Cultural Resources & Architectural History
At ICF International, we approach our cultural and historical resources
work with authority and innovation. We apply scientific expertise to design
creative solutions to our clients' cultural resources management challenges—helping
them implement projects that are compliant, timely, and cost effective.
Our cultural and historical professionals combine practical knowledge with
hands-on experience to conduct all levels of cultural, archaeological, and
historical investigations—inventory, evaluation, planning, and management.
These professionals include:
- Specialists in prehistoric and historical archaeology, historical architecture,
tribal consultation, and geographic information systems analysis
- Principal investigators who meet U.S. Secretary of the Interior and Register
of Professional Archaeologists standards
- Archaeologists and architectural historians with extensive experience
in site documentation, historical research, impact assessments, and creative
mitigation approaches
- Compliance experts well versed in federal, state, and local regulations—National
Historic Preservation Act (NHPA), Archaeological Resource Protection Act, National
Environmental Protection Act (NEPA), California Environmental Quality Act
(CEQA)
In our in-house laboratory and production facilities, we process, preserve,
and analyze of all types of cultural material. By employing the latest
archaeological technologies, we are able to minimize fieldwork and analysis
costs and maximize information return.
ICF Cultural Resources & Architectural History Services
- Archaeological studies
- National Historic Preservation Act Section 106 compliance
- Historic American Buildings Survey and Historic American Engineering
Record documentation
- Historic structure reports
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- National Register nominations
- State Historic Preservation Office consultation
- Tribal resources
- Ethnographic research and coordination with Native American groups
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Selected Cultural Resources & Architectural History Clients
- U.S. General Services Administration
- Federal Transit Administration
- Federal Highway Administration
- Surface Transportation Board
- Bureau of Land Management
- Bureau of Reclamation
- Federal Communications Commission
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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- U.S. Forest Service
- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
- California and Washington Departments of Transportation
- California Department of Parks and Recreation
- Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, California
- J. Paul Getty Trust, Getty Conservation Institute
- Southern California Edison
- Landowners and developers
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Selected Cultural Resources & Architectural History Projects
Archaeological Data Recovery Excavation
and Habitat Mitigation Monitoring
Plan
Bay Area Rapid Transit, Parsons Brinckerhoff
ICF is providing environmental documentation and archaeological services
for a 5.3-mile extension of the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) commuter rail
service, San Francisco, California. Among other tasks, ICF is monitoring construction excavations and
conducting an extensive program of data recovery excavations (mitigation)
at a large prehistoric archaeological site.
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Downtown San Diego African-American Heritage Study
Centre City Development
Corporation
With the aim of providing a comprehensive understanding of the history and
contributions of African Americans to the development of downtown San Diego, California,
ICF completed a study to document buildings, structures, and sites significant
in the community's history between 1860 and 1960. Relying on community involvement
and extensive archival research, this study identified 16 standing resources
and 21 sites contributing to a proposed Downtown San Diego African-American
Thematic Historic District.
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National Register Surveys and Evaluations
General Services Administration
(GSA),
San Bernardino National Forest, California
ICF architectural historians prepared National Register nominations for
GSA for federal buildings, courthouses, post offices, custom houses, and
border stations across the country. ICF also performed wildlife, botanical,
and archaeological surveys on 44 miles of a proposed trail in the San Bernardino
National Forest in support of an environmental assessment being prepared by the Forest Service.
ICF also performed a pedestrian survey and prepared an archaeological reconnaissance
report.
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Historic Resources Surveys and Inventories
Cities of Long Beach, Los
Angeles, and Santa Monica, California
The City of Long Beach hired ICF to prepare a historic resources survey
for two project areas in the city's redevelopment plan to identify potentially
significant historic resources. The Los Angeles Department of City Planning
hired ICF to prepare a Historic Resources Survey of the proposed 350-property
Echo Park Historic Preservation Overlay Zone (HPOZ). For Santa Monica, ICF
completed a citywide historic survey of structures built through 1968.
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Interstate Highway System Historic Evaluation
Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
ICF worked with FHWA Headquarters to identify the elements of the entire
40,000+ mile Interstate Highway system that have national or exceptional
historic significance. We prepared the summary guidance and criteria and
served as the technical team leader for consistency in all 50 states and
worked closely with the State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO), U.S. Department of Transportation, and FHWA
divisions in 18 states. The final list was published in the Federal Register
before the 50th anniversary of the Interstate System in June 2006.
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Los Angeles Historic Resources Survey
Historic Context Statement and Field
Guide
J. Paul Getty Trust
The City of Los Angeles Office of Historic Resources and the Getty Conservation
Institute selected ICF to spearhead the first phase of the Los Angeles Citywide
Historic Resources Survey Project. ICF developed a citywide Historic Context
Statement and a Field Guide Manual and Database that formed the basis of
the survey effort, which makes it possible to efficiently conduct a survey
in a city with the size and complexity of Los Angeles, California, without sacrificing
quality or cost.
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Greater Seattle Area Urban Corridor Office Projects
Washington State
Department of Transportation (WSDOT)
ICF holds an on-call contract with WSDOT to provide cultural resource services
and has completed several cultural resource assessments for highway improvement
projects. Representative work under these task orders includes background
and literature research; pedestrian archaeological survey and shovel test
probes; inventory of archaeological and built environment resources; and
documentation for compliance with Section 106 of the NHPA, Governor's Executive
Order 05-05, and per Department of Archaeology and Historic Preservation (DAHP) guidelines for Cultural Resource Reporting.
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80+ Projects, including NEPA, CEQA, and Historic Surveys
Ports of Los
Angeles and Long Beach, California
ICF provides a long list of services to the Port of Los Angeles and Port
of Long Beach dealing with CEQA, NEPA, and historic evaluations and surveys.
Among other specific projects, ICF conducted historic resource surveys for
the City of Los Angeles Harbor Department and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
to support a 30-year master development plan for approximately 418 acres
in the Port of Los Angeles. ICF also analyzed historic resource impacts as
part of the Terminal Island Rail project CEQA/NEPA documentation.
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Cultural Resources Surveys and Services
Southern California Edison, California
Department of Parks and Recreation
ICF staff, as part of Mooney-Hayes LLP, provided as-needed survey, resource
identification, documentation, testing, and evaluation efforts related to
electricity circuit pole replacements, line extensions, and line relocations
throughout California on both private and public lands. Our staff prepared
State of California Department of Parks and Recreation forms and assessed
resource significance according to National Register of Historic Places eligibility
and CEQA significance criteria.
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