Barbara Sidway

Barbara Sidway was elected to the Board of the National Trust Community Investment Corporation in 2007. Her business, started in 1980, rehabilitated the Geiser Grand Hotel in Baker City, winner of the Governor’s Livability Award and a National Trust Honor Award (1998). Other award-winning projects include the Odd Fellows Building in McMinnville, Ore., the Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables, Fla., and the Freedom Tower in Miami, Fla. Ms. Sidway is Trustee Emeritus of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, where she was elected in 2005 and is the Founding Chair of the National Main Street Center, a subsidiary of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. She was appointed by Oregon Governors as Chair of the Oregon Heritage Commission and Oregon 150 (the State’s Centennial Celebration) Ms. Sidway has served on the Boards of Historic Baker City, Inc. and the Baker County Chamber of Commerce. She was a co-recipient of the 2009 Leadership Award from the National Trust Main Street Center. Ms. Sidway holds a B. A. (Angell Scholar) in Economics from the University of Michigan and an M.B.A. with Honors from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.