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Historic Preservation
Carter Architecture recognizes the need to cherish and
preserve the historic counties, landmarks, and buildings which mark our
collective heritage. We are actively committed to increasing interest
and awareness of this mission to the general public in addition to
providing
architectural renovations to ensure that they will be enjoyed by future
generations to come.
Our president, Mr. Joel Carter, has been active for many
years in this cause. He has been Chairman of the Horry County Board of
Architectural Review since 1986 and a member of the National Trust for Historic
Preservation.
Some of the projects that Carter Architecture has
participated in involve the restoration of historic landmarks and
buildings. Carter Architecture
strives to maintain historical accuracy in its renovation projects as
well as the use of careful preservation techniques. Some restoration
projects include the Stone Residence (Conway, SC), the Tabor City Train
Depot (masterplan), the historical Beaufort storefronts (Beaufort, SC),
and the Old Savannah News Press Building (Savannah, GA).
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Horry County Board of
Architectural Review (HCBAR)
The Horry County Board of
Architectural Review (BAR) is an agency of Horry County
Government as re-established by County Ordinance titled
Board of Architectural Review and Historic Preservation
Ordinance No. 04-04 and adopted April 6th, 2004.
The Horry County Board of
Architectural Review is responsible for accepting and
administering on behalf of the County, full or partial
interest in real property, including easements, that the
county may have or accept as a gift or otherwise.
HCBAR endeavors to:
- Provide a mechanism to identify,
protect, and preserve the distinctive historical and
architectural characteristics of Horry County, which
represent the County’s cultural, social, economic,
political, and architectural history;
- Foster civic pride in the beauty
and accomplishments of the past as represented in
Horry County’s historic places;
- Conserve,
and improve the value of property designated as
historic structures or properties or within
designated historic districts;
- Foster and encourage
preservation, restoration, rehabilitation of
structures, areas, neighborhoods, and help to
prevent blight; and,
- Encourage new developments
reflecting and compatible with the historic
character of the County.
The goal of HCBAR is to declare a
matter of public policy that the protection,
enhancement, perpetuation, and use of improvements of
special character or special historical interest or
value is a public necessity and is required in the
interest of the health, prosperity, safety and welfare
of the people. To preserve significant buildings, land
areas, or districts having important historical,
architectural, archaeological, or cultural interest and
values that reflect the heritage of the County where
unprecedented growth in population, economic functions,
and land-use activities in the County have increasingly
threatened to uproot or destroy these values, and once
uprooted or destroyed, their distinctiveness is forever
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