John Charles Poppeliers

Background

Poppeliers, John Charles was born on October 5, 1935 in Binghamton, New York, United States. Son of Johannes Marinus and Irene (Marx) Poppeliers.

Education

AB, Hamilton College, 1957; Master of Arts, University of Pennsylvania, 1962; Doctor of Philosophy, Catholic University of America, 1975.

Career

Instructor history and English, various high schools, Binghamton, Johnson City, New York, 1957-1958, 60-62; senior editor, architectural historian, Historic American buildings Survey, Department Interior, 1962-1972; chief, Historic American buildings Survey, Department Interior, 1972-1980; chief operations and training, Division Cultural Heritage, Unesco, 1980-1986; international liaison, Officer for Cultural Resources, United States National Park Svc., 1986-1998. Representative for executive and consultative committees for international campaigns to safeguard Mohenjodaro, Pakistan, Göreme and Istanbul, Turkey, Tyr (Lebanon) United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. Representative department interior Christopher Columbus Quincentenary Commission, U.s.

Department Interior, 1987-1992. Curator Smithsonian Traveling Exhbns. on Architectural History.

Achievements

• John Charles Poppeliers has been listed as a notable Architectural historian by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Fellow International Council on Monuments and Sites (United States committee 1990, board of trustees, assistant secretary-treasurer), History American Building Survey. Member American Institute of Architects (consultant member commission on historic resources), National Trust for History Preservation, Fulbright Association, Cosmos Club, Society of Architecture Historians (commission on archaeology preservation, former president Latrobe chapter), Committee for the Preservation of Architectural Records, National Preservation Institute (director for education 1988-1992), National Trust Library. (board advisors since 1988), Secular Franciscan Order(chair regional ecology commission).

Interests

• Avocations: volunteer charitable causes, ecology, painting, music.

Connections

Married Julia Margaret Tatnell, December 16, 1967.

Father:

Johannes Marinus Poppeliers

Mother:

Irene (Marx) Poppeliers

Spouse:

Julia Margaret Tatnell