Dexter Guerrieri Print E-mail
Co-founder and President, Preservation Volunteers

Dexter Guerrieri founded Vandenberg in 1990, as a high-end, boutique, residential real estate company specializing in West Side townhouses, Lincoln Center condominiums, and coop sales. Today, 15 years later, the firm is a strong leader in the townhouse market. In addition to running an independent business, Dexter is currently Chairman of the eleven-thousand-member Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY) Admissions Committee, and President of the Brownstone Revival Coalition (BRC) as well as cofounder and President of Preservation Volunteers. He is an active member of the National Association of Realtors, and the New York Landmarks Conservancy. His previous tenures include President of the West Side Professional Realty Organization. Passionate about townhouses and, more generally, about the role of historic buildings in community life, Dexter has lectured extensively on Townhouses as well as on the Real Estate business.
Everett H. Ortner Print E-mail
Co-founder and Chairman, Preservation Volunteers

The co-founder and Chairman of Preservation Volunteers, Everett Ortner is an editor, writer, and photographer by profession, a native of Lowell, Mass., a graduate of the University of Arkansas, and a decorated veteran of World War II. His retirement from Popular Science magazine ended a 33-year career with that publication, beginning as Assistant Copy Chief and ending as Editor. Prior to joining Popular Science he worked for several other publishing houses. He has written hundreds of articles on building technology, photography, preservation, and urban revival. Since 1965 he has been a missionary for the brownstone-revival movement in New York City,and for urban revival nationally. He was a leader in the early days of the revival movement in his Brooklyn community of Park Slope, and was a co-founder and first president (1968) of the Brownstone Revival Committee of New York, now the Brownstone Revival Coalition--a citywide organization devoted to the promotion and preservation of New York City's older communities. He is currently its Chairman Emeritus. He continues to write for and edit "The Brownstoner."

He is married to Evelyn Ortner, an interior designer and preservationist, a founding member of the Victorian Society in America, former Chairman of the St. Ann Center for Restoration and the Arts, a Board member of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, a docent at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, and a leader in cultural causes in New York City.