Project Partners and Contractors

Crawford & Stearns / Architects and Preservation Planners, PLLC, was originally established in 1979 and is based in Syracuse, New York. Crawford & Stearns has provided services for various projects large and small in throughout Central and Eastern United States. Since its inception the firm has focused on the restoration, preservation, and adaptive reuse of architecturally, historically, and culturally significant resources and has worked successfully with several hundred National Register-listed properties utilizing a wide variety of private and public funding sources including Preservation League of NYS, NY Landmarks Conservancy, Institute of Museum and Library Services, and the National Park Service. Crawford & Stearns has received numerous award and recognition for their work including recognition from the Preservation Association of Central New York, the Preservation League of New York State, New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, American Institute of Architects and the International Downtown Association.

Established in 1995, Architectural Conservation Services (ACS) provides investigation, assessment, and analytical services for historic materials and buildings. ACS specialized in the analysis of decorative finishes, paint, stucco, and mortar and their projects span an array of eras, structures, and materials including residences, service stations, railroad stations, churches, mills, opera houses, diners, and agricultural and industrial resources dating from the 17th to the 20th century. ACS has provided analytical services for numerous preservation projects across the eastern United States including the Mark Twain House in Hartford, CT, the Joseph Smith Farmhouse in Palmyra, NY, James Madison's Montpelier in Orange, VA, and McKim, Mead, & Whites' Newport Casino in Newport, RI. ACS has received awards from the Providence Preservation Society and the Preservation League of New York State.

Bruce Harvey is a historian and documentation photographer based in Syracuse, NY. A native of central/western NY, Harvey is a trained historian with degrees from Allegheny College, the University of South Carolina and Vanderbilt University. From 1995 to 2009 Harvey worked as a professional historian for Brockington and Associates in SC and later Kleinschmidt Associates in Syracuse, Today he is a private consultant. His work focuses on the documentation of significant historic buildings, engineering and industrial structures, places, and landscapes. Projects have been completed across the United States including documentation of the Missouri National Recreational River, the Penobscot River in Maine, the Erie Canal Aqueduct, The Vermont Marble Factory in Proctor, VT and the Hotel Syracuse in Syracuse, NY. Harvey’s goal is, “to tell the stories of places, to recapture and represent the continuities from past to present.”

University Neighborhood Preservation Association (UNPA) is a non-profit community organization incorporated in 1990 and based in Syracuse, NY. Their mission is to: promote owner-occupancy of homes in the area east of Syracuse University campus, provide homebuyers assistance, low-interest home improvements loans, and other incentives, market the University Neighborhood as a good place to live, and partner with municipal agencies, the University, and other neighborhood organizations to do so. UNPA is overseeing Phase One restoration of the Gustav Stickley House project.