15 East Market St Suite 202
Corning, NY 14830
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Elise Johnson-Schmidt, AIA is the owner and
principal architect of Johnson-Schmidt Associates. A nationally
recognized leader in historic preservation and
adaptive reuse, she served as Executive Director of
Market Street Restoration Agency in Corning, New
York from 1990 throughout 2001. In that role, she was
instrumental in preservation planning efforts
throughout the community. In addition to her primary
focus on the design and implementation of more than 150 façade
improvement projects in the nineteenth-century
commercial district, she was also instrumental in
creating the 600-building Southside Historic District,
developing prototypes of upper-floor housing to
promote downtown revitalization, and garnering public
and private support and funding for a wide range of community
preservation and revitalization efforts.
Since 2001, she has consulted on preservation planning
and provided architectural design review for
Chautauqua
Institution Previous architectural projects related to historic
preservation and adaptive reuse include consulting on
the restoration of New York’s Grand Central Terminal
(for conservator Frank Welsh),
Boston’s Trinity Church (as an employee of Ann Beha
Associates), and other projects in Virginia,
Tennessee, Massachusetts and New York.
Elise is a member of the board of directors of the
New York State Board for Historic Preservation and
a founding board member of the
New York Main Street Alliance. She has helped
shape New York State policy and building code. As historical architect for the state of Massachusetts,
she
reviewed, advised, and guided historic preservation projects
seeking tax credits through the federal tax incentive program.
She is frequently sought as a speaker
on historic preservation, adaptive reuse, upper story
housing in commercial districts, and the relationship
of all of these to economic development.
Her interests also include contemporary architecture.
Among her most visible contemporary projects is the
redesign of the passenger lounge and restaurant at the
Elmira-Corning Regional Airport.
Elise is a graduate of the
Cornell University College
of Architecture, Art and Planning, where she also undertook graduate
work in historic preservation planning. She is a
registered architect in New York and Pennsylvania and
has just been given the
2007 New York
State Senate Woman of Distinction Award.
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