Caroline Dickensheets

Miami Managing Conservator and Professional Associate of the AIC, holds an M.S. in Historic Preservation with a focus in Architectural Conservation from the University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design. She received her bachelor’s degree in Architecture and Art History from Wellesley College in addition to being a cross-registered student at MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning. During her graduate studies, she focused on the preservation of earthen architecture in the American West through the Vanishing Treasures Program of the National Park Service and the Center for Architectural Conservation at the University of Pennsylvania. She has presented on this work at national conferences in addition to having the Association of Preservation Technology International publish her research in 2021. With RLA since 2019, Caroline directs all architectural projects in addition to managing large outdoor sculpture conservation work for the Miami Studio. Those projects include conservation oversight of various contractors, facade and collections surveys, materials testing and specification development, as well as treatment implementation. Caroline works with both private clients and public institutions in addition to local, state, and federal government entities. She is a specialist in oolitic limestone (coral stone) and the conservation of materials in subtropical marine environments and has lectured at local and national conferences about her work at Vizcaya addressing deterioration of this particular limestone at a site prone to natural disasters as well as caring for public art collections throughout Florida. She is a certified Cathedral Stone Jahn® mortar installer and OSHA 30-hr certified for the construction industry.