character home

Although I’m immersed in this fieldwork now, I’m most energized by the prospect of joining a team where the value is greater than the sum of its parts. 

This summer’s survey of more than four hundred early 20th-century houses has given me a platform to refine tools and methods in ways that extend beyond my own work: sharpening how we read character-defining features, drafting integrity statements with more precision, and setting standards that consultants and partners across the state can draw from. The effort reminds me daily that accuracy anchors the work, but it’s collaboration, humility, and applied curiosity that allow buildings, landscapes, and communities to speak through time.

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 Documentation + 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, the City of Charlottesville, and the Darden School of Business. Their investment in my education means I pay it forward to the emerging historian community.

jeffery holley

Architectural, Art Histories + Historic Preservation - MArH, BArH

415.776.5333 Anytime

www.linkedin.com/in/characterhome

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

updated 13-Sept.2025.