At Slabtown Tours, we believe that history matters, our guests select to book our walking tours because they highlight hidden histories of Portland, OR. Tour are located in neighborhoods not included in the chain company tours. The company in addition to tours & lectures offers professional historian, architectural historian research services for museums, authors, public history efforts, neighborhood associations, real estate agents, genealogists, and national register efforts. Tanya March is an expert in historic markers, oral histories and cultural factors of architectural history.
Dr. Tanya Lyn March charges $92 per hour for expedited short term research projects. Pricing for long term projects are negotiable avoiding the hourly charge and focusing on the final project desired by the client. We will create the best local expert team of consultants for larger projects. We are also able to assist with grant writing and development to assist Not for Profits raise funding for history efforts.
Slabtown Tours is a Certified Women Business Enterprise (WBE)
Certification No.: 15433
Highlight’s From Dr. March’s CV
Education
PhD Urban Studies December 2010 Portland State University Portland, OR
Master of Science Historic Preservation 2000 Columbia University New York, NY
Master of Science Urban Affairs 1998 Hunter College New York, NY
Bachelor of Arts Comparative History 1995 San Francisco State University San Francisco, CA
Sample Research Projects
Designed Multiple Historic Markers for Vanport Placemarking Project Completed Markers: “Women, War & Work 1942-1945” & “Vanport the Miracle City” and “1948 A Time of Change” In process marker: PSU Vanport.
“Peacock Lane 2016 Reconnaissance-level Survey” co-authored with Tim Askins October 28, 2016. Approved Oregon State Historic Preservation Office. Cited.
One of the credited authors National Register Nomination of the Elmer and Linnie Miller House. Approved February 28, 2020. Link to Book.
Image research for sixty images Dr. Carl Abbott’s book Portland in Three Self-Employed Centuries: The Place and the People.
Image and map curation 2016 for Beyond the Gate: A Tale of Portland’s Historic Chinatowns.
Research Assistant Exhibit development on South Auditorium Urban Renewal Bosco Milligan “Re-building South Portland” 2010.
Dissertation: Guild’s Lake Courts: an Impermanent Housing Project. Included 31 individual oral histories.