Ethos Preservation

06/01/2026

🎉 Celebrating 7 Years of Ethos with 7 Things You Might Not Know About Our Team 🎉

June marks seven years of Ethos Preservation, and we're celebrating by sharing seven things you might not know about the people behind our work.

Over the next week, we'll introduce the talents, interests, experiences, and fun facts that make our team unique.

Follow along as we celebrate 7 years of preservation, partnership, and the people who make it possible!

05/26/2026

Historic places tell layered stories. Preservation helps ensure those stories are documented with accuracy, nuance, and care.

Ethos Preservation is honored to be authoring the National Register nomination for the R.E. Lee Institute Historic District in Thomaston, Georgia. The nomination recognizes the campus’ significance in education, social history, and African American history, tracing its evolution from a segregated public school system to the gradual integration of Thomaston’s schools during the Civil Rights era.

The district includes a collection of historic educational buildings spanning from 1889 through the late twentieth century, many of which continue to serve the community today through civic, religious, archival, and recreational uses.

National Register nominations are more than architectural inventories, they are opportunities to document community memory, examine difficult and important histories, and recognize places that shaped generations of people. Ethos is proud to help bring those stories forward through research, documentation, and NR listing.

Historic images credited to the Thomson Upson Archives

05/22/2026

students visit the Water Works building as part of an annual class tour to Savannah! 👀 😯

Soon, this building will undergo a phase one stabilization rehabilitation to address exterior envelope needs, prepping the structure for future adaptive reuse design!

Much more to come... Thanks Prof Chad Keller for reaching out and for hosting!

05/21/2026

Proof of the power of historic tax credits!

Our next Preservation Award winner celebrates the rehabilitation of the Emma Hamlet House at 705 Barnard Street! This project is significant for returning a severely deteriorated, long-vacant contributing building in Savannah’s Landmark Historic District to productive use while retaining historic integrity, restoring lost architectural features, and meeting modern needs.

The home was built in 1856 by carpenter, builder, and prominent civic leader John Hamlet, and recorded the property under his wife's name, Emma. The structure is a stucco-ed masonry townhouse and experienced continued architectural evolution; Hamlet completed a major 1883 rear addition; by the 1888 Sanborn map, the original three-story side-hall house with its large rear addition was established. By 1898, the rear addition had been raised to a full three stories, and by 1900 the house had shifted from single-family to multi-unit occupancy. Around 1916, it underwent a Greek Revival-style modernization when the addition of a one-story porch with a basement was erected, becoming part of the building’s historic identity.

Led by Ethos Preservation in close coordination with Kevin Rose of Rose Architects and contractor John Larroude, the building’s rehabilitation demonstrates significant collaboration. Exterior work included repair of scored stucco, repointing of exposed masonry, and sistering joists rather than replacing them. The project emphasized conservation, and historic fabric retained include refinished floors, preserved doors, trim, mantels, and stairs.

The porch was reconstructed to its documented appearance using historic photographs, and major deterioration was overcome, with the project team addressing severe vacancy-related damage, roof failure, water intrusion, missing windows, tight site constraints, and lack of rear access.

The home's rehabilitation was executed according to the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards and utilized historic tax credits. The project returned a deteriorated landmark property to productive use, restoring three residential units.

The rehabilitation of the Emma Hamlet House reestablished this townhouse as a significant part of Savannah’s historic streetscape, ensuring it remains a visible, living part of Savannah’s story while meeting present-day community needs.

05/15/2026

Last night, Ethos hosted the 4th Annual Historic Preservation Month Trivia night for !

Something we look forward to every year, a fun time was had by all as we worked to stump some of the best minds in our city with questions about history, health and safety, sustainability, and materials.

Congratulations to the winning team: the Mint to be Winners; pictured here: Daniel Lang, Jack Daly, Fred Hutcheson, Mary Lawson Bring, Hannah Hall, and Haley Bethel.

Special thank you to Jessica Baldwin and Sabrinna Cox who teamed with Ethos to come up with this year's questions and to Mary, Astrid, Ian, and the whole crew for hosting us! Till next time...

05/12/2026

Grant writing success! 🎉🎉

Nothing better than a big check ceremony! A dapper Kim Campbell of Ethos accepted an award for the Colored Memorial Building Auditorium Rehabilitation for the Rise Risley initiative of alongside CEO Très Hamilton in Atlanta last week at the beautiful ! ✨✨

Thank you for making this and so many other wonderful historic preservation projects possible!

Stay tuned to our socials to see the project unfold!

04/30/2026

Ethos Preservation, at your service.

04/27/2026

Preservation Month is around the corner and we’re bringing some friendly competition to this year's month of activities.

Join Ethos for Preservation Trivia with on May 14 at 5:30 PM at Bar La Aparicion (tucked behind Mint to Be Mojito in downtown).

Put your preservation knowledge to the test, connect with colleagues, and earn CEU credits while you’re at it. Expect a mix of local history, architectural trivia, and a few surprises along the way!

Bring a team or join one when you arrive, we’ll see who really knows their cornices from their capitals 🙃

04/23/2026

Going back to your roots hits a little differently when you’re part of the next chapter.✨✨

Ethos' Kim Campbell, alum of the University of South Carolina Public History Program, recently returned to campus as a panelist for the program’s 50th anniversary celebration, which honored five decades of training professionals to connect history with the public.🏛️📋

This is what it looks like when life comes full circle. Kudos, Kim!