Katie Eggers Comeau | Senior Architectural Historian

Katie joined our team in 2010 as the firm’s architectural historian, and recently returned as senior architectural historian after advocating for historic preservation statewide with The Preservation League of New York State from 2021-2023. She has in-depth expertise in multiple areas of preservation planning, advocacy, and historic documentation including cultural resource evaluation, historic resource surveys, historic rehabilitation tax credit administration, design guidelines, National Register nominations, and local, state, and federal preservation compliance.

Having grown up in a historic Erie Canal village, Katie values the walkability and amenities of traditional streetscapes and mixed-use neighborhoods.  Working on projects from the Southern Tier to the Thousand Islands, Katie loves finding out how New York’s buildings, neighborhoods, and landscapes came to be, what makes them meaningful to current residents, and how they can become even better in the future.

Katie received a Bachelor of Arts in Humanities from Yale University and a Master of Science in Historic Preservation from the University of Pennsylvania. She is a longtime board member of the Rochester Olmsted Parks Alliance and past board member of the National Association for Olmsted Parks.  She is also a member of The Landmark Society of Western New York’s Five to Revive Committee.

Katie lives in the town of Brighton with her husband and two college age children.