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Murtagh, William J.
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William John Murtagh was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on May 2, 1923. He received a bachelor's degree in architecture, a master's degree in art history, and a doctorate in architectural history from the University of Pennsylvania. He was the first steward of the National Register of Historic Places. He held that post from 1967 to 1979. He taught and started preservation programs at Columbia University, the University of Maryland, and the University of Hawaii. He wrote the discipline's first leading textbook, Keeping Time: The History and Theory of Preservation in America. He was also vice president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. He died from congestive heart failure on October 28, 2018 at the age of 95.
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