Ms. Rudge has over twenty years of experience serving clients in the for-profit, non-profit and public sectors with the preservation, rehabilitation, and adaptive use of their historic buildings. Specializing in the use of historic rehabilitation tax credits, Heather is an expert at assessing properties to determine historic and architectural significance as well as rehabilitation potential. As a member of the WMF project team, she coordinates, manages and monitors historic rehabilitation tax credit projects with owners, developers, other architects and consultants, contractors, and state and federal reviewers during project design and construction to ensure that each tax credit project is successful.

Heather has been responsible for the successful management of historic rehabilitation tax credit projects, National Register nominations (NRN), and a wide variety preservation and rehabilitation projects throughout the Midwest. She has run several programs coordinating preservation technical assistance and property stewardship services to the owners of residential and religious properties.

In addition to her preservation work, Heather serves on several design review and heritage committees in Cleveland and Lakewood, and is a grant evaluator for the New Jersey Historic Trust.

Ms. Rudge was educated at the University of Vermont (M.S., Historic Preservation) and Michigan State University (B.A., Interior Design).

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

Conservatory of Music, Baldwin-Wallace College
NRN and Historic Rehabilitation Tax Credit Project
Berea, Ohio

Cleveland Institute of Art
Historic Rehabilitation Tax Credit Project
Cleveland, Ohio

Bedford Springs Hotel
Historic Rehabilitation Tax Credit Project
Bedford, Pennsylvania

Book-Cadillac Hotel
Historic Rehabilitation Tax Credit Project
Detroit, Michigan

Old Home Bank
Historic Tax Credit Documents for a Louis Sullivan Bank
Newark, Ohio

Heinz Lofts
Historic Rehabilitation Tax Credit Project
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Upper Downtown Canton Historic District
NRN – 90 Buildings
Canton, Ohio

Pilgrim Congregational Church
St. Patrick Church
Zion United Church of Christ
St. Colman Church
St. Michael the Archangel
Conversion of St. Paul Shrine
St. Theodosius Russian Orthodox Cathedral
Steeple/Tower/Dome Lighting
Cleveland, Ohio

Lakewood City Schools
Architectural Survey & Analysis of Existing Buildings
Lakewood, Ohio