Secretary
Andrew Hine is an Advanced Product Development Engineer at 3M in Maplewood where he has spent most of his 18-year career in the field of nanotechnology. He is a co-inventor on 7 issued patents and 3 pending. He was born on Dayton’s Bluff in 1962 to immigrant parents and raised near the Birthplace of Minnesota – Stillwater. Biennial trips to England throughout his childhood instilled in him a lasting love for all things architectural and in 1997, he married an architecture student. They currently reside in a brick house (1898) in St. Paul’s West End. Andrew became fascinated with the neighboring Schmidt Brewery and in 2003 successfully nominated the brewery to be eligible for the National Register of Historic Places; the next year he succeeded in getting the brewery on the Preservation Alliance of Minnesota’s 10 Most Endangered list; and was named 2004 Citizen of the Year by his local District Council. In the spring of 2006, he explored and photographed the lagering caves beneath the brewery, known as the Stahlmann Cellars, and is still active in promoting innovative re-use ideas for the site.
