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Bradley McDonald,
Mid-Atlantic Office Manager received his M.A. in Anthropology from the College of William and Mary,
Williamsburg, Virginia (1994), and a B.A. in Historic Preservation
from Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg, Virginia
(1990). Prior to joining the staff of Gray & Pape, Mr.
McDonald was the Managing Director of Cultural Resources,
Inc. in Fredericksburg, Virginia and a Project Manager with
R. Christopher Goodwin and Associates, Inc. in their Hampton,
Virginia office.
Mr. McDonald has considerable experience directing all phases
of archaeological research for Sections 106 and 110 compliance
projects. His experience includes field investigation and
laboratory analysis of prehistoric and historic archaeological
resources. Additionally, he has prepared numerous technical
reports that present the results of survey, testing, excavation,
and analysis. He has performed investigations on Early Archaic
through Late Woodland/Contact period prehistoric sites and
has worked on a number of seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth
century historic sites. Although Mr. McDonald has experience
with a variety of prehistoric chronological periods, his
primary area of interest and expertise lies in historic-period domestic farmstead, and Civil War sites.
Bradley McDonald has directed numerous compliance projects
in the Mid-Atlantic United States. He has successfully completed
projects on behalf of federal agencies, including the
United States Navy and the United States Army Corps of
Engineers. He has also conducted projects with state and
municipal agencies including the Virginia Department of
Transportation and the Virginia Department of Parks and
Recreation. Mr. McDonald additionally has executed projects
with a number of private sector clients, such as natural
gas companies, power companies, and architectural/engineering
firms.
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Lena L. Sweeten, Senior
Principal Investigator, Architecture/History, earned a B.A.
with a double major in History and Government from Western
Kentucky University in 1995 and a M.A. in Public History
with Emphasis in Historic Preservation from Middle Tennessee
State University in 1998. She has engaged in a multi-faceted
historic preservation career in the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic
states. She began with working as a preservation consultant
in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, and undertaking a variety
of projects that included Section 106 compliance history/architecture
surveys, National Register nominations, and community development
grant writing in Wisconsin and Iowa. Ms. Sweeten also was
employed as a project coordinator for a Cincinnati, Ohio,
real estate development firm specializing in rehabilitating
historic buildings utilizing Federal investment tax credits.
Her duties focused on preparing tax credit applications;
managing subcontractors undertaking discrete tasks for rehabilitation
projects; and developing and maintaining construction project
schedules. Her professional service and outreach efforts
include drafting ordinances to establish a local historic
preservation review board and designate local historic districts;
preparing design guidelines; serving on local boards and
committees geared toward historic preservation and downtown
revitalization; and providing pro bono consultation services
to small communities.
Ms. Sweeten’s work for Gray & Pape has included
history/architecture surveys, National Register nominations,
HABS/HAER intensive documentation reports, heritage tourism
development projects, and Federal investment tax credit
applications. She has completed projects in Illinois, Indiana,
Kentucky, Michigan, New York, Ohio, and Virginia. Ms. Sweeten
served as principle investigator for several major transportation
projects such as the Eastern Corridor Multi-Modal Project
in Hamilton and Clermont counties, Ohio, and the proposed
TARC Transportation Tomorrow light rail project in Louisville,
Kentucky. She completed intensive historical investigations
of a variety of cultural resources including a former Nike
missile battery in southeastern Virginia; the Lincoln Boyhood
National Memorial in Spencer County, Indiana; and a HAER
recordation of the Sault Ste. Marie International Railroad
Bridge in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. She also has prepared
more than a dozen applications for rehabilitation projects
utilizing Federal investment tax credits.
As a senior principal investigator, Ms. Sweeten is responsible
for managing all types of history/architecture projects,
such as Section 106 and NEPA compliance undertakings, National
Register nominations, HABS/HAER documentations, historic
resource studies, downtown revitalization and Main Street
programs, and heritage tourism initiatives. She also is
responsible for preparing and maintaining project proposals,
budgets, research designs, and work plans, and supervising
staff involvement in various components of project completion.
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