Every parcel of land - whether a city lot, a rail corridor, or a farm field - has a history and a future. HPI’s specialists assist in planning for the future while considering impacts to the past.

Betsy Kearns and Cece Saunders, co-founders and principals in the company, have combined consultation and excavation experiences that include prehistoric reconnaissance surveys, development of predictive models, archival studies, interpretive brochure design, and seminar coordination. Faline Schneiderman-Fox and Sara Mascia, Ph.D., vice presidents of HPI and each with over 15 years firm experience, specialize in master plan development, evaluations of complex transportation corridors, and excavations of waterfront, urban, and farmstead sites.

The firm is able to staff monitoring of soil borings and foundation tests. Additional certified personnel are fully qualified to record sites to Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) and Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) levels, as sometimes required by federally-funded projects.

Increasingly, review agencies are requesting an educational or outreach compliance prior to approving impacts to cultural resources. HPI can certainly assist in designing and implementing any required educational component – large or small. In 2005, HPI completed the fifth in a series of educational booklets on Connecticut’s State Archaeological Preserves. HPI was responsible for establishing the well received format for these large and attractive publications. However, compliance can often be limited to submission of a project synopsis to a professional journal.

Historical Perspectives, Inc., incorporated in the State of Connecticut, is a woman-owned business and has received official WBE certification from the State of Connecticut Department of Economic Development/Small Contractors Set-Aside Program, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the New York City School Construction Authority and the State of New York. The firm has been certified as DBE by the Metropolitan Transit Authority, New Jersey Transit, and the Connecticut Department of Transportation.