Kingston W. Heath ’77 AM, ’85 PhD

Kingston W. Heath ’77 AM, ’85 PhD, of Eugene, Ore.; Jun. 29. He was a professor of architectural history and made contributions to the field of architectural preservation. In the 1980s he was associate professor in the School of Architecture at Montana State University. He accepted a position as associate professor in the college of architecture at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in 1987 and taught upper level architectural history. He was promoted to full professor in 2001. In 2003 he served as the state architectural historian for the Montana State Historic Preservation Office before accepting a position as professor and director of the graduate program in historic preservation at the University of Oregon, from which he retired in 2019. He published The Patina Of Place: The Cultural Weathering of a New England Industrial Landscape, which was recognized in 2002 with the Abbott Lowell Cummings Award and the award of merit from the American Association of State and Local History. He is survived by a son, a daughter-in-law, and a granddaughter.