Historic Preservation Projects

Historic Properties

• Acquisition
• Pre-Development
• Restoration / Preservation
• Building Systems
• Accessibility

Survey and Inventory

• Survey of historic properties in a defined geographic area (e.g. residential neighborhood, commercial district, county)
• Survey of a particular historic property type (e.g. rural farmsteads or buildings from the recent past)

Evaluation

• Evaluation of previously surveyed residential or commercial properties in a community.
• Archaeological investigation sufficient to determine eligibility for National Register of Historic Places

National Register Nominations

• National Register nomination for an individual property
• National Register nomination for a historic district or landscape
• Multiple property documentation form and nominations for groups of thematically related resources
• National Register nomination of an archaeological site or district, working from evaluation studies or other previous documentation

Heritage Tourism and Public Education

• Walking tours, docent training, related podcasts
• An archaeological field school with a public component
• Curriculum development focusing on the community’s historic resources
• Signage program for a historic district
• Regional Heritage Tourism website collaboration to promote a region’s historic resources

Preservation Planning

• Develop a planning framework through analysis of the community's history and definition of historic contexts
• Prepare a preservation plan for an archaeological historic district
• Develop architectural guidelines for a designated area
• Create or revise a local preservation ordinance
• Develop a preservation plan for a community or write a historic preservation chapter for a city’s comprehensive plan.