The Center's Resources

The Center and its staff are capable of delivering a a wide range of historic preservation services based on experience developed for over a decade. Much of its recent field-work has been devoted to archaeological reconnaissance surveys in the piedmont and coastal plain regions of Virginia, and Center staff have conducted Phase I, Phase II and Phase III cultural resource management projects. The Center also has conducted and coordinated architectural inventories for towns, districts, and highway rights-of-way and has implemented both archaeological and architectural inventory and assessment studies.

The Center and its staff prepare historic structures reports, historic structures condition reports, prepare complete photographic and measured documentation drawings of historic structures that exceed HABS standards, and complete National Register of Historic Places nomination forms. The Center is also capable of undertaking the analysis of historic plaster and mortar. In addition, the Center provides consulting services in the area of museum management, historic product developments and sales, historic preservation planning and zoning, and cultural conservation. The Center offers archaeological training by way of field and laboratory methods courses and a summer field school. Students, volunteers and hired people developing archaeological careers are incorporated into the Center's projects.