About
Clio Consulting, LLC founder and principal Angelique Bamberg has 30 years’ experience in historic preservation. Based in Pittsburgh, Angelique has longstanding relationships with the preservation, planning, architecture, and development communities of western Pennsylvania, and she maintains a relationship in good standing with the staff of the PA State Historic Preservation Office. From 2019-1025, she served on the PA Historic Preservation Board. She has also served on SHPO’s Keystone Grant panel.
Angelique holds a BA in English from the University of Virginia, an MA in Historic Preservation Planning from Cornell University, and taught introductory and advanced courses in historic preservation at the University of Pittsburgh from 2002-2016. As the former Historic Preservation Planner for the City of Pittsburgh, she is expert in preservation planning at the local level, as well as with National Register-level documentation and criteria for evaluation and the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards.
Angelique has strong skills in research, documentation, and communicating clearly and engagingly about history, the built environment, landscapes, planning, and other subjects. She has prepared a wide variety of documents for professional and public audiences, from the quarterly “Architecture Around Us" column for Western Pennsylvania History magazine to her book, Chatham Village: Pittsburgh’s Garden City. Recently, her chapter on the development of the Pittsburgh Cultural District was published in the anthology A Gift of Belief: Philanthropy and the Forging of Pittsburgh.
Publications
Chatham Village: Pittsburgh’s Garden City
“Chatham Village was a Depression-era model in community planning that has remained faithful to its founding mission while accommodating itself to rampant change. Angelique Bamberg provides a preservationist perspective on one of Pittsburgh's many urban treasures while considering its meaning in relation to the New Urbanism of the early twenty-first century. Hers is a thoughtful, even-handed, and much-needed study.”
—Kenneth Kolson, The Ohio State University
A Gift of Belief: Philanthropy and the Forging of Pittsburgh
In "The Art of Downtown Revitalization: Curating the Pittsburgh Cultural District,” Angelique Bamberg explores how H. J. “Jack” Heinz II led civic leaders in pursuing a vision of an urban arts district of many different scales and sectors, woven in and among the extant architectural assets of a run-down red-light district untouched by the Pittsburgh Renaissance. Her chapter contributes to A Gift of Belief, an anthology revealing how Pittsburghers from every strata, creed, and circumstance organized their private resources for the public good.
“Architecture Around Us” columnist for Western Pennsylvania History magazine, 2016-2025
Quarterly column exploring the buildings and built environment of western Pennsylvania, including apartment buildings, Akron plan churches, YMCAs, railroad stations, mansard roofs, and the works of architects and landscape architects Edward J. Weber, Margaret Winters, R.L. Barnhart, Alexander Sharove, and Vincent Shoneman, to name a few.
“Building Strength in the African American Community.”
Article on Centre Avenue YMCA in Summer 2024 Special Issue of Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies. Published quarterly since 1934, Pennsylvania History is the official journal of the Pennsylvania Historical Society. Its mission is to publish the best of current scholarship on the history of the Commonwealth and region. The theme of this Special Issue is “African Americans and the Urban Landscape.”