by gmcdaniel4444@gmail.com | Mar 28, 2022 | Blog, Community Engagement, Conservation, Education, Historic Preservation, Outreach, Planning, Whole Place Preservation
ABOUT THE AUTHOR George W. McDaniel, Ph.D., is President of McDaniel Consulting, LLC, a strategy firm that helps organizations use history to build bridges within itself and to its broader constituents. The company’s tag line, “Building Bridges through...
by gmcdaniel4444@gmail.com | Jan 13, 2022 | Blog, Books, Drayton Hall Stories, Historic Preservation, Professionals, Publication
Above: Looking closely and getting it right. Richard (“Moby”) Marks, contractor; Edward Chappell, architectural historian, taking notes; and Craig Bennett, preservation engineer. Seeing the Familiar Afresh: That’s fun, isn’t it? Sparks your mind....
by gmcdaniel4444@gmail.com | Sep 26, 2021 | Blog, Books, Drayton Hall Stories, Historic Preservation, Professionals
. What do you see? Floorboards? Maybe old ones at that? And what’s that rectangular piece joining two of them, you may ask? They are long floorboards, installed at Drayton Hall c. 1750. For my forthcoming book, “Drayton Hall Stories,” I ask...
by gmcdaniel4444@gmail.com | Sep 10, 2021 | Blog, Books, Drayton Hall Stories, Education, Historic Preservation, Interpretation, Professionals
Matthew Webster was director of the preservation department of Drayton Hall and now serves as Executive Director, Grainger Department of Architectural Preservation and Research at Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. At Drayton Hall, he discovered architectural...
by gmcdaniel4444@gmail.com | Jul 22, 2021 | Blog, Books, Drayton Hall Stories, Historic Preservation, Professionals
Richard “Moby” Marks, preservation contractor (shown above). For decades, he has worked on the preservation and repair of Drayton Hall. Imagining the house as a “time machine,” he explains why Drayton Hall was, and is still, unique and enables us...
by gmcdaniel4444@gmail.com | Jul 19, 2021 | Blog, Books, Drayton Hall Stories, Historic Preservation, Professionals
Craig M. Bennett Jr., PE, (shown above), is the president of Bennett Preservation Engineering, PC, in Charleston. A native Charlestonian, he is a structural engineer, specializing in historic preservation. GWM: How would you characterize Drayton Hall’s...
McDaniel Consulting LLC is a strategy firm that helps organizations use history to build bridges within itself and its broader constituents. 