Join us on April 20th at the Inn at Elon for "A Retrospective: Forty-Five Years of Historic Preservation in North Carolina". Since 1978, Myrick Howard has been President of Preservation North Carolina, the state’s only statewide private nonprofit preservation organization. A Durham native, Myrick attended Brown University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he received his Master’s degree in city planning and a law degree in 1978. In 2006, he participated in the Executive Program for Nonprofit Leaders at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. He teaches a graduate seminar on Historic Preservation Planning each year at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Through the years, Myrick has received a number of statewide awards, including awards from NCSU’s College of Design, NC Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, NC Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects, the North Carolina Society of New York, and the North Caroliniana Society (UNC). In 1996, he was inducted into the Order of the Long Leaf Pine by Gov. James B. Hunt, Jr. He has twice been named Tar Heel of the Week by the News and Observer. Myrick lives in a 1939 historic duplex, his eighth renovation.
