Senior Historian / Architectural Historian
Mr. Larson’s experience at JRP encompasses many elements of cultural resources management and general historical research areas including architectural surveys, land use histories, and water resource issues. He has conducted historic resource evaluations, as well as preparing historic property management and planning documents, TEA Conventional Rural Highway Surveys, HASRs, HRERs, and other historic property evaluations for various Caltrans Districts and Prime Contractors. Mr. Larson’s abilities include research and writing and field recordation, as well as report production, document management, graphic illustration, and the design and maintenance of project-specific computer databases with the capacity to manage thousands of records. Since joining JRP in 1998 he has undertaken an enormous amount of field recordation on historic sites throughout the state of California, as well as a substantial amount of research at many public and private archival repositories, libraries, and government agencies in California. Mr. Larson has experience collecting GPS data using a Trimble Pathfinder and using the California Coordinate System (NAD83) and the State Post Mile System using the TEA data dictionary.
Prior to joining JRP, Mr. Larson worked at the University Archives at California State University, Sacramento. He received a BA in History from the University of California, Los Angeles, and an MA from the Public History Program at California State University, Sacramento, in 2005. Mr. Larson is a member of the California Council for the Promotion of History and was a presenter at the organization’s conference in 1999. Additionally, he is a member of the Northern California Chapter of the Society for Architectural Historians.