Historic Architecture Preservation
MAC provides in-house historic research in support of client projects on a range of themes related to the kinds of historic resources commonly found in project areas. Our experience includes work with historic roads and trails, railroads, homesteads, mining properties, irrigation ditches, and others. Historic architecture preservation is a resource class requiring a different skill set than is required for archaeological sites. MAC has basic capacity for architectural historic preservation projects, but more often engages the services of specialty firms when projects require in-depth expertise. MAC’s staff can conduct basic compliance activities, including Historic American Building Survey and Historic American Engineering Record documentation for architectural resources as an adjunct to projects with a general cultural resource compliance focus. Where the main focus of projects is architectural resources, however, MAC more often provides archaeological expertise to specialists whose main training is in architecture.