Company Services
Founded in 1981, JRP has more than twenty-five years of experience conducting historic research investigations throughout California and the western United States, making us one of the oldest and most experienced public history consulting firms in the nation. We specialize in a variety of historical research services including: historic building and structure survey and evaluation, National Register of Historic Places documentation, compliance with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act, and evaluation of historic properties for the California Register of Historical Resources under CEQA. JRP also specializes in land and water use histories, including litigation and expert witness services. See Litigation Section.
JRP effectively and efficiently undertakes historic property surveys and evaluations of all sizes and jobs with a wide range of resource types from individual residences and commercial buildings, farmsteads or industrial sites, canals, dams, mines, roads and bridges to complex historic districts and urban and rural landscapes. We have completed numerous large historic property surveys and evaluations for federal, state and local governmental agencies including individual projects involving more than 1,000 buildings and structures for Caltrans highway construction projects, the statewide bridge survey, public transit expansion programs, and BRAC closure of military installations.
As part of our services, JRP has produced the full range of Section 106 documents including National Register and California Register nominations, National Historic Landmark documentation, HAER/HABS documentation, cultural resource management plans, Findings of Effect, Memorandums of Agreement, Programmatic Agreements, and development of creative mitigation projects (textual, photographic, and video), and public outreach programs. We have the knowledge and the experience to facilitate both the federal and state environmental review processes through public agencies and in consulting with the staff of the Office of Historic Preservation on historic properties documentation for transportation, public transit, and a variety of other undertakings.
JRP has utilized information from libraries, archives, and private and corporate collections to produce high quality work for a diverse clientele. JRP designs and executes innovative research strategies to answer complex historical research and documentation questions. We have conducted professional studies to identify and evaluate historic buildings, structures and bridges and have recorded historic buildings or structures in accordance with the standards of HABS/HAER and have researched and developed thematic contexts for identification and evaluation of specific resource types. JRP has also done extensive research in industry trade journals and publications of professional organizations to identify both property-specific activities and to document historic practices such as mining, refining, processing, manufacturing, farming, and irrigation methods.