Heritage Research, Ltd., traces its history to 1980. Over the last twenty-two years, much of our business has focused on working with engineering firms needing to consider various historical issues as part of the environmental documentation completed for transportation projects. In addition, we have worked with companies that, for reasons as diverse as corporate planning and public relations, want their histories investigated. We have also received calls for assistance from the legal community--calls through which it became apparent that historical research and analysis are important to understanding how various legal  issues developed, as  well as how those issues might be directed in the course of litigation. This evolution has led to the development of three specific practice areas within the firm: the Cultural  Resource Management Practice  (historic  preservation, environmental documentation, natural resource history and community planning), the Legal Research and Policy History Practice and the Corporate History Practice.  HRL staff is also well able to deal with history-related issues and subjects that do not conveniently fit categorization.

The Wisconsin State Capitol, designed by George B. Post and completed in 1917, is a notable cultural resource. Legislation passed here, and similarly in capitals around the country, effects the state's legal and corporate history.

HRL is a firm of multi-disciplined, credentialed scholars that includes historians, architectural historians and others with special expertise as needed. The firm maintains a professional, fully computerized office in Menomonee Falls, a community in the Greater Milwaukee (WI) area. Conveniently located to access the variety of scholarly and research-related resources available in Milwaukee, Madison and Chicago, we have the ability to identify and review material in libraries and repositories across the country. As well, our scholars have worked extensively in the federal archives and records centers, local, state and federal government offices, courthouses, law libraries, the Library of Congress, state and local libraries, various state archives and a wide variety of local and state historical societies. They also have expertise working with private manuscript collections and corporate records.

Historical research and analysis can be valuable tools that provide unique information and insights about the landscape and our built environment, about companies and their history and about legal cases and other factual disputes. We invite potential clients to call us whenever they might want to consider utilizing our historical research and analysis services.