Paul Daniel Marriott + Associates

Paul Daniel Marriott + Associates specializes in consulting for sites and projects at the intersection of LANDSCAPE, PRESERVATION, TRANSPORTATION and PLANNING. The firm is nationally recognized for its work with the identification, preservation and management of historic and scenic roads, the protection of historic and cultural landscapes, the preparation of local, state, tribal and federal policy to protect historic places, and work with advocacy organizations and institutions dedicated to the preservation of special places that define significant landscapes, districts and corridors.”

Paul Daniel Marriott + Associates provides consulting services for transportation corridors in the areas of Preservation Planning, Gateways and other Corridor Studies. The office has assisted communities with comprehensive gateway plans addressing wayfinding, community identity and branding; developed preservation strategies for historic sites and districts, conducted National Register of Historic Places evaluations, facilitated community charettes and public meetings, and undertaken comprehensive research and documentation of historic and community features. The firm has worked closely with the HABS, HAER, HALS documentation programs of the National Park Service.

The office maintains a close and nimble association with a number of independent professionals and offices throughout the United States; offering clients exceptional access to expertise in areas of traffic management, preservation technology, interpretation, heritage tourism, land conservation, and design and transportation policy. Additionally the office, located in Washington, DC, has a close working relationship with a number of federal agencies and non-governmental organizations involved in resource management, transportation policy, historic preservation and advocacy.

Dan Marriott, Principal and founder, has worked with historic roads and historic landscapes throughout the United States and abroad. He has consulted for transportation, preservation, planning and municipal organizations, written the two most referenced books on the topic of historic roads, Saving Historic Roads, Design and Policy Guidelines (John Wiley and Sons, 1998) and From Milestones to Mile-Markers, Understanding Historic Roads (America’s Byways Resource Center/Federal Highway Administration, 2004), co-founded and manages the biennial conference Preserving the Historic Road, and has prepared numerous corridor management plans for scenic and historic transportation corridors. He is an experienced public speaker. He has delivered scores of well-illustrated public lectures and keynote addresses, served as an expert witness before zoning boards, and has provided commentary on Radio National in Australia, National Public Radio (NPR) and PBS.

Paul Daniel Marriott + Associates is committed to balancing historic design features and landscape qualities with twenty-first century needs for access, change, safety and management. This innovative approach to LANDSCAPE, PRESERVATION, TRANSPORTATION and PLANNING has been provided for clients as diverse at the National Park Service, New Jersey Department of Transportation, Hawaii Department of Transportation, Merritt Parkway Conservancy (Connecticut), Oakland County Planning (Michigan), Belt Collins Engineering (Hawaii), Indiana Landmarks, and the Preservation League of New York State. Additionally the office has worked with local and national organizations in Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom and Australia.

Whether you require an investigative site analysis, in-depth planning study, publication or public lecture, Paul Daniel Marriott + Associates is available to assist you in the identification, preservation and management of your unique landscape, scenic road or heritage site.

Paul Daniel Marriott + Associates has both domestic and international experience. The following is a representative listing of projects by location. The list includes projects wholly managed by PDM+A and projects in which PDM+A provided an important component to a larger planning team.

UNITED STATES

Alaska

• Seward Highway Corridor Partnership Plan
• Alaska State Scenic Byways Program Training Workshops

California

• Arroyo Seco Parkway Corridor Management Plan
• City of Encinitas Gateway Study

Colorado

• Colorado DOT Scenic and Historic Byways Statewide Training Workshops

District of Columbia

• Rosedale Conservancy Historic Landscape Analysis and Community Participation Charette
• Cleveland Park Historic District Landscape Mitigation Project
• Waterfront Tower, designed by I.M. Pei, Zoning Consultation and Expert before DC Zoning Commission

Hawaii

• Historic Kuhio Highway Analysis and Preservation Recommendations
• Hawaii DOT Statewide Sustainable Transportation Plan

Illinois

• Great River Road Corridor Management Plan
• Ohio River Scenic Route Corridor Management Plan

Indiana

• Historic National Road Corridor Management Plan
• Ohio River Scenic Route Corridor Management Plan
• Historic National Road Interpretive Panel Project
• Documentary Film Shorts for Huddleston House Museum

Maryland

• Expert Witness to Protect the McHarg 1963 ‘Plan for the Valleys’ from Inappropriate Development

Massachusetts

• Historic Metropolitan Parkways of Boston, Woodland Road Mitigation and Heritage Strategy

Michigan

• Oakland County Strategy for Historic Dixie Highway Corridor

New Jersey

• Southern Pinelands Natural Heritage Trail Corridor Management Plan
• Palisades Interstate Parkway Corridor Management Plan
• Historic Landscape Mitigation Plan for 1959-1962 Bell Laboratories Site designed by Sasaki-Walker

New Mexico

• New Mexico Department of Transportation Historic Road Training Workshop

New York

• Empire Roads: A Guide to Historic and Scenic Road Preservation Planning
• Van Wyck Expressway Section 106 Review

Ohio

• Ohio Historical Society/Ohio Village Master Plan Study

Oklahoma

• Historic US Route 66 Preservation Training Workshops
• Osage Nation Scenic Byway Corridor Management Plan

Vermont

• Historic Carriage Road Treatment Plan, Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park

INTERNATIONAL

Canada

• Historic Alaska Highway Analysis and Training Workshops, British Columbia

Mexico

• ICOMOS World Heritage Evaluation for El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro (the Royal Road to the Interior)

United Kingdom

• Policy Review of Scenic Routes Programme for Transport Scotland
• Tadcaster, England Gateway Study

Dan Marriott, PhD. and Fulbright Scholar, is Principal and founder of Paul Daniel Marriott + Associates. He has been a national leader in historic preservation for two decades and is recognized for his diverse and interdisciplinary approach to landscape architecture heritage and cultural landscapes.

Dan Marriott is a licensed landscape architect and spent his early career working for design firms on projects ranging from planned communities to waterfront redevelopment, during which he refined his sketching and illustration skills. He was a Program Director at the National Trust for Historic Preservation, taught a graduate course in landscape and architectural history at George Washington University from 1994 to 2018 and is currently an Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at the Pennsylvania State University. He served as a technical consultant to state, tribal and local governments, and federal agencies (National Park Service, USDA Forest Service, Federal Highway Administration) and international organizations and educational institutions. He is experienced with grassroots community advocacy and planning in the public realm, knowledgeable in Federal historic preservation and environmental laws and policies, and is experienced in land use planning and community design. He is a well-respected lecturer and highly regarded writer. He has been a guest lecturer and visiting critic for the landscape architecture programs at the Pennsylvania State University and University of Maryland, the historic preservation programs at Columbia University, Cornell University and the University of Oregon and the planning programs at UCLA and Cornell University, teaches a preservation policy course on historic roads for the National Preservation Institute and is an instructor for the American Institute of Architects Sustainable Cities Design Academy.

Dan Marriott is the author of the two most referenced books on historic roads and is considered a global expert on the topic. His views on heritage and preservation have been featured in the New York Times and on National Public Radio (NPR) and Radio National in Australia; he is currently on the advisory board for the PBS production, “10 That Changed America.” He served as a World Heritage field investigator for the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) in Mexico and has lectured on historic and scenic roads in Australia, France and the United Kingdom. In 2009, he was awarded a prestigious Fitch Foundation fellowship for historic preservation. In 2016 Dan Marriott was appointed to the Board of Trustees for the National Association for Olmsted Parks.