Cooper Shields

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Hey, Cooper.

uh tell me what an architectural historian does yes so there are a few different facets an architectural historian can be a lot of them are like the uh the the educational side teaching researching and whatnot and the side i'm on i work for a cultural resource management firm

And a lot of what we do, so most of my company is actually archaeologists, and there's 10 or so of us.

And a lot of the projects that we do are government-mandated surveys.

So when a project is done in the U.S.

that requires, that uses federal money, it triggers a cultural resource survey.

And so that...

make sure that the project doesn't negatively affect any of our cultural heritage, whether that's architectural, historic, or archaeological.

So what we'll do, what I do in the above ground section, as we call it, is you do just survey work.

So is that roundabout going to necessarily impact that historic house that's sitting on that corner?

If it is, what can we do to mitigate it?

Can they move it?

Slightly.

Can they move the house?

Can they move the project?

Yeah, when you're driving around in a car with an orange vest on taking photos of people's houses, you get some weird looks.

I never Zoom.