When Ron Staley ’77 ’80 sees a historic building fallen into disrepair, he doesn’t despair. Instead, he looks past things like rotted ceilings and floors, missing copper, and water in surprising locations, and sees opportunity. With each project he tackles, he’s “taking a building apart and putting it back together for future generations.”
Staley leads one of the country’s most respected historic preservation teams at The Christman Company, where he’s senior vice president and executive director of historic preservation. For nearly four decades, he and his team have restored architecturally significant structures, including the US Capitol and Henry Ford’s estate, preserving them as cornerstones of US history.