Evidence is where good decisions begin.
ArcLume develops research-based documentation and strategies for historic places, cultural landscapes, and the people responsible for their stewardship.
Historic preservation, thoughtfully practiced.
Services are tailored to each project’s scale, regulatory setting, and research needs.
Architectural history & cultural resource surveys
Context studies, archival and field research, resource documentation, and evaluation strategies for buildings, districts, and cultural landscapes.
National Register documentation
Research and support for eligibility assessments, nominations, significance statements, historical contexts, and registration strategy.
Section 106 & regulatory coordination
Historic-preservation support for planning and compliance processes, including identification, evaluation, documentation, and coordination with project teams and consulting parties.
Preservation planning & adaptive reuse
History-informed feasibility, preservation priorities, reuse visioning, and practical approaches to caring for existing places.
Historic documentation & archival research
Source-based narratives, oral-history planning, documentation scopes, photographic inventories, and HABS/HAER-informed recording approaches, as appropriate.
Community interpretation & mitigation
Meaningful interpretation concepts, place-based storytelling, consultation planning, and community-informed mitigation strategies.
Have a place in mind?
Let’s discuss what it needs — and what its history can make possible.