Martin Meek, winner of the prestigious Governors Lifetime Achievement award for Historical Preservation in 2010 will be talking about mill village preservation at the Friends of the Library annual meeting March 20 at 2:30 PM. This meeting will be held at the Laurens County Library on West Main Street in Laurens.
Martin Meek is principal and owner of the architectural firm, Campbell, Meek, and Associates in Spartanburg, SC. With over 37 years of architectural experience, he is well known for historic preservation work and has supervised projects in Greenville, Spartanburg, Gaffney, Rock Hill, Darlington and Bennettsville, just to name a few. Indeed, he has participated in more than 25 different historical preservation projects that involved over 29 million dollars worth of development.
Mr. Meek has been the City of Spartanburg's Historic Preservation Architect Consultant since 1984. He served on the South Carolina review board for the National Register of Historic Places for two terms. He works within "The Secretary of the Interior's Standard's for the Treatment of Historic Properties" and "The Historic American Building Survey Standards for Architectural Documentation of Historic Structures."
During his program at the Laurens Library Mr. Meek will address the history of mill villages, their current conditions, and ways they can be used to benefit us now and into the future.
Life in Laurens is based on a heritage of agriculture and textiles. We all deserve to know more about our past and how to preserve it.
This meeting is free and open to the public.
For more information, contact the Laurens County Library at 864-681-READ (7323) or visit www.lcpl.org.
