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Above Ground Cultural Resource Survey Manual Guidelines for Identification: Architecture and Cultural Landscapes Grant Funded Projects and Volunteer Projects Maine Historic Preservation Commission Augusta, Maine December 2013 Above Ground Cultural Resource Survey Manual Guidelines for Identification: Architecture and Cultural Landscapes Project Submission Requirements MHPC Grant Funded Surveys Volunteer Surveys INTRODUCTION This document provides guidance for consultants, preservation professionals and volunteer contractors undertaking architectural surveys of Maine’s buildings, structures, and landscapes. The purpose of the guidelines is to enable surveyors to understand and meet the minimum requirements for documenting their findings and reporting such findings to the Maine Historic Preservation Commission (MHPC). Adherence to these guidelines is required for Grant funded survey projects (state funding, HPF funding or other Federal funding) and recommended for all other survey activities. The guidelines and requirements developed by MHPC are built on the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards and Guidelines for Identification (“Standards”)(see Appendix II for full text of these Standards) and reflect the Commission’s commitment to the survey of the state’s historic resources. Note: This survey manual does not cover MDOT consultant surveys or other surveys prepared in fulfillment of Federal compliance requirements. Those manuals are available on MHPC’s website at /mhpc/architectural_survey/survey_guidelines.html. Maine’s architectural survey program began in 1972, a year after the MHPC was established as an independent agency of state government. Since then, the effort to catalogue and document the historic human-made environment has continued to be a central to the Commissions mandate. The survey component of the over all preservation planning program is a vital one. Surveys document at a variety of levels the historic man-made env