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Historic Preservation and Public History Consulting

MWM Preservation is a Woman-Owned Business that offers a range of research, evaluation, and documentation services geared toward the preservation of historic resources.

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Historic Preservation

Cocoa Junior High School National Register Nomination, 2019

Research

Public History

Andrew P. Stewart Center 100 year celebration, 2017.

Megan Warley McDonald

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Curtiss-Wright Hangar, built in 1929 and restored in 2018. Listed on the National Register in 1998, now Hunter-Gatherer Brewery.

I used to drive past the Atlanta Dairies building every day on my way to work. Though initially it stood out to me because of the cool vintage sign, when I started conducting oral histories with people who grew up in Reynoldstown, it took on a new dimension. Folks who lived in the neighborhood during the 1950s reminisced about piling into the back of a pickup truck and going for ice cream, and fondly remembered it as just one of many businesses along Memorial Drive where parents and family members were employed.

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Union Station, St. Louis. (Historic Rehabilitation tax credits for the win!)

By complete accident, my husband and I visited Meramec Spring Park today (we meant to go to a different Meramec park 😂). It was a beautiful place and we saw the ruins of an old iron works!

German POW stone work at Countee Hall. Fort Leonard Wood was the site of a POW camp during WWII, where a number of skilled German stonemasons were held until the end of the war. Their craftsmanship is present all over the installation in the form of stone culverts, pathways, stairs, chimneys, and more. Some examples have been preserved better than others—including this Chimney upon which the POWs left their mark:

Springtime has arrived at Fort Leonard Wood! I stopped by Countee Hall today to photograph the POW stonework on-site and was temporarily distracted by all the purple blossoms.

No shortage of Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) buildings out here in Missouri!

Where are my old postcard lovers? I love to collect postcards of buildings I have a connection to. (I imagine it’s a common hobby among preservationists.) This postcard depicts a building I wrote about in my master’s thesis. I haven’t actually had the opportunity to see it in person yet— one day!