Pamela Hawkes has a national reputation for excellence in both historic preservation and contemporary design. She has directed a wide variety of award-winning preservation projects, including the restoration of the McLellan House and Sweat Galleries at the Portland Museum of Art in Maine which received an Honor Award from the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Other projects include work for the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall and the Tanglewood Music Center; the adaptive reuse of Boston’s historic Charles Street Jail into The Liberty Hotel; the award-winning Currier Museum of Art in New Hampshire, and the Cambridge Public Library in Massachusetts.

Pamela Hawkes is a graduate of Williams College, holds a Master’s Degree in Historic Preservation from Columbia University, and a Master of Architecture Degree from the University of California at Berkeley. A member of the Boston Landmarks Commission for 14 years, she also served on the Massachusetts Historical Commission, Preservation Massachusetts, and the Board of the US Committee of the International Council on Monuments. She was a Loeb Fellow at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University and has taught professional development courses on "Preservation and Adaptive Re-use" there.