Intrepid Historical Services

Kevin B. Coleman

National Register Nominations · Self-Guided Tours · Costumed Guided Tours of Chillicothe and Ross County · Photography · Brochures on the Historic Built Environment · Slide Lectures on Local History and Architecture · Mapping · Building Histories · Architectural Surveys

INTREPID HISTORICAL SERVICES (IHS) offers many services to help educate, inform, enhance, designate and protect your historical place - be it your home, business, museum, farm, village, township, or county. This historical consulting is available in Chillicothe, Ross County, and south-central Ohio

SLIDE PRESENTATIONS
An educational slide show can highlight any aspect of the heritage of your place, or illustrate the overall trends that shaped its history and architecture.
BUILDING HISTORIES
The story of the persons, public records and physical elements of your building reveal many aspects of its history. This research can also serve as a foundation for a National Register Nomination.
TOURS : GUIDED and SELF-GUIDED
A guide to entice residents and visitors to understand and appreciate your area's history and architecture can go a long way in strengthening respect and interest in your community, and promoting business.
NATIONAL REGISTER NOMINATIONS
If your building or place is eligible, I can nominate it to the National Register. A listing is prestigious and can allow tax benefits for income-producing properties and preservation legislation for communities.

Other available services include:

General 35mm photography, with an eye to framing a photo to both illustrate technical details and to express aesthetic features.

Large-format camera photography, especially for HABS / HAER documentation.

Cartography that is clear, readable, thorough, and colorful.

Architectural surveys for small "Section 106" cultural resource projects.

Brochures on the Historic Built Environment aid understanding of your surroundings and local history.

Contact INTREPID HISTORICAL SERVICES for references, costs, variations and availability:

Phone: 740 / 775-4036
Email: IHS@horizonview.net
Postal: 500 Infirmary Lane, Chillicothe, Ohio 45601-9574

The logo of Intrepid Historical Services is a series of concentric rings representing a Landschaft, an ideal balanced community. The center circle of brick red represents buildings; the radiating bars of pavement grey are roads; the segments of earth brown are fields; the surrounding ring of liquid blue represents waterways; and the encompassing ring of leaf green is the lifegiving forest.

INTREPID HISTORICAL SERVICES is a "Green Company" committed to respecting the Earth by helping our heritage to remain a vital part of our community.

IHS promotes conservation by encouraging understanding of past events, respect for the historic built environment, appreciation for the natural and historic lightly-modified landscape, and honor for preservation and interpretation.

Kevin B. Coleman, the proprietor, grew up near historic Chillicothe, Ohio, and has a masters degree in Historic Preservation. He has fourteen years of professional research, surveying and writing experience, and a large personal library and photo archive.