William J. Murtagh: The first official "Keeper" of National Register of Historic Places
William J. Murtagh, (Born: 2 May 1923, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States) was the first designated “keeper” of The National Register of Historic Places and a paladin among preservationists.
William J. Murtagh, (Born: 2 May 1923, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States) was the first designated "keeper" of The National Register of Historic Places and a paladin among preservationists.
William J. Murtagh
William J. Murtagh: The first official "Keeper" of National Register of Historic Places
For more than five decades, Dr. Murtagh predominated in the field of preservation. A vice president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, he taught and started preservation programs at Columbia University, the University of Maryland and the University of Hawaii and wrote the discipline’s first leading textbook, “Keeping Time: The History and Theory of Preservation in America,” originally published in 1988.
William J. Murtagh died because of congestive heart failure on Oct. 28 in a retirement community in Sarasota, Fla. He was 95.
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