To accommodate redevelopment, our team conducted documentation of the former historic North East Nazarene Camp in Maryland. The camp operated from 1909 through 2007 as a religious gathering place for parishioners from 115 Holiness Nazarene congregations. The development included the removal of the early-twentieth-century church camp buildings requiring a permit from the United States Army Corps of Engineers (the Corps) and compliance with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966.
Mead & Hunt worked closely with the Corps, the Maryland Historical Trust (MHT)—the Maryland State Historic Preservation Office—and the Town of North East to address project impacts on the historic camp including authoring a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) to outline steps to mitigate the adverse effects. Subsequent documentation included archival research, oral histories with families that attended the camp, and Historic American Building Survey (HABS) documentation of camp buildings with large-format photography. We also designed a series of interpretive signs to highlight the former camp’s history.
