ARCHIVES & ARCHITECTURE, LLC is a cultural resources consulting company in San Jose, California. Established in 1989 by the late Glory Anne Laffey, Historian, the firm's managing partners today include Franklin Maggi, Architectural Historian, Leslie Dill, Historic Architect, and Charlene Duval, Public Historian.
With over a decade of working together as a team, the present partners have built the company into one of the most well-respected firms in Northern California that specializes in historical and cultural resources.Formed to provide professional services in the San Francisco and Monterey Bay Areas, ARCHIVES & ARCHITECTURE contracts primarily with public agencies and environmental companies for technical historical investigations, and with public agencies and private businesses for historic project management services.
Our experience ranges from large-scale comprehensive resource surveys and historic context statements, to intensive property assessments for historic significance.
With over a decade of working together as a team, the present partners have built the company into one of the most well-respected firms in Northern California that specializes in historical and cultural resources.Formed to provide professional services in the San Francisco and Monterey Bay Areas, ARCHIVES & ARCHITECTURE contracts primarily with public agencies and environmental companies for technical historical investigations, and with public agencies and private businesses for historic project management services.
Our experience ranges from large-scale comprehensive resource surveys and historic context statements, to intensive property assessments for historic significance.
Services
ARCHIVES & ARCHITECTURE provides a broad range of services related to technical publications in the field of Cultural Resources Management.
The format, type, and required content for these reports vary by public agency, and are usually specified by agency staff, or are outlined in published guidelines.
Almost all technical reports required as part of permit entitlement processes relate to implementation and enforcement of the California Environment Quality Act, or are related to undertakings of federal agencies that are subject to the requirements of Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966.
The format, type, and required content for these reports vary by public agency, and are usually specified by agency staff, or are outlined in published guidelines.
Almost all technical reports required as part of permit entitlement processes relate to implementation and enforcement of the California Environment Quality Act, or are related to undertakings of federal agencies that are subject to the requirements of Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966.
Cities and counties in California have been surveying their communities for cultural resources since the 1970s.
Historic contexts and surveys are critical tools for understanding, identifying, evaluating, and protecting those resources which give each community its individual character and sense of place.
Most agencies have established resource inventories to identify and catalog historic properties that have some level of significance.
Historic Context Statements, prepared at the beginning of survey projects, provide the foundation for long range preservation planning.
Historic contexts and surveys are critical tools for understanding, identifying, evaluating, and protecting those resources which give each community its individual character and sense of place.
Most agencies have established resource inventories to identify and catalog historic properties that have some level of significance.
Historic Context Statements, prepared at the beginning of survey projects, provide the foundation for long range preservation planning.
Registration programs for historic properties take many forms.
At the federal level, historic properties are recognized within the National Register of Historic Places and National Landmark programs.
At the state level, historic properties can be designated as State Landmarks or Points of Historical Interest, and can also be listed on the California Register of Historical Resources.
Many local agencies enact Landmark programs to designate and commemorate their historic properties.
In California, designated properties are often eligible for Historic Property Contracts (Mills Act), that enable property owners to divert future property taxes into restoration and maintenance activities.
At the federal level, historic properties are recognized within the National Register of Historic Places and National Landmark programs.
At the state level, historic properties can be designated as State Landmarks or Points of Historical Interest, and can also be listed on the California Register of Historical Resources.
Many local agencies enact Landmark programs to designate and commemorate their historic properties.
In California, designated properties are often eligible for Historic Property Contracts (Mills Act), that enable property owners to divert future property taxes into restoration and maintenance activities.
Rooted in over 120 years of preservation ethics in both Europe and America, The Secretary of the Interior's Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties are common sense principles in non-technical language.
They were developed by the National Park Service to help protect our nation's irreplaceable cultural resources by promoting consistent preservation practices.
The Standards are a series of concepts about maintaining, repairing and replacing historic materials, as well as designing new additions or making alterations.
They were developed by the National Park Service to help protect our nation's irreplaceable cultural resources by promoting consistent preservation practices.
The Standards are a series of concepts about maintaining, repairing and replacing historic materials, as well as designing new additions or making alterations.
Documentation is often required by a public agency when a project may impact a historic resource that is listed in or eligible for the California Register of Historical Resources.
This documentation may take many forms; each agency defines the necessary documentation that meets the requirements for specific situations.
In addition to photo-documentation, Written and Descriptive Reports according to HABS standards may be required, and other forms of documentation such as video, oral interviews, and the archiving of primary records may need to accompany the photo-documentation.
This documentation may take many forms; each agency defines the necessary documentation that meets the requirements for specific situations.
In addition to photo-documentation, Written and Descriptive Reports according to HABS standards may be required, and other forms of documentation such as video, oral interviews, and the archiving of primary records may need to accompany the photo-documentation.
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