Presenter: Mike Pulice, Senior Architectural Historian at the Virginia Department of Historic Resources

Mike Pulice grew up in Augusta and Savannah, Georgia, and northern Virginia. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Sociology/Anthropology from Radford University in 1990 and worked nationwide as an archaeologist until completing a Master of Science in Architecture at Virginia Tech in 2000. He has held the position of architectural historian for the Virginia Department of Historic Resources’ Western Regional Office since 2001.

Mike is a noted authority on historic brick masonry, and fosters a special interest in log construction. In 2011 he published the book Nineteenth Century Brickwork in the Roanoke Valley and Beyond: Discovering the True Legacies of the Deyerle Builders.