Principal at Naylor Wellman, LLC
Naylor Wellman, LLC is a State of Ohio certified Women-Owned Business Enterprise (WBE) located in Northeast Ohio. The firm was established in 2013 and specializes in historic building preservation and adaptive-use, architectural history, and historic preservation planning and experience spanning 50 years with projects in Ohio, Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Wisconsin. Principals Wendy Hoge Naylor and D iana Wellman are registered Preservation Consultants qualified under the Federal Historic Preservation Professional requirements as described in the United States Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Archeology and Historic Preservation (48 FR 44716). Together, they have listed 54 individual buildings and 29 historic districts on the National Register, encompassing 4k+ historic resources, and have assisted clients in securing $184k in awards from the Ohio Pipeline Pilot Initiative Grant and $225k in CLG Grants. Since 2009, their portfolio of rehabilitation projects has secured Federal tax credits valued at $227M+ and 91 OHPTC awards at $158M. During their careers, they have completed 70+ successful historic tax credit projects. Services offered include National Register Nominations, Federal and State Historic Tax Credit Applications, Local Historic Building Surveys, Historic American Building Surveys, Historic American Engineering Records, Section 106, Preservation Planning, and Historic Design Guidelines.
The Gwynne Building, designed by Ernest Flag in 1913 for Alice Gwynne Vanderbilt in the Beaux Arts style. From 1935-1956 it held the corporate headquarters for Proctor & Gamble. The building has been fully renovated to house the "Fidelity of Cincinnati" Boutique Hotel which is being renovated to house hotel amenity spaces, ballrooms, and meeting space with 174 hotel suites. The $88M project will receive $16M in Federal HTC and was awarded $7.2M from OHPTC. The hotel is scheduled to open in July.