Services: Historic Preservation

Dodson Associates incorporates historic settlement patterns and designs as an essential component of its plans for new conservation and development. A region's historic patterns, landscapes and architecture should be one of the key guiding elements for new community planning and development. This will ensure that new development fits in with local character and continues centuries old building and land use traditions. Understanding historic patterns and design traditions is vital in developing new community plans and guidelines that blend in with a region's historic sense of place. Preserving specific historic sites and landscapes is also an important element of Dodson Associates' work, including several historic landscape restoration projects for the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities. Strategies to protect landscapes surrounding historic sites have been developed for the Waterford National Landmark in Virginia and for seven cultural sites in the Berkshires of Massachusetts including Tanglewood, Jacob's Pillow and the Clark Art Museum.

 

Featured Projects

Waterford National Historic Landmark Protection of the scenic and historic farmland surrounding a National Landmark village in Virginia.		Yorktown Comprehensive Plan Historic resources inventory, scenic landscape assessment and village design guidelines for an historic town in Westchester County, NY.		Ventfort Hall Landscape rehabilitation plan for 1893 Berkshire Cottage with extensive grounds in Lenox, Massachusetts.