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FIRM DESCRIPTION Longleaf Historic Resources conducts cultural resources studies for compliance, planning, and designation of historic architecture . Founder and principal M. Ruth Little has over twenty-five years experience in surveys, nominations and compliance work in the South and in New England , Dr. Little worked eight years in the North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office, where her positions included National Register Coordinator and, subsequently, Survey Coordinator. While there she authored National Register and Survey manuals . Additionally, she has nine years of experience as a preservation consultant, and has served as adjunct professor of art history and architectural history at various schools and colleges in North Carolina. She authored two comprehensive county architectural survey publications and one city architectural survey publication , Dr. Little ' s dissertation, Sticks and Stones : Three Centuries of North Carolina Gravemarkers, will be published by the University of North Carolina Press in fall 1998 . She served on the board of directors of the Vernacular Architecture Forum from 1991 - 1993 . Since the establishment of Longleaf Historic Resources in 1990, the firm has completed numerous. compliance studies, National Register nominations for rural and urban historic districts and individual properties, comprehensive preservation planning surveys, and thematic studies of African-American historic resources in urban areas . Current projects include historic structures reports for slave buildings and preparation of a countywide survey book, Coastal Plain and Fancy : The Historic Architecture of Kinston and Lenoir County , Longleaf Historic Resources employs a staff of one . Subcontractors are hired on a project by project basis . Michelle Kullen, architectural historian for the firm, has four years experience in architectural survey work for the completion of National Register nominations, preservation plans, and Section 106 compliance projects in North Carolina and Minnesota . Ms . Kullen worked three years for a cultural resources management firm in St . Paul, Minnesota conducting Phase I and Phase II architectural history surveys for the Minnesota Department of Transportation and city and county government agencies . During her year working in North Carolina, Ms . Kullen has completed a reconnaissance survey of Moore County, NC, conducted architectural surveys of two Raleigh African-American neighborhoods, and prepared a National Register Nomination of an eighteenth century cemetery .