Ashley K.F. Howell, AIA, LEED AP
Senior Preservation Architect

Ashley Howell has extensive experience in all phases of historic restoration, rehabilitation, and adaptive use projects including building condition reports, historic evaluations and surveys, production of construction documents, construction administration, and design review for compliance with the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Rehabilitation. In the roles of project manager, designer, and architect, she has worked on various commercial and government projects and is fully experienced in investment tax credit projects. A past president of the local chapter of the Association for Preservation Technology, Ms. Howell is a LEED Accredited Professional and a registered architect in Virginia.



Brian W. Kelly, AIA
Principal Preservation Architect

Brian Kelly has over three decades of experience in preservation, adaptive use, and contextual urban design, including the nationally recognized Orchard Street Church, the American Brewery, Charlestown Retirement Community, and Howard's Inheritance.  A graduate of Virginia Tech, he is a registered architect in Maryland and Virginia.  Mr. Kelly's experiences in working with non-profit and religious groups have honed his skills in encouraging participation, creating a vision, and fostering consensus for each project effort.



Christopher Quirk, AIA, LEED AP
Senior Preservation Architect
Associate

Christopher Quirk holds a master of architecture degree from the University of Texas at Austin and is a licensed architect in Kentucky. From South Texas adobe construction to a late Georgian brick townhouse in Kentucky, his experience with varied building types, settings, and uses in the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, and construction has given him a broad perspective on preservation practice. Recent significant projects have included a preservation maintenance plan for Lovett Hall at Rice University in Houston, Texas, rehabilitation of the Elson-Magnolia Flouring Mill near Canton, Ohio, exterior restoration of the United States Marine Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky, and rehabilitation of the Woodrow Wilson Family Home in Columbia, South Carolina.



Annie Sauser, LEED AP
Senior Historic Preservation Scecialist

Annie Sauser brings twenty years of experience in historic preservation in Texas to JMA. While in graduate school in architecture at the University of Texas at Austin, she gained early experience with the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards working part time for the Texas State Historic Preservation Office. Since that time, Ms. Sauser has specialized exclusively in the care of historic structures and sites. Most of her previous projects have been for non-profit or governmental entities and include courthouses, churches, and museums. Recent projects include the Constitution Avenue properties of the Organization of American States in Washington, D.C., the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Richmond, Virginia, and the East Feliciana Parish Courthouse in Clinton, Louisiana.

Jessica Zeigler-Cihlar, AIA, LEED AP BD+C
Senior Preservation Architect

Jessica Zeigler-Cihlar oversees Architecture and Conservation in JMA's West Chester and Philadelphia offices where she develops creative approaches to the sustainable and responsible stewardship of historic resources. She earned her Bachelor of Architecture degree from Penn State University with studies in Early Pennsylvania Architecture and Restoration, and is licensed in Pennsylvania, Delaware, New York, and New Jersey. Since joining JMA in 2000, she has provided feasibility and planning studies for revitalizing significant places, designed new spaces to reanimate historic buildings, and has set quality standards for existing building documentation. Recent notable projects include preservation planning for Bard College in the Hudson River Valley; rehabilitation of the Allee House at Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge; and the rehabilitation of Philadelphia’s Strawbridge & Clothier Department Store.        

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