Benjamin serves as Executive Director of Preservation Greensboro, the city's only not-for-profit, non-governmental preservation organization. A native of High Point, he has served on numerous boards and commissions related to historic preservation, penned a column on history and architecture for the High Point Enterprise (1997-2003), has restored several historic houses, and has compiled numerous surveys and essays on local architecture. He has written a book, The Architecture of High Point, to be published in early 2008.