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Documentation Studies

Not everything can be preserved as is — or at all.

Documentation studies record a property’s physical and historic characteristics to exacting archival standards. This saves information about the property even if it is demolished or substantially altered. Federal documentation programs include the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER), and the Historic American Landscape Survey (HALS). These collections are archived in the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Some states also have programs such as the Minnesota Historic Property Record, which is maintained by the Minnesota Historical Society.

Documentation projects have brought Hess Roise to some interesting places including a state prison, Grand Coulee Dam, and ore docks on Lake Superior. We have also worked on grain elevators, bridges, commercial and residential buildings, farms, and military facilities.

Services:106 + Environmental, Documentation Studies

Weyerhaeuser Lumber Yard

The Weyerhaeuser Timber Company—one of the most successful logging companies in the country—built a lumberyard in the Midway to take advantage of the nearby network of railroads. The yard served…

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Services:Documentation Studies, Interpretation

Electric Steel Elevator

Innovative in 1901, the Electric Steel Grain Elevator complex was obsolete, vacant, and an attractive nuisance 112 years later. We documented the property before it was demolished and developed interpretation…

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Services:106 + Environmental, Documentation Studies, Interpretation

Zablocki Veterans Administration Medical Center

Established shortly after the Civil War, the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers ultimately evolved into the Veterans Administration. An expansive campus started in Milwaukee in 1867 was one of…

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Services:106 + Environmental, Documentation Studies

Minnesota Correctional Facility-Saint Cloud

History behind bars. Our work at the state’s historic Saint Cloud facility enabled modifications needed to bring the nineteenth-century facility up to twenty-first-century standards. Construction on the Minnesota State Reformatory…

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Services:Documentation Studies

Hungry Horse Project

President Harry Truman threw a switch that ceremonially started power generation at the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation’s Hungry Horse Project in Montana in October1953, and the hard-working facility has been…

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