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Houses line the bank of the Exeter River after the Great Dam has been removed.

Exeter’s Great Dam restoration involved cultural resource evaluation and mitigation. Learn more.

Cultural Resources

VHB’s Cultural Resources team of architectural and archaeological resources specialists offer planning services to public and private clients across all our markets and geographies. Our team includes professionals from the disciplines of architectural history, planning, and archaeology who specialize in impact assessment and the identification, documentation, and evaluation of cultural resources.

Our in-house specialists meet the Secretary of the Interior’s Professional Qualification Standards for history, archaeology, and architectural history (36 CFR 61).

Featured Services

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    Preservation Planning & Architectural History

    Our team specializes in identifying, documenting, and evaluating historic resources; researching and developing historic contexts to support eligibility and significance arguments; and assessing impacts on resources resulting from various projects.

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    Regulatory Review & Compliance

    We have extensive experience working with local, state, and federal historic regulatory requirements including Section 106, NEPA, Section 4(f), and state historic and environmental review processes.

  • A yellow two-story house stands behind a garden divided by a path.

    Federal & State Historic Tax Credits

    Our team guides clients through the complex Historic Tax Credit certification application process; we’ve successfully prepared numerous applications for a variety of redevelopment and adaptive reuse projects.

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    Archaeology

    Our archaeologists have extensive experience assessing archaeological site sensitivity and evaluating National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) eligibility. They also perform archaeological investigations, metal detection, Ground Penetrating Radar surveys, artifact analysis and curation, and archival research.

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    Related Services

    Supporting VHB’s integrative services approach, the Cultural Resources team collaborates with other VHB service teams on large-scale and complex local, state, and federal planning efforts that involve identifying and evaluating historic resources.

Quinn Stuart

Quinn Stuart

Director of Cultural Resources

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Andrew Pappas

Archaeology Practice Leader

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