodwork by the Herter Brothers: The Analysis of Architecture and Furniture of the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion, and was recognized with the Anthony Nicholas Brady Garvan Award. With over ten years experience in the field of conservation, he brings to the team a specialized background in wooden materials encompassing architectural finishes, interior woodwork and furniture. Prior to graduate school, Andrew was an assistant conservator, managing and executing state contracts in gilding conservation with the Bureau of Historic Sites within the New York State Office of Parks Recreation and Historic Preservation. Along with practical training through traditional apprenticeships in sculpture and furniture conservation, he has also held positions and completed internships in conservation with The Art Institute of Chicago, The Brooklyn Museum of Art and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Recent projects include the assessment and treatment plan for interior woodwork at Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site, and research, documentation, and digital reconstruction of ca.1870 woodwork for the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Roy Ingraffia, Architectural Conservator
Prior to the establishment of Milner + Carr Conservation, LLC,
Roy served for three years as an Architectural Conservator with
John Milner Architects, Inc. Roy has worked on a variety of projects including the annual preservation maintenance of the George Grey Barnard Statuary at the Pennsylvania State Capitol, the conservation of Pennsylvania blue marble at Independence Hall and the Second Bank of the United State, Philadelphia, PA, among many others. He earned his MS in Historic Preservation from the
University of
Pennsylvania’s School of Design. He worked as a summer intern at the
University of
Pennsylvania ’s Architectural Conservation Laboratory and was part of an extensive condition survey for cavates at
Bandelier
National Monument in
Los Alamos, NM. Roy earned his BA in Art and Architectural History from
Hobart
College.
Adam Jenkins, Conservator
Adam recently finished his three year Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Objects Conservation at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. He has worked at the Museum since 2001, and has served as an intern and project conservator prior to his fellowship. His fellowship research involved treatment of inorganic and organic objects, LASER research for conservation applications, and testing of metalizing and corrosion inhibitors for the protection of metal objects. As a project conservator, he was responsible for the treatment of Atmosphere and Environment XII by Louise Nevelson. Adam received a MS in Art Conservation from Winterthur, University of Delaware and his BA in Arts Management from Keene State College where he graduated Magna Cum Laude. He participated in a two week course at the Metals Conservation Summer Institute at Worcester Polytechnic Institute the summer of 2004. He coauthored “Compensation for loss; Ethics and Practice: The Conservation of Two Schiaparelli Evening Coats and the Replication of Missing Ornamental Elements,” The Conservator, #27 in 2003. Adam has also worked at a number of Galleries and Museums.
Amanda Karpowich, Conservator
Amanda received her BFA in 1999 from Marywood University in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and she specialized in ceramics. Her extensive experience includes working in private conservation over the past ten years, and she has worked in the objects conservation laboratory at the Philadelphia Museum of Art since 2001. At the museum, she has been able to work on a number of museum collections that include a wide variety of materials. Amanda joined Milner + Carr Conservation in March of 2006 in order to offer small-scale conservation techniques to large-scale architectural projects. She specializes in stoneware, earthenware, terracotta, and porcelain conservation as well as in-painting.
Leigh Seyfert, Architectural Conservator
Prior to the establishment of Milner + Carr Conservation, LLC, Leigh worked as an intern at John Milner Architects, Inc. She received her MS Historic Preservation from the
University of
Pennsylvania ’s Graduate Program in Historic Preservation. Her thesis, The
Ohio
State Pavilion at
Philadelphia’s 1876 Centennial Exhibition: Identification, Survey, and Evaluation of 20 Types of
Ohio Stone was recognized with the Anthony Nicholas Brady Garvan Award. Leigh’s interest in historic preservation and architectural conservation began at the
University of
Virginia where she received a BA from the
School of
Architecture, with a major in architectural history and a minor in architectural design. Prior to graduate school, Leigh worked on the nonprofit side of preservation at the National Trust for Historic Preservation in
Boston. As Program Assistant in the Northeast Office she managed three seed grant administered the Trust programs in the northeast region, and coordinated communications. Along with her nonprofit work she also has experience working in several architectural firms.
Jay Stephenson, Conservator
Jay Stephenson graduated from
Mt. Allison University, New Brunswick, Canada , with an Honors Degree in American History and an Education Degree with Special Education Certification. After teaching special education in
Maine, Jay relocated to
Pennsylvania to work in
Fairmount
Park with the Fairmount Park Historic Preservation Trust. He was an integral part to many projects, including Historic Rittenhousetown,
Mt.
Pleasant, and The Sheep Barn. Jay was also employed by Carr Conservation, whose primary focus was stone repair. He worked on stone monuments at the
Dupont
Family Cemetery in
Wilmington, DE, and Christ and
St. Peters ’ Churches in
Philadelphia. For two years, Jay returned to
Nova Scotia,
Canada, with his wife and son to restore a late 1790
Cape Cod house, including the fireplaces and chimney. Jay returned to the
Philadelphia area in the fall of 2005 to join Milner + Carr Conservation. Jay specializes in wood construction, historical assessment and stone repairs.
Marco Federico, Conservator
Marco holds an MS in Historic Preservation from the
University of
Pennsylvania ’s Graduate Program in Historic Preservation (2008).Marco became interested in conservation while working at the Fairmount Park Historic Preservation Trust in 2002. Prior to the joining Milner + Carr Conservation, LLC, Marco Federico worked as a conservation technician for Carr Conservation. He traveled to Italy in 2004 to work as a conservation intern at the
Protestant
Cemetery in
Rome .While pursuing his master’s, Marco interned at Eastern State Penitentiary and worked with Myers Conservation in the conservation of an 18th century decorative plaster ceiling at the Philadelphia Zoo.
Alisa Vignalo, Conservator
Alisa holds an MS in Art Conservation specializing in objects from the Winterthur Museum/University of Delaware training program (2002), and a BA in Art Conservation from the
College of
St. Catherine in
St. Paul, MN (1997).Before working at Milner + Carr, Alisa was an objects conservator for the Barnes Foundation in Merion, PA, from 2006-2008 and was also in private practice where she was responsible for a large-scale object treatment program for Woodford Mansion in Fairmount Park, research projects for the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and assessing and treating objects for other institutions, museums, and private clients.She has received funding from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation for both an advanced internship at the Domuztepe Archaeological Excavation in Turkey and a one-year postgraduate fellowship at the
Worcester
Art Museum in
Worcester, MA .Originally from St. Paul, MN, she also worked for several years for what is now known as the
Midwest
Art
Conservation
Center in
Minneapolis .
Laura Mass, Conservator
Laura received an MS in Historic Preservation from the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate Program in Historic Preservation in 2004. While in school, she participated in two summer internships which involved documentation and conditions assessments of historic greenhouses in the Orto Botanico, Rome and cavates at
Bandelier
National Monument in
Los Alamos, NM . Laura wrote her master’s thesis on The Synagogue at Eastern State Penitentiary: History and Interpretation and spent the summer after graduation documenting and excavating this site. Before joining Milner + Carr Conservation she worked on a variety of projects in the conservation field including surveying and conditions assessments, historic paint analysis, conservation of grave markers, and laboratory and field testing of masonry conservation treatments. Laura earned her BA in English Literature at SUNY-New Paltz and before entering the field of preservation, worked as a museum curatorial assistant for several years.
John Carr, Principal Conservator 
Marco Federico, Conservator
Alisa Vignalo, Conservator
Laura Mass, Conservator 