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Kemp served as a consultant on the restoration of the Wheeling Custom House, an Italianate building known for its innovative rolled wrought iron beams, floor arches and cast iron columns. The Wheeling Custom House (also known as West Virginia Independence Hall) was the site of the state's constitutional conventions in 1863. Box includes correspondence, handwritten structural notes, magazine clippings, facsimile article references, etc. Subjects include the Wheeling Custom House, I-beams, wrought iron, steel making, cast iron, etc.

Kemp garnered support for the restoration of the Wheeling Suspension Bridge along with Beverly Fluty. He also consulted on the plans for restoring the bridge along with the consulting firm Howard, Needles, Tammen and Bergendorf (now HNTB). The box includes his correspondence, draft handwritten reports, handwritten calculations, meeting minutes, contracts and clippings. It also includes facsimile clippings and letters. Subjects include trusses and anchorage on bridges; testing the chemical composition of metallic bridges and tensile testing on bridges; wrought iron; the Wheeling Suspension Bridge's construction; its status as a National Historic Landmark; and revitalizing Wheeling, West Virginia. The following oversize items were moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 10, Folder 6: 36 sheets of newspaper (1847-1856, 1978-1983) and 1 chart (undated).

Kemp wrote the book The Wheeling Suspension Bridge: A Pictorial Heritage with Beverly Fluty. This box includes materials Kemp collected in preparation for the book, including photographic prints, photographic negatives, a draft of the book, lists, drawings, reports, postcards, and floppy disks. Subjects include the Lehigh Gap Bridge in Palmerton, Pennsylvania; Wheeling Suspension Bridge in Wheeling, West Virginia; Charles Ellet Jr.; the bridge's conditions; and the bridge's use. The following oversize items were moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 10, Folder 3: one engineering drawing (undated) and one map (undated).

Kemp consulted on the restoration of the Wheeling Suspension Bridge and co-wrote multiple books on the Wheeling Suspension Bridge, including The Wheeling Suspension Bridge: A Pictorial Heritage (with Beverly Fluty). This box includes his research materials, including correspondence, handwritten notes, programs and invitations, scholarly articles, reports, magazine clippings, photographic prints, contact sheets and postcards. The box also includes facsimiles of the following: charters and reports before the West Virginia state legislature, correspondence, scholarly articles, photographic prints, contact sheets, drawings and engineering drawings. Subjects include the Wheeling Suspension Bridge in Wheeling, West Virginia; suspension bridges of France and the United States; other bridges in Wheeling, West Virginia; Charles Ellet Jr.; the Wheeling and Belmont Bridge Company; and the Ohio River. The following oversize items were moved to Box 344: two maps (undated), and ten sheets of engineering drawings (undated). This box was originally titled "Illustrated History of the Wheeling Suspension Bridge," so may have been used to inform Kemp's work on The Wheeling Suspension Bridge: A Pictorial Heritage.

Kemp served on the governor's task force to advise the Division of Highways on planning the renovation of the Wheeling Suspension Bridge in Wheeling, West Virginia, which reopened to traffic in 1983. In 1997, Kemp presented a paper on the restoration of the bridge at the Fifth Historic Bridge Conference in Cincinnati, Ohio. The engineering firms A.G. Lichtenstein & Associates and HNTB Corporation both consulted on the restoration, and C.C.L. Systems Ltd. corresponded about the wire manufacturing. The box includes correspondence, meeting agendas, reports, scholarly articles, meeting minutes, catalog records, research notes, photographic prints, drawings, greeting cards, clippings, brochures and a floppy disk. The box also includes facsimiles of the following: book excerpts, brochures, clippings, contracts, maps, and engineering drawings. Subjects include the Wheeling Suspension Bridge, the National Road, the Ohio River, John A. Roebling, Charles Ellet Jr., the New Jersey Historic Bridge Preservation Study, wrought iron, metal trusses, threaded wire, wrapping on cable wires on suspension bridges, and coordinating the presentation at the Historic Bridge Conference. Highlights include correspondence from then-Governor Jay Rockefeller to Kemp, an environmental assessment of the bridge, and metal parts from the original bridge used to test the strength of the wires. The following oversize items were moved to Map Cabinet 12, Drawer 13, Folder 6: 2 news clippings (1983), 46 engineering drawings (1995). The metal parts from the bridge were moved to Box 279.