Historic Preservation
HRA’s historic preservation specialists work with clients from federal, state, and local entities as well as private organizations. HRA architectural historians and historians have worked with LEED-certified architects to demonstrate the contribution historic resources make to a sustainable environment, including restoration, rehabilitation, and preservation of historic resources to the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties.
Our specialists meet the Secretary of the Interior’s Professional Qualification Standards and have extensive experience in compliance with the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA, Section 106), National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), state environmental policies and legislation regarding historic properties (SEPA, CEQA, etc.), and local policies and ordinances.
Our services include:
- Reconnaissance- and intensive-level historic resources surveys
- Cultural landscapes inventories and reports (CLI/CLR)
- Photo documentation (including large format, film, and digital)
- Historic context, significance, and integrity evaluations
- Detailed descriptions of character-defining features
- Interviews, video documentation and documentaries
- Historic American Building Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscape Survey (HABS/HAER/HALS) documentation
- National, state, and local register nominations
- Historic structures reports (HSR)
- Operations and maintenance guidelines and staff training
- Agency consultation on avoidance, minimization, and mitigation measures (when necessary) and design and preservation recommendations
- Public outreach
- Federal rehabilitation tax credit assistance
- Design consultation
Featured Members
Featured Projects
Architectural Resources Inventory for the Rocky Pines Unit
HRA completed an architectural resources inventory at the Rocky Pines Unit on Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge, near Cheney, Washington.
Badger Pass Ski Area
HRA contributed to an Environmental Assessment (EA) for rehabilitation of a historic ski area in Yosemite National Park. The Badger Pass Ski Area was the first downhill skiing resort to be developed in California and rehabilitation of the buildings needed to take into account the historical aspects of the lodge and the surrounding landscape.
Baker River Hydroelectric HAER Recordation
HRA recorded to Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) Level II standard five contributing elements of the Baker Hydroelectric Historic District through large-format photography and a narrative report.
Bunker Hill Mining and Metallurgic Superfund Site
Contracted since 2010 to Coeur D’Alene Trust (Trust), HRA has been assisting the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in following its applicable or relevant and appropriate requirements in order to comply with the substance of Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act as regards its cleanup actions at the Bunker Hill Superfund Site (BHSS) in Northern Idaho’s Silver Valley.
Cushman Hydroelectric Facility Services
HRA has provided a variety of cultural resources services to Tacoma Public Utilities for the Cushman Hydroelectric Facility.
Fort Walla Walla ICRMP
HRA prepared an Integrated Cultural Resource Management Plan (ICRMP) for the Walla Walla VA Medical Center.
Grand Coulee and Hungry Horse Historic Structures Reports
HRA completed historic structure reports for the Grand Coulee and Hungry Horse hydroelectric projects.
NRHP Nomination for the Yankee Fork Gold Dredge
HRA completed a National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) nomination for the Yankee Fork Gold Dredge, in Custer County, Idaho.
Olmsted Park Multiple Property Documentation
HRA completed a multiple property documentation (MPD) on the Seattle Olmsted Park System and a National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) nomination for Lake Washington Boulevard.
U.S. Coast Guard Base Kodiak Cultural Resources Support
HRA has built an enduring relationship with the US Coast Guard at Base Kodiak through a multitude of diverse projects.
U.S. Postal Service Historic Structures Report
HRA completed a Historic Structures Report and maintenance guidelines, along with medium-format photographic documentation, for the USPS station in Reno, Washoe County, Nevada.
Yesler Bridge Over 4th Avenue Historic Mitigation
HRA prepared historic mitigation documentation for the Yesler Way Bridge over 4th Avenue in Seattle, Washington.
Cultural Resource Management
Facilitating Government-to-Government Consultation
HRA provides assistance and professional guidance to agencies and private clients in formal and informal tribal consultation and communication.
Federal/State/Local Compliance
HRA assists agencies and private sector clients with the successful navigation of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA); the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA);…
GIS/Cartography
Through integration of GPS (Global Positioning System) and GIS (Geographic Information System) into our fieldwork and deliverables, HRA gathers and disseminates highly accurate…