Architectural Historian at Gray & Pape
Cooper Shields is an Architectural Historian with Gray & Pape based in Columbus, Ohio. He specializes in historic preservation, architectural history, and cultural resources management, with extensive experience conducting field investigations, archival research, and surveys of historic buildings, districts, and cultural landscapes. Cooper has completed architectural history projects in 20 states for federal, state, and local clients, completing historic architecture and cultural landscape investigations, architectural history surveys, and historic structures reports. He has developed or contributed to nearly a dozen National Register of Historic Places individual property nominations, historic district nominations, and Multiple Property Documentation Forms.
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.