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TINA VAN DYKE LECOFF never waivered from her dream of becoming an historical landscape architect.

Several years after receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Sociology from the University of Colorado in Boulder, Tina returned to school, completing a Master of Landscape Architecture degree at Kansas State University in 1984. She immediately landed a position in cultural resources, a relatively new area of emphasis at that time for landscape architects from which Tina has carved out a significant career.

From 1984 to 1987, she was an architectural survey coordinator with the New Mexico Historic Preservation Division in Santa Fe where her duties included administering a state-wide inventory and evaluation of historic structures and their sites, and lecture and writing articles about historic preservation in New Mexico.

Since 1987, Tina has served as Historical Landscape Architect in the Mid-Atlantic Regional Office of the National Park Service in Philadelphia. Tina is part of a multi-disciplinary team that conducts planning projects on National Park Service properties and for local governments in a 17-state region. She also researches, analyzes and evaluates historic landscapes, using text, photographs and graphics to convey recommendations to the National Park Service or other clients, and provides technical assistance to consultants and various government agencies conducting historic landscape research. Current work includes evaluation of open space adjacent to Independence Hall and historic landscape analysis at a Frederick Law Olmstead park.

A licensed professional landscape architect, Tina is a member of the American Society of Landscape Architects and the Board of Directors of the Society for Industrial Archeology. She is also an active member of the Landscape Architecture Advisory Council.