HDC receives Heritage Ohio Award
HDC received the Best Public Rehabilitation Improvement award for their work on the Lincoln Theatre at the Heritage Ohio annual conference in Athens, Ohio, in June of 2010. The project was cited as an excellent example of government, non-profit groups, and businesses working together to preserve a historic building that will revitalize a historic African-American neighborhood. The award recognizes Ohio’s best public building or public space improvement project based on proper preservation techniques.
Diane Ferguson, CFO of CAPA (left) with Laura Piersall, HDC Project Architect (right), Vivian Majtenyi, HDC Designer (rear), and Charissa Durst, HDC President (center).
HDC completes major archaeological survey in Massachusetts
HDC completed an intensive archaeological survey of over 160 acres at West Hill Dam and Westville Lake and Dam in Worcester County, Massachusetts, The fieldwork was performed in the fall of 2009 and reports were completed in the spring of 2010. This survey marks HDC’s first foray into the archaeology of the Northeast. HDC archaeologists identified 100 new archaeological sites, including 67 prehistoric sites and 33 historical sites. The team returned to the site in the fall of 2010 to conduct Phase II investigations of selected sites. Both surveys were performed under a 5-year IDIQ contract for the New England District, Corps of Engineers.
HDC archaeologists enjoyed the fall color season while performing the intensive archaeological survey at Westville Lake and Dam.
HDC wraps up six Historic Property Management Plans
As a subcontractor to Tetra Tech, HDC prepared historic property management plans (HPMPs) for six lock and dam sites owned by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Huntington District. The reports covered all cultural resources on fee owned land as well as those within 200 horizontal feet of either side of the normal pool elevation. HDC prepared HPMPs for two sites in Ohio (London and Racine) and four sites in West Virginia (Belleville, Marmet, Winfield, and Byrd) with final reports completed before the end of the fiscal year.
A view of London Locks and Dam, Ohio
HDC surveys Nike Missile Sites
In the summer of 2010, Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Midwest Division, asked HDC to surveyed 12 buildings and six (6) structures at the Navy-owned Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) facility in Bratenahl, Ohio, for historic and architectural significance. Most of these buildings were constructed between 1957 and 1971 as part of Nike missile battery CL-02, which places the structures at or near the 50-year mark for eligibility for the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). The research determined that the Bratenahl facility is the most intact site in Ohio associated with the Nike missile program and contains the only known surviving Nike missile magazines in the Cleveland area.
Historic view of the interior of Magazine P at the former Nike Missile Site in Bratenahl, Ohio.
The Dog Days of Summer
For Donut and Karly 2010 probably went down one of the hottest summers ever! Donut traveled to Washington, D.C. and cruised the National Mall. She arrived at the Roosevelt Memorial tired and panting, and immediately found her way into a pool of water under a lawn sprinkler. After she cooled off, she was persuaded to pose by the bigger-than-life statue of Fala, Roosevelt’s Scottie. A gaggle of teenage girls snapped camera phone images of her, which no doubt wound up on Twitter somewhere. Karly, meanwhile, spent many weekends tracking and chasing rabbits in park areas throughout Columbus.
Donut poses next to Fala, President Roosevelt’s Scottie, at the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial in Washington, D.C.
Karly gives a rare smile directly at the camera while romping through the park.