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CRM Bulletin Vol. 9, No. 3 BULLETIN Volume 9: No. 3 Cultural Resources Management • A National Park Service Technical Bulletin June 1986 A Tradition of Excellence in Documentation J. he Historic American Buildings structures, it seems appropriate to parks. To those of you who are un­ Survey/Historic American Engineer­ devote an entire issue of the CRM familiar with the programs, this ing Record (HABS/HAER) is a Bulletin to the various aspects of issue will serve to introduce you to merger of two programs with long these programs and to examine the them. traditions in the preservation com­ detailed documentation that is their A listing of the HABS/HAER col­ munity and in the National Park hallmark. lection at the Library of Congress Service. As HABS enters its 53rd HABS/HAER is undertaking an has been computerized. There are year and HAER its 17th year of estimated 26 projects this summer, two guides that draw on this data recording historic buildings and half of which are in the national base. Historic America: Buildings, Structures, and Sites (Library of Congress, 1983), is available from the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington DC 20402 (request publication #03-000-00149-14; $29.00); and the HAER Checklist: 1969-1985 (U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, 1985), is available from the National Technical Information Services, U.S. Department of Commerce, Springfield, VA 22161 (request publication #PB 174661/AS, $11.95). Sally Kress Tompkins served as coordinator for this issue. Captions on following page. HABS HAER John A. Burns, AIA Eric DeLony For over 50 years the Historic and historians. The success of the Since its creation in 1969, the American Buildings Survey (HABS) program prompted the Department Historic American Engineering has documented the history of the in 1934 to enter into an agreement Record (HAER) has amassed a writ­ building arts in the United States with the Library of Congress and ten and graphic collection of 1,500 with architectural measured draw­ the American Institute of Architects sheets of drawings; nearly 20,000 ings, photographs, and written (AIA) to conduct the Survey on a large format, record quality data. The program began in 1933 in permanent basis. Today, HABS photographs; and 14,000 pages of the Department of the Interior, Na­ employment offers a training pro­ historical data of America's in­ tional Park Service (NPS) as a gram for student architects and dustrial, engineering and techno­ public works project to employ ar­ historians hired during the summer logical heritage. The HAER collec- chitects, draftsmen, photographers, months. HABS continued on page 2 HAER continued on page 4 HABS continued from page 1 The goal of HABS is to provide to architects, engineers, scholars, and interested members of the public a collection of comprehen­ sive documentation of significant buildings, sites, structures, and ob­ jects that exemplify, contribute to, and assist in explaining American history and the growth and development of the built environ­ ment. The NPS administers the planning and operation of the Survey with funds appropriated by Congress and supplemented by gifts from individuals, foundations, historical organizations, and other Federal agencies. The NPS is responsible for setting up qualitative standards, published as part of the Secretary of the In­ terior's Standards for Archeology and Historic Preservation, selecting subjects for recording and organiz­ ing the projects. It directs the United Methodist Church, Batavia, IL. Drawings of the United Methodist Church were donated by Michael Dixon, AIA, through a program of HABS measured drawings awards preparation of the records, and sponsored by the Landmarks Preservation Council of Illinois. Dixon's drawings, awarded First edits and places them with the Place in 1985, document a church designed by Chicago architect Solon S. Beman in 1887. Library of Congress. The Library preserves the records, makes them recorders. Begun in the 1950s mitigative documentation provisions available for study and supplies under the Mission 66 program, of the 1980 Amendments to the Na­ reproductions through its these teams consist of student ar­ tional Historic Preservation Act of photoduplication service. The AIA chitects, architectural historians, 1966. Federal agencies who fund or provides professional counsel and photographers working under license projects which adversely af­ through its Committee on Historic professional direction. Overall fect historic structures are required Resources and national supervision of the summer teams is to document them to HABS stan­ membership. through NPS regional and dards before they are demolished With some modifications, the Washington offices. or significantly altered. The mitiga­ 1934 tripartite agreement still re­ tion requirements are administered mains in effect. HABS summer Mitigative Documentation through the five NPS cultural pro­ teams have replaced the architects Another continuing source for grams regional offices, whose staffs of the 1930s as the primary HABS records is from the stipulate and accept documentation on behalf of HABS. Captions from cover: Loyal Order of the Moose Building, Pittsburgh, PA. The Moose Hall in Pittsburgh was photographed in 1984 by Dennis Marsico as part of the mitigative documentation prepared prior to the build­ ing's demolition. Measured drawings and a historical report were also prepared so that there would be a permanent written and graphic record of the building. Beebe Windmill (1820), Bridgehampton, NY. Gary C. Long, delineator, 1976 -1977. This section drawing is a classic from the HAER collection that has been used innumerable times by publishers. It was produced as part of a comprehensive three-summer (1975, 76, 77) project to document the eleven surviving wind-powered grist mills at the east end of De Turck Barn, Oley, PA. The De Turck Barn was photographed in 1941 by architect Charles H. Long Island. Dornbusch under a Langley Fellowship to study Pennsylvania Barns given by the American In­ stitute of Architects. Hundreds of his original negatives were given to HABS. Dornbusch's study, an early example of the now common interest in vernacular buildings, was published in 1956. 2 Donations awareness and knowledge of This is the fourth year that the From the beginning, HABS has historic buildings throughout the Peterson Prize has been offered, relied on the generosity of United States while adding to the and its success both as a source of organizations and individuals as a HABS collection of measured draw­ donated drawings and as a major source for architectural ings. Acceptable entries are stimulus to architectural students to documentation. Donated records transmitted to the permanent undertake HABS work is already have been and continue to be a HABS collection in the Library of established. To date, over 100 significant part of the HABS collec­ Congress. students from 14 universities have tion. Architects, architectural participated in the competition by historians, photographers, and The Prize honors Charles E. completing 31 entries. They have others who work with historic Peterson, FAIA, an architect in the produced 283 measured drawings buildings are encouraged to con­ NPS Washington office who for inclusion in the HABS collec­ sider producing documentation to founded the HABS program in 1933 tion. The types of structures HABS standards as part of their as a means of putting unemployed documented have been as varied as restoration, rehabilitation, or architects back to work document­ the students who have entered. maintenance projects. A principal ing historic buildings that even There have been drawings of point of contact between HABS and then, in the midst of the Depres­ houses, an inn, a resort hotel, a architects in the private sector is sion, were disappearing at an school, a county fairgrounds, a through the AIA's Committee on alarming rate. Peterson also pro­ church, a water tower, a railroad Historic Resources. duced the first Historic Structures depot, a park pavilion, two town Report in the NPS, on the Moore squares, even a covered bridge. Charles E. Peterson Prize House at Yorktown. The measured The students have worked alone A major new source for donated drawings from that restoration were and in groups, in required courses, measured drawings is the Charles traced onto HABS format and were electives, independent study and E. Peterson Prize. HABS and the included as one of the first NPS summer institutes. They have been, Athenaeum of Philadelphia have structures in the HABS collection. for the most part, architecture established the Prize which is After a long and notable career, students but have also been ar­ awarded for the best sets of Peterson retired from the NPS, but chitectural history, interior design measured drawings prepared to still continues an active career in and American studies majors. Some HABS standards and donated to the private sector and remains a have arranged for support from HABS by a student. The Peterson strong and vocal advocate of the foundations and State Historic Prize is intended to increase HABS/HAER programs. Preservation Offices. The author is an architect with HABS/HAER. Mulford House, East Hampton, NY Detail drawing of south window in parlor. Ann i Weber of Columbia University won First i Place in the 1983 Peterson Prize with her drawings of the Mulford House. The Mul­ ford House presented an unusual opportunity to record a house in great detail because it I was undergoing restoration. The drawings were heavily detailed and annotated, showing I the structural system, all room elevations, V and interpreting the evolution of the design and alterations to the house based on physi­ cal evidence. 3 HAER continued from page 1 tion is one of the most comprehen­ sive graphic and written archives of the technological heritage of any nation. The wide range of its holdings which includes early stone-based blast furnaces, water- powered grist mills, ice houses, snuff mills, tide and wind mills, and early-20th-century iron and steel plants, demonstrates its richness and diversity.
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