L: The Wagon House after exterior improvements and addition of a brick walk. R: Belmont County Courthouse
Back in 2012, HDC was commissioned by the Greenbrier Historical Society in Lewisburg, West Virginia, to complete exterior repairs of the Lewisburg Barracks, a late 18th century log building, and the Wagon House, a 1990s building constructed to house a Conestoga wagon. The Wagon House project also included a new accessible brick walkway to both the historical society and to the parking lot. Cathie Senter had previously worked with Gabe Hays, a landscape architect based in St. Clairsville, Ohio, and recommended him for the walkway work. Gabe’s business was subsequently acquired by Wallace Pancher Group, based in northwestern Pennsylvania. Gabe contacted HDC in 2022 to support a landscaping and civil engineering project at the historic Belmont County Courthouse in St. Clairsville. The architectural scope consisted of repairing the cast iron railings and light fixtures, designing an attractive enclosure around the existing cooling tower, getting wheelchair access to the courthouse annex, a former church building, and coordinating all the work with preservation reviewers at the Ohio Department of Transportation and the Ohio Historic Preservation Office.
