Hardlines Design Company (HDC) specializes in historic preservation architecture, restorations, adaptive reuses and rehabilitations of historic buildings. Since 1990, Hardlines Design Company has provided extensive historical architecture services to federal agencies such as the Air Force, Navy, Corps of Engineers, National Park Service, Department of Agriculture, and NASA as well as to state agencies such as the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT).
Hardlines Design Company is known for the quality of our technical reports. Our staff assisted with the creation of the ODOT cultural resources manual and was tapped to edit all technical reports for the Cleveland Innerbelt study after impressing the client with the user-friendliness and clarity of the CRM report. Hardlines Design Company staff have also assisted other companies with producing report text for large-scale studies, including creating contexts for a statewide GIS predictive model for the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation under contract to AECOM.
We’re a Highly Experienced Historical Preservation Architecture Firm
Our history/architectural history projects range from Phase I surveys of historic resources along road corridors, to Historic American Engineering Record documentation of large suspension bridges. The full range of architectural history services offered includes:
- HABS/HAER Documentation
- Building Inventory and Eligibility Assessments
- National Register Nominations
- Section 106 Compliance and Mitigation
- Historic Preservation Planning
- Programmatic Agreement Documents
- Historic Tax Credit Part I and Part II Applications
HDC is a founding member of the American Cultural Resources Association (ACRA), which is committed to promoting the professional, ethical and business practices of the cultural resources industry. Click below for more information on this organization.
