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CELEBRATING 18
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In February 2009
Archaeological Research Incorporated celebrated 18 years in business!
We have grown from serving clients in Wisconsin and Illinois to serving
clients in Indiana, Michigan, Iowa, Minnesota, South Dakota, Oklahoma, Arkansas,
Missouri, Pennsylvania and Ohio. We have grown from one office in the
west loop area of Chicago to 3 offices located in Madison Wisconsin,
Woodstock and Chicago, Illinois. Over the next few months we will begin
to change information on this site to celebrate our 18th Anniversary.
Visit us again soon to see how we have changed! |
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OUR BEGINNING |
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After working as a
private consultant to state agencies and engineering
firms in Illinois and Wisconsin throughout the 1980s,
David Keene founded Archaeological Research,
Incorporated (ARI) on February 15, 1991. The firms first
office was on Morgan Street in the West Loop District of
Chicago just west of Greek Town and north of the
University of Illinois at Chicago Campus. Two years
later the firm moved to larger office space just one
block east along Jackson Boulevard.
In May of 1998, ARI
established a permanent office in
Middleton, Wisconsin
on the outskirts of Madison. The staff at this office
has ready access to the vast resources at the University
of Wisconsin and is located near state agency offices
involved in Section 106 and Cultural Resource Management
(CRM) Projects.
By August of 2000 work
with residential real estate developers around Chicago
became so much of a part of ARI's business that we
openned an office in north central Illinois. Today our
office in
Woodstock,
Illinois serves developers throughout the region as
they work through both state and federal historic
preservation requirements. |
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TODAY |
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With a permanent full
time
staff
of six
professionals, all with graduate degrees, ARI fills
three offices. In January of 2005 our
Chicago Office
moved into new space in the Ravenswood Historic District
on the north side of the City of Chicago. Our client
base has grown now to include the Illinois Toll Way, the
City of Chicago, the Federal Aviation Administration,
the US Army Corp of Engineers, the Wisconsin Department
of Transportation, residential and commercial
developers, fiber optic, pipeline and cell tower
companies throughout the Midwest. |
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TOMORROW |
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Building on our work in
cultural resource management a number of our staff and
colleagues are developing some new areas of expertise.
Most important of these is our experience in Heritage
Tourism Consulting and the development of the
Heritage Tourism web site known as
www.Travelthepast.com Travelthepast works to
connect travelers to historic sites with amenities and
recreational opportunities that will enrich their
experience of the past! Watch this site grow! |
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SOME NOTABLE
PROJECTS |
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In 2006 ARI assisted the
Milwaukee Architectural firm of Uihlein/Wilson and the
University of Wisconsin at Madison in conducting
archaeological investigations on the UW campus for the
the expansion of the Lake Shore Residence Hall Complex.
The University of Wisconsin Madison has more
archaeological sites and prehistoric mounds than any
other university campus in the United States. |
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In 2005 ARI completed a two
year study identifying and assessing the effects on
archaeological and historic resources of one of the largest public works
projects in US History. ARI assisted the
team lead by the Engineering Firm of Crawford, Murphy
and Tilley to prepare the Environmental Impact Statement
for the "Chicago O'Hare Airport Expansion Project." This
work was completed under the direction of the Federal Aviation Administration
(FAA) and
the City of Chicago. |
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In 2002, ARI under contract
with the Oklahoma State Historic Preservation Office and
the National Park Service developed a resource
management plan for
Historic Resources on Route 66 in Oklahoma. |
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In 1992, ARI completed its
first Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS)Project for the
United States Postal Service. In expanding its the Main
Chicago Post Office Facility, the Postal Service needed
to remove the Marshall Field River Warehouse designed by
Daniel Burnham in 1904.
Heritage Research, Ltd., of Milwaukee assisted us on
this project. |
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Archaeological
Investigations in urban environments is one area of
specialty for ARI. In 2004, with the assistance of
Blinderman Construction, ARI worked with the General
Services Administration (GSA) on the site of the new FBI
Building in Chicago. |
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ARI
is involved in
intensive excavations on historic and prehistoric sites
throughout the Midwest. On one site, the
Pine River Site (47Ri318)
near the town of Gotham, Wisconsin, nearly 80,000 artifacts were recovered.
These excavations
confirmed the presence Archaic, Middle and Late Woodland components. |
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Historic
American Engineering Record (HAER) Documentation is an
important component in ARI's services to government
agencies. In 2005 ARI completed HAER documentation on
the Hofmann Dam in Riverside for the Chicago District of
the US Army Corps of Engineers. Copies of the HAER Report
and
Measured Drawings can be found here as well as on
our
Portfolio of Projects Page. |
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IMPORTANT
NEWS AND DEVELOPMENTS |
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The Society
for American Archaeology (SAA), with the assistance
of a grant from the U.S. Dept of Interior, Bureau of
Reclamation (BOR), has created a set of web pages on
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Archaeology
for the Public
www.saa.org/public
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Archaeology for the Public
is designed to interest and inform a
wide variety of audiences about
archaeology including students, educators,
avocational archaeologists, the media, policymakers,
heritage tourists, and descendant communities. Take
a look at this site. We are sure you will enjoy it!
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2006
marked two important
anniversaries in the historic preservation movement.
First it is the 100th Anniversary of the Antiquities Act
of 1906; and second, the 40th Anniversary of the passage
of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966.
The National Park Service
and the
American Anthropological Association both have
excellent web site celebrating the Antiquities Act.
The Advisory Council on
Historic Preservation is in the process of putting
together material on the web for the National Historic
Preservation Act Celebration! |
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WORK IN
PROGRESS |
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IMPORTANT SITES TO
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Take a look at the new research conducted by Pamela
Bannos of Northwestern University on the Lincoln Park
Cemetery - a site Archaeological Research Inc., worked
on in the year 2000. See Pamela's work and the
video taken by ARI on the cemetery excavations at
Hidden Truths. |
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Check our
Annotated Links
Page for information and links
to web sites dealing with archaeology, historic
preservation, and Section 106 compliance issues. In
addition we would like to call attention to the
following pages: |
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