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Name
Sara Werneke
Title
Old Home Rescue staff
Bio
Sara Werneke holds Bachelor’s degrees in Architecture and Fine Arts from Drury University in Springfield, Missouri. With more than 15 years of experience in historic preservation, she has worked across the field in design, preservation planning, and historic tax credit programs.
From Summer 2009 to 2018, Sara worked with Preservation & Design Studio before joining the Oklahoma State Historic Preservation Office, where she first served as the National Register of Historic Places Coordinator and later as the Historic Preservation Tax Credit Program Coordinator. In May 2025, she joined Old Home Rescue, bringing extensive experience in the assessment, documentation, and rehabilitation of historic properties. During the 2025 academic year, she was an adjunct professor at the University of Oklahoma teaching Historic Preservation Planning. Sara has written numerous National Register nominations and Historic Preservation Tax Credit applications, assessed thousands of historic structures, worked on hundreds of preservation projects, and reviewed thousands of projects for compliance and preservation standards.