My firm, Lyssa Papazian, Historic Preservation Consulting, is a woman-owned sole proprietorship specializing in historic preservation planning, funding, regulation, documentation, and architectural history and has been operating in Vermont since 1998.

I am passionate about using historic buildings as tools for community revitalization, entrepreneurial enterprise, the meeting of local needs,  and the understanding  of shared and continuing history.

My areas of expertise include:

• the use of federal and state historic tax credits
• the rehabilitation of historic residential, institutional, commercial, and mixed-use properties
• community development and community supported enterprise
• the Section 106 regulatory process
• documentation and research of historic properties
• preparation of National Register of Historic Places nominations and cultural resource surveys
• planning for both large and small preservation projects
• environmental preservation issues and the use of green building practices on historic properties
• industrial and agricultural history
• affordable housing and energy efficiency using older buildings