Bringing the Past "Back to the Future"!
Our architectural designs work because we never try to make an historic home anything more than what it was intended to be. Relic Pine first developed the "Origin Approach" to historic rehabilitation.
From Neglect to Repurposed Frontier Manor
The Relic Longleaf Pine exists in rare, isolated pockets throughout the Southeastern States. When discovered, the trees appear muscular, stoic, and as dense as hardened steel. Escaping the blow of the ancient axe but often bearing the scars of wind and lightening, these living giants have stood as Sentinels of the South for 350 to 500 years, a testament to their toughness. Longleaf Pine have a graceful and beautiful form, with expansive crowns typifying mature trees. Native to Wiregrass Georgia, the Longleaf Pine is found along dry sugar-sand ridges bordering blackwater streams and swamps as well as within mesic flatwood environments. At its base live wax myrtle, saw palmetto, gallberry, wiregrass, and native blueberry. Many endangered species such as the gopher tortoise, panther, bobcat, black bear, the blue indigo snake, and the diamondback rattlesnake also thrive beneath these ancient canopies. Once spreading across 92 million acres from Southern Virginia to East Texas, the Longleaf Pine fosters one of the most biologically diverse ecosystems on earth.
Located in the heart of this wilderness, Relic Pine Enterprises, LLC was founded in 2021 and has its roots in over 30 years of cultural resources management, architectural design, antique restoration, and environmental planning. Our company takes the scientific principles of historic archaeological research and combines them with the disciplines of historic preservation to create an architectural design and restoration firm that is steeped in quality, sustainability, and integrity. Through the development of the "Origin Approach" and Believability Quotient," our advanced knowledge of Southern architectural design and decorative arts combines with environmental management to create results unparalleled in the industry. We work hard to provide reliable and customizable services to beneifit native habitats for humans, flora, and fauna.
Like the Longleaf Pine, Relic Pine stands for quality growth and endurance. Native to Wiregrass Georgia, we believe that meaningful and lasting real estate investments prove more profitable when thoughtfully balanced with the principles of wildlife conservation and creative design. With these attributes our objective is to create unparalleled quality with enhanced integrity, making your property not only a wise investment but also an attractive destination.
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Our Managing Director, Owen Wright, has spent 38 successful years in the cultural resources and environmental planning sectors. He holds advanced degrees in American History, Historic Archaeology, and Historic Preservation. A corporate leader, Wright has developed and managed large projects throughout the Deep South, the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast regions. He also oversees daily operations on his family's 190 year old South Georgia Centennial Farm.
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Principle of Embodied Energy
Embodied Energy Life Cycle
Relic Pine was founded upon a set of standards for the treatment of historic properties: preservation, rehabilitation, restoration, and reconstruction. At the heart of our approach rests history, heritage, sustainability, quality of life, and the conservation of embodied energy.
Embodied energy is the energy consumed by all of the processes associated with the production of a building, from the mining and processing of natural resources to manufacturing, transport and product delivery. Embodied energy DOES NOT include the demolition and disposal of the building material.
When an historic building or structure is lost due to demolition by neglect or to clear the way for new construction we not only lose tangible links to our past, we also waste the embodied energy that was invested in its initial design and construction.
Historic Preservation and sustainability are natural partners. Preservation and reuse of historic buildings reduces resource and material consumption, puts less waste in landfills, and consumes less energy than demolishing buildings and constructing new ones.
Interestingly, more local jobs are created using the principles of historic preservation than those associated with new construction.
