character home

Most days in Idaho begin with a camera in hand and a notebook in my pocket, as I walk the streets where front porches lean toward the sidewalk and shade trees anchor the block. Some are lined with early 20th-century brick foursquares along Harrison Boulevard, others with post-war cottages tucked into quieter side streets. Each house carries its record of materials, labor, and lived experience, and together they form the suburban fabric of a Western city in motion. This work is my laboratory, a place to refine methods and ensure accuracy in documenting both high-style and vernacular domestic architecture, along with the cultural patterns that shape them.

From this work, I bring expertise in:

– Historic Resource Surveying (Public & Private | Sec. 106, SOI, State + Local, SHPO, CLG, National Preservation)
– National Register, Grant-Funded, Archival + Digital Research
– Plan Advisory | Bespoke Architecture, Interiors + Family Office
– Urban, Suburban & Rural: Vernacular to High Style Analysis
– Narratives of Identity, Gender, Labor & Exclusion
– Public History, Publishing + Education

Need anything? jeff@characterhome.com or ping ellery@deepwell.media—I’m probably just around the corner.

I’m deeply grateful for the generous support that made my University of Virginia journey possible. My sincere thanks go to the Colonial Dames of America Scholarship, the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, the Henry J. Javor Bicentennial Scholarship, the Peter R. Kutscha Endowed Memorial Scholarship, the Peter L. Page Scholarship and Grant, the Frederick Doveton Nichols Award, the UVA Society of Architectural Historians, and the UVA Architecture School’s Center for Cultural Landscapes and the Darden School of Business. Their investment in my education has meant the world to me.

jeffery holley

Architectural, Art Histories + Historic Preservation - MArH, BArH

415.776.5333 Anytime

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The past persists as unpredictably as the future unfolds - Daniel Abramson.