Douglas Bucher is a restoration specialist and building conservator with over thirty years of experience in scientific analysis of historic paint colors and finishes, and the restoration and recreation of historic decorative schemes. He directed the restoration of interiors as diverse as Tweed Courthouse in New York City and the recreated Oval Office at the Truman Library.
Mr. Bucher has worked on virtually every historic structure report produced by JGWA, and contributed his expertise in the publication of several books, including The Marble House in Second Street published by the Rensselaer County Historical Society, The Mount, Home of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton Restoration, and A Neat Plain Modern Stile: Philip Hooker and His Contemporaries, 1796-1836 by Hamilton College.
A graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Mr. Bucher currently serves on the boards of the Mary Warren Free Institute and the Rensselaer County Historical Society.
