Tom Yots

For 31 years Tom Yots was a Chemistry Teacher at Lewiston Porter High School. Upon retirement he completed a Master's Degree in Architecture at the SUNY Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning and established Preservation Studios, a full service historic preservation consulting firm in Buffalo. Tom co-authored The Power Trail, History of Hydroelectricity at Niagara, a history of the development on hydroelectric power on the Niagara Frontier, published in October of 2006. He also co-authored Reconsidering Concrete Atlantis: Buffalo Grain Elevators, published in 2007. Tom served as the City Historian of the City of Niagara Falls and was chair of the city's Historic Preservation Commission. He is a founding board member of Preservation Buffalo Niagara and serves on the Executive Committee of that regional not-for-profit preservation organization. He and his wife Louise restored the National Register James G. Marshall House in downtown Niagara Falls where they owned and operated Park Place Bed and Breakfast for 17 years. They now reside in an early 20th Century Arts & Crafts house near Frederick Law Olmsted's Delaware Park and Parkway system in Buffalo. In addition to their son Jason who is a partner in Preservation Studios, Tom and Louise have a son Ben who lives with his family in New York City.