Bringing significant buildings back into use as housing.

Historic Built brings the same expertise to owners, developers, municipalities, and nonprofit partners.

1. 01 Historic tax credits and financeFederal and state credits, underwriting, and the economics of preservation, from the first pro forma to a stabilized asset.

   Tax credits and incentives

   • Eligibility and incentive determinations
   • Federal Historic Preservation Certification Applications, Parts 1, 2, and 3
   • Massachusetts historic rehabilitation tax credit applications
   • Credit maximization and qualified rehabilitation expenditure analysis
   • Credit transfer and monetization
   • Design collaboration and construction monitoring through certification
   • Property tax abatement and reduction programs

   Development, underwriting, and finance

   • Underwriting and credit analysis for multifamily and mixed use properties
   • Mortgage loan underwriting and risk evaluation
   • Pro formas, sources and uses, and lender packages to state housing agency standards
   • Low Income Housing Tax Credit asset management and compliance reporting
   • Grant writing and grant management
   • Community Preservation Act, predevelopment loan, and C‑PACE applications
   • Chapter 40B and site feasibility
   • Owner's representation and development management
   • Historic real estate consultation for buying, selling, and developing historic property

   Preservation economics

   • Property value analysis of historic districts compared with the rest of the city
   • Demographics, jobs, and businesses in historic districts
   • The contribution of older building stock to affordable housing
   • The cost of an empty building
   • The economic impact of upper floor housing
   • Custom historic district analysis on request
2. 02 Designation and reviewListing the places that matter, and carrying projects through federal, state, and local review.

   Designation and survey

   • National Register nominations and determinations of eligibility
   • Local historic district and landmark designations
   • State historic and cultural district designations
   • Architectural and cultural landscape surveys and inventories
   • MACRIS research and Massachusetts Historical Commission inventory forms
   • Cultural resource sensitivity studies
   • Historic context statements

   Federal and state review

   • Section 106 consultation, standing structures reports, and mitigation negotiation
   • Historic property survey and historic resource evaluation reports
   • Findings of effect, memoranda of agreement, and programmatic agreements
   • NEPA and MEPA environmental review
   • State historic review under M.G.L. Chapter 9, Sections 26 through 27C, and 950 CMR 71.00, coordinated with MEPA
   • Liaison with state and local preservation offices
   • HABS, HAER, and HALS documentation for mitigation

   Local design review

   • Design guidelines for historic districts and review boards
   • Revisions to existing design guidelines and standards, developed with community committees
   • Staff level design review for historic commissions
   • Project presentation and advocacy before review boards, including appeals
3. 03 Research, documentation, and expert servicesThe record of a place, from archives and oral histories to evidence in disputes over land and water.

   Documentation

   • Historic structure reports
   • Historic building and landscape documentation, including cultural landscape reports
   • Photographic documentation
   • Detailed evaluations of the built environment

   Research

   • Building and site research, from the National Archives to town halls
   • Oral history research
   • Property timelines, historic overviews, and property history narratives
   • Complete property histories, bound as designed hardcover books

   Expert services, water, and land use history

   • Expert witness testimony
   • Archival research for litigation support and dispute resolution
   • Land use histories
   • Water rights and historic water use research, including riparian, groundwater, and federal reserved rights
   • Chapter 91 tidelands and waterways history
   • Historic public way and coastal access research
   • Navigability, flooding, and seawall performance histories
   • Potentially responsible party research for CERCLA and Chapter 21E sites
4. 04 Planning and resilienceAssessments and plans for the treatment, reuse, and protection of historic buildings.

   Planning and technical preservation

   • Preservation plans and building treatment plans
   • Conditions assessments, including damage from fire, flood, and storm
   • Historic building material conservation plans
   • Window and door surveys and assessments
   • Feasibility studies and due diligence evaluations before purchase
   • Reuse plans, renovation design consultation, and adaptive reuse
   • Project planning, advisement, and preservation project management

   Resilience planning

   • Risk data collection, mapping, and documentation for historic sites and buildings
   • Site and building risk analysis across layered hazard data
   • Retrofit recommendations that respect historic fabric, with reports, drawings, and implementation plans
   • Floodplain compliance strategies and exemption requests for historic properties
5. 05 Military heritage and burial groundsFortifications, installations, and battlefields, and the Commonwealth's cemeteries and burial places.

   Military heritage

   • Integrated cultural resource management plans for military installations
   • Cultural resource surveys, from colonial barracks to Cold War radar and missile sites
   • National Register assessments and nominations for military properties
   • Section 106 consultation for defense and National Guard undertakings
   • World War II and Cold War resource evaluations
   • Fort and coastal fortification documentation and preservation planning
   • Battlefield analysis, preservation planning, and interpretation
   • Battlefield preservation funding studies

   Cemeteries and burial grounds

   • Cemetery conservation and preservation consulting
   • Burial ground surveys and Massachusetts Historical Commission Form E inventories
   • National Register nominations for cemeteries and burial places
   • Gravestone and monument condition assessments
   • Burial ground preservation and maintenance plans
   • Mapping, documentation, and research into unmarked burials
   • Community Preservation Act and grant applications for burial ground restoration
6. 06 Heritage tourism and communityTelling a place's story, drawing visitors to it, and strengthening the groups that steward it.

   Tourism and interpretation

   • Heritage tourism assessments, plans, and task forces
   • Heritage area planning
   • Nature based and cultural tourism planning
   • Cultural corridor studies along highways and byways
   • Walking tours, tour guide materials, and interpretive exhibits
   • Context studies and interpretation
   • Greenway planning that connects historic districts

   Organizations and communities

   • Community outreach and education
   • Collection management
   • Strategic planning and facilitation for preservation organizations
   • Capital campaign advising and revolving fund design
   • Main Street, cultural plan, and community visioning support
   • Board and commission training

Every Massachusetts historic rehabilitation tax credit awarded since the program began, city by city. Drag the scale to replay the rounds, or tap a town for its record.

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