Michael Southern
1819 White Oak Road
Raleigh NC 27608
Telephone 919-832-7789
Email southernmaps@mindspring.com
Michael T. Southern is a 1973 graduate in Art History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has worked since 1974 as an architectural historian for the State Historic Preservation Office, N.C. Office of Archives and History. He is coauthor with colleagues of three field guides to the historic architecture of North Carolina published by the UNC Press between 1996 and 2003. Click here for more information about the guides. Southern designed the maps for all 100 counties and 55 towns and cities for the guides, and prepared several regional maps and drawings for the series. He has since created a number of maps for other books and published articles.
Major Awards:
- Mayflower Cup, 1997, Society of Mayflower Descendants in the
State of North Carolina, for the best North Carolina work of
non-fiction (with Catherine W. Bishir).
- Antoinette Forrester Downing Award, Society of Architectural
Historians, 1998, for best published architectural survey in the United
States (with Catherine W. Bishir).
- Award of Merit, 1997, American Association for State and Local
History (with Catherine W. Bishir).
- Robert E. Stipe Professional Award, 2000, Preservation North
Carolina
- Christopher Crittenden Memorial Award, 2003, North Carolina
Literary and Historical Association, for contributions to the
preservation of North Carolina history (with Catherine W. Bishir).
- North Caroliniana Society Book Award, 2004 (with Catherine W.
Bishir).