I was beyond enthused to be asked to conduct the HABS/HAER photography of the historic United Artists Theater in downtown Detroit, MI. Opened in early 1928, the combination office tower and movie theater was the epitome of elegance and style for more than four decades. In 1957 the office building was purchased by the American …
In the spring of 2021 my colleagues at MacRostie Historic Advisors asked to join them in completing the Maine Historic Building Record documentation of Memorial Middle School in South Portland, Maine. I am always delighted to get a call from them, because it never fails to lead to an interesting project. In this case, I …
In 2020, I had the remarkable opportunity to conduct a HABS/HAER photography and historical documentation project at the Kenneth A. Kesselring Site, a component of the Naval Nuclear Laboratory. Working under contract to my colleagues at the Public Archaeology Facility at Binghamton University of the State University of New York, it was a fascinating project: …
In the spring of 2021, the Village of Fayetteville, NY Historic Preservation Commission was awarded a CLG Grant from the NY State Historic Preservation Office. The purpose of the grant was to document the historic Ledyard Canal, portions of which continue to flow through the Villages of Manlius and Fayetteville, for the Historic American Engineering …
In the fall of 2021 I was asked by my colleagues at MacRostie Historic Advisors to support their documentation of the Scarborough Downs racing facility by completing the large-format HABS/HAER photography. This was a fantastic and enjoyable project, a combination of landscape and architectural photography near Portland, Maine, and working with colleagues whom I admire. …
Back at the very beginning of the COVID pandemic in mid-March 2020, I had a short-notice call from my colleague Amy Cole Ives at Sutherland Conservation and Consulting about the HABS/HAER photography of the Machine Tool Lab at the University of Maine at Orono. This little Art Deco gem in the middle of the campus …
In 2020, on behalf of Outside The Box LLC, I was contracted by NASA to provide the HABS/HAER photography and research of a portion of the White Sands Test Facility near Las Cruces, NM. The object was to document Test Stand 302, a component of the 300 Area, that was built for the Apollo lunar …
Whenever I receive a call from my colleague Mike Franklin, an independent real estate broker, I snap to attention. As a specialist in marketing historic properties that fall outside the realm of most real estate agents, he runs across some amazing properties. As a passionate advocate for the preservation of historic buildings, he appreciates the …
Minidoka National Historic Site is a unit of the National Park System that commemorates the forced relocation and incarceration of more than 100,000 American citizens of Japanese descent during World War II. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941 gave rise to virulent anti-Japanese sentiments, and the military and federal officials immediately began …
In September 2019 I traveled out to southwestern Minnesota to visit Pipestone National Monument. This unit of the National Park System was created in 1937 in large part to preserve the pipestone (Sioux argillite, also known as catlinite) which American Indians have quarried here for at least two millennia. It is a sacred site for …