What's New - Fall 2006
HDC SAYS GOODBYE TO AN OLD FRIEND AND WELCOMES A NEW CULTURAL RESOURCES SPECIALIST-PLANNER
Stan Popovich, HDC's Senior Planner, moved back to Illinois to be closer to his family in September, after over nine years of service. Stan started with the firm back in 1997, when the Integrated Cultural Resources Management Plan for Wright-Patterson Air Force Base was dropped on his desk as his inaugural project. He ran with the project, and worked on all of the firm's preservation and architectural planning documents since.
David M. Crowell, RPA, will be taking over Stan's duties. David has worked with HDC for the past year as a Cultural Resources Specialist, working on archaeology, history/architecture, and planning projects. He is an archaeologist, journeyman stone mason, and previously served as the Facilities Director of the Dairy Barn, a community arts center in a National Register listed barn in Athens, Ohio. David has experience in historic preservation, preservation management and maintenance plans, adaptive reuse of historically significant structures, historic structure and landscape preservation and restoration, architectural preservation and reclamation, historic construction methods, architectural reconstruction techniques, and as a landscape and building contractor.
Since assuming planning duties in September, David has been managing projects in Mississippi, Texas, Illinois, Florida, and Ohio; HDC will probably be sending him elsewhere in the country in the near future!
HDC TO CONDUCT FACILITY ASSESSMENT AND CONCEPTUAL DESIGN OF THE SOUTH DORM
The City of Columbus commissioned HDC to complete a building assessment, conceptual renovation design, and cost estimates for the Columbus Health Department. The South Dorm building is a 22,000 square foot 3-1/2 story masonry building constructed in the 1930s. The project will verify that the building is structurally sound and can accommodate an emergency response/preparedness center, general office space, and the Women-Infant-Children Clinic area. The study will also assess the feasibility of integrating the security camera system/security card reader system with the one currently in use at the main Health Department Building. The report will contain a conceptual design and could lead to implementation and construction. HDS expects to begin programming and existing conditions documentation in January.
HISTORIC ARCHAEOLOGY IN MARYLAND
In 2006 Hardlines Design Company partnered with Michael Baker Jr., Inc., of Cleveland, Ohio, to conduct a Phase II archaeological assessment and NRHP evaluation of sites 18FR611 and 18FR612 on a 199-acre tract being excised by the Maryland State Highway Administration in Frederick County, Maryland. One site was a historical farmstead dating from the mid to late 1800’s, which also had a prehistoric component and the other site was a prehistoric site along the banks of Catoctin Creek. Intensive archival and genealogical research was performed and 102 shovel test units and 14 1-x-1-meter test units were excavated at the two sites. Seven sets of structural remains were documented at 18FR612 associated with the historical-period farmstead. Prehistoric components identified at site 18FR611 include Late Archaic, Late Archaic/Transitional Archaic, and Middle Woodland.
HISTORY COMPLETES BUILDING INVENTORY AT MIRAMAR MARINE CORPS AIR STATION
HDC recently completed a comprehensive inventory of all buildings constructed prior to 1989 at the former Navy “Top Gun” base near San Diego, California. The base was originally constructed as a Marine Corps Air Station, but after World War II, it was transferred to the U.S. Navy as a fighter pilot training base. In 1995, the Marine Corps re-acquired the installation and this project will assist the Environmental Office in planning future undertakings involving structures at the base. HDC conveniently scheduled fieldwork in January, and inventoried over 350 buildings and structures. HDC conducted literature review at area archives in California as well as national and naval archives in Maryland and Washington, D.C. The project also included a Programmatic Agreement to cover standard operating procedures for historic buildings and GIS mapping to coordinate with the base’s standards.
CASE ALTERNATIVES REPORT FOR NAS CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
HDC prepared a Case Alternatives Report for each of three historic buildings on Naval Air Station Corpus Christi, Texas, proposed for demolition. The project included fieldwork to assess existing conditions, complete literature review, and obtain proposed base funding and master planning goals. The report considered the impacts and costs associated with demolition, mothballing, and rehabilitation or adaptive reuse as well the cumulative effects of work proposed in the master plan. The buildings were all constructed during World War II; two are associated with the Lexington Boulevard Historic District and the third with the Administrative-Academic Historic District.
DONUT IS A NATURAL SUBJECT FOR ARTISTS
Although she has only been in the office for 2-1/2 years, Donut has already been the subject of several artistic endeavors. She often accompanies groups to Mozart’s Café down the street, where the wait staff ensures she has a bowl of water. An artist there once professed the desire to paint her. Meanwhile, Senior Historian Roy Hampton created a stained glass portrait of her as a puppy, and Graduate Architect Vivian Majtenyi created a ceramic bowl in her likeness. Interior Designer Ira Sudardja, a talented photographer, somehow managed to get Donut to lie still enough to shoot some very artistic shots. Donut’s face was also featured prominently on a poster (also designed by Ira) for books about pets at the 2006 Friends of the Library Book Sale at the main library downtown.
A Calm Donut, shot by Ira Sudardja in October 2006.
The Book Sale sign at the main library, September 2006.