History & Architecture Practice Leader at Gray & Pape
Brandon McCuin supports Gray & Pape’s history and architecture staff in the planning, execution, and management of cultural resource projects across the United States. With more than 20 years of experience as a cultural resource professional, he plays a key role in identifying new market sectors, cultivating client relationships, and pursuing project opportunities. He also provides expertise in the development and management of project budgets, scopes of work, schedules, and deliverables.
Mr. McCuin has extensive experience managing large-scale architectural survey efforts, complex multidisciplinary projects, and long-term contracts involving multiple task orders for federal and state agencies as well as private-sector clients. Throughout his career, he has directed and overseen numerous intensive survey and preservation planning initiatives nationwide and has personally surveyed hundreds of historic properties throughout Ohio.
His notable research and documentation projects include the Jarratt House Historic Structure Report (HSR) in Petersburg, Virginia; the Over-the-Rhine Museum Historic Structure Report in Cincinnati, Ohio; and the Cincinnati Music Hall Preservation Plan. More recently, Mr. McCuin completed documentation for the Building 35 Tennessee Mountain Home VA Theater Restoration Project and prepared a detailed historic context study focused on Cincinnati's African American history.
Recognized for his expertise in historic preservation, architectural history, and cultural resource management, Mr. McCuin combines technical knowledge with strong project leadership to successfully deliver complex preservation and documentation projects across a wide range of settings and stakeholders.
Currently awaiting approval from the Ohio Historic Site Preservation Advisory Board is a Multiple Property Documentation on Cincinnati's Brewing Resources, as well as an additional NRHP District of the Bruckmann Brewery. The MPD identified and describes Cincinnati's brewing resources including, but not limited to brewhouses, ice houses, malt houses, bottling facilities, and underground lagering cellars. The cellars are a relatively unique resources in the United States with only a handful of cities having had them documented. The session will walk through the steps in preparing the MPDF and NRHP District, as well as give background information on the city's brewing history, and related architectural resources with an emphasis on the lagering cellars. The funding source of the MPDF and district will be talked about with possible future steps re: heritage tourism and local preservation efforts of the cellars themselves.