Archival Resources
Preservation architecture is a means of holding on to Charleston's unique heritage, helping local communities, and conserving existing built resources. By restoring and renovating existing buildings, owners and developers are learning the value of maintaining a historic building’s character, while enhancing it to meet contemporary technological service demands. Evans & Schmidt Architects has accumulated an extensive resource library of pertinent historic and photographic information on the local architectural inventory.
For 40 years, Evans & Schmidt Architects has become a leader in the restoration, rehabilitation, and adaptive reuse of existing buildings in the Charleston area. They believe it is almost always wasteful to prematurely demolish structures and that an active revitalization strategy is a balanced approach to preservation and an appropriate response to Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) efforts for sustainable design. The firm feels incredibly fortunate to work in a city that has such commendable standards for the treatment of historic properties. Utilizing long established historic research and methodologies that include existing conditions assessments, historic structures reports, South Carolina Historic Preservation Office reviews, Board of Architectural Review presentations, and materials conservation, Evans & Schmidt Architects is committed to the responsible stewardship of cultural and historic properties.
The firm has solutions for all of your project requirements. The firm's multi-disciplinary resources are made available to each of their clients in order to expedite and ensure every project reaches successful completion.
Historical Architectural Records
Evans & Schmidt Architects maintains and is constantly building upon an extensive street address file system as well as maintaining access to other local sources of pertinent documentation.
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