The Center for Digital Research in the Humanities (CDRH) is developing the open-source software, Orchid, to provide a browsing, searching, and viewing interface for documents stored in a center-wide API. Orchid was built not only to accommodate new projects at the CDRH, but also as a tool to allow rapid upgrading of older sites using TEI-XML documents as part of a mission to address the technical debt of dozens of aging sites. In late 2018, the first production site powered by Orchid, The Complete Letters of Willa Cather, was launched as a complement to the existing Willa Cather Archive (WCA) website. While The Complete Letters was now powered by Orchid, the rest of the WCA remained in Apache Cocoon, a framework it had used since the mid-2000s. In 2019, the CDRH challenged itself with migrating the entire WCA to an Orchid-powered application — a strong proof-of-concept that Orchid was equally suited to the task of hosting complex existing projects as well as new sites.