Historic Preservation Consulting
Your Farmhouse
Has a Story.
Let's Read It.
I read the bones of two-hundred-year-old farmhouses — sagging summer beams, hand-forged nails, milk paint layered twelve coats deep — and write the restoration roadmap that keeps them standing another century.
200+
Farmhouses assessed
1820–1920
Era specialization
$750
Starting price
Gallery of Services
Three ways to work
with Hearth.
Each service is a fixed price. No hourly billing, no scope creep, no surprises.
Assessment
Know what you have before you touch a thing.
I walk every square foot of your structure with a trained eye and a measuring tape. Sill plates, sill beams, foundation mortar, roof sheathing, window framing — nothing gets skipped. You leave with a written condition report and a clear sense of urgency levels.
Restoration Roadmap
A decade of work, organized into a plan you can actually follow.
Taking the assessment findings and turning them into a phased, prioritized, budgeted restoration plan. Phase 1 keeps the water out. Phase 2 stabilizes structure. Phase 3 restores character. Each phase includes scope, estimated costs, and the sequence that makes sense.
Contractor Coordination
Bridge the gap between the plan and the people who execute it.
I help you find contractors who actually understand historic construction — not just general builders who will rip out original material. I write the scopes of work, review bids for red flags, and check in on site to make sure the work matches the roadmap.
How It Works
From overwhelmed to
organized in four steps.
You reach out
Book online in 4 fields — property address, approximate build year, one photo, payment. No phone call, no intake form, no waiting to hear back.
Site visit
I spend 3–5 hours walking your property with a trained eye. Measuring, photographing, probing, noting. The building tells me things; I write them down.
Report delivery
Within 5 business days you receive a written condition report or full restoration roadmap — organized, prioritized, and written in plain English.
You have a plan
For the first time, you know exactly what needs to happen, in what order, and roughly what it costs. The building stops being a mystery and starts being a project.
Fixed-Price Packages
Choose your starting point.
All packages are flat-fee. No hourly billing, no retainers, no scope creep. You know exactly what you're getting before you book.
Fieldstone
$750Know what you have.
A half-day site visit covering the full structure — foundation, framing, envelope, mechanical. You receive a written condition report within 5 business days with every issue flagged by urgency level.
- 3–5 hour site visit
- Written condition report
- Urgency-ranked findings
- Delivered in 5 business days
- One follow-up call included
Keeping Room
$2,400Know what to do, and when.
Everything in Fieldstone, plus a full restoration roadmap: phased scope of work, itemized cost estimates for each phase, contractor type recommendations, and the sequencing logic that prevents you from doing things in the wrong order.
- Everything in Fieldstone
- Phased restoration roadmap
- Itemized cost estimates
- Contractor type guide
- Sequencing rationale
- PDF + print-ready format
Raising Bee
$4,800Know what to do — and have help doing it.
The full roadmap plus active contractor coordination for Phase 1 work. I write scopes of work, review bids for red flags, and conduct two site check-ins to verify the work matches the roadmap.
- Everything in Keeping Room
- Scope of work authoring
- Bid review (up to 3 contractors)
- Two site check-in visits
- Change-order oversight
- Final documentation update
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From the Field
They trusted the bones.
Here's what happened.
We bought our 1847 Colonial with stars in our eyes and no idea the summer beam was two inches from giving up. Hearth's assessment report was the most useful document we've ever paid for. We finally knew what we were dealing with.
Megan & Tom Calloway
First-time historic homeowners, Strafford, VT
My grandfather built that barn in 1912. I watched it bow for fifteen years before I finally called someone who understood what I was looking at. The roadmap got us a state preservation grant we didn't know existed.
Dale Heffron
Fourth-generation farmer, Deerfield, MA
Our land trust needed hard numbers to justify the preservation budget to the county board. The Keeping Room report gave us exactly the documentation we needed. The board approved it on the first vote.
Priya Nambiar
Director, Hilltowns Land Trust, Northampton, MA
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