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Architectural Resources Group

Architectural Resources Group is a full-service historic preservation consulting firm with staff that includes architects, designers, historians, planners, and materials conservators.

Founded in 1980, Architectural Resources Group is a full-service architectural practice with offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Portland, Oregon. ARG staff includes architects, designers, historians, planners, and materials conservators who work collaboratively to provide a wide range of historic preservation services. The firm brings relevant work experience throughout the Western United States. ARG’s design professionals offer a range of services, including new designs in historic settings, adaptive reuse, rehabilitation, seismic strengthening, sustainable design, restoration, programming and master planning, and feasibility studies.

Our planning group offers services including historic resources surveys, assessments, and evaluations; local, state, and national designation applications, environmental review for CEQA and Section 106; rehabilitation tax credit applications; Mills Act applications; historic structures reports and cultural landscape reports; and citywide ordinances and preservation plans. ARG’s architectural and fine arts conservators specialize in developing appropriate treatments for various historic materials and objects. We maintain a complete in-house conservation laboratory in which conservation and restoration treatments can be developed and tested.