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FEDERAL
MELICATION
HABS/HAER 1992 ANNUAL REPORT
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
CULTURAL RESOURCES
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2.
What does the organization produce? That external organizations are willing to pay for
HABS/HAER research is encouraging but it is not conclusive in judging effectiveness. Dollars
received, after all, is an input measure; the output of any organization must still be assessed. In terms
of HABS/HAER, the most usual output measure is that of transmittals--the number of drawings,
photographs and histories that are transmitted to the permanent collection. In the last twelve years
HABS/HAER has doubled the size of its collections at the Library of Congress and is well on its
way to tripling what existed in 1980. HABS/HAER transmittal statistics continue at very high levels,
usually at twenty or more times the level typically experienced during the 1970s. In FY 1992, this
meant 573 sheets of measured drawings, 6,417 large format photographs, and 4,971 data pages.
Another measure is the annual production of the organization's publications. HABS/HAER currently
has twenty-four publications under development (the largest number produced to date, by far). In
terms of quantity, HABS/HAER is an extremely productive government organization.
3.
What is the quality of the organization's production? Production numbers, however impressive,
do not indicate organizational effectiveness. Research organizations need to have their work evaluated
in terms of quality and HABS/HAER is no different. One method is to assess the number of
publications published by university presses and the professional press. Government publications do
not provide a good indication of quality, as the Government Printing Office will print whatever it is
paid to print. University presses, on the other hand, submit proposed manuscripts to peer and
critical review by a publishing committee. The lack of funds requires that only the very finest of
manuscripts be published -- one acquisitions editor for a press that is currently publishing a
HABS/HAER manuscript told me that she rejects 400 book proposals for every one that she accepts!
In this respect, HABS/HAER has forthcoming books with the Smithsonian Institution Press, the Johns
Hopkins University Press, the American Society of Civil Engineers and others. The standard work
on HABS/HAER recording is published by American Institute of Architects Press. In addition,
HABS/HAER staff are routinely published by the professional journals dealing with historic
architecture, engineering and industry. HABS/HAER needs to do more in this area, but much is
already being accomplished. Reviews of these publications have been excellent.
4.
How good is the research staff? Research organizations such as HABS/HAER are labor-intensive
enterprises--as much of 90 percent of the annual budget goes to people. Further, this labor intensity
is a very special kind--research is a mentally intense activity. This annual report is a compilation of
the many, many contributions made by HABS/HAER staff to their respective fields, their awards and
honors.
Judging the effectiveness of this nation's public and private organizations is a priority for a country whose
people are concerned about American competitiveness and long-term economic health. The HABS/HAER
Division receives less direct appropriations than virtually any organization within the National Park Service
and, perhaps, the Department of the Interior. Yet, the quantity and quality of the historical research produced
continues at exceptionally high levels. The division's effectiveness can be assessed by reviewing this annual
report to answer the above four questions. We invite you to peruse the pages of this annual report for those
ends.
Robert tapsch
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HABS/HAER Finalizes Senior Management Positions
In 1992, HABS/HAER finalized all senior management positions for the division. Development of the new senior
management team began with the formalization of Eric DeLony's position as chief of HAER. Next came the
appointment and promotion of John Burns, long-term HABS architect, as HABS/HAER deputy chief. Finally came
the appointment and promotion of Paul Dolinsky as chief of HABS, and Kim Hoagland as HABS senior architectural
historian. This management team will stand HABS/HAER in good stead throughout the 1990s.
Robert J. Kapsch, Ph.D., HABS/HAER Chief. Thirteen years as
division chief and twenty-eight years of Federal service, where he
served in a number of managerial positions with a variety of Federal
agencies, including the National Institute of Standards and
Technology's Center for Building Technology, departments of
Housing and Urban Development, the U.S. Air Force, and the
Central Intelligence Agency. Trained as an engineer, he has
master's degrees from George Washington University in
management and historic preservation. Kapsch recently completed
the first draft of his dissertation, "Labor History of the Construction
and Reconstruction of the White House, 1793-1817," from the
University of Maryland's American Studies Program. Award of his
second doctorate is expected in 1993. Kapsch was awarded his first
Ph.D. in engineering and architecture from Catholic University in
1983. He was an American Political Science Association
Congressional Fellow. He is a long-time member of many
organizations including the American Society of Civil Engineers, a
liaison member of the AIA Committee on Historic Resources, the
Society of Architectural Historians, the Society for Industrial
Archeology, the National Railway Historical Society and others.
John A. Burns, AIA, HABS/HAER Deputy Chief. A graduate from
the Pennsylvania State University with both a bachelor of
architecture degree and a bachelor of arts degree in Art History, he
has twenty years of Federal service, starting as an architect with
HABS and rising to become principal architect of HABS before
becoming deputy chief of the division in 1990. He was editor-in-
chief for Recording Historic Structures and authored the pages on
HABS documentation in Architectural Graphic Standards. Recently,
he has specialized in computer applications in architecture and
photogrammetry, successfully implementing the HABS/HAER
CAD/photogrammetry laboratory. He is an active member of the
American Institute of Architects, the Society of Architectural
Historians, the Society for Industrial Archeology, and the
Association for Preservation Technology. He has taught
preservation courses at Marymount University and at Mount Vernon
College.
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Eric N. DeLony, HAER Chief. A twenty-one-year veteran of
HAER (and HAER's first professional employee), he first became
interested in industrial archeology as a Fulbright Scholar at the
Center for the Study of the History of Technology, Bath University,
and Ironbridge. Well known for his interest in historic bridges, his
first book on that subject will be published in spring 1993, by the
American Society of Civil Engineers. A graduate of Ohio State
University in architecture, DeLony is a product of Columbia
University's historic preservation program. He is a long-time and
active member of the Society for Industrial Archeology. DeLony is
trustee and vice chairman of the James Marston Fitch Charitable
Trust, a program established by the originator and first director of
Columbia University's program in historic preservation, and Beyer
Blinder Belle, architects. Recently, he was appointed to the Board
of Architectural Review, Old and Historic District, Alexandria,
Virginia.
Paul D. Dolinsky, HABS Chief. A fourteen-year employee of
HABS, he has directed hundreds of HABS projects at some of the
nation's most prestigious sites--the White House, Monticello,
historic Charleston, and numerous others. He also provided the
leadership for the very successful HABS initiative in landscape
architecture. A graduate of Penn State University in architecture
and landscape architecture, he has led the way in implementing the
CAD-photogrammetry approach to measured drawings, currently
being used to document Washington, D.C.'s Lincoln and Jefferson
memorials. He is an active member of the American Society of
Landscape Architects and a liaison member of the AIA Committee
on Historic Resources.
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Table of Contents
Page
HABS/HAER At a Glimpse
1
Facts and Statistics
2
Honors and Awards
6
Activities
17
People
43
HABS/HAER in Print and Film
47
1991 Recording Projects
HABS/HAER Programs
61
HABS Projects
90
HAER Projects
102
Mitigative Documentation Program
118
1993 Calendar of Events
119
HABS/HAER Staff Roster
Inside back cover
APPENDIX I - HABS/HAER 1991 Transmittals
120
APPENDIX II - Hearing before the Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment of the Committee
on Interior and Insular Affairs
135
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HABS Architect Mark Schara and HAER photographer Jet Lowe are captured in a photogrammetric image taken by the Linhof
Metrika camera at the cornice level of the Lincoln Memorial. The empty frame provides four control points of known separation,
used to determine orientation and scale during the process, whereby the photograph is digitized and transformed into a computer
drawing file. The resulting drawing can be seen on page 77.
HABS/HAER AT A GLIMPSE
How to Use the HABS/HAER Collections
The HABS/HAER collections contain documentation (measured drawings, large format photographs and histories)
on approximately 28,000 historic structures and buildings throughout America. Not all structures and buildings are
represented by all three types of documentation. All HABS/HAER documentation is reproducible, copyright free,
and available to the public. With the exception of current projects, all HABS/HAER documentation is housed in
the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress (Room 339, James Madison Building, First and
Independence Avenue, SE, Washington, D.C. 20540). The best way to use the HABS/HAER collections is to visit
the Prints and Photographs Division during normal working hours (Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5:00
p.m.). Some recently received material may not be available for review as yet; it is advisable to contact the
Reference Desk at 202-707-6394 to be certain documentation has been processed. No appointment is necessary to
review processed HABS/HAER material. For out-of-town users, the HABS/HAER collections have been made
commercially available by the firm of Chadwyck-Healey in microfiche and are available in numerous libraries
throughout the United States. There are numerous catalogs, finding guides and other publications available to the
HABS/HAER user. A list of these can be obtained from the Prints and Photographs Division.
"Review of 'The Historic American Buildings Survey: California and Washington, Parts One and Two':
"The Historic American Buildings Survey, on microfiche, is the most comprehensive record of American architecture
available. Parts One and Two are the complete collection of photographs, texts, and measured drawings for the most
architecturally significant structures found in each state. Combined with the Oregon segment, already owned by the
library, these materials constitute a major resource of primary documentation for research in architecture, historic
preservation, art history, and history of the western United States."
-- Library Notes, Vol. 8, No. 3, Spring 1992
How to Work for HABS/HAER
HABS/HAER hires approximately 100-150 student architects and historians each year, most through its summer
employment program. Interested individuals need to submit a U.S. Government Standard Form 171, Application
for Federal Employment, a sample of their work, and letters of recommendation from a dean or someone familiar
with their work to the Summer Program Administrator, HABS/HAER, National Park Service, P.O. Box 37127,
Washington, D.C. 20013-7127. Competition for these positions is tough on the average--one out of every eight
applicants is selected--so individuals are encouraged to submit their best work. Applications must be postmarked
by the cutoff date, usually the beginning of March. HABS/HAER also hires a few temporary and term positions,
and these are advertised through normal NPS procedures. Like the rest of the historic preservation field, permanent
positions are not readily available and are usually filled by individuals with HABS/HAER experience.
How to Start a HABS/HAER Project
All proposed HABS/HAER projects must typically meet two criteria: (1) the structure or building proposed for
documentation must be nationally significant or a primary unit of the National Park Service, and (2) the project
sponsor must be willing to assume 100 percent of the direct costs of the project. HABS/HAER projects are usually
initiated by contacting the chief of HABS/HAER, Robert J. Kapsch; the chief of HABS, Paul Dolinsky; or the chief
of HAER, Eric DeLony. We also encourage donations of documentation that meet HABS/HAER standards.
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FACTS AND STATISTICS
Funding
FY 1992
Compared to
Category
Funding
1991
1990
Base Funding (Appropriations)
$ 945,000
+ 2.8%
-2.7%
Add-On Appropriations
444,000
-11.7%
-5.9%
Project Funding (Public/Private)
1,533,000
+ 9.4%
+80.7%
Total HABS/HAER Funding
$2,922,000
+ 3.5%
+30%
The overall funding for HABS/HAER in FY 1992 demonstrated a 3.5 percent increase over FY 1991 levels. Base
funding (appropriations) showed a modest increase. For the last twelve years base funding of HABS/HAER, like
most Federal organizations, has remained relatively flat, expressing Congress's concern for the Federal deficit.
HABS/HAER congressional add-ons for specific projects decreased 11.7 percent, reflecting the 1990 Andrews Air
Force Base Officers' Club agreement between the administration and Congress to pursue progressively lower yearly
funding targets to balance the Federal budget -- made increasingly difficult by the subsequent recession. Other
public and private funding for HABS/HAER increased 9.4 percent--a healthy increase but nowhere near the 75
percent increase experienced in FY 1991. This category now comprises two-thirds of the division's annual budget.
The outlook for FY 1993 is for HABS/HAER funding to be at or below the funding levels of FY 1992. Base
funding is expected to remain essentially the same, perhaps adjusted upwards for pay raises. Add-on appropriations
are expected to continue to decline, reflecting the targets established in the Andrews Accords. Public-private project
funding is more difficult to predict, however. FY 1993 may be the first year, after twelve years of continuing
expansion, where HABS/HAER's budget will contract--perhaps significantly.
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FACTS AND STATISTICS
HABS/HAER In Legislation
The Department of the Interior Appropriations Bill for fiscal year 1992 included the following additional line
items for HABS/HAER:
*
$197,000 for continuation of HAER work in support of America's Industrial Heritage Project
(AIHP). Under the leadership of HAER Engineer/Historian G. Gray Fitzsimons, this is the
fifth year of HAER support to the nine-county area of Pennsylvania comprising AIHP.
*
$494,000 for the West Virginia Institute for the History of Technology and Industrial
Archaeology, under the leadership of its director, Dr. Emory Kemp.
*
In a late development in the Fiscal 1992 appropriations bill, Congress approved $247,000 to
fund HABS/HAER work in Birmingham, Alabama. HAER's early work on steel and iron
manufacturing in Birmingham led to National Historic Landmark designation and successful
preservation of the Sloss Furnace in 1981. HAER Chief Eric N. DeLony is the program
manager.
Mr Bourn
Left-right, Ford Peatross, curator of architectural design and engineering collection, Library of Congress; John E.
Durrant, district director, district four, American Society of Civil Engineerings; Rowland Bowers, deputy associate
director for cultural resources, National Park Service; and Susan Maxman, first vice president, the American
Institute of Architects, testify on behalf of HABS/HAER at the oversight hearings before the Subcommittee on Energy
and the Environment, Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, House of Representatives, held in Philadelphia, PA,
on May 11. See page 18 and Appendix Il for more information on hearings.
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FACTS AND STATISTICS
HABS/HAER Collections
In 1992, the HABS/HAER collections passed the 28,000 mark for number of historic sites and structures
documented. HABS/HAER transmitted documentation on 1,031 historic sites and structures to the Prints and
Photographs Division of the Library of Congress. The HABS/HAER collections are primarily known for their
drawings, photographs and histories, but these collections also include field notes, photogrammetric plates and
other forms of documentation useful to HABS/HAER users. Collection management is under the supervision
of Georgette R. Wilson. The size of the collections, as of October 1, 1992, were:
HABS
HAER
Total
No. of historic structures
-
24,417
3,600
28,017
No. of sheets of drawings
-
46,759
2,084
48,843
No. of large format photographs
-
112,571
35,471
147,992
No. of data pages
-
60,357
28,027
88,384
Use of the Collections
The HABS/HAER collections at the Library of Congress are the most widely used of all of its special
collections. According to an informal study done a number of years ago, authors, publishers, and doctoral
candidates represented about 40 percent of the users. Another 40 percent were composed of architects,
engineers, historians, planners and others who were going to undertake work on a specific site or structure
recorded by HABS/HAER. The remaining users were model builders, house builders, and others.
Students
HABS/HAER has employed more than 2,500 architects, historians and photographers over the years,
approximately one-quarter of whom were employed in the last decade (about 100 of whom were from other
countries). Most were students, usually undertaking their first professional work experience. In fiscal year
1992, HABS/HAER employed 110 students, nineteen of which were from other countries (see page 15).
Student employment with HABS/HAER is very competitive. During this fiscal year, for example, only one
architectural student was selected for every eight who applied; for historians, one in ten.
Projects
Fiscal 1992 was a record-high year for HABS/HAER recording, continuing a trend established almost ten
years ago. HABS/HAER projects are selected on the basis of two criteria: (1) the resource proposed for
documentation must be nationally significant and useful in explaining, understanding and explicating America's
architectural and engineering heritage, and (2) the cosponsor provides 100 percent of the project's direct costs.
HABS/HAER projects are normally initiated through direct contact with the chiefs of HABS/HAER. A
memorandum of agreement is entered into, covering the scope of the project.
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HONORS AND AWARDS
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
December 4, 1992
I am delighted to send greetings to all those who
are gathered in Washington, D.C. as the Advisory
Council on Historic Preservation presents the
National Historic Preservation Awards and the
President's Historic Preservation Awards.
America's historic buildings, grounds, and
monuments embody our national identity, and we
owe a special tribute to those who help to
preserve them. The men and women who are being
honored on this occasion, and all who participate
in this vital work, serve as guardians of our
heritage -- of the events, ideals, and individuals
that have shaped our collective history. In
safeguarding this history they perform another
crucial service as well: they help to unify our
people by recalling our common link to a rich and
distinguished past.
This year, as we commemorate both the National
Historic Preservation Act of 1966 and the 200th
anniversary of the White House, I am especially
pleased to salute those individuals who are
committed to protecting the architectural symbols
and cultural resources of our Nation and her
people.
Barbara joins me in sending best wishes for an
enjoyable awards ceremony.
Presidential letter to winners of the President's Historic Preservation Award, of which HAER was a recipient. See
article on page 16.
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HONORS AND AWARDS
1992 Peterson Prize winners at the
awards ceremony are (left to right),
Kevin Milstead (University of Texas at
Austin), Marc Roehrle (University of
Virginia), Brian Ambroziak (University
of Virginia), Mira Metzinger (University
of Illinois), William Meredith
(University of Illinois), Michelle
Brancaeleone (University of Illinois),
and Timothy Sheridan (University of
Illinois).
Photographer: Christopher Gribbs,
1993
1992 Peterson Prize Winners
The Historic American Buildings Survey and The Athenaeum of Philadelphia announced the winners of the
1992 Charles E. Peterson Prize at the November meeting of the American Institute of Architects' Committee
on Historic Resources in Charlottesville, Virginia. The Peterson Prize is an annual award for the best sets
of architectural measured drawings of an historic building produced by students and given to the Historic
American Buildings Survey. The prize honors Charles E. Peterson, FAIA, founder of the HABS program,
and is intended to increase awareness and knowledge of historic buildings throughout the United States. The
drawings are deposited in the HABS Collection in the Library of Congress.
First Place and a $1,500 award was won by a team of fourteen students: Michelle Brancaleone, Gary Cole,
Christopher Colson, Michael Coonen, Bryan Fish, Lisa Jaracz, Sheila McCarthy, William Meridith, Mira
Metzinger, Elizabeth Rutherford, Timothy Sheridan, Gerald Sullivan, Steven Turner, and John Yopp from
the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois. They produced drawings of the Macoupin County
Courthouse in Carlinville, Illinois. The Macoupin County Courthouse was designed in 1867 by architect
Elijah Meyers, who later would design the Michigan, Colorado, and Texas state capitols. Capped by a
monumental dome nearly 40' in diameter, this Renaissance Revival courthouse is the dominant architectural
feature in the small town of Carlinville. Faculty sponsor for the team was Professor John S. Garner.
The $1,000 award for Second Place was won by seventeen students from the School of Architecture at the
University of Texas at Austin and the College of Architecture at the University of Houston: Melissa Barnett,
Carolyn Campbell, Quana Childs, Hugo Gardea, Linda Glaze, Diane Gray, Monica Griesbach, Dana Hutt,
Barre Klapper, Theiu Luong, Kent Millard, Kevin Milstead, Laura Ostlind, David Payne, Matthew Rodda,
Myoe Than, and Tara Travis. Faculty sponsors were Professors Wayne Bell, FAIA, and Barry Moore, AIA.
The students produced drawings of the Neuhaus Complex, which includes three buildings built by a German
immigrant family: a two-story fachwerk homestead, a stone general store, and a Greek Revival wood frame
house. The Neuhaus Complex illustrates the contribution of one German immigrant family to the settlement
of Hackberry in Lavaca County, Texas.
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HONORS AND AWARDS
The $750 award for Third Place was given to Brian M. Ambroziak, Salvatore J. Canciello, and Marc A.
Roehrle of the University of Virginia's School of Architecture. The students produced measured drawings
of Barclay House, the brick Federal-style home of Dr. James Turner Barclay. In 1850, Dr. Barclay founded
the Disciples Church in Scottsville, Virginia. The Barclay House is listed in the National Register of Historic
Places. The faculty sponsor for this documentation project was Professor K. Edward Lay.
In addition to the top prizes, the jury awarded three other entries Honorable Mention in the competition. They
were:
School:
University of Southwestern Louisiana
Students:
Steven Becnel, John Campbell, Mark Connor, Britt Herring, Wang Qian,
Chee Siew, and Steve Wright
Faculty Sponsor:
Professor Dan P. Branch, AIA
Building:
Crowell Lumber Mill, Longleaf, Louisiana
School:
Texas A & M University
Students:
Mark Brooks, Donna Kacmar, David Knapp, David Hawthorne, Ronn
Phillips, and Charles Smith
Faculty Sponsor:
Professor David G. Woodcock, AIA, RIBA
Building:
Coulter House, Bryan, Texas
School:
University of Kansas
Students:
Kurt Brunner, Steve Harrington, Joseph Stramberg, Dennis McGrath, and
Eric Zabilka
Faculty Sponsor:
Professor Barry Newton
Building:
Hollenberg Pony Express Station, Hanover, Kansas
The Charles E. Peterson Prize is a joint program of HABS, The Atheneum of Philadelphia and the American
Institute of Architects. Each year, the jury selecting the Charles E. Peterson Prize winners is composed of
representatives from these organizations. The 1992 jurors were Bruce Laverty from The Athenaeum of
Philadelphia; Donald Swofford, AIA, representing the AIA's Committee on Historic Resources; and Herbert
Levy, FAIA, a Philadelphia architect representing HABS.
It was an excellent year for the Peterson Prize competition. There were a total of twenty entries from fifteen
universities. Sixteen of the entries are listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The 156 students who
participated produced 251 measured drawings for inclusion in the HABS collection.
The monies for these prizes come from a special fund administered by Roger Moss, executive director, The
Athenaeum of Philadelphia, initially established in 1983 through donations made by Friends of Charles E.
Peterson, to honor his 75th birthday in 1981, and the cash award accompanying the 1983 National Trust for
Historic Preservation Crowninshield Award made to HABS.
The Charles E. Peterson Prize is administered by HABS/HAER Deputy Chief John A. Burns, AIA.
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HONORS AND AWARDS
SAH/Sally Kress Tompkins Fellowship
Dena L. Sanford of the University of Oregon was this year's winner of the Sally Kress Tompkins Fellowship,
cosponsored by the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) and HABS/HAER. The Sally Kress Tompkins
Fellowship, established in memory of the former deputy chief of HABS/HAER, permits an architectural
historian to work on a HABS summer team. A SAH-HABS jury was composed of curator Ford Peatross from
the Library of Congress, Judith Lanius from the Society of Architectural Historians, and senior historian Kim
Hoagland from HABS/HAER. They selected Dena Sanford based on her thesis, which analyzed Finnish
homesteads in Montana. Sanford worked on the HABS team in Natchez, Mississippi, documenting the
antebellum house of a free black man, William Johnson. Sanford was presented with the fellowship award
by HABS/HAER Deputy Chief John A. Burns, AIA, at the business meeting of the Society of Architectural
Historians' annual meeting, April 1-5, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Funds for this fellowship are
administered by David Bahlman, executive director, Society of Architectural Historians.
Those wishing to contribute to the Sally Kress Tompkins Fund may do so by sending their checks to the Sally
Kress Tompkins Fund, c/o David Bahlman, Executive Director, Society of Architectural Historians, 1232 Pine
Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107-5944. Those wishing to apply for the Sally Kress Tompkins
Fellowship, or desiring additional information on the program, may write to A. Kim Hoagland, HABS Senior
Historian, HABS/HAER, National Park Service, P.O. Box 37127, Washington, D.C. 20013-7127.
Left to right: Ford Peatross, Kim Hoagland, Dena Sanford, Marian Donnelly, and John Burns, at the SAH annual meeting in
Albuquerque. Sanford is the second individual to be named the SAH-HABS Sally Kress Tompkins Fellow in Architectural History.
Photographer: Sara Amy Leach, 1992.
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CAMM/HAER Sally Kress Tompkins Maritime Internship
Immediately following the death in 1989 of HABS/HAER Deputy Chief Sally Kress Tompkins, senior
members of the maritime preservation community contacted Chief Robert Kapsch and stated that they would
like to have a separate program in honor of Sally's considerable contributions to maritime recording and in
order to continue training of young professionals in it. What resulted was the Council of American Maritime
Museums (CAMM)/HAER Sally Kress Tompkins Maritime Internship. Half of the funding is contributed by
CAMM and half by HAER. The fund is administered by Peter Neill, South Street Seaport Museum, on behalf
of CAMM.
The first CAMM/HAER Sally Kress Tompkins Maritime Intern, selected in 1992, was Karl Bodensiek of
Roger Williams College in Bristol, Rhode Island. Karl worked as a member of the HAER team that prepared
drawings of the bow of the Clipper ship SNOW SQUALL, at the Spring Point Museum at South Portland,
Maine. The drawings, which are archeological in character because the only remains are sections of the bow,
will aid in understanding clipper ship design and construction, and will be used by the museum to curate and
interpret the SNOW SQUALL bow as an exhibit.
Kenneth L. Anderson Award
Kenneth L. Anderson, Jr., former chief of the HABS, passed away on September 18, 1991. In his
memory, HABS, in cooperation with the Department of Architecture at Texas Tech University, his alma
mater, has established the Kenneth L. Anderson Memorial Fund. The fund will provide a monetary gift
to a student who produces the finest set of measured drawings to HABS standards of a Texas structure,
donated for inclusion in the HABS collection in the Library of Congress. The competition is open to all
students from the five accredited schools of architecture in Texas.
For further information, and for those wishing to make a donation, contact: Professor John White,
Department of Architecture, P.O. Box 4140, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas 79409.
HAER/SIA Fellowship Awarded
The recipient of the HAER/Society for Industrial Archeology (SIA) fellowship was Susan Appel of Illinois
State University for research, travel, writing time, and supplementary materials in preparation of a publication
on the architectural history of the pre-Prohibition brewery. Her work centers on the cities of Chicago,
Milwaukee, Cincinnati, and St. Louis, and thus document the Midwest's contribution to this significant
American building type. The award was made at the annual meeting of the SIA in Buffalo by SIA President
David Salay.
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Clipper Ship SNOW SQUALL Bow. Delineator: Karl N. Bodensiek, 1992.
HONORS AND AWARDS
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Dean A. Herrin
Kenneth D. Rose
HAER Historians Awarded Doctorates
Dean Herrin, HAER staff historian, received his doctorate in American history from the University of
Delaware in January 1992. He was a fellow in the Hagley Program in the History of Industrial America, a
program jointly sponsored by the Hagley Museum and the University of Delaware's History Department. His
dissertation was titled "Breaking the Stillness': The Coal Industry and the Transformation of Appalachian
Virginia, 1880 - 1920." Herrin is currently the supervisory historian on the Mon Valley program, Wright-
Patterson Air Force Base, and other projects.
Kenneth D. Rose received his master's degree from the University of Washington in 1985 and, in 1986, was
admitted into the doctoral program in history at the University of California, Los Angeles. He completed his
doctorate in fall 1992, while working for HAER. Rose's duties have centered on the production and
publication of industrial inventories of the nine-county region of the America's Industrial Heritage Project in
southwest Pennsylvania. He is currently revising his dissertation, "American Women and the Repeal of
Prohibition," for publication.
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US/ICOMOS and HABS/HAER
In 1992, the HABS/HAER/ICOMOS intern program was once again in full swing. This year, nineteen
students from fifteen countries made major contributions to this summer's documentation program. The
exchange program, established by HABS/HAER and US/ICOMOS in 1984, is under the overall direction of
Terry B. Morton, president, US/ICOMOS, and Russell V. Keune, vice president for programs, US/ICOMOS.
Ellen Delage, program officer, US/ICOMOS, administers the intern program, which locates qualified
applicants through the various ICOMOS committees in the participating countries. The program is
administered at HABS/HAER by Deputy Chief John Burns. Since the program's inception in 1984,
HABS/HAER has sponsored 108 interns from eighteen countries -- HABS/HAER remaining, by far, the
largest sponsor of ICOMOS interns. Once they have applied, the applicants are evaluated by the same criteria
as their American counterparts and must possess equivalent skills in their chosen disciplines. They are also
paid a stipend equivalent to that of their American coworkers. HABS/HAER transferred approximately
$79,000 to US/ICOMOS in fiscal year 1992 to support the stipends paid to these interns.
1992 US/ICOMOS-HABS/HAER Summer Interns
Argentina
Hungary
Daniella Trettel, National University of Cordoba
Atilla Kovacs, Technical University of Budapest
Austria
Italy
Albert Aflenzer, Technical University of Vienna
Elena Garlini, Graduate School of Architecture,
Venice; Columbia University
Bulgaria
Orlin K. Boyanov, The University of Architecture,
Japan
Construction & Geodesy, Sofia
Junne Kikata, Tokyo National University of Fine
Arts
Canada
Martine Dion, McGill University
Lithuania
Vita Ruskyte, Institute of Monuments Restoration
Croatia
& Design
Zvonimir Franic, The Institute for the Preservation
of the Historical Monuments and Nature of
Poland
Dubrovnik
Dorota Pape-Siliwonczuk, Board of Historical
Palaces and Garden Restoration
Denmark
Eva S. Mollnitz, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts
Russia Federation
Natalya Kalinina, Moscow Institute of Architects
Finland
Kirsi Heininen, Tampere University of Technology
United Kingdom
Sarah C. Ball, University of Edinburgh
Guatemala
Tanya Ann English, Ironbridge Institute
Flor de Maria Argueta Pineda, Universidad
Joanne McAllister-Hewlings, Sheffield University
de San Carlos de Guatemala
David C. Eve, Ironbridge Institute
In addition, Emma Jane Dyson of the United Kingdom completed a year working in HAER, the third ICOMOS
student selected to undertake a year's assignment in the HABS/HAER offices in Washington, D.C.
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HAER Historic Bridge Initiative Wins Preservation Award
HAER was recently honored by a Presidential Historic Preservation Award, in recognition of its nationwide
historic bridge-survey project. Deemed exceptional by the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation,
presenter of the award under the auspices of the White House, the HAER project was recognized for
identifying the importance of the prefabricated metal truss bridge as one of the nation's greatest engineering
and manufacturing achievements, and compiling a visual record of it before federal and state bridge-
replacement programs destroyed them.
Bridges became the first category of historic resources to be comprehensively inventoried by HAER and listed
in the National Register of Historic Places. As the result of the HAER project and increased public awareness
of the bridges' importance, their replacement has substantially decreased.
Eric DeLony, chief of HAER and an expert on historic U.S. bridges, accepted the award at a December 1992
ceremony in Washington, D.C., in the Cash Room in the U.S. Treasury Building. DeLony has compiled the
volume Landmark American Bridges, to be published by the American Society of Civil Engineers later this
year.
" You are doing important work, and we are privileged to view it first-hand. ASCE is proud of our
association with HAER, and I am particularly pleased that we have several joint projects in the works."
- James E. McCarty, P.E., President, American Society of Civil Engineers in a
November 17, 1992, letter to HABS/HAER Chief Robert Kapsch
"Held in Common," HABS/HAER Exhibition Receives Recognition
"Held in Common: Historic Architecture in America's National Parks," another current exhibition
at the [National Building Museum], honors the National Park Service on its 75th anniversary.
The show is a photo-and-text narrative that succinctly proves its point: Buildings in astonishing
variety and number (more than 20,000 of them) make up an important aspect of the Park Service
mission, which is usually thought of exclusively in terms of preserving the natural environment. It
is a delightful, absorbing, compact story. One begins at the beginning, with the archaeological
remains of ancient Anasazi religious structures--kivas--in the Frijoles Canyon of Bandelier National
Monument in New Mexico, and arrives in our own time with the Victorian mansions and shotgun
houses of the Martin Luther King National Historic Site in the Sweet Auburn section of Atlanta. In
between are stops at Skagway, Alaska, site of the Klondike gold rush; the Lowell, Mass., cotton
mills; the fabulous Old Faithful Inn at Yellowstone; and other terrific sites.
-- Benjamin Forgey, The Washington Post,
December 14, 1991.
The exhibition was on display at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., December 6, 1991, to
February 2, 1992. Developed by HABS/HAER historian Caroline R. Bedinger, the exhibition is currently traveling
to other locations by way of the Harper's Ferry Travelling Exhibit Program.
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HISTORIC AMERICAN
SURVEY
HISTORIC AMERICAN
ENGINEERING RECORD
Dr Washington Dost
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Above, HABS/HAER collections management specialist Georgette Wilson and collections management assistant
Monica Paprocki set up exhibit at the National Archives, commemorating the transfer of HABS/HAER records to the
archives. For more information on the transfer of records and exhibit, see page 24. Photographer: Amy Young, 1992.
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Congressional Hearings
On May 11, 1992, an oversight hearing was held before the subcommittee on Energy and the Environment
of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs at the First Bank of the United States in Philadelphia on the
Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record (HABS/HAER), Chairman Peter
H. Kostmayer presiding.
This was the first congressional oversight hearing held on HABS/HAER. In his opening statement, Kostmayer
stated that the reason for the hearing was to review "the ability of HABS and HAER to respond to new
projects" in light of "infrequent and small appropriation increases over the past years," and to review the
"advisory boards for HABS and HAER [that] were sunsetted in the 1970s," and "the need to reestablish these
noncompensated advisory boards."
Oral testimony was presented by Susan Maxman, first vice president of the American Institute of Architects;
Rowland Bowers, deputy director, Cultural Resources, National Park Service, accompanied by Robert Kapsch,
chief of HABS/HAER; John Burns, AIA, deputy chief of HABS/HAER; and Paul Dolinsky, chief of HABS;
John E. Durrant, district director, District Four, American Society of Civil Engineers, accompanied by
Edward Kuchefski, director of the Fairmont Water Works Interpretative Center, Philadelphia Water
Department; and Ford Peatross, curator of Architectural and Engineering Collections, Library of Congress.
Additional testimony was provided by David Bahlman, executive director, Society of Architectural Historians;
and Jeff Marshall, director of historic preservation, Bucks County Conservancy. Additional written testimony
was provided by Congressman Neil Abercrombie, D-Hawaii; and James P. Cramer, executive vice
president/CEO, American Institute of Architects, among others.
A congressional hearing on a program as small as HABS/HAER (with a budget of less than $1 million a year)
is extraordinary. Congressional hearings usually focus on much larger subjects. The single most prevalent
issue throughout the hearing was the need to reestablish the HABS/HAER advisory committees. The second
most important issue was the need to increase the funding level of the HABS/HAER appropriation.
The proceedings of this hearing were published by the U.S. Government Printing Office and are for sale by
the Superintendent of Documents, Congressional Sales Office, Washington, D.C. 20402 (ISBN 0-16-039245-
4). For the convenience of our readers, this material has been reproduced as Appendix II.
"Because of their holistic approach and extraordinary vision, these programs have brought about an increased awareness of
preservation needs and preservation technology. In the initial memorandum from Charles Peterson, architect with the National
Park Service, to his superiors, he stated that such a survey, 'should be a list of building sites which include public buildings,
churches, residences, bridges, forts, barns, mills, shops, rural outbuildings, and any other kind of structure of which there are
good specimens extant and those structures which by fate or accident are identified with historic events.'"
"Due to the infrequent and small appropriation increases over the past few years and the increasing costs of carrying out its
mission, the ability of HABS and HAER to respond to new projects is now in serious jeopardy."
--Hon. Peter H. Kostmayer (PA), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment
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HABS/HAER Activities at Library of Congress
A six-month project that expands access to HABS/HAER's data base for the staff at the Library of Congress'
Prints and Photographs Division was initiated in August 1992. The project, developed and implemented by
Collections Management Specialist Georgette R. Wilson, will facilitate the processing of HABS/HAER
drawings, photographs, and histories transmitted to the Prints and Photographs Division. The increased
application of HABS/HAER's data base will benefit researchers and the interested public by providing library
staff with the ability to conduct data-base searches, print updated reports, and implement time-saving steps
for processing materials. After six months, the project will be reviewed and evaluated, and final procedures
will be instituted.
In FY 1992, the collections management section increased transmittals to the Prints and Photographs Division
by 51 percent over FY 1991 numbers. This extensive documentation was reviewed, edited and collated by
Kathryn Jackson, HABS/HAER administrative assistant.
This past year, the Prints and Photographs Division increased its staff, so that it is now possible for the
collection to become available to researchers more quickly. HABS/HAER benefitted from this through the
assignment of processing assistants Megan Keister and Greg Marcangelo to maintain the HABS/HAER
collections, with temporary part-time help from Vickie Crawley, Kurt Helfrich, and Alberta Prosser. Under
the supervision of Helena Zinkham, head of the processing section, and in consultation with C. Ford Peatross
and Cristina Carbone, curators of the Architecture, Design, and Engineering (ADE) Collections, and Marilyn
Ibach, reference specialist in architecture, this team processed eleven states and accessioned four batches of
HABS/HAER transmittals consisting of photographs, drawings, histories, and field notes on more than 100
structures. Chadwyck-Healey continued to copy the material onto microfiche for distribution.
On July 8, HABS/HAER conducted a tour of the HABS Harpers Ferry summer team and the CAD
photogrammetry laboratory to familiarize the library staff with manual and automated recording technologies.
Those attending were Cristina Carbone, curator, Curatorial Division; Karen Chittenden, cataloger, Processing
Section; Vicki Crawley, processing assistant, Processing Section; Kurt Halfich, summer intern; Tracy
Meeleib, processing assistant, Processing Section; Anne Mitchell, processing assistant, Processing Section;
Diane Tepfer, research assistant, Curatorial Division; Megan Keister, and Greg Marcangelo. They were
accompanied by Robert Kapsch and Caroline R. Bedinger of HABS/HAER.
The Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, under the leadership of Chief Stephen Ostrow, and
Assistant Chief Elisabeth Parker, has made immense advances in staffing and in processing record numbers
of HABS/HAER documentation being sent to the library. It hasn't been too many years since Mary Ison and
C. Ford Peatross were the sole Prints and Photographs staff responsible for HABS/HAER records. The
increase in staffing should eliminate the backlog of transmittals dating from the 1980s.
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HAER and SHOT Establish a Cooperative Agreement for Fellowship Program
HAER and the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) established a cooperative agreement in 1992.
The principal purpose of this agreement is to forge a closer working relationship with SHOT, an international
organization composed of leading scholars in technological history. Specifically, HAER and SHOT will
initiate a history fellowship program which will provide funds for historical studies concerned with material
culture. A HAER/SHOT committee will be established to evaluate proposals from graduate and post-graduate
students for funding consideration. The committee will encourage studies that encompass not merely
descriptive material on specific industrial sites or technologies but that analyze and link such material to
broader contextual issues of technology and society. Based either in the HAER Washington, D.C., office or
the field, each fellow will receive $2,500 per month, with funding available from one to eight months. A call
for proposals will be issued through SHOT and selections will be made in FY 1993. The HAER staff
involved in the HAER/SHOT agreement includes historians Gray Fitzsimons and Dean Herrin, and Chief Eric
DeLony, as well as Chief Robert Kapsch. SHOT members Martin Reuss, Carroll Pursell, and Jeffrey Stein
greatly assisted in establishing this program. All look forward to many years of fruitful work on a variety
of history projects. Individuals interested in this program should write to Eric DeLony, Chief, Historic
American Engineering Record, National Park Service, P.O. Box 37127, Washington, D.C. 20013-7127.
CAD/Photogrammetry Lab Update
Over the past two years, HABS/HAER has built a capability for both photogrammetry and computer-aided
drafting, or CAD. The HABS/HAER CAD/Photogrammetry Laboratory started with five computer work
stations linked in a network, with a high-resolution digitizing table and photogrammetric software loaded on
one of the stations. Four of the work stations are Hewlett-Packard Vectra 486/25T computers, while the fifth
is a 486/33T. All have 8MB RAM, 80MB hard drives, 1.2MB 5.25" floppy drives, and 20" high resolution
monitors. The file server is a Compaq Deskpro 386/20 with a 300MB hard drive. A 300MB tape backup
and an uninterruptible power supply help to protect the system. The operating language is MS-DOS 5.0, the
network software is Novell Netware, Version 2.2, and the CAD program is AutoCAD, Release 11, all
National Park Service standards. A Versatec "B" size (11" X 17") laser plotter is used for small plots, while
the final, archival plots of the measured drawings are made on a laser plotter by a reprographics service.
With the exception of the photogrammetric cameras and digitizing software, all the hardware and software
are readily available, off-the-shelf products.
The photogrammetric camera system consists of two Linhof Metrika 45 cameras, one with a 90mm lens and
the other with a 150mm lens. The Metrikas are semi-metric cameras that produce negatives meeting
HABS/HAER standards (they produce 4" X 5" negatives on 5" roll film). The 90mm lens is considered a
wide angle, the 150mm a normal focal length. Both lenses have click stops on their focusing rings, so they
can be locked at known focal distances. A glass plate with a reseau grid (a pattern of cross hairs) is held
against the film by a vacuum at the moment of exposure so that the grid is superimposed on the negative.
The optical characteristics of the lenses and reseau grids are measured and plotted so that the optical
distortions in the camera do not compromise the accuracy of measurements taken from the photographs. This
camera calibration data is part of the survey control. They were the first cameras of their type sold in the
United States. The photogrammetric software is Desktop Photogrammetry's Photocad-Multi for three-
dimensional measurements and Photocad-Single for two-dimensional (planar) measurements. Both programs
operate from a pull-down menu within AutoCAD and the resulting drawings are AutoCAD files. The software
uses mathematical algorithms to locate the known points in three-dimensional space. Once the three-
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dimensional model is established and verified, other points can be digitized and measured from the
photographs and a CAD drawing produced.
For three-dimensional use, a structure is photographed from a minimum of three camera stations, usually from
left-of-center, center, and right-of-center. Targets are placed in the field of view as common reference points
among the photographs. At least one known dimension must also be visible in common among the three
views, as well as a minimum of seven other common points. Dimensions are extracted by digitizing from
enlargements of the photographs. Drawings are generated by connecting a series of points identified on the
photographs with lines. For curved elements, the closer the points are spaced, the higher the ultimate
resolution and accuracy, and the smoother the curved lines of the drawing. An Altek AC30 Datab 24" X 36",
high resolution (0.001" resolution with +0.003" absolute accuracy), continuously variable backlit digitizing
table, with a bullseye reticle pickup sensor and 5X magnifier, is used to digitize the enlargements. For two-
dimensional use, only a single photograph is needed as long as you have known coordinates in real space for
the four points in the plane to be digitized. The two-dimensional program is ideal for extracting dimensions
in a single plane and for low-relief surfaces because the drawing is generated by tracing outlines and edges
in that plane rather than by connecting a series of points as in the three-dimensional program.
We have found that CAD/Photogrammetry drawings that include decorative features, such as the relief
carvings in the frieze of the Lincoln Memorial, require an enormous amount of memory because one is
essentially plotting topographic lines by connecting a series of points with short lines. The ornament carving
for a single stone of the Lincoln Memorial frieze requires 2MB of memory, making the drawing file for the
whole elevation enormous, which slows down the CAD program. The result is that we are producing CAD
files far larger than architects normally produce (i.e., orthographic drawings) and more like civil engineering
CAD files that include topographic data. The problem is especially acute when drawing files increase beyond
6MB in size. We are exploring software solutions such as freezing portions of the drawings, turning off
layers, etc. We are also increasing the RAM memory to 16MB in each work station.
However, these improvements will provide only incremental increases in computational speed, so we are
purchasing a Hewlett-Packard Apollo 900 Model 730 UNIX workstation with a 66MHz DPA-RISC processor,
64MB RAM, 84 MB of disk space, and a 19" color graphic display. Two Hewlett-Packard HP700/RX
terminals with 19" color monitors, and a Series 6400 Model 2000DC tape backup that uses Digital Audio
Technology (DAT) to store up to eight gigabytes of compressed data files, will complete the new UNIX
system. The increase in computing power from an MS-DOS 486/33 to a UNIX machine is significant. We
expect that most CAD needs will continue to be met by our existing 486/25 and 486/33 computers with the
additional 16MB of RAM. The capabilities of the UNIX stations will be most apparent with the largest and
most complex drawing files requiring the most computational power. We will upgrade the DOS stations to
AutoCAD 12 when we add the UNIX version of AutoCAD to the new work stations. We are also upgrading
the network to Novell Netware version 3.11 with a Novell NFS to link the UNIX system to our existing
network.
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West Virginia University Institute for the History of Technology and Industrial Archaeology
The Institute for the History of Technology and Industrial Archaeology at West Virginia University is an
interdisciplinary professional and academic institute supporting public and private research, educational
programs and projects concerned with the history of technology, industrial archaeology, and the preservation
of engineering works. Since its inception in 1989, the institute has been the recipient of annual federal
appropriations administered through a cooperative agreement between the institute and HABS/HAER.
Additionally, the institute undertakes public and private contract research in a variety of areas. This year's
federal appropriation of $494,000 is currently supplemented by $314,106 in sponsored contract work.
An advisory committee involving leading agencies concerned with cultural resource management issues
approves the institute's congressionally appropriated budget and work plan. Members of the committee are
Katherine H. Stevenson, associate regional director, Mid-Atlantic Regional Office, NPS; Randy Cooley,
director, Southwestern Pennsylvania Heritage Preservation Commission (formerly America's Industrial
Heritage Project); Steven Lubar, curator, Division of Engineering and History, Museum of American History,
Smithsonian Institution; Martin Reuss, senior historian, Office of History, Corps of Engineers; William M.
Drennen, commissioner, Division of Culture and History, State of West Virginia; Brent D. Glass, executive
director, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission; David A. Simmons, Timeline, Ohio Historical
Quarterly; Gerald E. Lang, dean, College of Arts and Sciences, West Virginia University; Ronald L. Lewis,
chair, Department of History, West Virginia University; William W. Reeves, secretary, West Virginia
University Research Corporation; and Robert J. Kapsch, chief, HABS/HAER, NPS.
Professionally, the institute employs a cadre of historians, delineators, engineers, architects, drafting specialists
and landscape specialists, several of whom are veterans of HABS/HAER summer teams. The work of the
Institute continues a long tradition of cooperation between West Virginia University and HABS/HAER, which
began with Emory Kemp's involvement in 1972. Kemp, founder and director of the institute, has worked on
a number of HABS/HAER projects since that time. This tradition of cooperation continues to the present,
exemplified in the fact that the institute had dedicated $114,651 to HABS/HAER documentation over the past
three years. Specifically, it sponsored 1990 documentation of nineteenth-century industry in Wheeling and
Fairmont, West Virginia, historic nineteenth-century cast and wrought-iron bridges in Pennsylvania in 1991,
and a similar historic bridge project in Ohio in 1992.
Studies in the history of technology are one area of emphasis for the institute. A monograph series in the
history of technology is ongoing, and the first installment, The Alexandria Canal: Its History and
Preservation, has just been published. Other important projects technology include a video production airing
on Public Broadcasting Service on covered bridges of the Virginias; a National Register of Historic Places
nomination and landscape survey of Skyline Drive in the Shenandoah National Park, and a historic furnishing
report for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway's depot at Thurmond, West Virginia.
One of the institute's major successes of 1992 involved the first-ever field school in the techniques of
industrial archeology. This six-week summer course, conducted in West Virginia's eastern panhandle, was
taken by nine students for graduate credit through the WVU Department of History. Under the auspices of
Emory Kemp and Billy Joe Peyton (HAER Alumnus), institute staffers John Nicely, Lee Maddex
[HABS/HAER alumnus], and Edward Winant instructed students in the preparation of work to HABS/HAER
standards. Components of the course included mapping and surveying, preparation of field sketches and
measured drawings, large format archival photography, and researching local history. After one-and-a-half
weeks in the field, each student prepared measured drawings and large format archival photographs of select
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remains of water-powered industry on Virginius Island in Harpers' Ferry National Historical Park and the
historic Boteler/Shepherdstown Cement Mill in Shepherdstown. The experience proved intensive and
challenging, while it offered real-life experience in the world of historic-site recording and prepared
participants for potential work in the field. Final results were excellent, and plans are being made for the next
field school, to be held in 1994.
Perhaps the major accomplishment in the industrial archeology recording arena for 1992 is a book being
published by Krieger Publishing Company. Prepared by the Institute and field tested and critiqued by field
school students, it contains eleven essays prepared by leading professionals in the field on techniques of
industrial archeology. Student drawings from the class are also included as illustrative material. The book
is intended to be suitable for use by professionals and amateurs alike.
A pioneering project dealing with the preservation of engineering works is also underway at the Institute. This
multi-year project is being accomplished in cooperation with the Constructed Facilities Center at West Virginia
University's College of Engineering, and involves non-destructive testing of historic building materials.
Current technology allows accurate testing of physical properties of building materials through destructive
testing only. For this reason, the institute is extremely interested in developing non-destructive techniques
which can be portable in nature and used in the field. Miniaturized field-testing equipment is now under
development which can be used to investigate and determine the physical properties of wood, cast and wrought
iron, steel, and masonry structures. Thus far, results on historic cast and wrought iron have proved
encouraging and compare favorably with traditional destructive testing methods.
Initial field tests on nineteenth-century wooden covered bridges in West Virginia have been completed. More
tests are being considered on the Wheeling Suspension Bridge, a National Historic Landmark and the world's
longest suspension bridge when built, as well as the 1859 Wheeling Custom House, a structure that utilizes
an all-ircn framing system. After further field testing, it is anticipated that the equipment will eventually be
marketed to the preservation community for use in a wide variety of structures.
As witnessed by its wide range of activities, the Institute for the History of Technology and Industrial
Archaeology is now coming of age as a national center in the history of technology, industrial archeology,
and the preservation of engineering works. As time passes, and the institute continues to grow and mature,
and it is anticipated that the level of cooperation with HABS/HAER will reach new heights. As it does, the
mutual benefits to each organization will increase accordingly.
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Historically Black Colleges and Universities Initiative
HABS/HAER transferred funds to the National Trust for Historic Preservation to further minority careers in
the field of historic preservation. The Tuskegee Institute in Alabama and Howard University in Washington,
D.C., received funds to assist with the expenses relating to the development and implementation of HABS
measured-drawings courses. Howard's program, under the instruction of Edward D. Dunson, AIA, associate
pofessor of achitecture, offered the course in the spring semester of 1992. Ten students are currently enrolled
in the course. Tuskegee offered the course in summer of 1992, taught by HABS Alumna Kim Harden, AIA.
Howard University Internship Program
Since October 1991, HABS/HAER has offered two internships each year for minority students enrolled in the
architecture program at Howard University. Albert Debnam, Nichole Duren, Crystal Willingham, and
Sanford Garner have worked in the HABS/HAER offices, gaining practical experience in documentation skills.
Under the auspices of their cooperative agreement, HABS/HAER and Howard University are proud to offer
this opportunity to architecture students again in 1993.
National Archives Establishes Record Group for HABS/HAER Records
After several months work, HABS/HAER has been assigned its own record group at the National Archives,
and many administrative files have been deposited in it. July 1, 1992, Assistant Archivist Trudy Huskamp
Peterson established Record Group 515, through the efforts of HABS/HAER Collections Management
Specialist Georgette Wilson. She and the division were greatly assisted by archivist Jerry Wallace of the
National Archives. Transfer of administrative files to the National Archives was organized by HABS historian
Monica M. Paprocki. These materials included HABS and HAER publications, photographs of individuals
associated with the programs, posters, administrative records, copies of the database, awards and certificates,
and other information pertinent to the history of the programs. In addition, twenty boxes of early HABS
records stored in a government warehouse since the 1960s were released to the National Archives for inclusion
in it. Although several people have undertaken histories of the HABS and/or HAER programs (e.g., Wilton
Corkern's dissertation, "Architects, Preservationists, and the New Deal: The Historic American Buildings
Survey, 1933-1942" [George Washington University, 1984]; John Burns' "Architects and the Historic
American Buildings Survey, 1933-1990" [AIA, 1990], and Elise Vider's thesis, "The Historic American
Buildings Survey in Philadelphia, 1950-1966: Shaping Postwar Preservation" [University of Pennsylvania,
1991), these records have not largely been previously available to scholars interested in the history of the
HABS and HAER programs. HABS/HAER currently has plans to expand Record Group 515 through
donations of missing materials. HABS and HAER measured drawings, large format photographs, and histories
will remain in the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress.
In conjunction with the assigning of a record group number, an exhibit of photographs, copies of original
documents, and drawings reflecting the establishment of the HABS and HAER programs was developed by
Georgette Wilson, Monica Paprocki and Caroline Bedinger. The exhibit was on display at the National
Archives October 5-9, 1992. To commemorate this milestone, a ceremony and reception was held at the
National Archives on October 7, in which HABS founder Charles E. Peterson presented to Archivist of the
United States Don W. Wilson his original hand-written memorandum establishing the program. In his
comments, Peterson stated that the memorandum was drafted on a Sunday afternoon on a government legal
pad. "Maybe I shouldn't have taken that pad home, but I did," said Peterson. The draft memo had been
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stored in a safe in Philadelphia over the last several decades. Its transfer to the National Archives was
facilitated by Roger Moss, executive director, The Atheneum of Philadelphia. Also speaking were Jerry L.
Rogers, associate director for cultural resources, NPS; Kapsch, and Trudy Peterson.
It is extremely unusual for the National Archives to establish individual record groups for government
organizational units less than bureau size--for the Department of the Interior, this would mean a single record
group for the National Park Service, but not for components of the National Park Service. Establishment of
Record Group 515, therefore, honors the contributions of HABS/HAER over the years and it represents a very
important step toward preserving the administrative records of HABS/HAER.
Officials in attendance at the National Archives ceremony were, left to right, Jerry L. Wallace, National Archives;
Robert J. Kapsch, Chief of HABS/HAER; Jerry L. Rogers, Associate Director for Cultural Resources; Charles E.
Peterson, FAIA, founder of HABS; Don W. Wilson, Archivist of the United States; and Trudy H. Peterson, Assistant
Archivist, National Archives. Photographer: Amy Young, 1992
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National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) Identifies HABS/HAER Data Base for
Preservation
The National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA), under contract to the National Archives, reviewed
more than 9,000 existing federal electronic data bases to identify the most important ones to preserve in
perpetuity. Of the 789 identified for preservation, the HABS/HAER database used to index 27,000 historic
structures documented by HABS/HAER over the last 60 years was one of those selected. Annually thereafter,
HABS/HAER will transfer a tape containing an updated copy of that database to the National Archives to be
included as part of Record Group 515, Records of the Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American
Engineering Record. Should a cataclysmic collapse of the HABS/HAER database ever occur, the National
Archives copies would be available to reconstruct a new operating system.
Eastern Office of Design and Construction's Photographs Added to the HABS/HAER Collection
During 1992, the collections management section transmitted drawings, photographs, and histories on more
than 1,000 structures to the HABS/HAER collections in the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library
of Congress. Included in this transmittal are photographs from the Eastern Office of Design and
Construction's (EODC) photographic collection. EODC, a division within the National Park Service that once
included the HABS program, restored or otherwise studied an enormous body of significant historic structures
during the period of 1952-66. For this reason, the Park Historic Architecture Division, NPS, (temporary
repository of the EODC photographs) and HABS/HAER entered into an agreement for the purpose of
integrating these important photographs into the HABS/HAER collection on June 1, 1992.
The EODC photographic transmittal project commenced. HABS/HAER summer historian Brian Cary worked
on this project under the supervision of Collections Management Specialist Georgette R. Wilson, in
cooperation with other Washington staff. More than 7,000 images of structures, landscapes, artifacts, and
personnel from 155 of the National Park Service areas made up the collection. During the 12-week project,
1,140 photographs and negatives of 118 structures were selected for inclusion in the HABS/HAER collection.
The transmittal packet for each structure consisted of a data entry sheet, master index card, cover sheet,
caption sheet, prints and negatives. Images were processed according to HABS/HAER specifications.
The EODC photographs were useful in expanding and enhancing the existing HABS/HAER collections. The
entire EODC collection eventually will be housed at the Harpers Ferry Center in Virginia.
Randall J. Biallas, Chief Park Historic Architect, was instrumental in establishing this arrangement, so as to
get this important material into the publicly accessible HABS/HAER collections.
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HAER Mon Valley Office Burns
The HAER Homestead, Pennsylvania, field office narrowly averted disaster on April 10, 1992, when the
building next door was set on fire by an arsonist. The HAER office was heavily damaged by smoke and
water, but through the quick action of HAER supervisory historian Joel Sabadasz and HAER supervisory
architect Christopher Marston, both of whom carried records to safety, nothing valuable was lost.
With the help of the Steel Industry Heritage Corporation, cosponsor of the HAER project and whose offices
suffered even more damage, HAER was operating from a new location in Homestead within two weeks.
Firemen extinguishes flames at HAER's
field office in Homestead. Photo
courtesy of Steel Industry Heritage
Corporation.
As firemen fight the fire, HAER architect
Christopher Marston (front, left) and
HAER historian Joel Sabadasz (in
doorway) and other tenants evacuate the
building. Photo courtesy of Steel
Industry Heritage Corporation.
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Heritage Corridors/Heritage Areas
One of the most exciting and relatively new concepts in historic preservation is the heritage corridor/heritage
area. These heritage corridors/areas use Federal funds to leverage other public funds and private moneys.
The oldest such program is Lowell National Historic Park, originated by former Senator Paul Tsongas.
Tsongas envisioned a public/private, Federal/state/local cooperative effort that would revitalize that historic
textile community. The concept has been embraced by the National Park Service. HABS/HAER Chief Robert
Kapsch served on a National Park Service task force that developed this idea as a major program of the NPS.
This proposal was presented to the National Park Service's 75th anniversary conference in Vail, Colorado,
and was approved for further implementation.
HABS/HAER's role in heritage corridors/heritage areas is to identify and document significant historic
resources of those areas. Usually, HABS/HAER teams are the first Federal presence in a given heritage
corridor or area. Because most of these heritage corridors and areas emphasize industrial and engineering
resources, HAER tends to be used extensively since it contains the bulk of the National Park Service's
expertise on historic industrial and engineering resources. The following is a current list of active heritage
corridors and areas and the Federal funding they were appropriated in 1992:
* America's Industrial Heritage Area, Pennsylvania (AIHP) - $11,670,000
Including the nine counties of southwestern Pennsylvania, HABS/HAER has been active in support
of AIHP since 1987.
* Augusta Canal National Historic Landmark, Georgia - $74,000
Funding to support planning. HAER documented the Augusta Power Canal, textile mills and
associated industries in 1977.
* Birmingham District National Heritage Area, Alabama - $248,000
Funding to support the second year of HABS/HAER documentation in Birmingham. HAER
documented Sloss Furnace, now a NHL, in 1976 and was instrumental in its designation as a national
historic landmark and its subsequent development as a major industrial museum.
* Blackstone River Valley Heritage Corridor Commission - $347,000
The Blackstone flows through eastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island. This commission funded
HAER to record in 1991 Slater Mill in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, the oldest textile mill in the United
States.
* Calumet National Historic Landmark District, Michigan - $0
HAER documented structures associated with copper mining of the Upper Peninsula in the late 1970s.
* Dayton Aviation Heritage Commission, Ohio - $50,000
A new heritage commission, initial funding is for planning. HAER has not worked directly on these
resources but is currently involved in a multi-year documentation program of the most historic areas
of Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton.
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*
Delaware and Lehigh Navigational Canal Commission - $347,000
Located in the eastern part of Pennsylvania, HAER has documented the Ashley Breaker (1991) and
the Beth Forge Plant of Bethlehem Steel (1990) for this commission.
*
Illinois and Michigan Canal National Heritage Corridor Commission - $248,000
The second-oldest heritage corridor, behind Lowell, HABS/HAER did extensive work for this
commission along the I & M Canal running southwest of Chicago for 110 miles, in 1985-87.
* Lackawanna Heritage Valley, Pennsylvania - $422,000
A new heritage area.
*
Lowell Historic Preservation Commission, Massachusetts - $726,000
The granddaddy of heritage areas/corridors, HABS/HAER has undertaken extensive documentation
of the historic resources in Lowell since the early 1970s.
* Mississippi River Corridor Heritage Commission - $149,000
Undoubtedly the longest heritage corridor.
* New Jersey Coastal Heritage Trail - $205,000
The New Jersey Coastal Heritage Trail is more a series of self-guided tours and interpretative devices
along the Jersey Coast. HABS/HAER has conducted extensive research here, in the areas of
vernacular architecture, agriculture, ship-building and other subjects.
* Steamtown National Historic Site, Pennsylvania - $12,893,000
Probably the most controversial heritage area, Steamtown is headquartered in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
The Scranton yards of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad were recorded by HAER in
1989.
* Steel Industry Heritage Task Force, Pennsylvania - $0
Centered on the Homestead works near Pittsburgh, the task force was not successful in receiving its
$2 million request for 1992. HAER has maintained a field office in support of the Steel Industry
Heritage Task Force since 1989.
* Wheeling National Heritage Area, West Virginia - $2,304,000
A HABS/HAER team documented both architectural and engineering sites in Wheeling in 1990.
Other additions could probably be made to this list. The heritage corridor/area concept is one that has
developed a great deal of excitement and enthusiasm by its supporters. Heritage corridors/areas are said to
develop tourism, encourage development, preserve important historic resources, and develop Americans'
interest in their industrial and engineering heritage. From the National Park Service point of view, the
concept integrates numerous outreach programs, builds a broader constituency for the preservation mission
of the Service, and can be an effective tool for limiting new park acquisitions when financial support doesn't
seem to be sustainable. We at HABS/HAER are proud to be part of the effort.
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International Activities
HABS historian Elizabeth Barthold participated in the US/ICOMOS summer internship program and spent
three months working for the Wessex Region of England's Natinal Trust at the Kingston Lacy Estate in
Dorset. She researched aspects of the estate's landscape. Barthold will also be giving a paper on the
L'Enfant-McMillan Plan of Washington, D.C., a multi-year HABS project, at the International Symposium
on the Conservation of Urban Squares and Parks in spring 1993, to be held in Montreal, Canada.
HABS/HAER Deputy Chief John A. Burns delivered a speech, "The Historic American Buildings
Survey/Historic American Engineering Record," at the Institute of Advanced Architectural Studies, University
of York, York, England, on September 25, 1992. He similarly spoke before the Royal Commission on
Historic Monuments, England, and English Heritage in London, September 28.
Spain hosted the 8th International Congress for the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage (TICCIH),
September 13-18, 1992. Approximately 200 delegates from around the world met in Madrid for three days
of formal sessions pertaining to industrial heritage. HAER Chief Eric DeLony, representing the National Park
Service, co-chaired the session on fieldwork with Steve Hughes of the Royal Commission on the Historical
Monuments of Wales. Prior to the formal working sessions in Madrid, delegates met in Barcelona and toured
Catelonian textile mills and other industrial works. The United States shares a preeminent role as one of the
world's leaders in industrial heritage, along with other industrialized nations. Though the lead in these matters
rests with industrialized nations, less-industrialized countries have not suffered the loss of heritage as have the
more developed countries. These countries view their industrial heritage as unique and worthy of
preservation. The next international conference, in 1994, will be hosted by Canada.
Paul D. Dolinsky, HABS chief, was one of nine Americans selected to participate in an international
conference at Ditchley Park in Oxfordshire, England. The topic of the conference was "Preserving the
Architectural Heritage" and focused on preservation priorities, patterns of support and tourism.
Ditchley House, Oxfordshire, England, c. 1722. James Gibbs, architect. Photographer: Paul D. Dolinsky, 1992
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White House Exhibit and the First Lady
In October 1991, the White House celebrated the 200th anniversary of the laying of the cornerstone. To
convey its architectural history, the American Architectural Foundation (AAF) and the White House Historical
Association organized the exhibition "White House: Images in Architecture 1792-1992." The assembly of
drawings, photographs, documents, and artifacts was opened by First Lady Barbara Bush, and remained on
display at the Octagon and the American Institute of Architects (AIA) headquarters through April 1992.
Curator of the exhibit was Betty Monkman, associate curator of the White House.
Displayed in the AIA gallery were HABS measured drawings that documented the White House as part of the
continuing restoration effort.
Left, HABS architect and project supervisor Frederick
Lindstrom discusses exhibit with First Lady Barbara Bush.
Photographer: Jack E. Boucher, 1992
First Lady Barbara Bush is greeted at the
opening of the HABS-White House exhibit by
(left-right) Robert J. Kapsch, chief of
HABS/HAER; Paul D. Dolinsky, chief of
HABS; and James P. Cramer, Hon. AIA,
executive vice president/CEO, American
Institute of Architects. Photographer: Jack
E. Boucher, 1992
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Congressman Neil Abercrombie Visits HABS/HAER
On March 30, 1992, Congressman Neil Abercrombie (D-Hawaii), a member of the Interior Authorization
Committee, visited HABS/HAER offices at 1100 L Street -- the first congressman to do so in recent memory.
Abercrombie's interest in HABS/HAER is based on his observation of the HABS summer 1991 Kalaupapa
project, also acclaimed by Senator Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) and Congresswoman Patsy Mink (D-Hawaii).
Independence Hall Drawings
At a May 11 public ceremony outside of Independence Hall in Philadelphia, a multi-year effort to produce
the first comprehensive set of measured drawings of Independence Hall was culminated. Independence
National Historical Park Superintendent Martha B. Aikens formally presented forty-five sheets of HABS
drawings, photographs, and field records of Independence Hall to HABS/HAER Chief Robert J. Kapsch, for
deposit in the HABS collection in the Library of Congress. Also participating in the ceremony were
Congressman Peter H. Kostmayer, chairman of the House Interior Subcommittee on Energy and the
Environment; Congressman Thomas M. Foglietta, in whose district Independence Hall is located; and
Congressman Lucien E. Blackwell. In assessing the stewardship responsibility of the National Park Service
to care for Independence Hall, which is owned by the city of Philadelphia, park historical architect Penelope
Hartshorne Batcheler discovered that, while there were dozens of drawings and hundreds of photographs of
the building, there was no single consistent, comprehensive and accurate set of measured drawings.
Paradoxically, the most pristine parts of the structure--the exterior brickwork, the central hall, and the tower
stairhall--had never been recorded in measured drawings because they had never required extensive restoration
work. The most intact and historic parts of the
building were most at risk because they were
inadequately documented. Thus began an
intensive, long-term effort to produce
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comprehensive photogrammetric documentation of
Independence Hall for public information and
interpretation, for day-to-day preservation
maintenance and ongoing restoration, and as a
form of protection against catastrophic loss.
Left to right, Peter H. Kostmayer (R.Pa) and Martha B. Aikens,
Superintendent, Independence National Historical Park, presents
documentation on Independence Hall to HABS for inclusion in
the HABS collection at the Library of Congress.
Photographer: Thomas L. Davies, 1992.
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Stereophotogrammetry was the technique chosen to produce the measured drawings of Independence Hall.
The project was sponsored by the park under the direction of Batcheler and William D. Brookover, with
technical support from HABS/HAER Deputy Chief John A. Burns. The recording was begun in June 1985
by Dennett, Muessig, Ryan and Associates, Ltd. The forty-five measured drawings were completed in April
1990. Three sets of 6.5cm X 9cm glass plate stereopairs were made, with 290 pairs in each set (105 exterior
and 185 interior). The original drawings and one set of the plates were transferred to HABS/HAER.
Photomylar duplicates of the drawings and the second set of plates were retained by the park, and another set
of photomylars was sent to the Technical Information Center, Denver Service Center, NPS. A third set of
plates was retained by the contractor.
NORTH ELEVATION
SCALE
INDEPENDENCE HALL
Independence Hall. Delineator: Marie A. Neubauer, 1986-1987.
Plotted by: Bruce A. Harms, 1986
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University of Maryland
In 1992, HABS/HAER entered into a cooperative agreement with the University of Maryland. The
cooperative agreement permits the University of Maryland Historic Preservation program to offer two long
courses and two short courses related to HABS/HAER. The long courses to be offered include "HABS/HAER
Measured Drawings," to be taught by Judith Capen, and "Historians Field Methods," to be taught by Peter
Kurtze. HABS/HAER staff will assist in teaching these courses. The short courses will include "Architectural
Photography" by HABS photographer Jack E. Boucher and HAER photographer Jet Lowe, and "Heritage
Areas," by HAER Chief Eric N. DeLony and the HAER staff. In addition, the cooperative agreement
permitted the funding of two University of Maryland interns, Virginia Carter and Dwayne Scheid who, under
the direction of HABS/HAER collections management specialist Georgette Wilson, are organizing the
architectural and engineering library. Finally, the cooperative agreement facilitated the establishment of the
University of Maryland-HABS/HAER lecture series. Lectures in 1993 include: February 2 - "The Living
in the Dead: Making Monuments out of Human Action," Bernard L. Herman, associate director of the Center
for Historic Architecture and Engineering, University of Delaware; February 16 "World Heritage: A Legacy
for All," Terry B. Morton, president, U.S. Committee of the International Council on Monuments and Sites;
March 2-"Historic Preservation in Maryland and/or the Politics of Preservation," J. Rodney Little, director,
Maryland Division of Historical and Cultural Programs; March 30 - "National Park Service: Future
Directions in Historic Preservation," Jerry L. Rogers, associate director for Cultural Resources, National Park
Service; April 20 - "The Pioneer Generation of Architectural Historians and Their Role in Preservation,"
Charles B. Hosmer, Jr., professor of history, Principia College.
The cooperative agreement was facilitated by the leadership of professors James Flack, David Fogle, Mary
Sies, and Joan Zen Zen who served as course coordinator, all of University of Maryland.
HAER Cosponsors Historic Bridge Conference
In August 1992, HAER cosponsored the International Historic Bridge Conference in Columbus, Ohio, hosted
by the School of Engineering at Ohio State University, and by the Ohio Historic Preservation Office-Ohio
Historical Society. This was the fourth in a series of regional conferences convened by the two institutions
to bring together engineers and historic preservation specialists to discuss historic bridges. So successful was
the first meeting, held eight years ago and attracting more than 100 attenders, the two organizations decided
to hold the meetings on a bi-annual basis. Continuous interest resulted in the sponsorship of an international
conference. Engineers and bridge scholars from around the world were invited to share their experiences in
researching and saving historic bridges. A significant number of engineers attended the three-day meetings,
due in part to the event's sponsorship by one of the country's most prestigious engineering schools.
In conjunction with this conference, the Transportation Research Board, National Academy of Sciences,
sponsored a historic-bridge rehabilitation workshop the previous day. HAER Chief Eric DeLony and Abba
Lichtenstein co-chaired the sessions attended by more than fifty participants. A. G. Lichtenstein & Associates
is one of the country's foremost consultants on bridge rehabilitation.
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AIA/CHR Resolution: HABS 60th Anniversary
The American Institute of Architects' Committee on Historic Resources (AIA/CHR) passed a resolution
beginning the commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the Historic American Buildings Survey at their
winter meeting in San Antonio, Texas, on March 1, 1992. The text of the resolution is below.
A number of activities are planned, in cooperation with the AIA and other professional interest groups,
especially for November 17th, the actual day the HABS program was approved in 1933.
WHEREAS, the Historic American Buildings Survey of the National
Park Service was the first national historic preservation
program and has through the years, been of immeasurable
benefit to the scholarship and appreciation of historic
structures;
WHEREAS, some three thousand student architects and others
engaged in the Survey have become acquainted with the
interest and importance of our historical heritage; and
WHEREAS, the Survey has continued in operation, increasing in scale
and scope; and
WHEREAS, this unique and pioneering program is fast approaching
the advent of its 60th year in 1993;
NOW, THEREFORE, be it resolved that the American Institute of
Architects form an ad-hoc committee to help the National Park
Service plan an appropriate formal commemoration of this
milestone in Washington, at the AIA convention in Chicago,
and across the United States, in 1993.
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HABS/HAER Moves to 800 North Capitol Street
On the evening of August 3, the General Services Administration (GSA) began moving the offices of
HABS/HAER from 1100 L Street, NW, to its new space at 800 North Capitol St., NW. The move itself was
reminiscent of an ancient curse about one's office being moved by the lowest bidder. Initially planned for
one evening, the move extended through most of the week. The HABS/HAER copier was stolen in the
process and no copiers were available in the new building. Furniture was damaged, some beyond use. Yet
HABS/HAER survived through the tireless efforts of its staff, many working long into the night.
The new offices are a great improvement. In some sense they had to be. HABS/HAER was greatly
overcrowded in its former location, although we weren't so sensitive to that fact until we overheard members
of the GSA's Inspector General's office touring 1100 L Street say to each other, "Can you imagine people
work like this?"
Space planning of the new HABS/HAER space was undertaken by John Burns and Paul Dolinsky. Utilizing
an open-space planning concept, Burns and Dolinsky were able to provide more space to HABS/HAER staff
without exceeding the total GSA-authorized space by minimizing circulation space and grouping historians,
architects, and collections activities together.
The move to 800 North Capitol allowed us to consolidate HABS/HAER offices in one building. The
CAD/photogrammetry laboratory had been in the Pension Building/National Building Museum, thanks to
Robert Duemling, president and director of the museum. One great advantage in relocating was, for the first
time, the provision of darkroom space to HABS/HAER photographers, where they will do their own
processing and printing.
We expect to be at 800 North Capitol through the
year 2003. Other HABS/HAER homes in the
Washington, D.C. area have included 1721 North
Lynn St., Arlington, Virginia; 801 19th St., NW;
1100 L Street, NW (twice), and the Pension
Building at 440 G St., NW. Our favorite location
was, of course, the Pension Building.
Our mailing address remains P.O. Box 37127,
Washington, D.C. 20013-7127.
800 North Capitol Street-new home of HABS/HAER.
Photographer: Jack E. Boucher, 1993
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HABS/HAER Annual Summer Celebration
Seneca Creek State Park
July 31-August 2, 1992
This year, two days of special events preceded the annual HABS/HAER picnic held Sunday, August 2. The
activities were chosen to promote social interaction between the Washington-based staff and summer hires.
The picnic committee consisted of HABS architects Mellonee Rheams and Robert R. Arzola, and HABS
historian Kimberly R. Sebold.
On July 31, the HABS/HAER staff, summer team members, and friends of HABS/HAER were invited to a
reception at the National Building Museum, location of the Lincoln and Jefferson memorials team's CAD
laboratory. The reception offered an opportunity for summer employees to meet the Washington staff, learn
how the Washington office operates, as well as to observe a CAD demonstration. Each visiting team, as well
as the long-term Washington-based documentation projects, presented T-shirts, pencilings of drawings,
fieldnotes, photographs and drafts of historical reports. A spokesman from each team gave short presentations
on each project. There were approximately fifteen informative presentations, and though the recording season
had not culminated, remarkable examples of documentation were shown. The gathering concluded with
refreshments.
On Saturday, the group enjoyed a tour of buildings of architectural and/or historic interest, including the
Scottish Rite Temple/House of the Temple, the National Building Museum/Pension Building, and a behind-the-
scenes tour of the Jefferson Memorial. Lunch took place along the Tidal Basin near the Jefferson Memorial.
Day three, Sunday, was the annual HABS/HAER picnic at Seneca Creek State Park in Gaithersburg,
Maryland, which offered canoes, rowboats, paddle boats, a disc golf course, and hiking trails. Prizes,
consisting of HABS/HAER publications, were awarded to the winners of volleyball and disc golf tournaments.
Approximately 100 HABS/HAER employees, friends and family members attended. Summer teams responded
from as far away as Independence, Missouri.
Approximately seven designs were entered into the new annual summer-teams T-shirt competition.
Competition was stiff and lots of fun, especially for those who used picnic tables as runways. The first place
design was modeled by Brian Cary of the HABS/HAER collections management section; second place went
to Paul G. Homeyer of the HABS White House documentation team.
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1992 HABS/HAER Picnic
[1] Emily Burns, [2] John Burns [HABS/HAER Deputy Chief], [3] Amy McGroarty [HAER], [4] Robert Arzola [White House],
[5] Charlie FitzSimons, [6] Neal FitzSimons [HAER Co-Founder], [7] Dana Lockett [Lincoln/Jefferson Memorials], [8] Isabel
Yang [Monticello], [9] Sarah Heald [HAER Alumna], [10] Alison Isenberg [New Jersey Coastal Heritage Trail], [11] Orlin K.
Boyanov [Harry S. Truman NHS], [12] Theodore Vogel, [13] Robert Vogel [HAER Co-Founder], [14] Helena
Wright, [15] Amy Slaton [Wright-Patterson AFB], [16] Rebecca FitzSimons, [17] Abigail FitzSimons, [18] Theodore DeLony,
[19] Paul Dolinsky [Chief, HABS], [20] Eric DeLony [Chief, HAER], [21] Jose Vazquez [Lincoln/Jefferson Memorials],
[22] Robert Kapsch [Chief, HABS/HAER], [23] Dorota Pape-Siliwonczuk [Rock Creek & Potomac Parkway], [24] Timothy
Davis [Rock Creek & Potomac Parkway], [25] Annett Andersen, [26] Flor de Maria Pineda [HAER], [27] Eva Molnitz
[Mon Valley], [28] Sara Amy Leach [HABS], [29] Kimberly Sebold [New Jersey Coastal Heritage Trail], [30] Alice Bojanowski
[HABS/HAER], [31] Mark Pierson [ Mon Valley], [32] Brian Chevchek [Mon Vallcy], [33a] Kirsi Heininen [Mon Valley],
[33b] Ellen DeLage [US/ICOMOS], [34] Mark Schara [Lincoln/Jefferson Memorials], [35] Elizabeth May [New Jersey Coastal
Heritage Trail], [36] Alan Loud [Mon Valley], [37] Evan Miller [Rock Creek & Potomac Parkway], [38] Shelley Homeyer
[HABS], [39] Joel Sabadasz [Mon Valley], [40] Dana Peak [Mon Valley], [41] Dean Herrin [HAER], [42] Paul Homeyer [White
House], [43] Heather Brunken [Harpers Ferry NHS], [44] Fred Quivik [AIHP], [45] Steven Nose [Rock Creek & Potomac
Parkway], [46] Elaine Lindstrom, [47] Lola Bennett [HAER], [48] Corinne Smith [Merritt Parkway], [49] Robert Neely [Harpers
Ferry NHS], [50] Vita Ruskyte [Harpers Ferry NHS], [51] Frederick Lindstrom [HABS], [52] Kim Hoagland [HABS],
[53] Mark J. Cutone [Harry S. Truman NHS], [54] Ann Dienes [AIHP], [55] Monica Paprocki [HABS/HAER], [56] John Eberly
[Mon Valley], [58] Dale Waldron [Snow Squall], [59] Todd Thibodeau [Merritt Parkway], [60] Shannon Barras [Wright-
Patterson AFB], [61] Scot McBroom [White House], [62] Pat Summers [AIHP], [63] Ellen Goldkind [Harry S. Truman NHS],
[64] Christine Madrid [HABS/HAER], [65] Emma Dyson [Wright-Patterson AFB], [66] Mellonee Rheams [Lincoln/Jcfferson
Memorials], [67] Crystal Willingham [Lincoln/Jefferson Memorials], [68] Amy Ross [Rock Creck & Potomac Parkway], [69]
Thomas Behrens [Charleston Battery], [70] Amy Darling, [71] Jack Conviscr [Mon Vallcy], [72] Brian Cary [HABS/HAER],
[73] Paul Moretti, [74] Patrick Adams. Photographer: John A. Burns, 1993.
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Reception and Open House at HABS/HAER
On Thursday evening, December 17, HABS/HAER held a holiday reception and open house for its friends
and colleagues. Many 1992 projects and other activities were featured, including the Isle Royal Lighthouse,
Mon Valley, Melrose and Johnson House, Monticello, Mount Rainier Roads and Bridges, Independence Hall
photogrammetry, Painted Desert Inn, Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway, DC, and Peterson Prize drawings.
In addition to staff, attenders included Professor David Ames, director, Center for Historic Architecture and
Engineering, University of Delaware; Orlean Anderson, wife of the late Kenneth Anderson, former Chief of
HABS; Charles Atherton, secretary, U.S. Commission of Fine Arts; Margaret M. Balachowski, NPS park
ranger; Shannon Barras, former HAER architect; Edward Bearss, chief historian, NPS; Thomas Behrens,
former HABS architect; Betty Bird, preservation consultant and former HABS historian and her husband;
Charles Birnbaum, landscape architect, Preservation Assistance Division, NPS; Janet Blutstein, Baltimore
Commission for Historical and Architectural Preservation and former HABS historian; Peggy Boucher,
National Preservation Institute, Rowland Bowers, deputy associate director, Cultural Resources, NPS; William
Brenner, executive director, Construction Metrication Council, National Institute of Building Sciences; John
Byrne, information specialist, Interagency Resources Division, NPS; Cristina Carbone, assistant curator,
Architectural and Engineering Collections, Library of Congress; Elliott Carroll, FAIA, Office of the Architect
of the Capitol (ret.) and his wife; Martha Catlin, Advisory Council on Historic Preservation; Betsy
Chittenden, Information and Telecommunications Division, NPS; Candace Clifford, historian, National
Maritime Initiative, NPS; Ann Deines, former HABS historian; Ellen Delage, program officer,
U.S./ICOMOS; Robert Duemling, president and chairman, National Building Museum; Nichole Duren, former
HAER architect; attorney Marcia Doctor, Doctor and Doctor; Neal FitzSimons, American Society of Civil
Engineers and HAER co-founder with his wife and two children; James Flack, professor of History,
University of Maryland, and his wife; John Fondersmith, chief, Downtown Section, D.C. Office of Planning;
Kevin Foster, maritime historian, History Division, NPS; David Hattis, president, Building Technology Inc.;
Donald Hawkins, architect, Washington, D.C.; Mary Hewes, director of programs, National Parks
Foundation; Ann Hitchcock, chief curator, NPS; Marck Huck, architect, Architrave; Catherine Hutchinson,
Bara-King Photographic Services; Marilyn Ibach, HABS/HAER reference specialist, Prints and Photographs
Division, Library of Congress; Megan Keister, processing assistant, Library of Congress; Russell Keune,
AIA, vice president for programs, U.S./ICOMOS, and former HABS architect, and wife Tina, former HABS
historian; Robert Jay King, CEO, Bara-King Photographic Services Co. and his wife; Sue Kohier, historian,
Commission of Fine Arts; Catherine Kudlik, former HAER architect; Donna Lee, engineer, Naval Sea
Systems Command; Diane Maddex, president, Archetype Press; Robert Malakoff, staff director, Senate
Subcommittee on Housing (ret.); Gregory Marcangelo, processing assistant, Prints and Photographs Division,
Library of Congress; James McDaniel, White House associate regional director, NCR, NPS; Betty Monkman,
associate curator, White House; Jane Morley, Building Technology and Civil Engineering Interest Group,
Society for the History of Technology; William Murtagh, former keeper of the National Register; Donald
Myers, deputy secretary, Commission of Fine Arts; Peter Myers, HABS historian (ret.); Stephen Newman,
District of Columbia Government; Robert Page, landscape architect, Park Historic Architecture Division,
NPS; Ford Peatross, curator, Architectural and Engineering Collections, Library of Congress; Dwight
Pitcaithley, associate regional director for Cultural Resources, NCR, NPS; Dr. John Poppeliers, former Chief
of HABS; Dr. Martin Reuss, historian, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; Gail Rothrock, director, Prince
George's County Historic Preservation Commission; Nancy Beinke Schwartz, former HABS historian; Gary
Scott, regional historian, NCR, NPS; Rex Scouten, White House curator; Susan Severtson, president,
Chadwyck-Healey Inc. with husband and son; Rebecca Stevens, regional architect, NCR, NPS; Sandy
Stirneman, marketing representative, Bara-King Photographic Services; Karl Stump, former HAER architect;
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Diane Tepfer, research assistant, Curatorial Division, Library of Congress; Ursula Theobald, former HABS
historian (ret.); Richard Vidutis, former HAER historian; Robert Vogel, curator, Civil and Mechanical
Engineering, NMAH, Smithsonian Institution (ret.) and HAER co-founder; Lois Wesly, senior associate,
DRI/McGraw-Hill; Crystal Willingham, former HABS architect; Helena Wright, curator, Division of Graphic
Arts, NMAH, Smithsonian Institution; Stephen Ziegenfuss, assistant to regional historic architect, NCR;
Helena Zinkham, head, Processing, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress.
In addition to the open house, HABS/HAER staffers enjoyed a tour of The White House dressed in its Christmas finery.
On hand to greet them was Ranger (front, left), offspring of Millie, the White House dog. Staff members attending
were (front row, left to right): HABS architect Frederick Lindstrom, HABS architect Isabel Yang, Paula Yang, HAER
architect Todd Croteau, Tomas Courtney (behind Todd), HABS/HAER chief Robert Kapsch, HABS Chief Paul Dolinsky,
HABS architect Robert Arzola, HABS historian Christine Madrid, HABS historian Kim Wallace; (back row, left to
right): Mary Sullivan, Peggy Boucher, George Reader, HABS/HAER Collections Management Specialist Georgette
Wilson, HABS/HAER Collections Management Assistant Brian Cary, Heather Parkinson, Kirk Webb, HABS architect
Shelley Homeyer, Wallace Bergstrom, HABS/HAER Field Program Administrator Marlene Bergstrom, HABS/HAER
Collections Management Assistant Monica Paprocki, HABS architect Evan Miller, Steven Murphy, HABS historian
Elizabeth Barthold, Suzann Barthold, HAER secretary Robyn Brooks, and HABS architect Joseph Balachowski.
Photographer: Jack E. Boucher, 1992
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Project Leader Training - Field Trip
On December 18, 1991, the HABS/HAER staff participated in an all-day field trip to Monocacy Battlefield
in Frederick, Maryland, for training on HABS/HAER recording projects. Staff architects, historians and
photographers explained how each discipline works to produce documentation on a structure, site, or object.
This effort was coordinated by a committee chaired by Dean Herrin and consisting of Joseph Balachowski,
Catherine Lavoie, Craig Strong, and Douglas Anderson.
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Balachowski, [5] Catherine Lavoie, [6] Isabel Yang, [7] Todd Croteau, [8] Candace Clifford, [9] Christopher
Marston, [10] Lynne Holler, [11] Scot McBroom, [12] Alice Bojanowski, [13] Caroline Bedinger, [14] Robert
Arzola, [15] Dana Lockett, [16] Mellonee Rheams, [17] Emma Dyson, [18] Paul Dolinsky, [19] Kim Hoagland,
[20] Sara Amy Leach, [21] Albert Debnam, [22] Mark Schara, [23] Jean Yearby, [24] Robbyn Jackson,
[25] Eric DeLony, [26] Marlene Bergstrom, [27] Richard O'Connor, [28] Dean Herrin, [29] Gray Fitzsimons,
[30] Joel Sabadasz, [31] Jose Vazquez, [32] John Burns, [33] Kim Wallace, [34] Craig Strong, [35] Jet Lowe.
Also in attendance, but not shown, are Georgette Wilson and Jack Boucher, who took the photograph.
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Promotions
HABS senior historian Alison K. 'Kim' Hoagland's first
summer with HABS was spent in Prairie du Chien,
Wisconsin, in 1978. The following summer, she
worked in the Washington office, and she has been there
ever since. As a HABS historian and subsequently
HABS senior historian, she has supervised projects from
Virginia to Hawaii, as well as transmittals from here to
the Library of Congress. In 1984, she received a
Quality Performance Award for her participation as
supervisor of the Reduction and Transmittal (RAT)
Project, for which, in 1983-84, a record number of
documentation was transmitted to the library. In recent
years, she has also directed the HABS portion of the
documentation in the America's Industrial Heritage
Project region of southwestern Pennsylvania. Her
particular interest has been Alaska, where she first
represented HABS in 1982; she has written a book on
Alaska for the Society of Architectural Historians'
Buildings of the United States series (Oxford University
Press), slated for publication in spring 1993. Kim received her undergraduate degree in American civilization
from Brown University and her master's degree from George Washington University in American studies with
a concentration in historic preservation. Hoagland currently serves on the board of directors of the
Vernacular Architecture Forum.
HAER historian Dean Herrin joined the HAER staff as
a historian in 1990, with particular interests in coal
mining, iron and steel, and the impact of American
industrialization on "traditional" people. A 1981
graduate of Brown University, he received his M.A.
from the Winterthur Program in early American culture
at the University of Delaware in 1984, and his doctoral
degree from the Hagley Program at the University of
Delaware in 1992. His dissertation was titled,
"Breaking the Stillness': The Coal Industry and the
Transformation of Appalachian Virginia, 1880-1920."
Herrin was a predoctoral fellow at the Smithsonian
Institution's National Museum of American History in
1988. At HAER, in addition to supervising historians
on summer projects, he has been project leader for
HAER's multi-year documentation of the industrial
resources of the Monongahela Valley, outside
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and of the two-year
documentation of early aeronautical engineering features
of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio. He is currently the president of the Washington,
D.C., (Montgomery C. Meigs) chapter of the Society for Industrial Archeology.
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HABS historian Sara Amy Leach joined HABS/HAER
in 1988. Before joining HABS, she worked as an
historian with the National Capital Region-NPS
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researching and writing National Register nominations
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on Civilian Conservation Corps-built campgrounds and
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on the Baltimore-Washington Parkway. She served
itinerantly as a field historian for HABS during summer
1986 on the Illinois & Michigan Canal documentation
project, as a graduate fellow at the Smithsonian
Institution's National Museum of American History to
conduct thesis research on the detached colonial kitchen,
and as a freelance writer. Leach earned her M.A. in
architectural history and a certificate in historic
preservation from the University of Virginia in 1986.
She received a B.A. in journalism and B.F.A. in art
history from Ohio Wesleyan University. Her work as
a project leader at HABS/HAER has focused on
establishing standards for documenting urban and road-
related landscapes--such as the L'Enfant-McMillan Plan
of Washington, and the Merritt and Rock Creek & Potomac parkways--as well as directing other recording
projects.
Federal Service Milestones
R. Marlene Bergstrom, field program administrator, celebrates 16 years of Federal service. She left a life
of serenity as a homemaker to join the National Park Service in 1976 when she was hired by HABS/HAER
to type historical-data manuscripts. Later, she worked on transmittals, compiling and organizing materials
for transfer to the Library of Congress. Bergstrom became a permanent member of the staff and three years
later was named photographic services assistant, a position created to provide administrative support to the
staff photographers and archival-records management functions. In 1987, she assumed the responsibility of
summer program administrator, a full-time position coordinating the administrative activities associated with
an ever-expanding summer program. In 1950 Bergstrom received an associate of arts degree from Towson
State Teachers College (now Towson State University) in Maryland, where she was in the first graduating
class of the newly established junior college.
Jack E. Boucher, HABS architectural photographer, marked thirty years of Federal Service on July 26, all
with HABS. Boucher's Federal career began in 1958 at the HABS office in Philadelphia under the supervision
of founder Charles E. Peterson. His initial assignment was to record the unearthing of the original flagpole
base at Fort McHenry, working with architect Lee Nelson. In late 1966, having long been active in historic
preservation, he continued to work for HABS under contract. With the inception of the HAER program in
1969, Boucher returned to "the fold" to work for both programs. His tenure with HABS has taken Boucher
to forty-nine of the fifty States, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands photographing structures-- "from privies
to palaces," he says. He has amassed approximately half of the photographs in the HABS collection in the
Library of Congress--more than 50,000 of an estimated 7,500 structures. Throughout the years, Boucher has
received many awards and recognitions, including the Interior Department's Meritorious Service Medal, the
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Medal of the American Institute of Architects, and others. He is the author of five books and numerous
articles. He is the contributor of thousands of published photographs in books, magazines and journals.
John A. Burns, AIA, Deputy Chief, HABS/HAER - Twenty years. See page iii.
Eric DeLony, Chief of HAER - Twenty years. See page iv.
Jean P. Yearby, Publications Specialist, completed thirty-five years of Federal service in 1992. She began
her career in 1958 as a clerk-typist in the Office of Information, U.S. Department of Agriculture, responsible
for the production and distribution of press releases concerning departmental matters, and then as secretary
to two economists. In 1962, she moved to the State Department as a secretary in the Far East Bureau, Agency
for International Development, a position that afforded her the opportunity to travel nationwide and abroad.
When not traveling, she was often detailed to the White House to serve as secretary to the consultant to the
president on Vietnam affairs, and assisted in the White House Correspondence Branch, answering presidential
correspondence. In 1967, Yearby joined the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife, Department of the
Interior, as a secretary, followed by the same position in the Audit Operations Division, Office of the
Secretary. Beginning in 1969, she spent four years with the now-defunct White House Fellow program. In
1973, Yearby joined the National Park Service as division secretary for HAER (now HABS/HAER),
responsible for the day-to-day administrative efforts of the office and for the HAER summer recording teams.
In 1985 she became publications specialist for the division. She has published several articles and compiles
the annual report each year.
Jack Boucher
Marlene Bergstrom
Jean Yearby
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New Faces
Brian L. Cary, HABS/HAER collections management assistant, from the University of Arizona.
Shelley Homeyer, HABS architect, from Mississippi State University.
Christine L. Madrid, HAER historian, from the University of Utah.
Monica M. Murphy, HABS/HAER collections management assistant, from the American University
People on the Move
Caroline Russell Bedinger, HABS/HAER historian, who had been with the division for 3-1/2 years, moved
to Germany.
Ellyn P. Goldkind, from HABS architecture technician, to architect in the National Park Service's Midwest
Regional Office in Omaha, Nebraska.
Patrick J. Guthrie, from HABS architect, to architect in the National Park Service's North Atlantic Regional
Office in Boston, Massachusetts.
Lynne E. Holler, from HABS architecture technician, to architect for a firm in Schnectady, New York.
Robbyn L. Jackson, from HAER architect, to same position in the National Park Service's Western Regional
Office in San Francisco, California.
Extracurricular Activities of HABS/HAER Staff
HABS architect Joseph D. Balachowski volunteers for environmental clean-up and general assistance duties
at the George Washington Memorial Parkway, Virginia.
For the past two years, HAER photographer Jet Lowe has been attempting to expand HAER
photodocumentation capabilities into the realm of submerged cultural resources principally, but not limited
to, shipwrecks. In September, he spent a week with the Michigan Sea Grant program in Alpena, exploring
the documentary possibilities of video mosaicing as an underwater documentation technique for use on
shipwrecks.
HABS/HAER historian Kim Wallace is revising her study of refractories, company towns and company houses
for her dissertation. She is expected to graduate in 1993 with a doctorate from the Department of American
Civilization, University of Pennsylvania. After completing her degree, she will be returning to her original
dissertation topic, "Town of Motels' or the Strip in the Middle of Nowhere: Looking for Authenticity and
Defining Postmodernism," an ethnography and history of Breezewood, Pennsylvania.
HABS architecture technician Crystal N. Willingham from Howard University is a student representative on
the 1992 Washington chapter of the American Institute of Architects (DC/AIA) board of directors. She was
also the 1991-92 president of the local chapter of the American Institute of Architects Students (AIAS).
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HABS/HAER IN PRINT AND FILM SECTION
NEW DIVISION PUBLICATIONS
HABS/HAER: An Annotated Bibliography, compiled by James C. Massey, Nancy B. Schwartz, and Shirley
Maxwell; edited by Caroline R. Bedinger; printed by the Government Printing Office. $5.00
A brief description of every known publication produced by the Historic American Buildings Survey
and the Historic American Engineering Record, from inception through 1990. This bibliography is
the definitive work on publications issued by HABS/HAER.
[Available from HABS/HAER, P.O. Box 37127, Washington, D.C. 20013-7127.
Make donations payable to HABS Donations Account]
Monument Avenue History and Architecture, by Kathy Edwards, Esme Howard and Toni Prawl, Washington,
D.C.: Historic American Buildings Survey. Hard bound. $35.00 plus $3.00 shipping/handling
Result of the HABS 1991 project which documented the Monument Avenue District in Richmond,
Virginia, featuring historic and contemporary photographs, and plans.
[Available from the Historic Monument Avenue and Fan District Foundation, 2714 Monument Avenue,
Richmond, VA 23320.]
From Marsh to Farm: The Landscape Transformation of Coastal New Jersey, by Kimberly Sebold,
Washington, D.C.: HABS/HAER Division, 1992. $7.00
This text looks at the much-preserved landscape of southern New Jersey, where residents have
harnessed the fertile meadows and manipulated the tides for the purpose of farming--especially salt
hay--for more than 200 years. Ninety-five pages with black-and-white photographs and drawings,
as well as contemporary images. All aspects of coastal agriculture are explored, from the biography
of salt marshes and banking/diking procedures, to the economics of reclamation and meadows
companies. The findings are the result of multiyear HABS documentation in this area, part of the
designated New Jersey Coastal Heritage Trail.
[Available from Janet Wolf-Director, NJCHT, National Park Service, P.O. Box 118, Mauricetown, NJ
08329; or call 609-785-9712. Make donations payable to the National Park Service.]
ARTICLES
"Balclutha's Deckhouse Renewed," Sea Letter UPDATE, No. 3, February 1992, San Francisco, CA.: National
Maritime Museum Association, pp. 1-2.
Brown, Mark M., "Technology and the Homestead Steel Works: 1879-1945," Canal History and Technology
Proceedings, Vol. XI, March 14, 1992, Easton, PA: Canal History and Technology Press, Hugh Moore Historical
Park and Museum, pp. 177-232.
Burns, John A., "HABS/HAER Establishes CAD-Photogrammetry Laboratory," Pointers, Vol. 6, No. 1,
Washington, D.C.: Information and Telecommunications Division, National Park Service, pp. 6-10.
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Burns, John A., "New Technologies for Recording Historic Structures," CRM, Vol. 15, No. 6, 1992, pp. 13-16.
Burns, John A., "HABS/HAER and HBCU [Historically Black Colleges and Universities]," CRM, Vol. 15, No.
1, 1992, pp. 5-6.
Burns, John A., "Technics: Measuring and Documenting Existing Structures," Progressive Architecture, June 1992,
pp. 39-44.
DeLony, Eric and Michael J. Auer, "Historic Bridges: Preservation Challenges" TR News, March-April 1992,
No. 159, Washington, D.C.: National Research Council, pp. 6-8.
Fitzsimons, Gray, "HABS/HAER and Technological History" in The Flying Buttress Newsletter, No. 8, March
1992, Society for the History of Technology: Building Technology and Civil Engineering Interest Group of the
Society for the History of Technology, pp. 3-4.
Hopper, Kippra P., "Architectural Preservation: Saving Historic Preservation from the Plight of Deterioration,"
VISTAS, Texas Tech Research, Spring 1992, pp. 8-14.
Janosov, Robert A., "Glen Alden's Huber Breaker: 'A Marvel of Mechanism," Canal History and Technology
Proceedings, Vol. XI, March 14, 1992, Easton, PA: Canal History and Technology Press, Hugh Moore Historical
Park and Museum, pp. 103-144.
Looper, Ann, "In praise of HABS," Memo, Washington, D.C.: American Institute of Architects, July/August
1992, p. 16.
Metz, Lance E., "The Arsenal of America: A History of Forging Operations of Bethlehem Steel,' Canal History
and Technology Proceedings, Vol. XI, March 14, 1992, Easton, PA: Canal History and Technology Press, Hugh
Moore Historical Park and Museum, pp. 223-291.
Simmons, David A., "Historically Speaking: Historic American Engineering Record Returns to Ohio," Ohio
Historical Society, Ohio County Engineer, Fall 1992, pp. 11, 26.
NEWSLETTERS
"HABS/HAER Administrative Records Accessioned," NARA Staff Bulletin, No. 298, Washington, D.C.: National
Archives and Records Administration, October 9, 1992,
PUBLICITY - HABS/HAER PROJECTS
Bald Mountain Mill
"The Bald Mountain Mill," Mining History Association News, Vol. 3, No. 3, p. 1.
Birmingham
Elma Bell, "City's industrial heritage may lead to national recognition," The Birmingham [AL] News, January 26,
1992, p. 1A, Life/Style Section.
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Elma Bell, "Documenting our heritage," The Birmingham [AL] News, June 19, 1992: p. 1, Life/Style Section.
Craig Lyle, "Park pork comes to historic Helena mine," Shelby County [AL] Reporter, July 1, 1992, p. A-11.
"Washington bound," Daily Mountain Eagle [Jasper, AL], September 17, 1992, p. A11.
Bramwell
Babette Pascasio, "Capturing beauty: Photos spotlight Bramwell," Bluefield [WV] Daily Telegraph, July 18, 1992,
p. 1.
Buffalo
Mike Vogel and Leah Rae, "Buffalo is a treasure trove for industrial archaeologists," The Buffalo [NY] News, June
7, 1992, p. B-10.
Charleston Battery
Tony Bartelme, "Photographer documenting Charleston's historic homes," The Post and Courier [Charleston, SC],
May 25, 1991, p. 1-B.
Harry S Truman National Historic Site
"Documentation of houses near HST home begins," The Examiner [Independence, MO], June 23, 1992, p. 3.
"Wallace Brother Houses Now Part of Truman Home Site," Around The Square News, [Independence, MO.], Vol.
1, No. 4, July 1922, p. 1.
"Architects document area homes," The Examiner [Independence, MO], July 1, 1992, p. 13.
Kelly Garbus, "Architects document Truman area homes," The Kansas City [MO] Star, August 6, 1992, p. 1.
Harpers Ferry National Historical Park
"Copy Cat," journal photo by Jeff Caplan, The Morning Journal/Eastern Panhandle [Harpers Ferry, WV] October
2, 1992, p. D-3.
Independence Hall
Joseph A. Slobodzian, "260 years later, first blueprints for Independence Hall," The Philadelphia Inquirer, May
12, 1992, p. B4.
Jefferson/Lincoln Memorials
Todd Smith, "National statues getting checkup," The Washington [D.C.] Times, February 28, 1992, p. B1.
Lost Horse Gold Mine
Mariel Garza, "Team tracks lost days of Lost Horse Gold Mine," The Press-Enterprise [Riverside, CA], August 10,
1992, p. B-3.
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Brenda Rosales, "Workers unearth history of mine," The Desert Sun [Palm Springs, CA], August 10, 1992, p. A3.
Melrose
Stuart Johnson, "Park to host building survey team," The Natchez [MS] Democrat, April 25, 1992, p. 3A.
Don Miller, "Drawings record history," The Natchez [MS] Democrat, July 15, 1992, p. 1.
Don Miller, "Photographer works to preserve legacy," The Natchez [MS] Democrat, July 15, 1992, p. 1.
"History buffs have treat in store today," The Natchez [MS] Democrat, August 18, 1992, p. 4A.
Barbara Gerard Kaiser, "Fruits of Their Labor," The Natchez [MS] Democrat, August 19, 1992, p. 1.
"Historic Natchez Foundation, NPS open exhibit with reception today," The Natchez [MS] Democrat, August 20,
1992, p. 1.
Merritt Parkway
Genevieve Reilly, "National Park Service team to study Merritt--Parkway's history will be documented," Bridgeport
[CT] Post, June 4, 1992, n.p.
"Study to bridge history gap on Merritt Parkway," Westport [CT] News, July 15, 1992, p. A27.
Peggy McCarthy, "Balancing history, road safety," The Boston Sunday Globe, August 9, 1992, New England
Section, p. 31.
David Curran, "Saving a safer parkway," The Hour [Norwalk, CT], August 13, 1992, p. 3.
Michael Foley, "Parkway merits future, feds say," New Haven [CT] Register, August 13, 1992, p. 1.
Bill Keveney, "Protecting the Merritt's character," The Hartford Courant, August 31, 1992, Section C,
p. 1.
Mon Valley
Christopher Marston, "HAER Brains Find Foundry Fabulous," Steel Heritage Chronicle, Vol. 1, No. 1, Homestead,
PA., Spring 1992, p. 2.
SNOW SQUALL
"Documentation of Snow Squall's Bow," Spring Point Beacon, Vol. 3, No. 2, Portland, ME: Spring Point
Museum, May 1992, p. 1.
Washburn-Crosby A Mill
Linda Mack, "A skyscraper of its time: Photographer, historian document remains of Washburn-Crosby A Mill,"
Star Tribune [Minneapolis, MN], November 12, 1992, p. 1B.
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Larry Miller, "Community agency still hopes to save, find use for historic mill," St. Paul [MN] Pioneer Press,
November 16, 1992, p. 5A.
White House
Benjamin Forgey, "The White House, Foundation of an Image," The Washington [D.C.] Post, January 23, 1992,
p. D1.
"Typically superb, these drawings were produced by the assiduous teams of the Historic American
Buildings Survey of the National Park Service."
-Benjamin Forgey
FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS
Whenever possible, HABS/HAER emphasizes publication through university and other established presses,
so as to alert a wide community of the existence of HABS/HAER documentation. University and other
established presses use peer review, reach large audiences, have greater professional credibility and are high
in quality compared to some government publications. The disadvantage of using university and other
established presses is that it is difficult to have a title accepted for publication. These publishing projects are
undertaken through cooperative agreements with, usually, royalties paid to HABS/HAER. Current projects
include the following:
Buildings of Alaska, by Alison K. Hoagland, senior historian, HABS. To be published by Oxford University
Press, spring 1993. In an ambitious project conceived by William Pierson and Adolf Placek, the
Society of Architectural Historians is sponsoring Buildings of the United States, a series of
guidebooks to all the states. HABS veteran and University of Missouri professor Osmund Overby
is editor-in-chief for the series. Alaska is one of the first four volumes, all of which will be published
this spring. With several seasons of HABS work in Alaska to her credit, Hoagland took a leave of
absence in FY90 to write this volume, contracting with HAER photographer Jet Lowe to provide
many of the photographs. Large-format photographs taken for this book will go into the HABS
collection. The 320-page book (containing 200 half-tones, 24 line drawings, 35 maps) will sell for
$29.95 and can be obtained from Oxford University Press, 200 Madison Avenue, New York, NY
10016.
Landmark American Bridges, by Eric DeLony, HAER chief. To be published by the American Society of Civil
Engineers and the Bulfinch Press of Little, Brown Publishing Company of Boston, in May 1993, this book
represents the best of HAER bridge documentation collected over the last twenty years. The brainchild
of ASCE Executive Director Edward Pfrang and HABS/HAER Chief Robert Kapsch (the two worked
together at the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Center for Building Technology) the book,
as described by ASCE, "could well be the definitive pictorial treatise on U.S. bridge-building." The book
includes ninety-four bridges illustrated in more than 200 photographs and drawings. Curtis Deane was the
ASCE program manager and Zoe Foundotos was the ASCE acquisitions editor. The 160-page book will
sell for $40.00, from Marketing Services A237, American Society of Civil Engineers, 345 East 47th Street,
New York, NY 10017-2398. Request publication No. ISBN 0-87262-857-4.
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Landmarks of Prince George's County, by Maryland National Capital Park and Planning Commission and the
HABS/HAER staff. 144 pages with 125 photographs by Jack E. Boucher. To be published by Johns
Hopkins University Press in spring 1993. This publication is the result of a model documentation project
developed by Robert J. Kapsch, HABS/HAER chief, and Gail Rothrock, Prince George's County historic
preservation coordinator, to demonstrate how HABS/HAER can work with local governments to
comprehensively record the historic structures. HABS photographer Jack E. Boucher and HABS historian
Catherine C. Lavoie documented forty-two historic structures throughout Prince George's County through
the use of large format photography; approximately 900 photographs were taken and will be transmitted
to the Library of Congress. They were assisted by Maryland National Capital Park and Planning
Commission historian Susan Pearl. The book, representing the best of this documentation, was developed
by Diane Maddex, president, Archetype Press. George Thompson, acquisitions editor, and James
Johnston, vice president, Johns Hopkins University Press, greatly facilitated the project. The book will
also include essays by Rothrock, Pearl, Lavoie, Kapsch, and Boucher. It will sell for $29.95 and can be
obtained by writing to The Johns Hopkins University Press, Sales Department, 701 West 40th St.,
Baltimore, MD 21211-2190, or by calling 410-516-6936.
A Quest for Grandeur, by Sally Kress Tompkins, former deputy chief of HABS/HAER; photographs by Jack E.
Boucher. To be published spring 1993 by Smithsonian Institution Press. The genesis for this book began
following Tompkins' death in 1989, and the realization that her thesis, on Charles Moore and the
development of the Federal Triangle in Washington, D.C., was an important contribution to our knowledge
of the development of the Federal city. The Smithsonian Institution Press was ably represented by
acquisitions editor Amy Pastan and production editor Rebecca Browning. HABS/HAER historian Caroline
Bedinger served as the project leader. Richly illustrated with seventy-six illustrations, this 181-page book
will make an important contribution to our knowledge of Washington, D.C. The cost is $34.95 and can
be obtained from local bookstores or by calling the Smithsonian Institution Press warehouse at 1-800-782-
4612.
Old Missouri: The Piaget-van Ravenswaay Collection of Architectural Photos in the Library of Congress, by Frank
L. Peters, Jr. To be published by the Patrice Press in spring 1993. Four years before his death in 1990,
Charles van Ravenswaay arranged with HABS/HAER Chief Robert Kapsch, through Ford Peatross,
Library of Congress architectural and engineering curator, to accession into the HABS collection the 1,800
photographs comprising the Piaget-van Ravenswaay collection and therefore preserve this unique collection,
which spans sixty years of Missouri architectural photography. Gregory Franzwa, publisher of Patrice
Press, became interested in publishing a catalog to this unique collection. Financially assisted by donations
arranged by Charles E. Peterson, Franzwa hired Pulitzer-prize winning author Frank L. Peters, Jr., to
work ,with HABS senior architectural historian Kim Hoagland to produce the richly illustrated catalog.
Monticello: Drawings of the Historic American Buildings Survey, text by restoration director William Beiswanger,
Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, and Paul Dolinsky, HABS chief; drawings by Isabel Yang, HABS
architect, and others. To be published by Thornwillow Press, summer 1993. Thornwillow is a small New
York City press dedicated to producing small runs of high-quality books, headed by Luke Pontifell. In an
agreement between Dan Jordan, executive director of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, and
HABS, Pontifell is publishing the drawings for the 250th anniversary of the birth of Thomas Jefferson, in
1993. He intends to recreate the appearance and feel of fine eighteenth-century architectural publications:
approximately 10 copper plates will be engraved from the HABS drawings, imprinted onto individual sheets
of 100 percent rag mold-made paper and enclosed in a large format, gold-tooled, lined, leather portfolio.
The 30-page limited edition will be sold for an estimated $650.00 and can be purchased from the
Thornwillow Press, 57 W. 58th St., New York, NY 10019, Tel.: 212-838-5644.
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PRESENTATIONS/PAPERS PRESENTED BY HABS/HAER STAFF
*
On February 7, 1992, HABS/HAER Chief Robert Kapsch gave a presentation to the faculty and students
at the College of Architecture and Planning, Morgan State University, titled "The Historic American
Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record -- An Overview."
*
Three HABS historians participated in the Society of Architectural Historians meeting in Albuquerque, New
Mexico, April 1-5, 1992.
HABS senior historian Kim Hoagland chaired the paper session "Native American Architecture:
Its Transformation to the Present."
Lauren Farber, 1991 Sally Kress Tompkins Fellow, presented a paper, "The Richest Source of
Inspiration: The Spanish Revival, Lilian Rice, and the Development of Rancho Santa Fe," based
on her work on the HABS project at Rancho Santa Fe, California.
HABS historian Elizabeth Barthold presented the paper "Washington before McMillan: The Army
Corps of Engineers Interpretation of the L'Enfant Plan."
*
Several HABS/HAER staff members presented papers at the 1992 annual convention of the Society for
Industrial Archeology, held in Buffalo, New York, June 4-8, 1992. They were:
HABS/HAER historian Kim Wallace - "Refractory Bricks and Company Houses in Western
Pennsylvania, 1890-1990."
HAER historian Richard O'Connor - "From Cinderheads to Iron Lungs: American Window Glass
and the Second Industrial Revolution."
HAER photographer Jet Lowe, HAER historian Dean Herrin and HAER architect Craig Strong -
"Documentation of the Great Northern Elevator of Buffalo, NY."
HAER historian Joel Sabadasz "Steelmaking in the Monongahela Valley: 1875-1941."
HAER architect Christopher Marston - "W. A. Young and Sons of Foundry & Machine Shop:
a Time-Capsule of Industrial Archeology."
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On June 15, 1992, HABS/HAER Deputy John A. Burns gave the presentation "New Techniques for
Recording Historic Structures" at the Canada Parks Service/National Park Service Workshop in Historic
Structures, Waterton/Glacier International Peace Park, Montana. It was published in the workshop
notebook.
*
On July 15, 1992, HABS/HAER Chief Robert J. Kapsch gave a presentation to the National Trust for
Historic Preservation summer interns, "The Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American
Engineering Record Programs."
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HABS Architect Joseph D. Balachowski presented a lecture on special problems encountered on
documenting buildings and landscapes to a class on measured drawings at the University of Virginia, spring
1992 session.
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*
On August 15, HABS architect Joseph D. Balachowski presented an overview of the HABS program to
the 1992 Pecos Archaeological Conference, Pecos National Monument, New Mexico.
*
HABS Chief Paul D. Dolinsky reviewed the history of the White House before the Grand Lodges of the
District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia at a luncheon following the reenactment by area freemasons
of the 200th anniversary of the laying of the White House cornerstone. The event took place on the
Ellipse, October 13, 1992.
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HAER historian Dean Herrin presented a paper on the nineteenth-century engineer Montgomery C. Meigs
to the Washington, D.C., chapter of the Society for Industrial Archeology (the Montgomery C. Meigs
Chapter) on October 27. He and chapter program coordinator Mike Hamilton also organized a tour of
Meigs' Washington Aqueduct system, including the Cabin John Bridge, on November 14.
*
HABS/HAER chief Robert Kapsch gave a presentation to the Northern Virginia Studies Conference on the
Evolution of Labor in the Potomac Region, "The Labor History of the Construction and Reconstruction
of the White House, 1793-1817," at The Northern Virginia Community College, November 5.
*
HABS historians Elizabeth Barthold and Sara Amy Leach jointly presented a paper, "The Federal City at
100: Documenting L'Enfant's Urban Landscape," to the Historic Landscape Preservation Symposium at
the American Society of Landscape Architects Conference in Washington, D.C., on November 9. An
exhibition of drawings and photographs accompanied the symposium.
*
HAER chief Eric N. DeLony and HABS historian Sara Amy Leach jointly gave a talk, "Tools of
Assessment: HABS/HAER Documentation of Parkways and Railroads," at the International Conference
on Historic Transportation Corridors in Natchitoches, Louisiana, November 30 - December 2, 1992. An
exhibition of drawings and photographs accompanied the conference.
*
HAER historian Richard O'Connor presented his work on the historic glass industry of western
Pennsylvania to several groups in the region, including the Brentwood Historical Society, the Friends of
Irwin Library, the Westmoreland County Historical Society, and the West Overton Lecture Series.
*
HABS/HAER deputy chief John A. Burns lectured at Marymount University, where he also developed and
taught the three-credit course, "Introduction to Historic Preservation," in the Interior Design Department
of the School of Arts and Sciences, during the 1992 winter/spring semester. He also lectured at Virginia
Polytechnic Institute and State University's Washington/Alexandria Center, in 1992.
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PUBLICATIONS AVAILABLE
*
Secretary of the Interior's Standards and Guidelines for Architectural and Engineering Documentation.
Caroline Russell, comp. Washington, D.C.: HABS/HAER, National Park Service, 1990. 20 pages,
7 illustrations. $1.25
Details the standards and guidelines for the development of acceptable documentation on historic buildings,
sites, structures, and objects, for inclusion in the HABS/HAER collections. Reprint from the Federal
Register, Vol. 48, No. 190, Thursday, September 29, 1983, pp. 44730-34.
[Available from HABS/HAER, National Park Service, P.O. Box 37127, Washington, D.C. 20013-7127.
Make donations payable to HABS Donations Account.]
The following publications resulted from the ongoing HABS/HAER-AIHP project and are available free of charge
upon written request to National Park Service, Allegheny Highlands Heritage Center, Suite 370, 319 Washington
Street, Johnstown, PA 15901, or by calling Judy Torres at 814-539-2016:
*
A Legacy of Coal: The Company Towns of Southwestern Pennsylvania
Margaret M. Mulrooney, author. Washington, D.C.: HABS/HAER, National Park Service, 1989, 167 pages.
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Two Historic Pennsylvania Canal Towns: Alexandria and Saltsburg
Sara Amy Leach, editor. Washington, D.C.: HABS/HAER, National Park Service, 1989, 263 pages.
*
The Character of a Steel Mill City: Four Historic Neighborhoods of Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
Kim E. Wallace, editor. Washington, D.C.: HABS/HAER, National Park Service, 1989, 200 pages.
*
Blair County and Cambria County, Pennsylvania: An Inventory of Historic Engineering and Industrial
Sites. G. Gray Fitzsimons, editor. Washington, D.C.: HABS/HAER, National Park Service, 1990, 355 pages.
*
The Company Towns of the Rockhill Iron and Coal Company: Robertsdale and Woodvale, Pennsylvania.
Lola M. Bennett, author. Washington, D.C.: HABS/HAER, National Park Service, 1990, 98 pages.
*
Fayette County, Pennsylvania: An Inventory of Historic Engineering and Industrial Sites
Sarah H. Heald, editor. Washington, D.C.: HABS/HAER, National Park Service, 1990, 260 pages.
*
Railroad City: Four Historic Neighborhoods in Altoona, Pennsylvania
Kim E. Wallace, editor. Washington, D.C.: HABS/HAER, National Park Service, 1990, 502 pages.
*
Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania: An Inventory of Historic Engineering and Industrial Sites
Nancy C. Shedd, author; Sarah H. Heald, editor. Washington, D.C.: HABS/HAER, National Park Service,
1991, 260 pages.
*
Norvelt and Penn-Craft, Pennsylvania: Subsistence-Homestead Communities of the 1930s
Alison K. Hoagland and Margaret M. Mulrooney, authors. Washington, D.C.: HABS/HAER, National Park
Service, 1991, 93 pages.
"A Legacy of Coal is notable for its comprehensive treatment of an architecturally idiosyncratic part of the country.
As a product of the Historic American Buildings Survey, the architectural documentation is excellent. To this,
Margaret Mulrooney brings a clear understanding of the dynamics of architecture, ethnicity, and labor relations and
their functions in the coal company towns."
--Megan Farrell, University of Southwestern Louisiana, in Material and Culture 24
(Summer), pp. 55-56.
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The following publication resulted from the HABS 1989 Red Hill project and is available, at a cost of $5.00, from
the Patrick Henry Memorial Foundation, Red Hill, Route 2, Box 127, Brookneal, VA 24528:
*
Patrick Henry - Economic, Domestic and Political Life in Eighteenth-Century Virginia
Kevin R. Hardwick, author. Virginia: Patrick Henry Memorial Foundation, 1991, 54 pages.
VIDEO SALES
Videotapes are now available from HABS/HAER at a cost of $7.50. Write to HABS/HAER, National Park Service,
P.O. Box 37127, Washington, D.C. 20013-7127. VHS format only. [Make the donation payable to the HAER
General Donation Account]
*
"Seneca Glass Works"
This 22-minute video was made in 1975 in Morgantown, West Virginia.
*
"Elkins Coal & Coke Company"
A 19-minute documentary on coke production in beehive ovens, filmed in Bretz, West Virginia.
*
"America on Record: The Work of HABS/HAER"
A 25-minute film, made in collaboration with the National Association of Home Builders, that explains the
HABS/HAER summer recording program. The program features the HABS 1990 Death Valley Project and the
HAER 1989 Avery Island Salt Works Project.
AUDIO SALES
*
"The Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) and Historic American Engineering Record (HAER)
Programs." $7.00 plus $1.00 for shipping and handling.
A one-hour audio cassette featuring a speech by John A. Burns, AIA, presented before the 1990 national
convention of the National Railway Historical Society in St. Louis.
[Make check/money order payable to the Network Communications and send to Network
Communication, P.O Box 219, High Ridge, MO 63049. Request cassette No. RH-A05. American
Express, Visa, MasterCard orders accepted. Telephone orders are accepted at (314) 677-1912.]
OTHER
*
Architectural Graphic Standards, Eighth Edition. American Institute of Architects
New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1988. 864 pages. $150.00 plus $4.00 for shipping and handling.
The standard reference for architectural information, this edition is the first to have a chapter on historic
preservation, including four pages on HABS.
[Available from the AIA Order Department, 9 Jay Gould Court, P.O. Box 753, Waldorf, MD.
Request publication No. M475.]
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*
"Architects and the Historic American Buildings Survey, 1933-1990," by John A. Burns, AIA.
Produced for the centennial of the AIA's Committee on Historic Resources, this article highlights the role
of architects in HABS. Article appears in The Role of the Architect in Historic Preservation: Past, Present,
and Future. Washington, D.C.: American Institute of Architects, 1990, pp. 26-36.
INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS
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Recording Historic Structures, John A. Burns, editor.
Washington, D.C.: American Institute of Architects, 1989
240 pages, over 200 illustrations
The definitive guide to recording America's built environment. Since being issued in 1989, this publication
is well into its second printing. AIA pays HABS/HAER royalties.
[Available from the AIA Order Department, P.O. Box 753, 9 Jay Gould Court, Waldorf, MD
20601. Credit card holders, call (800) 242-4140 (toll free)]
Request: R743 (hard cover) - $29.95 [$26.95 - AIA members]
R743P (soft cover) - $19.95 [$17.95 - AIA members]
*
Guidelines for Recording Historic Ships, by Richard K. Anderson, Jr.
Washington, D.C.: HABS/HAER, National Park Service
Six chapters. $18.60 - Photocopy $5.00 Microfiche
Marks the revival of the Historic American Merchant Marine Survey in the 1930s and provides the
definitive guide to maritime recording. Plans are being made to reissue this publication in hard copy through
the Council of American Maritime Museums (CAMM) and Mystic Seaport.
[This publication is currently out of print, but xeroxed copies can be obtained from the Technical
Information Center, Denver Service Center, National Park Service, P.O. Box 25287, Denver, CO
80225. For more information, call: 303-969-2130. Request publication #999/D-378.]
The following materials can be obtained by writing to Publications Specialist, HABS/HAER, National Park Service,
P.O. Box 37127, Washington, D.C. 20013-7127. Please make the donation payable to HABS or HAER General
Donation Account.
*
"HABS Field Instructions for Measured Drawings"
Washington, D.C.: HABS/HAER, National Park Service, 1981.
42 pages, 32 illustrations. $2.50
Provides procedures for producing measured drawings of historic buildings to HABS standards.
*
"HABS Historian's Procedures Manual"
Washington, D.C.: HABS/HAER, National Park Service, 1983
51 pages, 5 illustrations. $2.50
Provides guidelines for producing written data on historic buildings to HABS standards.
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*
"HAER Field Instructions"
Washington, D.C.: HABS/HAER, National Park Service, 1981
201 pages, 87 illustrations. $10.00
Provides guidelines for documenting to HAER standards historic engineering and industrial sites and
structures with measured drawings and written data.
*
"Specifications for the Production of Photographs"
Washington, D.C.: HABS/HAER, National Park Service, 1984
9 pages. $1.00
Provides criteria for the production of large format photographs for acceptance to the HABS/HAER
collections.
*
"Transmitting Documentation to HABS/HAER WASO"
Washington, D.C.: HABS/HAER, National Park Service, 1985.
28 pages, 6 illustrations. $2.00
Provides transmittal procedures and archival requirements of documentation for acceptance to the
HABS/HAER collection.
The following publications are available, free of charge, from HABS/HAER, National Park Service,
P.O. Box 37127, Washington, D.C. 20013-7127, Attention: Publications Specialist
*
HABS Leaflet (1989). Discusses the history and projects of the Historic American Buildings Survey.
*
HAER Leaflet (1990). Discusses the history and projects of the Historic American Engineering Record.
*
"HABS/HAER: A User's Guide" by Chief Robert J. Kapsch. Gives a comprehensive overview of HABS/HAER.
A comprehensive guide to HABS/HAER appearing in APT Bulletin, Vol. XXII, No. 1/2. Association for
Preservation Technology, 1990, pp. 22-34.
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HABS/HAER Publications List (1990). A bibliography of past and current publications.
HABS/HAER Annual Report (1991). A limited supply of last year's report is available.
Help Record Historic America (1990). Brief description of HABS/HAER summer jobs available to qualified
architects and historians.
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"HAER's Historic Bridge Program" by Eric N. DeLony, Chief of HAER
An overview of HAER's program in 1A: The Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology, Vol. 15, No.
2, 1989, pp. 57-71.
*
"Saving U.S. Industry in Words and Picture" by David Brittan
A well-illustrated overview of the HAER program, appearing in Technology Review, July 1990,
pp. 52-61.
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"Accessing the HAER Collection" by Eric N. DeLony
A guide to using the HAER collection, in Indiana Covered Bridge Newsletter, April 1990.
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EXHIBITS
"Held in Common: Historic Architecture in America's National Parks"
The exhibition, "Held in Common: Historic Architecture in America's National Parks," was developed in
1991 by the HABS/HAER staff and the National Building Museum to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the
National Park Service and to acquaint the American people with the richness and diversity of the historic
structures entrusted to the care of the National Park Service. With monies made available from the National
Parks Preservation Fund, established at the National Park Foundation through a generous contribution by
Citibank Visa and Mastercard, this exhibition is travelling throughout the National Park system. For more
information about its schedule, contact Susan Cadwalader at Harpers Ferry Center, 304-535-6214.
"L'Enfant-McMillan Exhibit"
Four drawings from the L'Enfant-McMillan Plan project were included in the exhibition "L'Enfant Plans:
Visions of Washington," held October 1992 - April 1993, at the Charles Sumner School Museum and Archives
in Washington, D.C., and subsequently at the University of Maryland and the French Embassy in Washington,
D.C.
"America on Record: The Work of HABS/HAER"
This exhibition explaining the HABS/HAER process of recording historic structures made its debut in
December 1989 at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. Organized by the museum and
HABS/HAER, the exhibition, "America on Record: The Work of HABS/HAER," containing photographs
and measured drawings of structures documented by HABS/HAER in 1989, remained on display from
December 1989 through February 1990. It has been converted into a travelling exhibition, available from the
National Building Museum. A documentary video, sponsored by the National Association of Home Builders
(see page 57), recorded teams during the documentation process at Scotty's Castle in Death Valley, CA, and
Avery Island Salt Works in Louisiana, complements the exhibition. This exhibition has appeared at the
National Trust for Historic Preservation Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California, and at the Rhode Island
School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island.
"The White House 1792-1992: Image in Architecture"
This exhibition, the traveling companion to the earlier Octagon/AIA exhibition by the same name, it was
sponsored by the American Architectural Foundation and the White House Historical Association. It was
produced by Betty C. Monkman, assistant curator of the White House, and historian William Seale. The
exhibition has traveled to various presidential home sites, libraries, and universities around the country. It
incorporates photographs of material from the original exhibition at the Octagon and includes several HABS
photographs and measured drawings of the White House.
"Saving Places: Historic Preservation in Minnesota"
In October 1992, the Minnesota Historical Society, along with the opening of their new History Center,
displayed a photo exhibit titled "Saving Places: Historic Preservation in Minnesota/Photographs by Jet Lowe."
The exhibit consists of sixty-one prints of major landmarks photographed by Lowe between 1987 and 1990.
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HABS architect Isabel Yang uses scale stick to measure
Architecture technician Rodney Fluker makes field notes on
house on Birch Street in Kistler, Pennsylvania, during
the William Johnson House in Natchez, Mississippi, during
the HABS Brickyards Towns (AIHP) Project.
the HABS Melrose Project. Photographer: John P. White,
Photographer: Kin Wallace, 1992
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The following pages detail the HABS/HAER 1992 recording projects. These projects would not have been possible without the
enthusiastic and competent assistance of R. Marlene Bergstrom, field program administrator, HABS/HAER; Kathryn H.
Jackson, field program assistant, HABS/HAER; Ella M. Drummond, personnel staffing specialist, NPS Personnel Division;
Paula Y. Ehrenfeld, chief of classification, NPS Personnel Division; Nancy L. Barnett, classification specialist, NPS Personnel
Division; Diane L. Keeley, supervisory personnel staffing specialist, NPS Personnel Division; and Tammy D. Washington,
personnel staffing assistant, NPS Personnel Division.
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Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Field Office Projects
Connellsville and Klondike Coke Region:
Fayette and Westmoreland Counties,
Community, Coal and Coke Works
Pennsylvania
Project Leaders:
G. Gray Fitzsimons, HAER Engineer/Historian
Richard J. O'Connor, HAER Historian
Project Historian:
Frederic L. Quivik, Historian, University of Pennsylvania
In 1991, HAER embarked on a study of the Connellsville coke region, one of world's prominent metallurgical
coking districts in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Frederic Quivik undertook the first part
of this study, conducting research of primary and secondary sources, surveying various abandoned beehive
coke works, and interviewing a number of local residents who were involved with the industry. The study
focused on the business strategies and technologies employed by one of the nation's largest coke producers,
the H. C. Frick Coke Company, as well as one of Frick's competitors, the W. J. Rainey Company. Quivik
prepared a draft report on his research and outlined a series of issues and questions for a second phase of the
research and writing. In the summer of 1992, Quivik returned to the project, refining and expanding his
earlier work. This included a section on the Frick Company's works at Shoaf, one of the early mechanized
beehive coke operations in the Connellsville district.
Quivik's study demonstrates that Frick and others in the Connellsville district, though choosing to continue
with beehive rather than the technologically advanced by-product coke production, nevertheless adopted some
new techniques for manufacturing coke and experimented with different types of ovens, plant layouts, and
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kinds of equipment for charging, quenching and drawing coke from the ovens. Further, Connellsville coke
makers like Frick attempted to standardize their production processes, particularly after 1900. Quivik shows
that the Connellsville coke industry was not as technologically stagnant as other studies have suggested and
that such coke producers as the Frick Company adopted new techniques and invested large sums of capital
in more modern beehive coke processes. The next phase of the study, to begin in 1993, will examine labor
in the Connellsville region's coal and coke industry, and will look at the response of workers to this new
technology.
Jeannette Glass and Flat Glass Contextual Study Jeannette, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C.
Project Leaders:
G. Gray Fitzsimons, HAER Engineer/Historian
Richard J. O'Connor, HAER Historian
Team Member:
Amy C. McGroarty, The Catholic University of America
Begun in the summer of 1991, a series of drawings depicting the process for producing flat glass, as carried
out at the nationally important Chambers-McKee Window Glass Company in 1890s and early 1900s, was
completed in 1992. Completed by Amy McGroarty, these drawings focus on the three major processes --
hand production, the Lubbers cylinder, and the Fourcault machine used at Jeannette, and provide the reader
with an understanding of the size and scale of each operation, as well as the layout of equipment and
interaction of worker with machine, in Jeannette's largest glass plant.
Related to the Jeannette glass study, Richard O' 'Connor commenced a survey of other flat glass manufacturers
throughout western Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, and Indiana. The aim of the study is to place
Jeannette's industry in a larger context and identify physical remains from other plants operating during the
1880s through the 1920s.
HAER Inventory Publications for
Washington, D.C.
Westmoreland, Somerset and Indiana Counties
Project Leaders:
G. Gray Fitzsimons, HAER Engineer/Historian
Kenneth D. Rose, HAER Historian
Team Members:
Patricia Summers, Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Caroline Brucken, George Washington University
During 1992, the HAER inventory of Somerset County was completed by historical consultant Scott C.
Brown. This manuscript was reviewed and edited by Patricia Summers. Kenneth Rose and Gray Fitzsimons
revised several parts of the manuscript and prepared it for publication in FY 1993. Readied for printing was
the manuscript, Indiana County, Pennsylvania: An Inventory of Historic Engineering and Industrial Sites,
and revisions continued on the massive HAER Inventory of Westmoreland County. Caroline Brucken
prepared HAER inventory material for transmittal to the Library of Congress. All of the HAER inventories
in western Pennsylvania will be published through the offices of America's Industrial Heritage Project in
Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania. For copies of previously printed inventories or upcoming publications contact
Judy Torres at 814-539-2016.
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Under the HABS component of AIHP during 1992, three projects were undertaken: the publication of Norvelt
and Penn-Craft, Pennsylvania: Subsistence Homestead Communities of the 1930s, the continuation of a study
of company housing in refractories company towns, and the transmittal of all completed HABS/AIHP projects
to the Library of Congress and to the AIHP Archives at Indiana University of Pennsylvania in Indiana,
Pennsylvania.
Norvelt, Westmoreland County, and Penn-Craft, Fayette County
Project Leader:
Alison K. Hoagland, HABS Senior Historian
The town of Norvelt, originally named Westmoreland Homesteads, was built in 1934-37 by the U.S. Division
of Subsistence Homesteads as part of New Deal relief efforts in the southwestern Pennsylvania coal fields.
Grounded in the philosophies of self-help and back-to-the-land, much of the impetus for the subsistence
homesteads movement came from the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), founded by the Society
of Friends in 1917. The AFSC raised private funds and sponsored construction of a homesteads community
named Penn-Craft in western Fayette County (1936-42). The curvilinear town plans, generous lot sizes, and
variety of house plans make both these towns conspicuous in a regional landscape dominated by more
regimented company town plans.
HABS historian Margaret M. Mulrooney began work on this project in 1989. She conducted research and
fieldwork and drafted histories of both towns. After Mulrooney left HABS to begin graduate work at the
College of William and Mary, HABS senior historian Alison K. Hoagland continued work on the project in
1991. She completed an overview essay on the subsistence homesteads movement and assembled the work
for publication. HABS architect Isabel Yang produced simple floor plans and elevations of prototypical
designs for each community, and David Ames, Center for Historic Architecture and Engineering, University
of Delaware, produced large format photographs.
Refractories Company Towns
Project Leader:
Alison K. Hoagland, HABS Senior Historian
Project Historian:
Kim E. Wallace, HABS Historian
As part of its documentation of the coal, steel, and transportation industries in the AIHP region of
Pennsylvania, HABS/HAER has produced histories of towns dominated by coal mines, steel mills, and the
Pennsylvania Railroad. This study moves beyond these primary and more visible industries to examine the
refractory brick industry, which produced materials to build steel furnaces, coke ovens, and locomotive boilers
and fireboxes. It focuses on eight towns with company housing that survives from the heyday of the
refractory brickyards during the first decades of the twentieth century. The towns are scattered across the
region and represent a spectrum of refractories companies, company housing policies, and company town
development. They include Bolivar and Salina in Westmoreland County, Robinson in Indiana County,
Blandburg in Cambria County, Sproul and Claysburg in Blair County, Mt. Union in Huntingdon County, and
Kistler in Mifflin County. Although this study is sponsored by HABS and is focused on company housing,
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it will include a history of the refractories industry and brick-making technology, to place the company
housing in the context of the industry and to provide a more complete view of these company towns.
Preliminary research for this project was conducted by HABS historians Margaret M. Mulrooney in 1989 and
by Nancy Spiegel in 1990. Project historian Kim E. Wallace completed the research and design of the project
and undertook the writing and preparation of a publication in 1991-92, under the direction of HABS senior
historian Alison K. Hoagland. HABS architect Isabel Yang drew maps of the towns, plus sketches and floor
plans of selected company houses. Jet Lowe and David Ames provided large-format photographic
documentation of the towns. The large format photographs, drawings, and historic photographs will be
published with Wallace's text in 1993 as Brickyard Towns: A History of Refractories Industry Communities
in South-Central Pennsylvania.
AIHP/HABS Transmittal Project
Project Leader:
Alison K. Hoagland, HABS Senior Historian
Team Members:
Ann Deines, Historian, George Washington University
Chris Madrid, Historian, University of Utah
Flor de Maria Argueta Pineda, Architect, Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala,
Guatemala [ICOMOS]
Kim E. Wallace, Historian, HABS/HAER Office
Since 1988, HABS has completed AIHP eleven projects, ranging from documentation of individual buildings
to neighborhoods and cities. Six of the large-scale projects were published in cooperation with AIHP and a
number of these publications are now in their second printing. With the publication process completed, the
documentation materials were prepared for transmittal to the Library of Congress. HABS/HAER historians
arranged to transmit copies of the documentation and research materials to an archive at Indiana University
of Pennsylvania, established to house the records of AIHP. This effort resulted in over 400 individual
transmittals to the Library of Congress.
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BIRMINGHAM DISTRICT NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA
(Multi-year Project)
Project Leader:
Eric N. DeLony, Chief, HAER
Project Manager:
Robbyn L. Jackson, HAER Architect
Field Leader:
Craig N. Strong, HAER Architect
During the summer of 1992, HAER undertook the first part of a multi-year effort to document the industrial
heritage of the Birmingham District, an area rich in the history of iron and manufacturing. The documentation
produced by HAER will define the heritage area visually and verbally, and will serve as the foundation for
preservation and interpretive plans. The nineteen-member team, made up of architects, architecture
technicians, historians, and a photographer, conducted four separate recording projects, in support of local
efforts to establish an Industrial Heritage District in a five-county area. Sponsored by the Birmingham
Historical Society and funded by congressional appropriation, the team documented the railroad infrastructure
of the district, the Hardie-Tynes foundry and machine shop, the Republic Steel Corporation's Thomas by-
product coke works, and a series of smaller, less traditional sites. For the most part, the sites were selected
because they tie into historical themes that distinguish the district as an important iron and steel region.
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Hardie-Tynes Machinery Manufacturing Company
Birmingham, Alabama
Team Members:
Evelyn L. Green, Supervisory Architect, Southeastern Louisiana University
Tanya A. English, Historian, Ironbridge Institute, United Kingdom, [ICOMOS]
Zvonimir Franic, Architect, Institute for the Preservation of the Historical
Monuments and Nature of Dubrovnik, Croatia, [ICOMOS]
Laura H. Letton, Architecture Technician, Miami University
Hardie-Tynes is a study in adaptability, having begun as a builder of steam engines, air compressors and
mining equipment, and now doing specialized contract work for the Defense Department, major dam projects,
and a variety of other customers. The company first supplied local mines and industries, but later produced
components for the Panama Canal, the Hoover Dam and other major national and international projects. The
Hardie-Tynes HAER team produced drawings which show how the plant changed over time in response to
changing markets and major fires. Also, the team produced drawings that depict how Hardie-Tynes made a
major piece of mining equipment. The drawings illustrate the manufacture of a mine hoist drum, highlighting
key stages in the process; and such tasks as melting cast iron in a cupola and pouring it into custom-made
molds in the foundry. They also show selected machine tools that performed the finishing work in the
machine shop.
Koppers By-Product Coking Operation
Thomas, Alabama
Team Members:
Craig N. Strong, Supervisory Architect, HAER Washington Office
Jack R. Bergstresser, Project Historian, Auburn University
Joseph R. Bruno, Architecture Technician, Syracuse University
Steven C. Byington, Architect, Texas Tech University
Elena Garlini, Architect, Graduate School of Architecture, Venice; Columbia
University, Italy [ICOMOS]
William E. Heintz, Architect, Harvard University
The Thomas Coke Plant is a battery of sixty-four Koppers-Becker Coke Ovens which produced a range of coal
by-products and coke used as fuel for the Republic Steel Corporation's Thomas blast furnaces. The HAER
team produced documentation that illustrated the production of coke and the distillation of by-product gas.
The Thomas by-product coke ovens and plant are significant not only because they provide a well-preserved
example of how blast furnace fuel and its byproducts were produced, but also because they can be used to
demonstrate that American blast furnace companies were finely tuned iron-making systems in which mines,
quarries, coke ovens and blast furnaces worked in close harmony. The drawing of the Birmingham Industrial
District, ca. 1950, produced by the Thomas Coke Works recording team, illustrates the proximity of the
mines, quarries, coke ovens and blast furnaces in the district.
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Railroad Survey of the Birmingham District National Heritage Corridor Birmingham, Alabama
(Multiyear project)
Team Members:
Mark M. Brown, Supervisory Historian, University of Pittsburgh
Scott C. Brown, Historian, University of Pennsylvania
Nichole N. Duren, Architect, Howard University
The HAER team studied the railroad infrastructure of the Birmingham District, mapping the trunk and
industrial rail routes. Rail transportation was key to the movement of raw materials and finished products
between interrelated sites in the district. In addition to recording the routes of major trunk lines and smaller
industrial short lines in the district, the railroad recording project has looked at the question of vertical
integration and how it might have applied in such a compact geographical area. Their work shows that
Woodward Iron Company, a Wheeling, West Virginia, transplant in the 1880s and the leading local foundry
pig iron producer, had achieved full vertical integration well before Carnegie and other major northern
producers. While most local blast furnace companies were not able to achieve complete company-controlled
rail linkage between their holdings, dubbed its "straight line production" model, all had well defined, compact
transportation routes.
Roving HAER Survey
Birmingham, Alabama
Team Members:
Kyle M. D'Agostino, Supervisory Architect, Syracuse University
David H. Diesing, Photographer, University of Dayton
Catherine I. Kudlik, Architecture Technician, The Catholic University of America
Robert C. Martin, Architecture Technician, Auburn University
Joseph L. Shannon, Jr., Historian, University of Alabama in Birmingham
The HAER team traveled the woods and more isolated areas of the Birmingham District, recording important
small-scale industrial sites before finishing the season doing field sketches of the workers' housing at the
Thomas Furnaces site. The roving team marks a departure from the traditional HAER documentation project.
In an innovative move, HAER's unique documentary skills were adapted to record a series of small sites that
were tied to the larger story of vertically integrated iron-making systems. Individually, none of the sites
would have been substantial enough to occupy a HAER team for the whole summer, but most were crucial
to the overall significance of the district. One, for instance, was the company housing of Republic Steel's
Thomas blast furnace and coke works. The Thomas housing illustrates the living conditions of southern
industrial workers and their close but distinct relationship to northern counterparts. The team also documented
the foundation remnants and other surface-viable archeological remains of two nineteenth-century coal mines.
The Brookside coal mine reveals the pioneering role the district played in developing American metallurgical
coal washing practice. It contains perhaps the best preserved archeological remains of a Robinson-Ramsay
inverted cone coal washing plant that was perfected in the Birmingham District and became the first widely
used metallurgical coal washing system in the country.
The Billy Gould mine site includes the retaining walls of the early battery of eleven non-by-product coke
ovens that date to the 1860s-70s. Both are tied to important blast furnace companies; Brookside to Sloss and
Billy Gould to the experimental Eureka Furnace at Oxmoor that proved the viability of making coal pig iron
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from the Birmingham District's coal and iron ore. In addition to their historical significance, both are
potential recreational sites. The HAER drawings, photographs and historical reports on these sites have saved
them from the overgrowth and isolation of their wooded locations and brought their historical significance to
light.
"The importance of HAER to the Birmingham Industrial Heritage District is multi-dimensional. At the core are the legions of
youthful architects and historians who descend upon unknown but treasured sites, endow them with vigorous, enthusiastic analysis
and convince many of their worthiness for future preservation."
--Marjorie White, Director, Birmingham Historical Society
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New Jersey Coastal Heritage Trail II
Mauricetown, New Jersey and
(Multi-year project)
Washington, D.C.
Project Leader:
Sara Amy Leach, HABS Historian
Cosponsor:
New Jersey Coastal Heritage Trail, NPS
Team Members:
In Washington, D.C.
Elizabeth H. May, Historian, George Washington University
Kimberly R. Sebold, Historian, University of Delaware
In Mauricetown, NJ
Mike Chiarappa, Contract Historian, University of Pennsylvania
Alison E. Isenberg, Historian, University of Pennsylvania
Photography: David Ames, University of Delaware
During this third year of documenting the New Jersey Coastal Heritage Trail (NJCHT), HABS historians
pursued buildings related to the recreation-dominated Atlantic Shore, as well as the specialized research topics
of coastal agriculture and maritime. Continuing last year's survey of the ocean coast--in particular the theme
of recreation--field historian Alison Isenberg researched more than a dozen buildings and sites including
amusement piers, motels, the boardwalk, bathing pavilions, corporate retreats, and convention halls.
Similarly, maritime historian Michael Chiarappa has been contracted to produce site-specific reports on several
historic vessels, ship-building facilities, lights and more throughout the NJCHT; his work will continue next
year. Kimberly Sebold completed her investigation of coastal agriculture--specifically bank or dike farming
and cranberries--which the National Park Service has published. From Marsh to Farm: The Landscape
Transformation of Coastal New Jersey is available for $7.00 from Janet Wolf, Project Director, New Jersey
Coastal Heritage Trail, P.O. Box 118, Mauricetown, New Jersey 08329.
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South Seaville (Methodist) Camp Meeting, NJ. HABS-New Jersey Coastal Heritage Trail Project
Photographer: David Ames, 1992
HABS/HAER PROGRAMS
Charleston Battery
Charleston, South Carolina
(Multi-year Project)
Project Leader:
Paul D. Dolinsky, Chief, HABS
Cosponsor:
Historic Charleston Foundation
Team Members:
Thomas M. Behrens, Architecture Technician, The Catholic University of America
Mellonee Rheams, Architect, HABS Office
On September 23, 1989, the residents of Charleston, South Carolina, were faced with the aftermath of
Hurricane Hugo. The damage to buildings, as a result of Hugo, were severe. None of the historic structures
around the Battery were totally lost, as was the case elsewhere in the city. However, if a building had been
lost, drawings did not exist to adequately reconstruct the structure.
HABS/HAER, in cooperation with the Historic Charleston Foundation, undertook a documentation project
of the Battery to produce a photogrammetric and photographic record of the streetscapes along South and East
Battery in Charleston. These homes are considered the most vulnerable of the city's historic resources. This
documentation is intended to provide a baseline documentation for catastrophic replacement.
Photogrammetric documentation was chosen because it is the most cost effective way of rapidly collecting data
for a large number of structures, enabling the recording team to photographically document twenty-six houses
in eight days. The photographic images will be archived until scaled drawings are needed, at which time the
graphic information can be digitized into drawings, using AutoCAD and PhotoCAD software and a digitizing
table. The photogrammetric camera system was the Linhof Metrika 45 with a 90mm lens. The Metrika is
a semi-metric camera that produces 4" X 5" negatives on 5" roll film. It is a specialized camera that was
manufactured in Germany and is the first of its kind to be used in the United States.
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The East Battery along the bay in Charleston, South Carolina. The row of 19th century houses bore the brunt of Hurricane Hugo's fury in 1990
and was the subject of extensive photogrammetric recording by HABS in 1991. Photographer: Jack E. Boucher, 1991.
HABS/HAER PROGRAMS
LEnfant-McMillan Plan of Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
(Multi-year Project)
Project Leader:
Sara Amy Leach, HABS Historian
Cosponsors:
Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, Washington, D.C.
National Capital Region, NPS
National Park Foundation Inc.
Project Historian:
Elizabeth Barthold, HABS Historian
Photography: Jack E. Boucher, HABS Washington Office
Documentation of the L'Enfant-McMillan Plan of Washington, D.C., which commenced in 1990, is coming
to a close with the completion of comprehensive historical reports, drawings, and photography. Various
readers and sponsors have reviewed the materials, and by next year the nominations--National Historic
Landmark and City Landmark--should be in the works. This year, presentations based on project findings
were made at the Society of Architectural Historians annual conference in the spring, and another kicked off
the day-long Historic Landscape Preservation Symposium, part of the American Society of Landscape
Architects annual meeting, in the fall. An exhibition of photographs and drawings accompanied the latter
event.
View of Franklin Square, looking southwest from the roof of One Franklin Square on K Street, NW.
Photographer: John McWilliams, 1991
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LAFAYETTE SQUARE
HISTORIC AMERICAN
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TIME LINE
1894 - 1956
1894
RODGERS HOUSE ON MADISON PLACE (H)
OEMOLISHED FOR LAFAYETTE SOUARE OPERA
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BUILDINGS SURVEY
ANO WILL ROGERS WILL PERFORM. ANO 5-YEAR
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1902
McMILLAN SENATE PARK COMMISSION REPORT
PROPOSES REPLACEMENT OF ALL BUILDINGS
FACING THE PARK WITH BEAUX ARTS-STYLE
FEDERAL OFFICES STATUE HONORING
HERE WAS THE COMMON MEETING GROUND OF so MANY HISTORICAL PERSONAGES
REVOLUTIONARY WAR HERO MAJ GEN COMTE
THAT IT COULD BE CALLED, PERHAPS, THE CENTER OF THE POLITICAL HISTORY OF
JEAN OE ROCHAMBEAU ERECTEO IN
SOUTHWEST CORNER OF PARK
THE NATION MORE THAN ANY SINGLE SPOT IN AMERICA, THIS LITTLE PLOT OF
1904
COSMOS CLUB EXPANDS TO OCCUPY TWO
GROUND WAS STILL ANIMATE WITH THE PAST, STILL QUIETLY REDOLENT OF BYGONE
ADJACENT BUILOINGS ON MAOISON PLACE (K)
DAYS. STILL PRESERVING THE FAINT ECHO OF THE FOOTSTEPS OF THOSE WHO LED
1909
COSMOS CLUB OEMOLISHES ADJACENT
THE COUNTRY TO GREATNESS
BUILOINGS TO ERECT FIVE-STORY AODITION (L)
1910
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HEROES MAJ GEN FRIEDRICH WILHELM VON
ANTONIO POPIEL. SCULPTOR 1910
STEUBEN AND BRIG GEN THADDEUS
KOSKIUSKO ERECTEO IN NORTH CORNERS OF
PARK
1914
CLASSICALLY PROPORTIONEO LODGE REPLACES
VICTORIAN WATCHMAN'S SHELTER IN PARK
1917
IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE McMILLAN SCHEME
ARCHITECT CASS GILBERT DESIGNS
NEOCLASSICAL TREASURY ANNEX AT SOUTH
ENO OF MAOISON PLACE (M) IT IS PLANNEO
THAT THE BUILDING WILL BE EXTENDED THE
FULL LENGTH OF THE STREET
1918
WORLD WAR I PROMPTS ERECTION OF WAR RISK
INSURANCE BUILDING ON H STREET (N) BUILT
HASTILY, THE 130'-TALL STRUCTURE OOES NOT
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1927
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FOR ELEGANT HAY-AOAMS HOTEL (P)
1931
SICKLES HOUSE ON JACKSON PLACE (G) RAZEO
June JOHN
FOR EIGHT-STORY HEAOOUARTERS OF THE
BROOKINGS INSTITUTE (O)
1933
JURISOICTION OF WASHINGTON'S PARKS
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1936
WORKS PROGRESS AOMINISTRATION LABORERS
REFURBISH PARK ANO REDESIGN PATHWAYS
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1937
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LAFAYETTE SOUARE OPERA HOUSE THE
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BUILDING (J)
1940
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT PURCHASES ALL
BUILDINGS ON MAOISON PLACE AND PLANS TO
REPLACE THEM ACCORDING TO THE McMILLAN
SCHEME
1942
NPS UNDERTAKES TREE SURVEY IN PARK AND
PUBLISHES A PAMPHLET DESCRIBING ITS MORE
JACKSON PLACE ELEVATION
THAN 29 TYPES OF TREES PAMPHLET IS
DISTRIBUTED AND OISPLAYED FOR THE
ENJOYMENT OF INCREASING NUMBERS OF
OFFICE WORKERS WHO GATHER IN THE PARK AT
LUNCHTIME BELASCO THEATER REOPENS AS
THE STAGE OOOR CANTEEN TO ENTERTAIN US
SERVICEMEN OURING WORLD WAR = (J)
1947
AFL-CIO PURCHASES ASHBURTON HOUSE
(F)
1950
CONGRESS AUTHORIZES ACQUISITION AND
CLEARING OF ANY PROPERTY ON THE SOUARE
DEEMED NECESSARY FOR FEDERAL OFFICE
PLACE
SPACE
1954
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JOHN S CHURCH TO BE USEO AS ITS RECTORY
(F) AFL-CIO THEN CONSTRUCTS TOWERING
STRUCTURE IN THE LOT NORTH OF THE CHURCH
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1956
DEATH OF THE LAST RESIDENT ON THE SOUARE.
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MAJ. GEN. FRIEDRICH WILHELM VON STEUBEN
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PRESERVATION (B)
MADISON PLACE ELEVATION
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Lafayette Square - 1894-1956. Delineator: Robert R. Arzola, 1993
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Jefferson and Lincoln Memorials
Washington, D.C.
(Multi-year project)
Project Leader:
Paul D. Dolinsky, Chief, HABS
Technical Consultant:
John A. Burns, AIA, Deputy Chief, HABS/HAER
Cosponsor:
Denver Service Center Eastern Team (Falls Church), NPS
Team Members:
Mark S. Schara, Supervisory Architect, Washington, D.C.
Lynne E. Holler, Architecture Technician, Tulane University
Shelley Homeyer, Architecture Technician, Mississippi State University
Dana L. Lockett, Architect [Site Foreman], HABS Washington Office
Mellonee Rheams, Architect [Site Foreman], HABS Washington Office
Jose R. Vazquez, Architecture Technician, University of Miami
Summer Employee
Crystal N. Willingham, Architecture Technician, Howard University
The Historic American Buildings Survey's inaugural computer-aided drafting and photogrammetry project
continued apace in 1992. After spending most of 1991 working on the plans of these important buildings,
1992 was devoted primarily to measuring and drawing elevations and sections. This work was abetted by the
erection of scaffolding, consisting of five movable towers of the Lincoln Memorial and three movable towers
at the Jefferson Memorial. Used in conjunction with a team of consultant architects engaged by the Denver
Service Center to undertake a detailed stone-by-stone survey of the two buildings, the scaffolding towers
provided the HABS team access to normally inaccessible areas for measuring and photographic purposes. In
order to record in detail the elaborately carved bas-relief ornamentation, extensive use was made of the
project's photogrammetric camera. Frequently, the camera was mounted onto a specially designed 11' long
boom attached to one of the towers, and then swung out into space for better positioning than was available
from the scaffolding itself. In addition, the camera proved useful for documenting several inaccessible
locations in the buildings where scaffolding was not available, such as the 40' high basement ceiling in the
Lincoln Memorial.
Measurement of the dome of the Jefferson Memorial was made possible using a mountaineering harness
attached to a system of ropes, enabling team members to rappel up and down the walls. The HABS drawings
produced so far have already seen extensive use as base drawings for the ongoing multi-year restoration
project at both memorials.
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Monticello
Charlottesville, Virginia
(Multi-year Project)
Project Leader:
Paul D. Dolinsky, Chief, HABS
Cosponsors:
Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation
US/International Council on Monuments and Sites
American Institute of Architects, College of Fellows
Team Member:
Isabel C. Yang, HABS Architect
With most of the fieldwork and the preliminary construction of the plans and sections completed in the past
three years, 1992 was spent inking these highly detailed drawings of Monticello and placing them in final
HABS format. This necessitated photographically reducing the large original drawings (plans are 54" X 72"
and sections are 42" X 72" at 1/2" = 1'-0" scale) down to 1/4" = 1'0" scale to fit onto the standard 34" X
44" HABS mylar. In addition, dimensions, room labels, and titles were added. Besides the plans and
sections, select molding details were constructed and inked at half-size (6" = 1'0" scale).
In 1992, the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation (TJMF) expanded its memorandum of agreement with
HABS to document the four exterior elevations of the main residence. These were begun in fall 1992 and are
scheduled to be completed by the middle of 1993. To commemorate 1993 as the 250th anniversary of Thomas
Jefferson's birth, the TJMF is planning an exhibit and a book featuring the drawings.
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SCHLEMBER
ANDREW & STONE
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Delineators: Isabel C. Yang, Timothy A. Buehner, Hugh D. Hughes, Sandra M. Moore, Jonathan C. Spodek, Bryan S. Falvey,
David R. Schlensker, and Andrew G. Stone, 1991
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Mon Valley Steel
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
(Multi-year Project)
Project Leader:
Dean A. Herrin, HAER Historian
Cosponsor:
Steel Industry Heritage Task Force
Team Members:
Year-Round Personnel
Joel D. Sabadasz, Supervisory Historian, University of Pittsburgh
Christopher H. Marston, Supervisory Architect, Carnegie-Mellon University
Summer Personnel
Brian K. Chevchek, Architecture Technician, Bowling Green State University
Jack Conviser, Architecture Technician, Cooper Union
John G. Eberly, Architecture Technician, Texas Tech University
Kirsi E. Heininen, Architect, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
[ICOMOS]
Kathleen G. Hopkins, Historian, University of Pittsburgh/Carnegie-Mellon
University
David R. Jardini, Historian, Carnegie-Mellon University
Alan S. Loud, Architect, Rhode Island School of Design
Eva S. Mollnitz, Architect, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Denmark
[ICOMOS]
Dana A. Peak, Architecture Technician, University of California, Davis
Mark E. Pierson, Architect, Auburn University
Frances C. Robb, Historian, West Virginia University
Jet Lowe, HAER Photographer, Washington Office
The Mon Valley team in 1992 continued the preparation of inventories of the Homestead Works, the Duquesne
Works, the Edgar Thomson Works, and the National Works. Each inventory contains a systematic description
of extant structures and equipment at each facility, select large format photographs of structures and
equipment, and written histories of each facility. In addition, a set of measured drawings depicting Press Shop
No. 1 at the Homestead Works and the Blast Furnace Plant at the Duquesne Works have been included in the
respective inventories.
With the support of the Steel Industry Heritage Corporation, new projects were undertaken in Brownsville in
Fayette County. Led by Christopher Marston and Joel Sabadasz, the HAER teams documented the Dunlap
Creek Bridge, built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers between 1936-39, and the first cast-iron arch bridge
in the United States; the plant of the former Hillman Barge and Construction Company, where river coal and
tank barges are still manufactured; and the shops and other support structures of the Monongahela Railway,
an important local coal line. HAER's work was presented to the public in two meetings, in July and in
November.
In 1993, HAER will finish the steel works inventories and turn its attention to the coal and coke industry of
the region, complementing work that has been done in America's Industrial Heritage Project (AIHP).
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Pierce Mill
Washington, D.C.
(Multiyear Project)
Project Leader:
Paul D. Dolinsky, Chief, HABS
Cosponsor:
Rock Creek Park, National Capital Region, NPS
Team Member:
Shelley M. Homeyer, Architect, Washington, D.C.
The documentation of Pierce Mill in Rock Creek Park, Washington, D.C., began during summer 1990.
Pierce Mill, erected in 1829 by Isaac Pierce, a Quaker millwright, is the only extant grist mill in Washington,
D.C., as well as an outstanding example of vernacular stone construction: granite stone bearing walls on the
exterior, and heavy timber beams and columns on the interior. The mill employed the first generation of
Oliver Evans' patented revolutionary elevator/conveyor automated industrial milling process. It is currently
operated by the National Park Service for interpretation of the history of grist mills.
Rock Creek Park was created in 1890 and incorporated Pierce Mill and other mills situated in Rock Creek
in the new park. The main shaft of the mill broke in 1897. The mill machinery was then gradually
dismantled and Pierce Mill became a teahouse. In 1935, the mill was restored to a working mill by the
National Park Service, with T. T. Waterman as project architect. It was also restored to its original 19th
century appearance; however, some changes to the machinery, waterwheel and structure have occurred since
1936.
During summer 1990, the team members documented the structure and existing machinery, as well as the
milling process. The majority of the fieldwork and drawings were accomplished this first summer, and the
project was completed in the Washington office during summer 1992. In 1936, HABS produced photographic
and written documentation on the grist mill, to which the 1990 and 1992 documentation will serve as an
addendum. The 1990 drawings were also used in restoration work on the mill.
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Pierce Mill. Rock Creek Park. Tilden Street & Beach Drive, Washington, D.C.
Delineators: Rodney Fluker, Shelley Milling, Roman Sebastyanski, and Andrew Wenchel, 1990.
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The White House Exterior
Washington, D.C.
(Multi-year Project)
Project Leader:
Paul D. Dolinsky, Chief, HABS
Cosponsors:
The Executive Residence
National Capital Regional Office, NPS
Team Members:
Year-Round Personnel
Frederick J. Lindstrom, Supervisor, HABS Office
Robert R. Arzola, Architect, Texas Tech University
Patrick B. Guthrie, Architect, California Polytechnic State University
Scot C. McBroom, AIA, Architect, Texas Tech University
Summer Personnel
Paul Homeyer, Architect, University of Texas
As part of the exterior restoration project, the Executive Residence and the National Capital Region-Office
of the White House Liaison, NPS, began a five-year documentation project in 1988 to systematically record
and update existing drawings on the exterior stonework.
The White House, built of soft Aquia Creek sandstone (1793 to 1800), was always intended to be painted.
Over the past 200 years, thirty to forty layers of paint had been applied that collectively obscured the stone's
detail and ornament and, in many places, was uneven and peeling. As the exterior was restored, the old paint
was removed and the damaged stone was repaired or replaced and repainted. During this process, HABS
recorded the structure with photographs and measured drawings. These records show the exterior elevations
with the exposed stone graining and the previously hidden detail.
This was the last summer of the exterior recording project. This year's efforts were combined with the
interior project, and with the delineation of the stone coursing and graining patterns of the exposed stone onto
the base drawings that were produced during past summers. The final inked drawings were formatted to
HABS standards and the exterior photographs were correlated with the interior photographs into one
comprehensive set for the transmittal to the Library of Congress.
The HABS recording project of The White House for the 200th anniversary of the laying of the cornerstone of The White House
was probably the most important permanent activity that we had undertaken in 1992.
-Rex W. Scouten, Curator, The White House
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The White House. Delineators: Douglas Anderson, Isabel C. Yang, Timothy A. Buehner, Eric Schmidt.
MILL
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The White House Interior
Washington, D.C.
(Multi-year Project)
Project Leader:
Paul D. Dolinsky, Chief, HABS
Cosponsors:
The Executive Residence, Office of the Curator
American Institute of Architects
White House Historical Association
Team Members:
Year-Round Personnel
Frederick J. Lindstrom, Supervisory Architect, HABS Washington Office
Robert R. Arzola, Architect, Texas Tech University
Patrick B. Guthrie, Architect, California Polytechnic State University
Scot C. McBroom, AIA, Architect, Texas Tech University
Summer Personnel
Paul Homeyer, Architect, University of Texas
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has sponsored, through the White House Historical Association,
the documentation of the interior architecture of the White House in commemoration of the 200th anniversary
of the laying of the cornerstone (October 13, 1992). This project was combined with the exteriors project and
the resulting drawings and photographs were used to illustrate the book The White House: The History of
an American Idea by William Seale, published by the AIA Press. The project has also contributed to several
exhibitions on the architectural history of the White House.
The White House interior has continuously evolved to fit the needs of each new occupant, with major and
minor changes executed at least every four years since its construction. Through this project, HABS has
produced an accurate, up-to-date set of drawings and large format photographs of the historic main house, as
it currently exists. The documentation will be used as the base for future renovation, maintenance, and
interpretation.
In this, the final year of the project, the team continued its efforts to develop and format to HABS standards
the final inked plans, sections and details. The photographs, field notes, and other documentation materials
have been correlated and indexed for transmittal to the Library of Congress.
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Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Dayton, Ohio
(Multi-year project)
Project Leaders:
Dean Herrin, HAER Historian
Robbyn L. Jackson, HAER Architect
Cosponsor:
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, 2750th Air Base Wing, Office of Environmental
Management, Planning Branch
Team Members:
In Dayton, Ohio
Hardlines: Design And Delineation (Donald Durst and Charissa Wang,
Principals/Partners), Contract Architects
In Washington, D.C.
J. Shannon Barras, Architect, Virginia Polytechnic, Washington/Alexandria Center
David H. Diesing, Photographer, University of Dayton
Emma J. H. Dyson, Historian, Ironbridge Institute, United Kingdom [ICOMOS]
Amy E. Slaton, Historian, University of Pennsylvania
In the summer of 1991, HAER placed a team of six architects, two historians, and a photographer on Wright-
Patterson Air Force Base to research and record the historic aeronautical engineering features of the most
historic section of the base, the old Wright Field, now known as Area B. HAER was initially invited to
Wright-Patterson by the base's Office of Environmental Management and its historic preservation officer.
The project has been sponsored by that office and the Aeronautical Systems Center of Area B. HAER was
given additional funding in September 1991 to continue its documentation of Area B in 1992. When the
project is complete, HAER will have comprehensively documented the site through the production of fifty-two
sheets of drawings, 250 photographs, two brochures, and a published historical overview and inventory of
structures.
Wright Field was constructed in 1926, and was the home of the Army Air Corps' fledgling Materiel Division.
Even though aeronautical engineering activities have continued on the base to the present, HAER was most
interested in structures and machinery dating from the early days of aeronautical engineering, the 1920s
through the 1940s. HAER's architects and historians examined buildings, laboratory, equipment, and the
organization of the site, using as a reference a historic structures inventory prepared by the base in association
with the Ohio Historic Preservation Office.
HAER historians and architects together documented the complicated testing equipment developed by the
Army Air Corps. Immensely powerful propeller whirl rigs and wind tunnels (most of which are no longer
intact) were used at Wright Field before and during World War II. In the final form, these were unlike any
found elsewhere, but part of HAER's analysis of this equipment was to determine which aspect had been
borrowed from existing aeronautical technologies, and which were devised to suit the specific needs of Wright
Field's projects. This analysis placed Wright Field's facilities in their historical scientific context, and also
illuminated the budgetary and administrative constraints operating on Air Corps engineers at different times.
HAER's documentation of the site offers substantial data for historians of the military, architecture, and
engineering of the country during this period.
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Wright-Patterson Air Force base - Five Foot Wind Tunnel, Dayton vicinity, Greene County, Ohio. Delineators: Hardlines: Design &
Delineation, 1992.
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Harpers Ferry National Historical Park
Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
Project Leader:
Frederick J. Lindstrom, HABS Architect
Cosponsors:
Denver Service Center, Eastern Team, NPS
Harpers Ferry National Historical Park
Team Members:
Andrew F. Wenchel, Jr., Supervisory Architect, Arlington, Virginia
Heather L. Brunken, Architecture Technician, Kansas State University
Lee E. Hughart, Architecture Technician, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and
State University
Robert P. Neely, Architecture Technician, University of Kansas
Vita Ruskyte, Architect, Institute of Monuments Restoration and Design, Lithuania
[ICOMOS]
Jack E. Boucher, Photographer, HABS/HAER Office
Harpers Ferry was only a wilderness in the early 1700s, situated on a point of land at the confluence of the
Shenandoah and Potomac rivers and dominated by the Blue Ridge Mountains in West Virginia. The first
European settler on this land was Peters Stephens, a trader, who arrived in 1733 and set up a primitive ferry
service at the junction of the two rivers. Fourteen years later, Robert Harper, a millwright and the man for
whom the town is named, settled there and took over Stephens' ferry operation. By the mid-nineteenth
century, Harpers Ferry had developed from a tiny village to become an important industrial and arms-
producing center, as well as a transportation link between the East and West. The arrival of the Chesapeake
and Ohio Canal and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in the 1830s assured Harpers Ferry of its economic
success.
However, in October 1859, John Brown's raid broke the tranquility of this peaceful community and the
eighteen-month civil war that followed wreaked havoc on the town's economy. The armory, built by
Congress in the 1790s at the urging of President George Washington, and arsenals were burned in 1861 to
keep them from falling into Confederate hands. Because of the town's geographic location and its railway
system, both Union and Confederate troops travelled through or occupied the town intermittently throughout
the war. The largest military operation against Harpers Ferry occurred when General Thomas J. "Stonewall"
Jackson's Confederate troops seized the town and captured Colonel Dixon Miles' 12,000-man Union garrison--
the largest surrender of U.S. troops during the Civil War. Many townspeople moved away, discouraged by
continual war damage and the lack of employment. After the war, some returned, hoping to begin life anew
and to revive the economy of the town. In the late 1800s, chances for economic recovery were destroyed with
a series of devastating floods. For years, buildings remained empty, and the once-thriving industrial sites
were reclaimed by nature.
The 1992 HABS team prepared measured drawings of the Frederick A. Roeder Store, the Frederick Roeder
House, White Hall Tavern, and the Armorer's Dwelling in Harpers Ferry National Historical Park. These
structures were previously documented by HABS in the late 1950s and early 1960s, but have undergone
numerous restorations and renovations since. The team recorded these buildings with greater precision, using
more accurate field techniques and up-to-date standards to show the structures as they presently stand. The
buildings were also re-photographed by Jack E. Boucher, duplicating views that he had originally produced
in 1958 and 1962. All new material will be transmitted to the Library of Congress as addenda to earlier
records in the collection.
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Armorer's Dwelling House. Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County, West Virginia. Delineator: Robert P. Neeley, 1992.
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Harry S Truman National Historic Site
Independence, Missouri
Project Leaders:
Joseph D. Balachowski, HABS Architect
Frederick J. Lindstrom, HABS Architect
Cosponsors:
Midwest Regional Office, NPS
Harry S Truman National Historic Site
Team Members:
Ellyn P. Goldkind, Supervisory Architect, Tulane University
Edward M. Walter, Architecture Technician [Foreman], University of Hawaii
Orlin K. Boyanov, Architect, University of Architecture, Construction and
Geodesy, Bulgaria [ICOMOS]
Mark J. Cutone, Architecture Technician, Syracuse University
Xuan-Hong Thi Ho, Architecture Technician, Mississippi State University
HABS added to its collection of sites associated with presidents of the United States by documenting three
homes at the Harry S Truman National Historic Site in Independence, Missouri. The Frank Wallace House
was built in 1915 for Frank Gates Wallace, brother of Bess Wallace Truman. The house is located at 601
West Truman Road, adjacent to the Truman home, as part of the family compound. The small bungalow of
wood frame construction, clad in wood shingles, is typical of the neighborhood. The modest structure is
enhanced with many typical twentieth century detalls: hardwood floors, wood baseboards, a brick fireplace,
decorative wood ceiling beams in the living and dining rooms, 3-over-1 double-hung windows, and locally-
made brass hardware. The original rear porch was remodeled as an extension to the kitchen.
The George Wallace house was built in 1916 for George Porterfield Wallace, another brother of Bess Truman.
It is located at 60 West Truman Road, adjacent to the Truman Home. The structure, a small bungalow, is
also of wood frame construction, clad in wood shingles. The structure includes a 1920s bedroom and
bathroom addition and is enhanced with many typical twentieth century details: hardwood floors, wood
baseboards, a brick fireplace with built-in bookcases, decorative wood ceiling beams in the living room, 9-
over-1 double-hung windows, and locally-made brass hardware.
The Noland/Haukenberry house was built in the mid-nineteenth century and purchased in 1908 by Joseph
Tilford Noland and Margaret Ellen Truman Noland, aunt and uncle of Harry S Truman. It was later owned
by their granddaughter, Ardis Ragland Haukenberry. The house is located at 216 North Delaware Street,
directly across from the Truman home. The two-story Victorian house, of wood-frame construction with
clapboard siding, has been expanded over the years. The original section of the house is a two-story structure
with a gable roof and an L-shaped front porch with a spindle frieze. A two-story rear addition was built in
1920, and later additions include a one-story rear kitchen wing and an enclosed south-facing porch. The house
is enhanced with hardwood floors, wood baseboards, ornate hardware, and a number of colored glass
windows.
These properties were recently acquired by the National Park Service as part of an historic district adjacent
to the home occupied by the Trumans during his presidency. The Wallace houses are early twentieth-century
bungalows of the type found throughout the Midwest and the West, and the Noland-Haukenberry is a late
nineteenth-century Victorian. Creating graphic documentation was especially critical for Noland-Haukenberry
-- planned as future curatorial office space because of its weakened structural and material condition. The
Wallace houses will be upgraded for use as Park Service housing.
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Noland/Haukenberry House. Independence, Missouri. Delineators: Orlin K. Bojanov and E. Matthew Walter, 1992.
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Natchez National Historical Park
Natchez, Mississippi
Project Leader:
Joseph D. Balachowski, HABS Architect
Cosponsor:
Southeast Regional Office, NPS
Team Members:
John P. White, Supervisory Architect, Professor, Texas Tech University
Roderick DeJ. Fluker, Architecture Technician [Foreman], Tuskegee University
John L. Alberstadt, Architecture Technician, Louisiana State University
Junne Kikata, Architect, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts, Japan [ICOMOS]
Rachel L. King, Architecture Technician, University of Virginia
Dennis E. McCarthy. Architecture Technician, The Catholic University of America
Kristin A. Peterson, Architecture Technician, University of Texas, Austin
Dena L. Sanford, Architectural Historian, University of Oregon [SAH-HABS Sally
Kress Tompkins Fellow]
The team documented two groups of structures: Melrose, a grand antebellum plantation home, and kitchen
and dairy dependencies: and the Johnson-MeCallum houses, consisting of two attached residential structures
and a kitchen/cook's quarters. The Johnson house and kitchen building were built by 3 free black businessman
before the Civil War.
The HABS drawings and photographs will enable systems engineers and maintenance workers to plan the
imminent installation of a new HVAC system. and to repair or replace existing electrical, plumbing, structural
and ornamental materials at Melrose.
The Johnson-MeCallum House drawings will aid National Park Service architects in stabilizing two structures
that, at this time, rely on each other for lateral support. The urban archaeological work is also reflected in
the HABS documentation and. as with the Melrose drawings. will aid in future interpretation of the site.
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Painted Desert Inn
Petrified Forest, Arizona
Petrified Forest National Park
Project Leader:
Joseph D. Balachowski, HABS Architect
Cosponsors:
Denver Service Center, NPS
Western Regional Office, NPS
Team Members:
Jorge L. Sein, Supervisory Architect, New York, New York
Patrick B. Guthrie, Architect, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis
Obispo
Sarah C. Ball, Architect, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom [ICOMOS]
Margaret A. Haas, Architecture Technician, Miami University
Manuel E. Skow, Architecture Technician, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State
University
This project produced large format photographic and historical documentation to supplement HABS existing-
condition measured drawings. The pueblo revival structure was recorded in order to aid a critical need to
repair the roof and to protect interior surfaces, murals, fixtures and furnishings. Maintenance and preservation
are ongoing concerns; cyclical sub-surface water saturation and drainage in bentonite clay causes constant,
measurable movement of the structure. Additionally, the inn, as constructed in 1937-40, did not successfully
integrate a poorly built 1920s structure of stone, petrified wood, and mud mortar.
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The Painted Desert Inn. Petrified Forest National Park. Apache County, Arizona. Delineators: Margaret A. Haas and Patrick B.
Guthrie, 1992.
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Rock Harbor Lighthouse and Passage Light Station
Houghton, Michigan
Isle Royale National Park
Project Leaders:
Joseph D. Balachowski, HABS Architect
Frederick J. Lindstrom, HABS Architect
Cosponsors:
Midwest Regional Office, NPS
Isle Royale National Park
Team Members:
Judith E. Collins, Architect, Lillian, Alabama
David N. Naill, Architecture Technician [Foreman], Virginia Polytechnic Institute
and State University
Denise A. Hopkins, Architecture Technician, Lawrence Technological University
Michael A. Kraeling, Architecture Technician, Southern College of Technology
Documentation of these two lights is the continuation of a multi-year effort to record cultural resources at
Great Lakes parks. Rock Harbor Lighthouse is the oldest of four at Isle Royale National Park. It is no longer
a functioning light, but is currently used as an exhibition space to interpret Great Lakes shipping history and
the lives of light keepers. Passage Light Station is operated by the U.S. Coast Guard, which maintains the
fog signal and the light. This project presented logistical and operational challenges to the team, whose work
at these remote sites needed to proceed in spite of Lake Superior storms, frost, and dependence on the
availability of Park Service boats for transportation. Future recording plans include Isle Royale Light, Rock
of Ages Light, as well as nineteenth century fishing camps and tourist facilities.
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EAVE 11' - 3 5/8"
SECOND FLOOR 9'-8"
ISLE ROYALE NATIONAL PARK
FIRST FLOOR
8
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CELLAR 5.31/2
NORTH ELEVATION
0
DAH
FEET 1/4".0"
WEST ELEVATION DEN
FEET 1/4°1'-0"
MATERIALS
METERS
MATERIALS
METERS
RUBBLE
WALL
RUBBLE
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- DENISE HOPKINS DAVID 1 NAILL
ISLE ROYALE LIGHT STATIONS PROJECT
I a . I a
SUMMER 1992
AUBBLE BRICK VENEER
RUBBLE WITH BRICK VENEER
ROOF
LEGAR SMAKES
ROOF
CEDAR SHAKES
LANTERN
CAST
PON,
SHEET
LANTERN CAST IRON, SHEET GLASS
Rock Harbor Lighthouse. Isle Royale National Park, Copper Harbor vicinity, Keweenaw County, Michigan.
Delineators: Denise A. Hopkins and David F. Naill
HABS PROJECTS
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HABS PROJECTS
Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway Pilot Documentation
Washington, D.C.
(Two-year project)
Project Leader:
Sara Amy Leach, HABS Historian
Cosponsor:
Park Roads and Bridges Program - Engineering & Safety Services Division, NPS
Team Members:
Tony Arcaro, Architect Technician, Catholic University
Timothy Davis, Historian, University of Texas-Austin
Robert Harvey, Supervisory Landscape Architect, Iowa State University
Evan Miller, Architect Technician, University of Colorado-Boulder
Steven Nose, Architect Technician, University of Maryland
Dorota Pape-Siliwonczuk, Landscape Architect, Board of Historical Palaces
and Gardens Restoration, Warsaw, Poland [ICOMOS]
Amy Ross, Historian, University of Virginia
Deborah Warshaw, Landscape Architect, University of Virginia
Photography: Jack E. Boucher, HABS Washington Office
Aerial Photography/Mapping: Air Survey Corporation of Sterling, Virginia
During this second and last year of the pilot project to document Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway, an
expanded team of historians and delineators prepared comprehensive written and graphic materials that will
fulfill two planned goals, to help establish HABS/HAER guidelines for recording such a site, and to provide
baseline information for park managers. The project as a whole falls under the aegis of HABS, which
assessed the overall landscape and two adjacent service stations, while ten vehicular and pedestrian bridges
are cataloged as HAER sites. This parkway--also designated Reservation No. 360 in the system of National
Capital parks--was selected as the model for study because of its uncontested historic significance, integrity,
size, and proximity to the HABS/HAER Washington office. The documentation was timed to conclude before
the NPS initiates rehabilitation, which is slated to begin in 1996.
The methodology for drawing the parkway and its features was new for the division. As no complete set of
as-is drawings were available, about 25 percent of the project budget was spent on aerial photography and
digitized mapping. Produced at a generous scale of 1"=40', depicted are l' contours, individual trees with
canopy and trunk, the creek, bridge crossings, and more. The plans were redrawn by the summer team on
34" X 44" mylar--fourteen sheets for the entire 2.5-mile parkway, from the Lincoln Memorial to the National
Zoo tunnel. An overlay system using pin-bar registration permitted the vegetation to be drawn on separate
sheets. In addition, bridge elevations and landscape sections were made; there are forty-nine sheets in all.
The historians produced a comprehensive overview of the parkway from pre-construction to present day, as
well as individual reports on related bridges and filling stations. Photography - from roadside and air --
capture the parkway and its features from all angles.
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BRIDGES OF ROCK CREEK AND POTOMAC PARKWAY, 1897-1964
CALVERT STREET
BROGE
XIV
FEET 20
8
50
TAFT
XIII
MEMORIAL BRIDGE
MASSACHUSETTS
X1
METERS 240
AVENUE BRIDGE
16
STREET BRIDGE
IX
STREET BRIDGE
vin
STREET BRIDGE
CURRENT GROUND
VI
ALIGNMENT
PENNSYLVANIA
PARKWAY
AVENUE BRIDGE
HISTORIC GROUND
K STREET BRIDGE
ALIGNMENT
WHITEHURST FREEWAY
ROCK CREEK
BROGE RAMP 3
LEGEND
150
306
NOTE BRIDGE DRAWINGS AND DIMENSIONS ARE
MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE BRIDGE, 1939-41
BASED ON ORIGINAL ARCHITECTURAL ENGINEER
BRIDGE LOCATION KEY
ING DRAWINGS SOURCE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
HAER No DC-22
ALL DRAWINGS ARE SOUTH ELEVATION VIEWS
CATHEDRAL AVE
ROCK CREEK AND POTOMAC PARKWAY
PARKWAY
82
150
TOTAL LENGTH 1341
WILLIAM H. TAFT MEMORIAL (CONNECTICUT AVENUE) BRIDGE, I897-1907
HAER No. DC-27
90
a
POTOMAC
PARKWAY
1
ROCK CREEK
825
CALVERT STREET (DUKE ELLINGTON MEMORIAL) BRIDGE, 1933-35
HAER No. DC-23
ROBE
Bridges - Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway, Washington, D.C. Delineator: Robert Harvey, 1992.
HABS PROJECTS
IOI
HAER PROJECTS
Bald Mountain Gold Mill
Lead, South Dakota
Project Leader:
Eric N. DeLony, Chief, HAER
Cosponsors:
Wharf Resources
Preservation Center, State of South Dakota
Team Members:
Robert W. Grzywacz, Architect, New Haven, Connecticut
Albert Aflenzer, Architect, Technical University of Vienna, Austria [ICOMOS]
Virginia G. Brumback, Architecture Technician, University of Washington
Joseph E. B. Elliott, Photographer, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania
David C. Eve, Historian, Ironbridge Institute, United Kingdom [ICOMOS]
Lee Ann Jackson, Architecture Technician, Auburn University
Bald Mountain was one of two projects conducted during summer 1992 under HAER's Hard Rock Mining
Initiative. This initiative was launched at the Hard Rock Mining Workshop held in Death Valley National
Monument in January 1989. Since then, HAER has focused one of its documentation arms on historic gold
mining and other hard-rock mining resources. Aside from the work done in Joshua Tree National Monument,
this particular project was the first venture cosponsored by the mining industry since the initiative was
launched. The Bald Mountain Gold Mill is located in the gold fields of the Black Hills of South Dakota, on
lands owned by Wharf Resources, a Canadian mining group.
In addition to histories and photographs, the team produced a series of process drawings that explain the
counter current decantation process for refining gold and other precious metals. This was particularly
challenging, as much of the mill had collapsed. However, enough of it remained that the combination of
ruins, original drawings, and eyewitness accounts by the last mill manager allowed the team to recreate the
process on mylar.
Counterclockwise, [top] Virginia Brumback, Robert Grzywacz,
Albert Aflenzer, Lee Ann Jackson, David Eve, and Joseph Elliott
pose on the Bald Mountain Gold Mill.
Photographer, Joseph Elliott, 1992
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.
19
LEACHING
BALO MOUNTAIN MEVADA MINING BULCH, AT THE COMPANY BALD BOTTOM MOUNTAIN CREEN GOLO MILL - 1907-1942
LAWRENCE 8 OF FALLE COUNTY
MILLING
10000
SCALE 1/"=1"-0"
LEAD
MILL AXONOMETRIC
PRECIPITATION
NORTHERN SECTOR
BALD MOUNTAIN
1942
ALBERT -ALBERT AFLENZER 1992
BALD MOUNTAIN GOLD MILL RECORDING PROJECT
.
Bald Mountain Mining Company: Bald Mountain Gold Mill - 1907-1942. Lead, Lawrence County, South Dakota.
HAER PROJECTS
Delineator: Albert Aflenzer, 1992.
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HAER PROJECTS
Cast and Wrought-Iron Bridges II
Columbus, Ohio
Project Leader:
Eric N. DeLony, Chief, HAER
Cosponsors:
West Virginia University Institute for the History of Technology and Industrial
Archaeology
Ohio Historical Society, Historic Preservation Program
Ohio State University School of Architecture
Team Members:
Christopher J. Payne, Supervisory Architect, Columbia University
Joseph A. Boquiren, Architecture Technician, University of Maryland
Joseph Elliott, Photographer, Sellersville, Pennsylvania
Attila Kovacs, Architect, Technical University of Budapest, Hungary [ICOMOS]
William M. Lawrence, Historian, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
The team documented twelve cast and wrought-iron metal-truss bridges within Ohio that are representative
of an important phase in the history of bridge engineering in the United States in general, and in the state in
particular. The replacement of wood with iron in such structures during the nineteenth century was one of
the first significant results of the Industrial Revolution.
The architects measured and produced record drawings on three of the bridges. A historian conducted
research on the structures, relying on documents compiled by David Simmons of the Ohio Historical Society.
Large format photographs were produced of all twelve bridges.
Upgrading the nation's highway infrastructure has accelerated the risk to historic bridges of all types, but the
rarest is the composite cast and wrought-iron. Of the hundreds built between 1840-80, only sixty-four
survive. To mitigate the threat to these engineering resources, Emory Kemp of the Institute for the History
of Technology and Industrial Archaeology at West Virginia University and HAER Chief Eric DeLony initiated
a concerted program to document the survivors. Ohio was a major center for bridge fabrication during this
period and, as a consequence, has a remarkable number of these types of bridges extant.
n
the HAER team in Ohio proved to be a real winner this summer. The drawings look great and Mike's histories show much
thought and in-depth research.
David A. Simmons, Associate Editor, TIMELINE, Ohio Historical Society,
in a letter dated October 9, 1992, to HAER Chief Eric DeLony
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HAER PROJECTS
09
Zoarville Station Bridge - 1868. Zoarville vicinity, Tuscarawas County, Ohio. Delineator: Christopher J. Payne, 1992.
105
HAER PROJECTS
Folsom Power House, Phase 1
Folsom, California
(A two year project)
Project Leaders:
Eric N. DeLony, Chief, HAER
G. Gray Fitzsimons, HAER Historian/Engineer
Cosponsors:
Friends of the Folsom Powerhouse
Office of Historic Preservation, California Department of Parks and Recreation
Team Members:
Laurence Shoup, Historian
Brian Grogan, Photographer
Folsom Powerhouse was the first hydroelectric plant in the United States to transmit high-voltage alternating-
circuit electricity over a long distance. The date was July 13, 1895, and the distance was twenty-two miles
from Folsom to the city of Sacramento. The ultimate goal of this project was to deliver electricity by way
of high-tension transmission lines at low cost to the industries and residential neighborhoods around San
Francisco, Oakland, and the Bay area. Now a California state park, Folsom Powerhouse was the flagship of
Pacific Gas and Electric, a major public utility of the Golden State, and is a designated national historic
landmark, a historic mechanical engineering landmark, and a national historic civil engineering landmark.
Part one of this two-summer project consisted of locating and copying primary source materials, such as
drawings, photographs, plant and equipment inventories, original reports, specifications and correspondence
pertaining to planning, construction, development and operation of this hydroelectric complex. Accompanying
this information is a twenty to thirty-page annotated bibliography on Folsom and early hydroelectric
development. In addition, recommendations for future research will be included. This initial phase of the
project also encompasses large format photography of Folsom. As a result of findings during phase one and,
pending the availability of funding, the second summer will produce a complete documentation package
consisting of measured and interpretive drawings, historical reports, and large format photographs.
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Exciter (foreground) and generator (top of picture), Folsom Power House. Folsom, California.
Photographer: Brian Grogan, 1992.
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HAER PROJECTS
Lost Horse Gold Mill
Twentynine Palms, California
Joshua Tree National Monument
Project Leader:
Eric N. DeLony, Chief, HAER
Cosponsors:
Western Regional Office, NPS
Joshua Tree National Monument
Team Members:
Martine Dion, Architect, McGill University, Canada [ICOMOS]
Dr. Donald Hardesty, Historical Archeologist, University of Nevada at Reno
Carolyn J. Kiernat, Architecture Technician, Arizona State University
Lester Ross, Historical Archeologist, San Bernardino County Museum, California
Karl W. Stumpf, Architect, Falls Church, Virginia
Richard Vidutis, Historian, Takoma Park, Maryland
The Lost Horse Gold Mill was documented under HAER's Hard Rock Mining Initiative because it is a prime
interpretive site of turn-of-the-century gold-mining practices in the southern California deserts. It is significant
because of the efficiency of its operation and is one of the few surviving ten-stamp gold mills in the United
States. Its location, directly over the mine shaft, negated the need for transporting ore to a central collection
point for processing and cut down markedly on operating costs, while increasing productivity and profit. Last
summer, HAER documented the Wall Street Mill and the Pinto Wye Arrastra.
Since 25 percent of the mining complex is still standing, the team reconstructed the site on mylar through field
measurements, archival research, and interviews with local informants knowledgeable of the Lost Horse Gold
Mine. The architects produced twelve sheets of measured and interpretive drawings. The historian's
documentary research and interviews aided the architects in their reconstruction of the Lost Horse milling
operation.
Because of the significance of archeological features in understanding and interpreting western mining sites,
a fourth component of archeology was included, supplementing traditional HAER drawings, photographs, and
histories. HAER drawings were annotated to include archeological features. Archeological reports were
included as part of the written documentation.
Documentation of the Lost Horse Gold Mill, and the Wall Street Mill and Pinto Wye Arrastra accomplished
in 1991, developed a considerable interest in early gold mining in Southern California. Tom Mulhern,
associate regional director for Park Historic Preservation, NPS Western Regional Office, currently plans to
publish the work of these teams. Publication is to be undertaken by the Denver Service Center's Graphics
Division, Dick Morishegla, chief.
There was one unexpected event. The team was rudely awakened the Sunday morning after the project started
by an earthquake centered near Yucca Valley, approximately twenty-two miles from the site and forty-four
miles from the field office. Neither site was damaged nor was the team harmed.
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HAER PROJECTS
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- Martine Cash, 1992
HISTORIC MINING INITIATIVE RECORDING PROJECT
LOST HORSE GOLD MILL 1893
I
HISTORIC AMERICAN
14 3/4 MILES BOUTH SOUTHWEST TWENTYHINE PALMS
and
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TWENTYHINE PALMS VICINITY
RIVERSIDE COUNTY
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CA 120
Lost Horse Gold Mill - 1893. Twentynine Palms vicinity, Riverside County, California.
Delineator: Martine Dion, 1992.
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HAER PROJECTS
Merritt Parkway
Wethersfield, Connecticut
Project Leaders:
Eric Delony, HAER Chief
Sara Amy Leach, HABS Historian
Cosponsors:
Connecticut Department of Transportation
Federal Highway Administration
Connecticut Historical Commission
Team Members:
Jacqueline A. Salame, Architect Supervisor, Columbia University
Mary Beth Clark, Architect, Pratt Institute
Gabrielle M. Esperdy, Historian, City University of New York
Devon Perkins, Architect, Yale University
Corinne Smith, Engineer, Cornell University
Todd Thibodeau, Historian, Arizona State University
Joanne McAllister-Hewlings, Landscape Architect, Sheffield University, United
Kingdom [ICOMOS]
Jet Lowe, HAER Staff Photographer
HAER's Merritt Parkway documentation project, like the HAES Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway project,
combined aspects of both division programs (HABS/HAER) to encompass landscape, roadway, bridges, and
buildings. The Merritt is one link in a much longer arterial "express through-route" that begins in New York
City and continues across Connecticut's Housatonic River as the Wilber Cross Parkway. It was singularly
created to ease congestion on the Boston Post Road/U.S. Route 1, and in doing so opened up Fairfield County
for suburbanization. Architect George Dunkelberger (1891-1960) designed every bridge exterior, service
station, and toll plaza for the Merritt, as architect with the Connecticut Highway Department's Bureau of
Engineering and Construction. Most notable are the dozens of Art Moderne and Art Deco bridges with
exaggerated pylons, intricate sgraffito, and metal detailing. All built between 1935-40, the bridges define the
Merritt as the nation's only non-rustic-style parkway. The project was sponsored by Connecticut Department
of Transportation and Federal Highway Administration officials in anticipation of preparing a preservation plan
for the parkway, and ultimately restoring its landscape and bridges. The multi-disciplinary team of architects,
landscape architects, historians, and an engineer prepared comprehensive written and graphic information,
including an extensive historical overview, ca. seventy individual bridge and building reports, and twenty-one
sheets of drawings depicting the highly ornamental bridges and landscape features, and several hundred
contemporary and historic photographs.
"I would like to commend Ms. Sara Leach and the rest of the (HABS/HAER) study team for the outstanding job
done on the historic documentation of the Merritt Parkway. I have always appreciated the beauty and unique
character of the Merritt Parkway. This appreciation has been greatly enhanced by the information the HABS/HAER
study has presented. I have also observed that since the staff of the Connecticut Department of Transportation has
reviewed the HABS/HAER information on the Merritt Parkway, they have undertaken the necessary transportation
improvements to this facility in a much more sensitive manner and with an enlightened appreciation of its signi-
ficance.
The work of HABS/HAER has helped clarify this focus on the bridges and the landscape, and will
continue to aid our efforts in these areas. I believe that the progress the Department has made in dealing with the
sensitive issues associated with the Merritt Parkway has been significantly enhanced by the work of the HABS/HAER
team."
--Emil H. Frankel, Commissioner, State of Connecticut Department of Transportation
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HAER PROJECTS
CURRE
overposs
1940
HAER No. CT-109
HILLSIDE ROAD
CONNDOT No. 738
DEES
underposs
1940
HAER No. CT-106
MERWINS LANE
CONNDOT No. 735
underposs
1939
HAER No. CT-113
MOREHOUSE HIGHWAY
CONNDOT No. 742
E
T TI II IF
11
11
underposs
1938
HAER No. CT-I08
CONGRESS STREET
CONNDOT No. 737
U.S.
underposs
1939
HAER No. CT-IIO
BURR STREET
CONNDOT No. 739
underposs
1939
HAER No. CT-107
REDDING ROAD
CONNDOT No. 736
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70
60
50
40
30
20
10
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0
10
20
30
40
50
60
FEET 3/32". 1'-0"
1:128 METERS
BRIDGES
EASTON
CONNECTICUT
86
HARTFORD
95
of the
WESTPORT
ESTI
CONGRESS ST
WILLSIDE
GEPORT
HAER CT-108
HAER CT-109
WATERBURY
64
84
91
NEW
-
ONDON
MERRITT
MERWINS LN REDDING RD BURR 5t
MOREHOUSE HWY
CANBURY
95
HAER CT-106 HAER CT-107 HAER CT-110
HAER CT-1131
MERRITT PKWY
BRIDGEPORT
LONG ISLAND SOUND
FAIRFIELD
PARKWAY
FAIRFIELD
0 1/2
2
STAMFORD
MILES
FAIRFIELD,Connecticut
DELINESTED BY
MERRITT PARKWAY
THE MERRITT PARKWAY BRIDGES
SHEET
HISTORIC AMERICAN
RECORDING PROJECT
CONNECTICUT RCUTE
ENGINEERING RECORD
-
FAIRFIELD
FAIRFIELD COUNTY
CONNECTICUT
9"2"
CT-63
REPRODUCED PLEASE CREDIT HISTORIC OMERICAN ENGINEERING RECORD FACE MRICE NAME OF DELINEATOR OFFE OF THE OREWING
Bridges - Merritt Parkway, Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut. Delineators: Jacqueline
A. Salame, Mary Elizabeth Clark, and B. Devon Perkins, 1992.
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HAER PROJECTS
Mount Rainier National Park Roads and Bridges Recording Project Mount Rainier, Washington
Project Leader:
Eric N. DeLony, Chief, HAER
Cosponsors:
Mount Rainier National Park
Park Roads & Bridges Program, Engineering & Safety Service Division, NPS
Team Members:
Todd A. Croteau, Supervisory Architect, HAER Washington Office
Julie A. Dickson, Landscape Architect, University of Virginia
Bryan D. Fish, Architecture Technician, University of Illinois
Jet Lowe, HAER Staff Photographer
Richard H. Quin, Historian, Middle Tennessee State University
Daniella Trettel, Architect, National University of Cordoba, Argentina [ICOMOS]
The multi-year National Park Service Roads and Bridges Recording Project continued in 1992 with the
documentation of Mount Rainier National Park's road system. This year the team studied the development
of road and bridge construction from the first wagon road to the present, with a particular interest in road
landscapes. In 1891, James Longmire, first settler of the area, constructed a rough wagon road to Longmire
Springs, known for its healing mineral waters. Mount Rainier National Park was established in 1899, and
soon after, the Army Corps of Engineers was commissioned to survey, design and construct the first
government road into the wilderness. The Corps' "Road to Paradise," built across mountainous terrain, was
hailed as the first road in America to reach a glacier and provided access to the bounty of wildflowers in the
subalpine meadows.
With the establishment of the National Park Service in 1916, new road proposals were surveyed and
constructed to satisfy the demand for access. The Park Service adopted a "lay lightly on the land" policy and
established the rustic style of park design, using native stones, logs and other indigenous materials to
harmonize with natural landscape. In 1925, the NPS and the Bureau of Public Roads (BPR) reached an
agreement that shifted design and construction to BPR management. Today, many fine examples of historic
bridges and other related structures remain in use, though threatened by safety codes, traffic increases, and
the harsh glacial environment of Mount Rainier. In addition to standard HAER documentation, an illustrated
interpretive brochure was produced for distribution to the visitors of Mount Rainier National Park.
"I was very impressed by the accomplishments and professionalism of these young people
Hopefully, the devotion expressed
by the team has fostered an appreciation that will be reflected in future design and construction technologies that integrate design
components into the whole landscape with as much success as the original designers achieved.
The efforts of the HAER
team are extremely timely, as the park administration prepares Mount Rainier National Park to enter its second century, which
begins on March 2, 1999. The documentation of the historic bridges and road-related structures through measured and
interpretive drawings, large-format photographs, and written data will be extremely beneficial for us in this endeavor.
William J. Briggle, Superintendent, Mount Rainier National Park
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HAER PROJECTS
113
Historic photograph. Construction of Deer Creek Bridge in Mount Rainier National Park, 1939.
HAER PROJECTS
SNOW SQUALL [Bow of the Clipper Ship]
Portland, Maine
Project Leader:
Robbyn L. Jackson, HAER Architect
Cosponsor:
Spring Point Museum
Council of American Maritime Museums (CAMM)
Team Members:
Dale O. Waldron, Supervisory Architect, Rhode Island School of Design
Karl N. Bodensiek, Architect, Roger Williams College, Sally Kress Tompkins
Maritime Intern
Molly J. Horvath, Curator, Spring Point Museum
David C. Switzer, SNOW SQUALL Project Director
The clipper ship SNOW SQUALL was the third of four vessels built by Cornelius Butler at his yard on
Turner's Island in Cape Elizabeth (now South Portland), Maine. It was launched into the Fore River on July
14, 1851, and for thirteen years flew the flag of New York merchant Charles R. Green in the Pacific and
South American trades, carrying general cargoes out and bringing tea, spices and coffee in. On her final
voyage in 1864, bound from New York to San Francisco, she ran aground in the Straits of LeMaire near Cape
Horn, and was sailed to Port Stanley in the Falkland Islands, where she was condemned and abandoned after
transshipment of her cargo and sale of her gear.
SNOW SQUALL lay as a hulk at the Falkland Islands Company jetty for more than a century, subject to harm
by natural and human causes. Photographs taken ca. 1880 reveal wood stripped from her upper hull for use
as building material. Storms and rot caused further damage, tons of stone jetty blocks shattered and covered
her midsection, and a sinking barge crushed her stern. By the mid 1980s, the only intact accessible remains
of this ship consisted of her bow, from the keel up to 'tweendeck level. Four archeological expeditions,
sponsored by Harvard University's Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnology, achieved preliminary
documentation of SNOW SQUALL's bow between 1982 and 1986, recovering all above-water structural
members. In 1987, the final expedition conducted by Spring Point Museum retrieved the bow's 36'-long
underwater section.
SNOW SQUALL's bow survives today as the sole remaining example of the hundreds of American-built
clipper ships that made record-setting voyages carrying goods and passengers to and from Gold Rush-era
California, Australia, and the Far East. A clipper was very narrow in proportion to length, with a sharp
hollow bow; it was square-rigged, typically with an enormous spread of canvas. Vessels of this type
developed in the 1840s were designed for speed rather than large cargo capacity in a boom time of high
freight rates. By the late 1850s, economic conditions favored slower ships of greater cargo capacity and
smaller crews, so clipper construction was abandoned.
This HAER project produced measured drawings, a written historical report and large-format photographs of
the bow.
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HAER PROJECTS
Top to bottom, HAER architect Dale Waldron and HAER intern Karl Bodensiek assist SNOW SQUALL project director
David Switzer in attaching station lines to the bow section of the clipper ship in preparation for their measurement
of the curvature of the hull's starboard side. Photograph: courtesy of Spring Point Museum, South Portland,
Maine - Molly Horvath, photographer.
115
HABS/HAER's Collections Management Unit staff toured NPS's Harpers Ferry National Historical Park in
West Virginia. Left to right, Brian Cary, Kathryn 'Katy' Jackson, Monica Paprocki, and Alice Bojanowski.
Photographer: Monica Paprocki, 1992
116
HABS/HAER OFFICE
Washington, D.C.
Historians:
HABS
Brian L. Cary, University of Arizona
Christine L. Madrid, University of Utah
Monica M. Paprocki, American University
HAER
Carolyn E. Brucken, George Washington University
Anne C. Deines, George Washington University
Patricia A. Summers, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Architects
HABS
Kalinina Natalya, Moscow Institute of Architecture, Russia [ICOMOS]
HAER
Flor de Maria Argueta Pineda, Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala,
Guatemala [ICOMOS]
Architecture
HAER
Albert N. Debnam, Howard University [HABS/HAER Intern Program]
Technicians:
Amy C. McGroarty, The Catholic University of America
Social Science
HABS/HAER
Kathryn H. Jackson, Skidmore College
Technician:
Office Support: HABS/HAER Derrick C. Leak, Morehouse College
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MITIGATIVE DOCUMENTATION PROGRAM
Under the provisions of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended, Federal agencies are
required to produce documentation to HABS/HAER standards on buildings, structures, sites, and objects that
are listed in or eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places and that are threatened with
demolition or substantial alteration by projects with Federal involvement. The five National Park Service
regional offices charged with external historic preservation responsibilities administer the HABS/HAER
mitigative documentation program. The actual work is usually conducted by contractors and supervised by
the responsible Federal agency. The documentation produced is reviewed by the regional coordinator and
transmitted to the HABS/HAER Washington office for inclusion in the HABS/HAER collections at the Library
of Congress. The regional coordinators are:
*
Alaska Region
Sandra Faulkner
*
Western Region
Ann Huston
*
Rocky Mountain Region
Lisa Wegman-French
*
Mid-Atlantic Region
Tina C. LeCoff
*
Southeast Region
Dan Schiedt
WESTERN REGION
HABS/HAER COORDINATOR
MID-ATLANTIC REGION
WESTERN REGIONAL OFFICE
HABS/HAER COORDINATOR
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
MID-ATLANTIC REGIONAL OFFICE
600 HARRISON STREET, SUITE 600
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA 94107
Tel.: 415-556-7741
ROCKY MOUNTAIN REGION
U.S. CUSTOMS HOUSE, ROOM 521
2nd & CHESTNUT STREETS
PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA 19106
Tel.: 215-597-6484
HABS/HAER WASHINGTON OFFICE
HABS/HAER COORDINATOR
NATIONAL PARK 6ERVICE
ROCKY MOUNTAIN REOIONAL OFFICE
P.O. BOX 37127
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20013-7127
12795 W. ALAMEDA PARKWAY
Tel.: 202-343-9606
DENVER, COLORADO 80226
Tel.: 303-968-2875
SOUTHEAST REGION
HABS/HAER COORDINATOR
SOUTHEAST REOIONAL OFFICE
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
75 SPRING STREET, SUITE 1150
ATLANTA, GEORGIA 30303
Tel.: 404-331-2639
UNITED STATES
ALASKA REGION
HABS/HAER COORDINATOR
ALASKA REGIONAL OFFICE
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
2525 GAMBELL STREET
ANCHORAOE, ALASKA 99503
Tel.: 907-271-2638
118
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
January 1
24th birthday of the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER)
January 15
Deadline for Sally Kress Tompkins Fellowship applications
March 1
Closing date for applications for HABS/HAER summer teams
March 24-27
HABS/HAER-University of Maryland Architectural Photography Course
April 14-18
Annual Meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH), Charleston, South
Carolina, and the Announcement of the third HABS/SAH Sally Kress Tompkins Fellow
May
First HABS/HAER summer teams are fielded
May 10-15
Preservation Week
May 12-14
Annual Meeting of the Vernacular Architecture Forum, Natchez, Mississippi
June 3-7
Annual Meeting of the Society for Industrial Archeology, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
June 18-20
American Institute of Architects Convention, Chicago, Illinois
June 30
Closing date for Charles E. Peterson Prize entries
July 24-25
Annual HABS/HAER picnic and reception for summer teams, Washington, D.C.
August 23
Birthday of HABS Founder, Charles E. Peterson
September 9-11 AIA Committee on Historic Resources Meeting -- Awarding of 1993 Peterson Prize,
Spring Green and Madison, Wisconsin
October 7-10
Annual Meeting of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, St. Louis, Missouri
November 17
60th birthday of the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS)
December 8-9
Annual Meeting of the HABS/HAER project leaders
December 9
Annual HABS/HAER Holiday Exhibition and Reception.
119
APPENDIX I
FY 1992 HABS TRANSMITTALS
HABSCODE
CITY-TOWN
RECORD NAME
/NDRW NPHO DATA
AL-894
TUSKEGEE
Rockefeller Hall Bath House
/
6
0
0
AL-893
AUBURN
Scott-Yarbrough House
/
3
0
0
AZ-149-A
PHOENIX
Arizona Biltmore, Bathhouse & Cabanas
/
0
51
10
AZ-150
TOHONO O'ODHAM
San Xavier Hall
/
4
0
0
AZ-147
PHOENIX
Stroud Building
/
0
24
21
CA-2335-A
VENTURA VIC.
Anacapa Island Light Station, House
/
0
1
0
CA-2335-B
VENTURA VIC.
Anacapa Island Light Station, Light Tower/
0
1
0
CA-2301
SACRAMENTO
California State Printing Office
/
0
7
18
CA-2299
WAWONA
Chinquapin Service Station & Lunch Room
/
0
13
9
CA-2314
BERKELEY
Davis-Byrne Building
/
0
16
15
CA-2257-D
DEATH VALLEY
Death Valley Ranch, Barn (Stables)
/
6
30
12
CA-2257-F
DEATH VALLEY
Death Valley Ranch, Chimes Tower
/
2
48
8
CA-2257-L
DEATH VALLEY
Death Valley Ranch, Cookhouse
/
1
13
0
CA-2257-H
DEATH VALLEY
Death Valley Ranch, Entrance Gates & Dung/
2
5
5
CA-2257-C
DEATH VALLEY
Death Valley Ranch, Garage, Long Shed, Bunk/
3
17
9
CA-2257-B
DEATH VALLEY
Death Valley Ranch, Guesthouse (Hacienda),
/
4
27
8
CA-2257-A
DEATH VALLEY
Death Valley Ranch, Main House
/
17
113
13
CA-2257-E
DEATH VALLEY
Death Valley Ranch, Power House
/
3
32
9
CA-2257
DEATH VALLEY
Death Valley Ranch, Scotty's Castle
/
6
5
63
CA-2257-M
DEATH VALLEY
Death Valley Ranch, Scotty's Original Cas/
1
4
0
CA-2257-G
DEATH VALLEY
Death Valley Ranch, Service Station, Gas T/
1
0
8
CA-2257-K
DEATH VALLEY
Death Valley Ranch, Solar Heater
/
0
3
5
CA-2257-I
DEATH VALLEY
Death Valley Ranch, Swimming Pool
/
0
4
5
CA-2257-N
DEATH VALLEY
Death Valley Ranch, Wishing Well
/
1
3
0
CA-2257-J
DEATH VALLEY
Death Valley, Gravel Plant, Bunker
/
0
5
4
CA-2286
DEATH VALLEY
Death Valley, Lower Grapevine Ranch
/
1
0
7
CA-2286-C
DEATH VALLEY
Death Valley, Lower Grapevine Ranch, Black/
0
1
0
CA-2286-E
DEATH VALLEY
Death Valley, Lower Grapevine Ranch, Chang/
0
4
0
CA-2286-D
DEATH VALLEY
Death Valley, Lower Grapevine Ranch, Corra/
0
1
0
CA-2286-B
DEATH VALLEY
Death Valley, Lower Grapevine Ranch, Garag/
1
1
0
CA-2286-A
DEATH VALLEY
Death Valley, Lower Grapevine Ranch, House/
3
6
0
CA-2302
RIVERSIDE
First Christian Church Parsonage
/
0
11
6
CA-2251
PASADENA
Huntington Hotel
/
15
20
99
CA- 2271
GROVELAND VIC.
North Mountain Lookout
/
0
15
25
CA-2300
SACRAMENTO
Strub Building
/
0
5
24
CO-122
BLACK HAWK
Lace House, The
/
7
0
0
CT-429
WEST HARTFORD
1013 Farmington Avenue (House)
/
0
16
3
CT-427
HARTFORD
704 Park Street (Commercial Building)
/
0
4
2
DC-600
WASHINGTON
443 Seventh Street, NW (Commercial Buildi/
0
6
11
DC- 308
WASHINGTON
629 D Street NW (Commercial Building)
/
0
3
16
DC-569-B
WASHINGTON
920-926 F Street, NW (Commercial Building/
5
12
2
DC- 569
WASHINGTON
920-930 F St. NW (Commercial Buildings)
/
1
9
0
DC-569-A
WASHINGTON
Atlantic Building
/
20
13
1
DC-611
WASHINGTON
Central Armature Works
/
0
3
10
HI-82
KALAUPAPA
A.J.A. Buddhist Hall
/
0
3
0
HI-86
KALAUPAPA
Abandoned Store
/
0
2
0
HI-96
KALAUPAPA
Administrative Building No. 270
/
0
1
0
HI-104
KALAUPAPA VIC.
Airport Terminal
/
0
1
0
HI- -90
KALAWAO
Baldwin Home Kitchen Ruins
/
0
3
0
Hi-85-H
KALAUPAPA
Bay View Home, Board Batten
/
0
2
0
HI-85-J
KALAUPAPA
Bay View Home, Building No. 8
/
0
3
0
HI-85-D
KALAUPAPA
Bay View Home, Kitchen & Dining Area
/
0
5
0
HI-85-E
KALAUPAPA
Bay View Home,Kitchen,Old
/
0
20
0
HI-85-I
KALAUPAPA
Bay View Home, Quonset Residence
/
0
2
0
120
APPENDIX I
FY 1992 HABS Transmittals, cont'd.
HABSCODE
CITY-TOWN
RECORD NAME
/NDRW NPHO DATA
HI-85-A
KALAUPAPA
Bay View Home, Residence No. 1
/
0
3
0
HI-85-G
KALAUPAPA
Bay View Home, Residence No. 11
/
0
1
0
HI -85-B
KALAUPAPA
Bay View Home, Residence No. 2
/
0
3
0
HI -85-C
KALAUPAPA
Bay View Home, Residence No. 3
/
0
4
0
HI-85-F
KALAUPAPA
Bay View Home, Residence No. 64
/
0
2
0
HI -102
KALAUPAPA VIC.
Beach House, Building No. 695
/
0
1
0
HI- 103
KALAUPAPA VIC.
Beach House, Building No. 699
/
0
3
0
HI-83-C
KALAUPAPA
Bishop Home, Bake Oven
/
0
3
0
Hi-83-B
KALAUPAPA
Bishop Home, Sisters' Convent
/
0
3
o
HI-83-A
KALAUPAPA
Bishop Home, St. Elizabeth Chapel
/
0
3
o
HI 91
KALAUPAPA
Butcher Shop & Freezer
/
0
2
0
HI 93
KALAUPAPA
Carpenter Shop
/
0
1
0
HI- 128
KALAUPAPA
Cemetery, Airport Road
/
0
8
0
HI- 127
KALAUPAPA
Copes Monument
/
0
1
0
HI- 121
KALAUPAPA
Crematory
/
0
1
0
HI- 126
KALAUPAPA
Damien Monument
/
0
1
0
HI- 78
KALAUPAPA
Fire Station
/
0
3
0
HI- 122
KALAUPAPA
Food Warehouse
/
0
2
0
HI- 75
KALAUPAPA
Fumigation Hall
/
0
6
0
HI-94
KALAUPAPA
Gas Station
/
0
1
0
HI- 84
KALAUPAPA
Jail & Police Station
/
0
3
0
HI-123
KALAUPAPA
Kanaana Hou Calvinist Church
/
0
11
0
HI- 116
KALAUPAPA
Latter Day Saints Mormon Church
/
0
2
0
HI- 115
KALAUPAPA
Latter Day Saints Parish Hall
/
0
2
0
HI- 130
KALAUPAPA
Latter Day Saints Rectory
/
0
1
0
HI- 113
KALAUPAPA VIC.
Lion's Pavilion
/
0
1
0
HI- 120
KALAUPAPA
Lumber Warehouse
/
0
2
0
HI-92
KALAUPAPA
Maintenance Shop
/
0
1
0
HI-95-D
KALAUPAPA
McVeigh Home,Apartment Building
/
0
2
0
HI-95-G
KALAUPAPA
McVeigh Home, Card Room
/
0
1
0
HI-95-B
KALAUPAPA
McVeigh Home, Cottage No. 1
/
0
1
0
HI-95-H
KALAUPAPA
McVeigh Home, Cottage No. 13
/
0
2
0
HI-95-I
KALAUPAPA
McVeigh Home, Cottage No. 15
/
0
1
0
HI-95-C
KALAUPAPA
McVeigh Home, Cottage No. 2
/
0
1
0
HI-95-A
KALAUPAPA
McVeigh Home, Dormitory
/
0
3
0
HI-95-F
KALAUPAPA
McVeigh Home, Pool Hall
/
0
1
0
HI-95-E
KALAUPAPA
McVeigh Home, Recreation Hall
/
0
2
0
HI- 118
KALAUPAPA
Mission House Drew
/
0
4
0
HI 99
KALAUPAPA VIC.
Moloka'i Light Station
/
0
1
o
HI-99-E
KALAUPAPA VIC.
Moloka'i Light Station, Generator Shed
/
0
2
0
HI-99-A
KALAUPAPA VIC.
Moloka'i Light Station, Lighthouse
/
0
5
0
HI-99-B
KALAUPAPA VIC.
Moloka'i Light Station, Residence No. 1
/
0
2
0
HI-99-F
KALAUPAPA VIC.
Moloka'i Light Station, Residence No. 2
/
0
2
0
HI-99-C
KALAUPAPA VIC.
Moloka'i Light Station, Storage Vault
/
0
1
0
HI- 99-D
KALAUPAPA VIC.
Molokai Light Station, Watertank
/
0
1
o
HI- 101
KALAUPAPA
Mother Marianne Library
/
0
1
o
HI-111
KALAUPAPA
Motor Pool Garage
/
0
1
0
HI- 110
KALAUPAPA
Motor Pool Gas Station
/
0
1
o
HI-117
KALAUPAPA
Outpatient Clinic
/
0
2
0
HI- 72
KALAUPAPA
Paschoal Craft Building
/
0
3
0
HI- 76
KALAUPAPA
Patient Store
/
0
4
0
HI- 119
KALAUPAPA
Plumbing Warehouse
/
0
1
0
HI- 77
KALAUPAPA
Post Office & Courthouse
/
0
3
0
HI-114
KALAUPAPA VIC.
Public Restroom
/
0
1
0
121
APPENDIX I
FY 1992 HABS Transmittals, cont'd.
HABSCODE
CITY-TOWN
RECORD NAME
/NDRW NPHO DATA
HI-124
KALAUPAPA
Rea's Store & Bar
/
0
2
0
HI-124-A
KALAUPAPA
Rea's Store & Bar, Restroom
/
0
1
0
HI-107
KALAUPAPA
Residence, Building No. 114
/
0
3
0
HI- 106
KALAUPAPA
Residence, Building No. 115
/
0
1
0
HI- 108
KALAUPAPA
Residence, Building No. 116
/
0
2
0
HI- 105
KALAUPAPA
Residence, Building No. 118
/
0
2
0
HI- 109
KALAUPAPA
Residence, Building No. 119
/
0
3
0
HI-87
KALAUPAPA
Residence, Building No. 281
/
0
2
0
HI- 112
KALAUPAPA
Residence, Building No. 53
/
0
1
0
HI-79
KALAUPAPA
Residence, Building No. 56
/
0
2
0
HI- 100
KALAUPAPA
Residence, Building No. 62-117
/
0
1
0
HI- 98
KALAUPAPA
Residence, Building No. 71R-61
/
0
1
0
HI- 89
KALAWAO
Rock Crusher
/
0
4
0
HI- 70-A
KALAWAO
Siloama Church, Restrooms
/
0
1
0
HI- 70
KALAWAO
Siloama Protestant Church
/
0
9
0
HI-97
KALAUPAPA
Slaughterhouse
/
0
1
0
HI-80
KALAUPAPA
St. Francis Catholic Church
/
0
21
0
HI -81
KALAUPAPA
St. Francis Church Library
/
0
1
0
HI 69
KALAWAO
St. Philomena Roman Catholic Church
/
0
28
0
HI-69-A
KALAWAO
St. Philomena Roman Catholic Church, Chur/
0
3
0
HI -88-G
KALAUPAPA
Staff Row, Administrative Residence
/
0
3
0
HI -88-A
KALAUPAPA
Staff Row, Central Kitchen
/
0
3
0
HI-88-B
KALAUPAPA
Staff Row, Corner Residence
/
0
3
0
HI -88-F
KALAUPAPA
Staff Row, Dentist House
/
0
2
0
Hi-88-H
KALAUPAPA
Staff Row, Doctor's House
/
0
4
0
HI-88-D
KALAUPAPA
Staff Row, Electrician's Residence
/
0
2
0
HI-88-E
KALAUPAPA
Staff Row, Freezer Shelter
/
0
1
o
HI- -88-C
KALAUPAPA
Staff Row, Garage
/
0
1
o
HI- -88-I
KALAUPAPA
Staff Row, Guest Cottage
/
0
3
0
HI-66
KALAUPAPA
Town of Kalaupapa
/
0
2
0
HI-65
PEARL HARBOR
U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Nvl. Shpyrd/
0
7
6
HI- 71-C
KALAUPAPA
Visitor Quarters, Building No. 274
/
0
2
0
HI- 71 B
KALAUPAPA
Visitor Quarters, Building No. 277
/
0
2
0
HI-71-D
KALAUPAPA
Visitor Quarters, Patient Restrooms
/
0
1
0
HI-71-E
KALAUPAPA
Visitor Quarters, Telephone Sub-Station
/
0
2
0
HI-71-A
KALAUPAPA
Visitor Quarters, Visitor-Patient Meeting/
0
4
0
IA-77
GRINELL
Merchants' National Bank
/
10
4
1
ID-74
ELK CITY VIC.
Red River Ranger Station
/
0
0
2
ID-74-B
ELK CITY VIC.
Red River Ranger Station, Cookhouse
/
0
0
1
ID-74-C
ELK CITY VIC.
Red River Ranger Station, Garage
/
0
0
1
ID-74-A
ELK CITY VIC.
Red River Ranger Station, Office
/
0
0
1
ID-74-D
ELK CITY VIC.
Red River Ranger Station, Woodshed
/
0
0
1
IL-1167
PEORIA
423 West High Street
/
1
0
0
IL-1171
PEORIA
437 West High Street
/
2
0
0
IL-1172
PEORIA
438 West High Street
/
1
0
0
IL-1173
PEORIA
443 W. High St.
/
2
0
0
IL-1175
PEORIA
510 W. High St.
/
1
0
0
IL-1177
PEORIA
518 West High Street
/
1
0
0
IL-1179
PEORIA
524 West High Street
/
1
0
0
IL-1174
PEORIA
Bohanan House
/
1
0
0
IL-1178
PEORIA
Bourland House
/
1
0
0
IL-1166
PEORIA
Easton House
/
1
0
0
IL-1170
PEORIA
Francis, J. H. House
/
1
0
0
IL-1180
PEORIA
Francis, W., House
/
1
0
0
122
APPENDIX I
FY 1992 HABS Transmittals, cont'd.
HABSCODE
CITY-TOWN
RECORD NAME
/NDRW NPHO DATA
IL-1169
PEORIA
Giant Oak Park
/
1
0
0
IL-1156
CHICAGO
Granada Theatre
/
0
31
14
IL-1165
PEORIA
Hale Memorial Methodist-Episcopal Church/
8
0
0
IL-1176
PEORIA
Hardin House
/
1
0
0
IL-1164
PEORIA
West Bluff:High Street
/
2
0
0
IL-1168
PEORIA
West High Street, House
/
1
0
0
IN-234
VINCENNES
Clark, George Rogers Memorial
/
0
2
0
KS-54
FORT RILEY
Fort Riley
/
0
25
28
LA-1217-A
DUBACH VIC.
Autrey House
/
8
0
0
LA-1217
DUBACH VIC.
Autrey and Nolan Houses
/
1
0
0
LA-1213-A
VACHERIE
Laura Plantation, Main House
/
15
0
0
LA-1213-B
VACHERIE
Laura Plantation, Second House
/
7
0
0
LA-1217-B
DUBACH VIC.
Nolan House
/
8
0
0
LA-1220
AVERY ISLAND
Salt Mine Village
/
1
5
0
LA-1220-A
AVERY ISLAND
Salt Mine Village, Baptist Church
/
1
0
0
LA-1220-C
AVERY ISLAND
Salt Mine Village, Bradford Club
/
3
0
0
LA-1220-B
AVERY ISLAND
Salt Mine Village, Company Store
/
3
0
0
LA-1220-I
AVERY ISLAND
Salt Mine Village, Salt Workers' Houses N/
1
0
0
LA-1220-D
AVERY ISLAND
Salt Mine Village,Salt Workers' Houses,N/
1
0
0
LA-1220-E
AVERY ISLAND
Salt Mine Village, Workers'<Houses,N/
1
0
0
LA-1220-F
AVERY ISLAND
Salt Mine Village,Salt Workers' Houses,N/
1
0
0
LA-1220-G
AVERY ISLAND
Salt Mine Village,S Workers' Houses, ,N/
1
0
0
LA-1220-H
AVERY ISLAND
Salt Mine Village, Salt Workers' Houses,N/
1
0
0
LA-1218
WEYANOKE
St. Mary's Episcopal Church
/
10
0
0
LA-1219
AVERY ISLAND
Tango Village
/
2
0
0
LA-1219-A
AVERY ISLAND
Tango Village, Tabasco Deli Company Store/
2
0
0
LA-1219-B
AVERY ISLAND
Tango Village, Tabasco Workers' Houses, No/
1
0
0
LA-1219-C
AVERY ISLAND
Tango Village, Tabasco Workers' Houses, No/
1
0
0
LA-1219-D
AVERY ISLAND
Tango Village, Tabasco Workers' Houses,
1
0
0
MA-1249
BOURNE
Camp Edwards
/
0
19
7
MA-1249-A
BOURNE
Camp Edwards, Building T-1209
/
0
3
9
MA-1249-B
BOURNE
Camp Edwards, Building T-1222
/
0
1
10
MA-1249-C
BOURNE
Camp Edwards, Building T-1229
/
0
5
9
MA-1249-D
BOURNE
Camp Edwards,Building T-1233
/
0
1
10
MA-1249-E
BOURNE
Camp Edwards, Building T-1240
/
0
2
9
MA-1249-F
BOURNE
Camp Edwards, Building T-1242
/
0
2
10
MA-1249-G
BOURNE
Camp Edwards, Building T-1267
/
0
4
9
MA-1249-H
BOURNE
Camp Edwards, Building T-1310
/
0
4
10
MA-1249-I
BOURNE
Camp Edwards, Building T-1369
/
0
3
9
MA-1249-J
BOURNE
Camp Edwards, Building T-3599
/
0
1
9
MA-1252
NANTUCKET
First Baptist Church
/
8
0
8
MA-1253
NANTUCKET
Worth-Gardner House
/
15
0
11
MD-1057
FREDERICK VIC.
14th Regiment New Jersey Vol. Infantry
M/
0
3
0
MD-1056
FREDERICK VIC.
67th, 87th & 138th Regmts. Pennsylvania V/
0
4
0
MD-1018
BRIGHTON
Brighton Grange Hall
/
0
16
2
MD-1052
URBANA
Clifton Farm
/
6
25
49
MD-307-C
FT.WASH. FOREST
Fort Washington, Barracks
/
0
1
0
MD-307-E
FT.WASH.
FOREST
Fort Washington, Commandant's House
/
0
5
0
MD-307-D
FT.WASH.
FOREST
Fort Washington, Fort
/
0
17
0
MD-307-A
FT.WASH. FOREST
Fort Washington, Main Gate
/
0
20
0
MD-307-B
FT.WASH. FOREST
Fort Washington, Officer's Quarters
/
0
8
0
MD-1051
URBANA
Gambrill House
/
17
37
37
MD-1059
FREDERICK VIC.
Monocacy Battle Centennial Monument
/
0
3
0
MD-85
SHARPSBURG VIC.
Roulette Farm Group (House)
/
0
4
2
123
APPENDIX I
FY 1992 HABS Transmittals, cont'd.
HABSCODE
CITY-TOWN
RECORD NAME
/NDRW NPHO DATA
MD-85-A
SHARPSBURG VIC.
Roulette Farm Group, Barn
/
0
3
0
MD-85-B
SHARPSBURG VIC.
Roulette Farm Group, Slave Quarters
/
0
1
0
MD-1058
FREDERICK VIC.
Southern Soldiers Monument
/
0
3
0
MD-1055
FREDERICK VIC.
Tenth Vermont Infantry Monument
/
0
3
0
MN-105
ELY VIC.
Burntside Lodge
/
0
6
0
MN-105-D
ELY VIC.
Burntside Lodge, Cabin No. 26
/
0
2
0
MN-105-C
ELY VIC.
Burntside Lodge, Cabin No. 27
/
0
4
0
MN-105-E
ELY VIC.
Burntside Lodge, Cabins No. 23 & 24
/
0
1
0
MN-105-F
ELY VIC.
Burntside Lodge, Cabins No. 4 & 9
/
0
1
0
MN-105-A
ELY VIC.
Burntside Lodge, Post
/
0
2
0
MN-105-B
ELY VIC.
Burntside Lodge, Stone Cottage
/
0
1
0
MN-117-C
CENTER CITY
Center City Hist. Dist. Swedish Evang Lu/
0
1
0
MN-117-A
CENTER CITY
Center City Historic District, 100 Summit/
0
1
0
MN-117
CENTER CITY
Center City Historic District, 120-144 Su/
0
2
0
MN-117-B
CENTER CITY
Center City Historic District, Summit/
0
1
0
MN-99 (WAS
ST. PAUL
Como Conservatory
/
0
10
0
MN-102
DETROIT LAKES
Detroit Lakes Public Library
/
0
11
0
MN-120
ARTICHOKE
District 13 School
/
0
1
0
MN-113-B
KENT VIC.
Femco Fam, Granary
/
0
2
0
MN 113
KENT VIC.
Femco Farm
/
0
3
0
MN-113-E
KENT VIC.
Femco Farm, Corn Crib
/
0
1
0
MN-113-A
KENT VIC.
Femco Farm, Cow Barn
/
0
9
0
MN-113-H
KENT VIC.
Femco Farm, Fertilizer Bin
/
0
1
0
MN-113-F
KENT VIC.
Femco Farm, Hog Barn
/
0
1
0
MN-113-G
KENT VIC.
Femco Farm, Machine Shed
/
0
1
0
MN-113-I
KENT VIC.
Femco Farm, Milk House
/
0
1
0
MN-113-D
KENT VIC.
Femco Farm, Sheep Barn
/
0
2
0
MN-113-C
KENT VIC.
Femco Farm, Steel Grain Bin
/
0
1
0
MN-113-J
KENT VIC.
Femco Farm, Tractor
/
0
1
0
MN-96
NEW ULM
Hermann Monument
/
0
4
0
MN-114
LAKE ITASCA VIC
Itasca State Park, Forest Inn
/
0
1
0
MN-114-A
LAKE ITASCA VIC
Itasca State Park, Old Headwaters Buildin/
0
2
0
MN-114-B
LAKE ITASCA VIC
Itasca State Park, Old Timer's Cabin
/
0
3
0
MN- 109
JEFFERS VIC.
Jeffers Petroglyphs
/
0
5
0
MN-97
MADISON
Lac Qui Parle County Courthouse
/
0
2
0
MN 118
CLOQUET
Lindholm Oil Company Service Station
/
0
6
0
MN-98
MADISON
Madison Carnegie Library
/
0
1
0
MN-121
MAHNOMEN
Mahnomen City Drive-In Movie Theater
/
0
1
0
MN-103
MAHNOMEN
Mahnomen County Fairgrounds
/
0
6
0
MN-100
ST. PAUL
Mickey's Diner
/
0
1
0
MN-110-H
MINNEAPOLIS
Minneapolis
Warehouse
Dist.
200-204
Wash/
0
1
0
MN-110-R
MINNEAPOLIS
Minneapolis
Warehouse
Dist. 8th Ave. & W/
0
1
0
MN-110-J
MINNEAPOLIS
Minneapolis Warehouse District, 24 Third /
0
1
0
MN-110-K
MINNEAPOLIS
Minneapolis
Warehouse
District, 250 North/
0
1
0
MN-110-A
MINNEAPOLIS
Minneapolis
Warehouse
District, 300 1st A/
0
2
0
MN-110-C
MINNEAPOLIS
Minneapolis Warehouse
District, 300-314 3/
0
2
0
MN-110-G
MINNEAPOLIS
Minneapolis
Warehouse
District, 5th St. &/
0
1
0
MN-110-M
MINNEAPOLIS
Minneapolis
Warehouse
District, 701 North/
0
1
0
MN-110-D
MINNEAPOLIS
Minneapolis
Warehouse
District, Acme Elec/
0
1
0
MN-110-V
MINNEAPOLIS
Minneapolis
Warehouse
District, Berman Bu/
0
1
0
MN-110-F
MINNEAPOLIS
Minneapolis Warehouse District, Butler Sq/
0
1
0
MN-110-W
MINNEAPOLIS
Minneapolis Warehouse District, Colonial /
0
3
0
MN-110-I
MINNEAPOLIS
Minneapolis Warehouse District, Commercia/
0
1
0
MN-110-X
MINNEAPOLIS
Minneapolis Warehouse District,Creamette/
0
1
0
124
APPENDIX I
FY 1992 HABS Transmittals, cont'd.
HAESCODE
CITY-TOWN
RECORD NAME
/NDRW NPHO DATA
MN-110-0
MINNEAPOLIS
Minneapolis Warehouse District, Falk Pape/
0
3
0
MN-110-L
MINNEAPOLIS
Minneapolis
Warehouse
District, Ford Cent/
0
1
0
MN-110-Y
MINNEAPOLIS
Minneapolis Warehouse
District, Itasca Wa/
0
1
0
MN-110-E
MINNEAPOLIS
Minneapolis Warehouse
District,Kickernic/
0
1
0
MN-110-S
MINNEAPOLIS
Minneapolis Warehouse
District, Lindsay B/
0
1
0
MN-110-N
MINNEAPOLIS
Minneapolis
Warehouse
District, Litin Pap/
0
1
0
MN-110-B
MINNEAPOLIS
Minneapolis
Warehouse
District, Lumber Ex/
0
1
0
MN-110-AA
MINNEAPOLIS
Minneapolis Warehouse District, Magnum Fi/
0
1
0
MN-110
MINNEAPOLIS
Minneapolis
Warehouse
District, Masonic T/
0
2
0
MN-110-Z
MINNEAPOLIS
Minneapolis Warehouse
District, Minnesota/
0
1
0
MN-110-U
MINNEAPOLIS
Minneapolis Warehouse
District, Safe Stor/
0
1
0
MN-110-P
MINNEAPOLIS
Minneapolis Warehouse District, Seymour B/
0
1
0
MN-110-T
MINNEAPOLIS
Minneapolis Warehouse District, Whitney B/
0
1
0
MN-110-Q
MINNEAPOLIS
Minneapolis Warehse Dist. International /
0
3
o
MN-127
MOORHEAD
Moorhead American Legion Building
/
4
0
0
MN-116
DULUTH
Morgan Park Historic District, 85th Ave.
/
0
1
0
MN-116-A
DULUTH
Morgan Park Historic District, Ave. /
0
2
0
MN-116-B
DULUTH
Morgan Park Historic District, Ave. /
0
1
0
MN-116-C
DULUTH
Morgan Park Historic District, Company St/
0
1
0
MN-116-D
DULUTH
Morgan Park Historic District, Protestant/
0
1
0
MN-112
ST. PAUL
Pilgram Baptist Church
/
0
2
0
MN-115-E
PIPESTONE
Pipestone Historic Dist.,Pipestone Count/
0
1
0
MN-115
PIPESTONE
Pipestone Historic District
/
0
1
o
MN-115-B
PIPESTONE
Pipestone Historic District, & A.M. /
0
1
0
MN-115-C
PIPESTONE
Pipestone Historic District, Bank-Calumet/
0
2
0
MN-115-A
PIPESTONE
Pipestone Historic District, Moore Buildi/
0
1
o
MN-115-F
PIPESTONE
Pipestone Historic District, Old City Hal/
0
1
0
MN-115-D
PIPESTONE
Pipestone Historic District, Masonic
/
0
1
0
MN-104
SAUM VIC.
Saum School
/
0
3
0
MN-104-A
SAUM VIC.
Saum School,
/
0
3
0
MN-18
COLLEGEVILLE
St. Johns University,Abbey Church
/
0
3
0
MN-106
CLOQUET VIC.
St. Joseph & Mary Church
/
0
3
0
MN-101
ST. PAUL
St. Paul's Women's City Club
/
0
6
0
MN-111
ST. PAUL
Torre de San Miguel Bell Tower
/
0
1
0
MN-119-A
NERSTRAND VIC.
Valley Grove Churches, New
/
0
4
0
MN-119
NERSTRAND VIC.
Valley Grove Churches, Old Church
/
0
5
0
NC-389-A
MANTEO VIC.
Fort Raleigh, Entrance Gate
/
0
1
o
NC-389-D
MANTEO VIC.
Fort Raleigh, Fort
/
0
2
0
NC-389-B
MANTEO VIC.
Fort Raleigh, Visitor Center
/
0
1
0
NC-389-C
MANTEO VIC.
Fort Raleigh, Waterside Theater
/
0
1
0
NM-165-B
AZTEC VIC.
Aztec Ruins, Great Kiva
/
0
2
0
NM-165-A
AZTEC VIC.
Aztec Ruins, West Ruin
/
0
6
0
NM-164-A
VALMORA VIC.
Fort Union, Fort
/
0
1
0
NM-164-B
VALMORA VIC.
Fort Union, Post Officers' Houses
/
0
1
0
NY-6335
New York
Hamilton Grange
/
0
25
0
OH-272
WARREN
Edwards-Webb House
/
7
1
3
OR-155
SPRINGFIELD
Dorris Ranch
/
16
0
0
OR-156
PLEASANT HILL V
Mitchell House
/
0
6
3
PA-5673
JOHNSTOWN
100 Block Clinton Street
/
0
1
1
PA-5916
JOHNSTOWN
102-4 Clinton St. (Saloon)
/
0
0
1
PA-5565
ROBERTSDALE
103-05 South Main Street (House)
/
0
1
0
PA-5419
SALTSBURG
105 Point Street (House)
/
0
3
6
PA-5566
ROBERTSDALE
107-09 South Main Street (House)
/
0
1
0
PA-5572
WOODVALE
11-12 Pine Street (House)
/
0
2
0
125
APPENDIX I
FY 1992 HABS Transmittals, cont'd.
HABSCODE
CITY-TOWN
RECORD NAME
/NDRW NPHO DATA
PA-5702
JOHNSTOWN
114 Clarion Street (House)
/
0
0
1
PA- 5724
JOHNSTOWN
115 Montour Strret (House)
/
0
0
1
PA- 5729
JOHNSTOWN
117-19 Wyoming Street (House)
/
0
0
1
PA- 5579
WOODVALE
13 Fulton Street (House)
/
0
1
0
PA- 5549
ROBERTSDALE
13-15 East Street (House)
/
0
1
0
PA- 5730
JOHNSTOWN
132 Wyoming Street (House)
/
0
0
1
PA- 5681
JOHNSTOWN
134 Tioga Street (House)
/
0
1
1
PA- 5683
JOHNSTOWN
140 Colgate Avenue (House)
/
0
1
2
PA- 5731
JOHNSTOWN
144 Wyoming Street (house)
/
0
0
2
PA- 5684
JOHNSTOWN
146 Colgate Avenue (House)
/
0
1
2
PA- 5580
WOODVALE
17 Fulton Street (House)
/
0
1
0
PA- 5678
JOHNSTOWN
18 Wyoming Street (House)
/
0
1
2
PA- 5578
WOODVALE
19-21 Broad Street (House)
/
0
1
0
PA- 5771
JOHNSTOWN
195-97 Iron St. (House)
/
0
1
2
PA- 5574
WOODVALE
2 North Street (House)
/
0
2
0
PA- 5568
WOODVALE
2-4 Elm Street (House)
/
0
2
0
PA- 5772
JOHNSTOWN
203-05 Iron Street (House)
/
0
1
2
PA- 5562
ROBERTSDALE
21-23 Lincoln Street (House)
/
0
1
0
PA- 5577
WOODVALE
21-23 Main Street (House)
/
0
1
0
PA- 5680
JOHNSTOWN
216-18 Wyoming Street (House)
/
0
1
1
PA- 5558
ROBERTSDALE
22 Spring Street (House)
/
0
1
0
PA- 5781
JOHNSTOWN
227-9 Iron Street (House)
/
0
0
2
PA- 5685
JOHNSTOWN
238 Greene Street (House)
/
0
2
1
PA- 5726
JOHNSTOWN
238 Tioga Street (House)
/
0
0
1
PA- 5682
JOHNSTOWN
244 Tioga Street (House)
/
0
1
1
PA- 5773
JOHNSTOWN
248-50 Iron Street (House)
/
0
1
1
PA- 5774
JOHNSTOWN
272-74 Iron Street (House)
/
0
1
1
PA- 5548
ROBERTSDALE
29-31 Cliff Street (House)
/
0
1
0
PA- 5923
JOHNSTOWN
403 Luzerne Street (House)
/
0
0
1
PA- 5679
JOHNSTOWN
42 Lehigh Street (House)
/
0
1
2
PA- 5576
WOODVALE
5 North Street (House)
/
0
1
0
PA- 5564
ROBERTSDALE
56-58 South Main Street (House)
/
0
1
0
PA- 5581
WOODVALE
58-60 Broad Street (House)
/
0
2
0
PA- 5714
JOHNSTOWN
59 Lehigh Street (House)
/
0
0
2
PA- 5924
JOHNSTOWN
615 Brallier Alley
/
0
1
0
PA- 5665
SALTSBURG
706-08 Salt Street (House)
/
0
3
0
PA- 5722
JOHNSTOWN
800 Luzerne Street (House)
/
0
0
1
PA- 5571
WOODVALE
9-10 Pine Street (House)
/
0
2
0
PA- 5411
ALEXANDRIA
Alexandria High School
/
0
2
6
PA- 5414
ALEXANDRIA
Alexandria Memorial Public Library
/
0
8
6
PA- 5413
ALEXANDRIA
Alexandria Presbyterian Church
/
0
2
5
PA- 5407
ALEXANDRIA
Alexandria, Town of
/
0
1
21
PA- 5704
JOHNSTOWN
Allendorfer, John H. House
/
0
0
1
PA- 5423
SALTSBURG
Andre, Andrew, House
/
0
3
6
PA-5404
ALEXANDRIA
Baker, Soloman, House
/
0
1
4
PA- 5779
JOHNSTOWN
Benshoff,Benjamin,House
/
0
0
2
PA- 5728
JOHNSTOWN
Berkebile, Foster H. & Edna, House
/
0
0
1
PA- 5756
JOHNSTOWN
Bratz, Paukratz, House
/
0
0
1
PA- 5700
JOHNSTOWN
Buchanan, Frank M. & Mary E. House
/
0
0
1
PA- 5696
JOHNSTOWN
Burkhard, William H. & Louise, House
/
0
1
2
PA- 5932
JOHNSTOWN
Burns, James P. House
/
0
0
2
PA- 5708
JOHNSTOWN
Butler, Elmer, House
/
0
0
1
PA- 5672
JOHNSTOWN
Cambria City & Minersville Neighborhoods/
0
7
23
PA- 5739
JOHNSTOWN
Cambria Fire Hook & Ladder Company Build/
0
1
1
126
APPENDIX I
FY 1992 HABS Transmittals, cont'd
HABSCODE
CITY-TOWN
RECORD NAME
/NDRW NPHO DATA
PA- 5394
ALEXANDRIA
Cameron,James,House
/
0
3
5
PA- 5666
ALEXANDRIA
Canal Towns
/
0
0
22
PA- 5552
ROBERTSDALE
Carney, J. A. ,House
/
0
1
0
PA- 5398
ALEXANDRIA
Charlton, Dr. James, House
/
0
5
5
PA- 5759
JOHNSTOWN
Chestnut Street Public School
/
0
0
1
PA- 5915
JOHNSTOWN
Clinton Hotel
/
0
0
1
PA- 5775
JOHNSTOWN
Connelly, James, House
/
0
1
1
PA- 5403
ALEXANDRIA
Connor, Francis, House
/
0
4
5
PA- 5706
JOHNSTOWN
Cooper, Mary J. ,House
/
0
0
2
PA- 5400
ALEXANDRIA
Cresswell,John,House
/
0
5
5
PA- 5753
JOHNSTOWN
Croatian Hall
/
0
0
1
PA- 5395
ALEXANDRIA
Cross,Benjamin,House
/
0
3
5
PA- 5694
JOHNSTOWN
Dennison, Mary A. House
/
0
1
1
PA- 5674
JOHNSTOWN
Dibert, David, Building
/
0
1
0
PA-5670
JOHNSTOWN
Downtown Neighborhood
/
0
2
29
PA- 5732-A
JOHNSTOWN
Endsley, Harry S. ,House
/
0
1
1
PA-5732-B
JOHNSTOWN
Endsley, Harry S. Stable
/
0
1
0
PA- 5560
ROBERTSDALE
Engineer's House
/
0
2
0
PA- 5767
JOHNSTOWN
European Hotel
/
0
0
1
PA- 5748
JOHNSTOWN
Faith, Victor & Etella, House
/
0
1
2
PA- 5749
JOHNSTOWN
Faith, Victor, Building
/
0
1
1
PA- 5768
JOHNSTOWN
Fehse, William, House
/
0
0
2
PA- 5735
JOHNSTOWN
Fifth Avenue Hotel
/
0
1
2
PA- 5745
JOHNSTOWN
First Catholic Slovak Band Hall
/
0
1
1
PA- 5431
SALTSBURG
First National Bank of Saltsburg
/
0
3
6
PA- 5705
JOHNSTOWN
Fisher, Rose, House
/
0
0
1
PA- 5677
JOHNSTOWN
Franklin Street Methodist Church
/
0
1
0
PA- 5716
JOHNSTOWN
Fronheiser, Jacob & Marguerite Haymaker,
0
0
1
PA- 5689
JOHNSTOWN
Gardner,Jonathan,House
/
0
1
1
PA- 5676
JOHNSTOWN
Gaulbert, St. John, Roman Catholic Church
/
0
1
0
PA- 5412
ALEXANDRIA
German Reformed Church
/
0
6
5
PA- 5770
JOHNSTOWN
Germania Brewing Company Building
/
0
0
1
PA- 5783
JOHNSTOWN
Glosser Brothers Department Store
/
0
1
0
PA- 5783-
JOHNSTOWN
Glosser Brothers Department Store, Annex
/
0
1
0
PA- 5399
ALEXANDRIA
Grafius, Israel, House
/
0
3
6
PA- 5718
JOHNSTOWN
Grazier, Harvey F. House
/
0
0
1
PA- 5765
JOHNSTOWN
Greiner, Albrecht & Josephine, House
/
0
0
1
PA- 5709
JOHNSTOWN
Hamilton, James A. House
/
0
0
1
PA- 5703
JOHNSTOWN
Hamilton, Thomas E. House
/
0
0
1
PA- 5717
JOHNSTOWN
Hannan, Louise Fayon, House
/
0
0
1
PA-5782
JOHNSTOWN
Harrigan-Sturver Building
/
0
1
2
PA- 5686
JOHNSTOWN
Hay, Harry M. House
/
0
2
1
PA- 5761
JOHNSTOWN
Holy Cross Evangelical Lutheran Church
/
0
0
2
PA- 5401
ALEXANDRIA
Houtz, Dr. Daniel, House
/
0
5
6
PA- 5402
ALEXANDRIA
Houtz, Dr. Daniel, Office
/
0
1
4
PA- 5764
JOHNSTOWN
Hungarian Reformed Church
/
0
0
1
PA- 5738
JOHNSTOWN
Immaculate Conception Church of the Bles/
0
2
2
PA- 1430
PHILADELPHIA
Independence Hall Complex, Independence H/
45
130
0
PA- 5387
JOHNSTOWN
Johnstown City Hall
/
0
1
5
PA- 5386
JOHNSTOWN
Johnstown Public Library
/
0
2
8
PA- 5675
JOHNSTOWN
Johnstown Tribune Building
/
0
1
0
PA- 5669
JOHNSTOWN
Johnstown, City of
/
0
0
44
PA- 5713
JOHNSTOWN
Keedy, Thomas P. House
/
0
0
1
PA- 5740
JOHNSTOWN
Kelly, Joseph & Catherine, House
/
0
1
2
127
APPENDIX I
FY 1992 HABS Transmittals, cont'd.
HABSCODE
CITY-TOWN
RECORD NAME
/NDRW NPHO DATA
PA-5750
JOHNSTOWN
Komara, Joseph, House I
/
0
1
2
PA-5754
JOHNSTOWN
Komara, Joseph, House II
/
0
0
1
PA-5922
JOHNSTOWN
Krieger, William C. House
/
0
0
1
PA-5917
JOHNSTOWN
Lenhart Building
/
0
0
1
PA-5710
JOHNSTOWN
Lloyd, Evan A. House I
/
0
0
1
PA-5715
JOHNSTOWN
Lloyd, Evan A. House II
/
0
0
1
PA-5755
JOHNSTOWN
Lorditch, George & Catherine, House
/
0
0
1
PA-5733-A
JOHNSTOWN
Love, Russel C. & Lucy, House
/
0
1
4
PA-5733-B
JOHNSTOWN
Love, Russel C. & Lucy, Stable
/
0
1
2
PA-5757
JOHNSTOWN
Mannechor Singing Society Hall
/
0
0
1
PA-5422
SALTSBURG
Martin, John, House
/
0
7
6
PA-5925
JONHSTOWN
Mayer, August G. & Louisa, Building
/
0
0
1
PA-5385
JOHNSTOWN
Mayer, L.H., Building
/
0
1
10
PA-5561
ROBERTSDALE
McClain, Jesse O. Store
/
0
2
1
PA-5776
JOHNSTOWN
McCreary House
/
0
1
1
PA-5425
SALTSBURG
McFarland,Dr. John, House
/
0
1
5
PA-5429
SALTSBURG
McGlaughlin, James, House
/
0
2
7
PA-5424
SALTSBURG
McIlwaine,William,House
/
0
1
6
PA-5393
ALEXANDRIA
McManus,Patrick,House
/
0
2
5
PA-5421
SALTSBURG
Moore, Samuel S. House & Store
/
0
2
6
PA-5707
JOHNSTOWN
Morris,Fannie,House
/
0
0
1
PA-5723
JOHNSTOWN
Morris, William H. House
/
0
0
1
PA-5587
UNIONTOWN VIC.
Mount Washington Tavern
/
0
3
0
PA- 5688
JOHNSTOWN
Mulvehill,Peter,House
/
0
1
1
PA-5417
SALTSBURG
Murray, Dr. Thomas, House
/
0
2
6
PA-5668
ALEXANDRIA
Neff, Benjamin, House
/
0
2
0
PA-5691
JOHNSTOWN
Oakley, William, House
/
0
1
1
PA-5727
JOHNSTOWN
Our Mother of Sorrows Roman Catholic Chu/
0
0
2
PA-5690
JOHNSTOWN
Owen, Moses & Mary, House
/
0
1
1
PA-5699
JOHNSTOWN
Palmer, George G. & Sarah, House
/
0
0
1
PA-5551
ROBERTSDALE
Paymaster's House
/
0
1
0
PA-5388
JOHNSTOWN
Penn Traffic Building
/
0
2
9
PA-5406
ALEXANDRIA
Pennsylvania Canal Lockkeeper's House
/
0
1
5
PA-5389
JOHNSTOWN
Pennsylvania Railroad Station
/
0
4
8
PA-5415
ALEXANDRIA
Pennsylvania Railroad Station
/
o
1
1
PA-5437
SALTSBURG
Pennsylvania Railroad Station
/
0
2
6
PA-5769
JOHNSTOWN
Pesch, Matilda, House
/
0
0
1
PA-5777
JOHNSTOWN
Polish National Alliance Building
/
0
0
1
PA-5751
JOHNSTOWN
Pollak, Samuel, Meat Market
/
0
0
1
PA-5397
ALEXANDRIA
Porter, John, House
/
0
2
5
PA-5734-A
JOHNSTOWN
Price, Charles S. & Sarah, House
/
0
1
2
PA-5734-B
JOHNSTOWN
Price, Charles S. & Sarah,Stable
/
0
1
0
PA-5557
ROBERTSDALE
Reality Theater
/
0
1
1
PA-5693
JOHNSTOWN
Replogle,J. Leonard & Blanche McMillen,
0
1
1
PA- 5701
JOHNSTOWN
Reynolds, Thomas E. House
/
0
0
1
PA-5778
JOHNSTOWN
Roach, Denis, House
/
0
1
1
PA-5556
ROBERTSDALE
Robertsdale East Broad Top Railroad Depo/
0
1
1
PA-5563
ROBERTSDALE
Robertsdale Hotel
/
0
1
1
PA-5559
ROBERTSDALE
Robertsdale Methodist Church Parsonage
/
0
1
1
PA-5484
ROBERTSDALE
Robertsdale, Town of
/
0
9
0
PA-5427
SALTSBURG
Robinson, James, House
/
0
2
6
PA-5428
SALTSBURG
Robinson, Thomas & John, House
/
0
3
6
PA-5418
SALTSBURG
Robinson, William C. House
/
0
1
6
PA-5567-C
WOODVALE
Rockhill Iron & Coal Comp. ,Substation &
/
0
1
0
128
APPENDIX I
FY 1992 HABS Transmittals, cont'd.
HABSCODE
CITY-TOWN
RECORD NAME
/NDRW NPHO DATA
PA-5555
ROBERTSDALE
Rockhill Iron & Coal Company Office
/
0
2
1
PA-5554
ROBERTSDALE
Rockhill Iron & Coal Company Store
/
0
2
1
PA-5553
ROBERTSDALE &WO
Rockhill Iron & Coal Company Towns
/
0
0
44
PA-5567-A
WOODVALE
Rockhill Iron & Coal Company, Boiler Hous/
0
2
0
PA-5567-B
WOODVALE
Rockhill Iron & Coal Company, Machine Sho/
0
2
0
PA-5567-E
WOODVALE
Rockhill Iron & Coal Company, Mule Barn
/
0
2
0
PA-5567-D
WOODVALE
Rockhill Iron & Coal Company, Storage Bui/
0
1
0
PA-5719
JOHNSTOWN
Rogers, Henry & Elfrieda, House
/
0
0
1
PA-5430
SALTSBURG
Rombach,Mathias,House
/
0
3
6
PA-5760
JOHNSTOWN
Roth, John Casper & Elizabeth, House
/
0
1
2
PA-5433
SALTSBURG
Saltsburg Academy
/
0
3
6
PA-5438
SALTSBURG
Saltsburg, Town of
/
0
8
30
PA-5695
JOHNSTOWN
Schondardt, John, House
/
0
1
1
PA-5432
SALTSBURG
Shupe, P. D. Hardware Store
/
0
9
7
PA-5435
SALTSBURG
Sons of Zebedee Evangelical Lutheran Chu/
0
6
6
PA-5743-A
JOHNSTOWN
St. Casimir's Roman Catholic Church, Chur/
0
2
2
PA-5743-B
JOHNSTOWN
St. Casimir's Roman Catholic Church, Rect/
0
0
1
PA-5743-C
JOHNSTOWN
St. Casimir's Roman Catholic Church, Rect/
0
0
1
PA-5766
JOHNSTOWN
St. Casimir's School
/
0
0
1
PA-5737
JOHNSTOWN
St. Casimir's Society Hall
/
0
1
1
PA-5741-A
JOHNSTOWN
St. Columba's Roman Catholic Church, Chur/
0
0
1
PA-5741-B
JOHNSTOWN
St. Columba's Roman Catholic Church, Chur/
0
1
2
PA-5741-D
JOHNSTOWN
St. Columba's Roman Catholic Church, Conv/
0
0
1
PA-5741-C
JOHNSTOWN
St. Columba's Roman Catholic Church, Rect/
0
0
1
PA-5747
JOHNSTOWN
St. Emerich's Roman Catholic Church
/
0
1
1
PA-5742-A
JOHNSTOWN
St. Mary's Greek Byzantine Catholic Chur/
0
8
2
PA-5742-B
JOHNSTOWN
St. Mary's Greek Byzantine Catholic Chur/
0
0
1
PA-5746
JOHNSTOWN
St. Mary's Syrian Orthodox Church
/
0
1
1
PA-5436
SALTSBURG
St. Matthew's Catholic Church
/
0
4
6
PA-5570
WOODVALE
St. Michael's Greek Orthodox Church
/
0
3
1
PA-5569
WOODVALE
St. Michael's Greek Orthodox Social Hall/
0
1
1
PA-5762
JOHNSTOWN
St. Rochus Croatian Catholic Church
/
0
0
2
PA-5744
JOHNSTOWN
St. Stephen's Slovak Catholic Church
/
0
1
2
PA-5758
JOHNSTOWN
Stenger, John & Anna Maria, House
/
0
0
1
PA-5408
ALEXANDRIA
Stewart, Thomas, House
/
0
2
6
PA-5416
SALTSBURG
Stewart, William, House
/
0
0
18
PA-5720
JOHNSTOWN
Stimmel, Elmer E. ,House
/
0
0
1
PA-5396
ALEXANDRIA
Stitt, Alexander, House
/
0
0
5
PA-5550
ROBERTSDALE
Superintendent's House
/
0
1
0
PA-5420
SALTSBURG
Taylor, Robert J. ,House
/
0
5
6
PA-5711
JOHNSTOWN
Temple, Charles H. & Catherine, House
/
0
0
1
PA-5692
JOHNSTOWN
Thackray, George E. House
/
0
2
1
PA-5736
JOHNSTOWN
Third Avenue Hotel
/
0
1
2
PA-5405
ALEXANDRIA
Thompson Carriage House
/
0
2
2
PA-5697
JOHNSTOWN
Tioga Street Market
/
0
1
1
PA-5687
JOHNSTOWN
Trent, Albert & Replogle, Jacob 2. ,House
/
0
1
1
PA-5390
JOHNSTOWN
U.S. Post Office
/
0
2
9
PA-5434
SALTSBURG
United Presbyterian Church
/
0
1
6
PA-5698
JOHNSTOWN
Varner, F. J. House
/
0
0
1
PA-5752
JOHNSTOWN
Wagner, George, House
/
0
0
1
PA-5410
ALEXANDRIA
Walker, Evander P. Store
/
0
2
5
PA-5763
JOHNSTOWN
Wass, John & Eva, House
/
0
1
2
PA-5725
JOHNSTOWN
Wattingly, Minnie E. House
/
0
0
1
PA-2918
JOHNSTOWN
Wehn's Building
/
0
0
1
129
APPENDIX I
FY 1992 HABS Transmittals, cont'd.
HABSCODE
CITY-TOWN
RECORD NAME
/NDRW NPHO DATA
PA-5671
JOHNSTOWN
Westmont Neighborhood
/
0
1
33
PA-5721
JOHNSTOWN
Westmont Presbyterian Church
/
0
0
2
PA-5409
ALEXANDRIA
Willibrand, Henry, Brewery
/
0
1
6
PA-5573
WOODVALE
Woodvale Methodist Church
/
0
1
1
PA- 5575
WOODVALE
Woodvale Post Office
/
0
1
1
PA-5485
WOODVALE
Woodvale, Town of
/
0
3
0
PA-5426
SALTSBURG
Wray House
/
0
4
6
PA-5712
JOHNSTOWN
Zimmerman, G. A. & Jennie A. , House
/
0
0
1
TN-142
GREENEVILLE
Johnson, Andrew, House
/
14
25
0
TN-227
GREENEVILLE
Kerbaugh
/
6
18
0
TX 3364
BRENHAM
Giddings-Wilkin House
/
16
0
0
TX 3371
REFUGIO VIC.
Rooke House
/
14
5
0
TX 3371 -A
REFUGIO
Rooke House, Cistern
/
1
0
0
UT-130-B
PROMONTORY VIC.
Golden Spike, Monument
/
0
2
0
UT-130-A
PROMONTORY VIC.
Golden Spike, Visitor Center
/
0
2
0
WI-326
MILWAUKEE
American System-Built Homes
/
4
0
0
WI. 308
SPARTA VIC.
Fort McCoy
/
0
84
13
WI- 308-B
SPARTA
Fort McCoy, Building No. 1463
/
0
21
10
WI-308-K
SPARTA
Fort McCoy, Building T-100
/
0
10
10
WI-308-I
SPARTA
Fort McCoy, Building T-1046
/
0
20
10
WI-308-A
SPARTA
Fort McCoy, Building T-1129
/
0
39
17
WI-308-H
SPARTA
Fort McCoy, Building T-1146
/
0
11
11
WI-308-D
SPARTA
Fort McCoy, Building T-1551
/
0
24
11
WI-308-G
SPARTA
Fort McCoy, Building T-1863
/
0
16
9
WI- 308
SPARTA
Fort McCoy, Building T-2000
/
0
30
10
WI- 308
SPARTA
Fort McCoy, Building T-2002
/
0
13
9
WI-308-C
SPARTA
Fort McCoy, Building T-635
/
0
14
20
WI-308-B
SPARTA
Fort McCoy, Building T-801
/
0
16
19
WY 87
YELLOWSTONE NAT
Old Faithful Inn
/
0
41
8
130
APPENDIX I
FY 1992 HAER TRANSMITALS
HAERCODE
CITY-TOWN
RECORD NAME
/NDRW NPHO DATA
AR- 37
OLA VIC.
Achmun Creek Bridge
/
0
5
2
AR-13
AUGUSTA
Augusta Bridge
/
0
6
25
AR- 53
BEAVER
Beaver Bridge
/
0
7
2
AR-22
FT. DOUGLAS
Big Piney Creek Bridge
/
0
10
9
AR-8
POCAHONTAS
Black River Bridge
/
0
5
23
AR-2 23
PRUITT
Buffalo River Bridge
/
0
9
9
AR-25
WALNUT RIDGE
Cache River Bridge
/
0
7
12
AR-31
PETIT JEAN STAT
Cedar Creek Bridge
/
0
7
11
AR-49
CLARENDON
Clarendon Bridge
/
0
9
28
AR-15
COTTER
Cotter Bridge
/
0
19
49
AR-33
PERRY VIC.
Cypress Creek Bridge
/
0
5
2
AR-40
NORTH LITTLE RO
Edgemere Street Bridge
/
0
4
3
AR-17
PARAGOULD
Eight Mile Creek Bridge
/
0
10
6
AR-42
NORTH LITTLE RO
Fourteenth Street Bridge
/
0
5
2
AR-9
HARRISON VIC.
Harp Creek Bridge
/
0
8
9
AR-28
SILOAN SPRINGS
Illinois River Bridge
/
0
9
22
AR-54
JENNY LIND VIC.
Jenny Lind Bridge
/
0
2
2
AR-51
JUDSONIA
Judsonia Bridge
/
3
11
12
AR-39
NORTH LITTLE RO
Lake No. 1 Bridge
/
0
4
3
AR-52
NORTH LITTLE RO
Lakeshore Drive Bridge
/
0
6
3
AR-45
COVE CITY
Lee Creek Bridge
/
0
8
8
AR-24
NATURAL DAM
Lee Creek Bridge (No. 1)
/
0
6
11
AR-6
LITTLE ROCK
Lincoln Avenue Viaduct
/
0
7
20
AR-35
Lockesburg Vic.
Little Cossatot River Bridge
/
0
6
3
AR-44
OLD ROME VIC.
Little Missouri River Bridge
/
0
7
2
AR-55
MILLTOWN
Milltown Bridge
/
0
6
2
AR-34
CAMP PIONEER VI
Mountain Fork Bridge
/
0
8
2
AR-43
EUREKA SPRINGS
Mulladay Hollow Bridge
/
0
7
3
AR-12
NEWPORT
Newport Bridge
/
0
7
38
AR-10
NORFOLK
North Fork Bridge
/
0
11
19
AR-46
BENTON
Old River Bridge
/
0
5
17
AR-30
HEALING SPRINGS
Osage Creek Bridge
/
0
8
2
AR-19
CALION
Ouachita River Bridge
/
0
4
26
AR-14
GARLAND CITY
Red River Bridge
/
0
6
31
AR-47
MALVERN
Rockport Bridge
/
0
10
31
AR-7
BENTON
Saline River Bridge
/
0
6
11
AR-41
LITTLE ROCK
Second Street Bridge
/
0
11
11
AR-27
FOUNTAIN LAKE V
South Fork Bridge
/
1
7
15
AR-29
GRAVETTE VIC.
Spavinaw Creek Bridge
/
0
10
12
AR-36
Belleville Vic.
Spring Lake Bridge
/
0
7
2
AR-32
SPRINGFIELD
Springfield-Des Arc Bridge
/
3
12
14
AR-18
LAKE CITY
St. Francis River Bridge
/
0
6
32
AR-20
FORREST CITY
St. Francis River Bridge
/
0
11
18
AR-26
IMBODEN
St. Louis - San Francisco Bridge
/
0
9
15
AR-50
WAR EAGLE
War Eagle Bridge
/
0
11
12
AR-21
DE VALLS BLUFF
White River Bridge
/
0
11
20
AR-48
HEBER SPRINGS
Winkley Bridge
/
0
13
16
AR-38
FAYETTEVILLE
Wyman Bridge
/
3
12
7
AZ-19
PHOENIX VIC.
Arizona Canal
/
0
62
70
AZ-11
PHOENIX VIC.
Waddell Dam
/
0
153
131
CA-82-A
LONG BEACH
Ford Motor Co. Long Beach Ass. Plant, Ass/
0
126
15
CA-82-C
LONG BEACH
Ford Motor Co. Long Beach Assembly Plant/
0
6
5
CA-82-B
LONG BEACH
Ford Motor Co. Long Beach Assembly Plant/
0
8
5
CA-82-D
LONG BEACH
Ford Motor Co. Long Beach Assembly Plant/
0
2
6
131
APPENDIX I
FY 1992 HAER Transmittals, cont'd.
HAERCODE
CITY-TOWN
RECORD NAME
/NDRW NPHO DATA
CA-82-E
LONG BEACH
Ford Motor Co. Long Beach Assembly Plant/
0
3
6
CA-82
LONG BEACH
Ford Motor Company Long Beach Assembly P/
0
O
100
CA-67
SAUSALITO
Steam Schooner "Wapama"
/
0
38
1
CA-63
SAN FRANCISCO
Steam Tug "Eppleton Hall"
/
0
20
1
HI- 6
PEARL HARBOR
Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard, Bldg. No. 58/
0
4
2
IL-31
ALTON
Upper Miss. Riv. 9-Ft. Chnl. Proj. Lock
/
0
81
10
IL- 32
ALTON VIC.
Upper Miss. Riv. 9-Ft. Chnl. Proj. Lock
/
0
59
8
IL-33
GRANITE CITY
Upper Miss. Riv. 9-Ft. Chnl. Proj. Lock
/
0
92
10
LA-9
AVERY ISLAND
Avery Island Salt Works
/
20
106
28
MA- 106
LOWELL
Aiken Street Bridge
/
0
11
23
MA-17
LANCASTER VIC.
Atherton Bridge
/
3
21
23
MA- 98
SHELBURNE
Bardwell's Ferry Bridge
/
6
19
29
MA- 112
OXFORD
Bartlett's Bridge
/
0
4
14
MA- 110
NORTHAMPTON
Bay State Bridge
/
0
3
9
MA- 109
NORTH ADAMS
Blackinton Bridge
/
0
10
19
MA- 117
WELLESLEY
Boston & Albany Railroad:Kingsbury Stree/
0
5
10
MA-108
NATICK
Boston & Albany Railroad:Marion Street B/
0
11
10
MA- 118
WELLESLEY
Boston & Albany Railroad: Weston Road Bri/
0
10
10
MA-94
BELMONT
Boston & Maine Railroad:Clark Street Bri/
0
5
8
MA- 116
SWAMPSCOTT
Boston & Maine Railroad: Essex Street Bri/
0
4
7
MA- 115
STOCKBRIDGE
Butler Bridge
/
4
13
12
MA- 119
WINDSOR
Coleman Bridge
/
4
10
22
MA- 38
BOSTON
Congress Street Bascule Bridge
/
0
41
19
MA- 104
LAWRENCE
Duck Bridge
/
0
14
11
MA- 107
MONTAGUE
Eleventh Street Bridge
/
0
8
27
MA-93
AMESBURY
Essex-Merrimac Bridge
/
0
12
18
MA- 100
ERVING
French King Bridge
/
0
12
37
MA- 114
STOCKBRIDGE
Hampden County Memorial Bridge
/
0
13
14
MA- 103
HAVERHILL
Merrimac Bridge
/
0
10
22
MA 101
NEW BEDFORD
New Bedford-Fairhaven Middle Bridge
/
0
18
21
MA-97
CHESTER
North Chester Village Bridge
/
0
8
10
MA- 99
WEBSTER
North Village Bridge
/
4
15
17
MA-64
VINEYARD HAVEN
Pilot Schooner "Alabama"
/
12
39
56
MA- 13
LANCASTER VIC.
Ponakin Road Bridge
/
6
19
24
MA-92
AMESBURY
Powow River Bridge
/
0
9
12
MA- 102
FITCHBURG
Rollstone Street Bridge, Lower
/
0
11
19
MA- 111
NORTHFIELD
Schell Memorial Bridge
/
0
8
41
MA-96
SHELBURNE
Shelburne Falls Bridge
/
0
12
24
MA- 95
DEDHAM
Spring Street Bridge
/
0
4
8
MA 105
LEE
Tuttle Bridge
/
0
11
15
MA 113
RUSSELL
Woronoco Bridge
/
0
9
10
MD- 83
WESTERNPORT
Waverly Street Bridge
/
8
11
12
MI 37
KALAMAZOO
Mosel Avenue Bridge
/
0
33
5
MN 40
NEW ULM
August Schell Brewing Company
/
0
11
0
MN 40- A
NEW ULM
August Schell Brewing
Company, Schell Res/
0
2
0
MN- 40 B
NEW ULM
August Schell Brewing Company, Worker's
o
1
o
MN 52
CHOKIO
Chokio Grain Elevators
/
0
6
0
MN - 46
LAMBERTON
City Blacksmith Shop
/
0
10
o
MN 48
ROCKVILLE
Clark & McCormack Quarry
/
0
14
0
MN 48 A
ROCKVILLE
Clark and McCormack Quarry, House
/
0
1
0
MN 42
MINNEAPOLIS
Como-Harriet Streetcar Line & Trolley, Ca/
0
7
0
MN 44
DULUTH
Duluth Aerial Lift Bridge
/
0
8
0
MN 51 A
HERMAN
Herman Grain Elevators, Farmer's Elevator/
0
1
0
MN 51
HERMAN
Herman Grain Elevators, Herman Market Com/
0
1
0
132
APPENDIX
I
FY 1992 HAER Transmittals, cont'd.
HAERCODE
CITY-TOWN
RECORD NAME
/NDRW NPHO DATA
MN-51-B
HERMAN
Herman Grain Elevators, South Elevator
/
0
1
0
MN - 53
SILVER BROOK TW
Jay Cooke State Park, Pedestrian Suspensi/
0
4
0
MN - 45
SKYLINE VIC.
Kern Truss Bridge
/
0
9
0
MN- 47
UNDERWOOD VIC.
Phelps Mill
/
0
2
0
MN- 50
MINNEAPOLIS
Pioneer Steel Elevator
/
0
2
0
MN - 41
LA CRESENT VIC.
Schech's Mill
/
0
23
0
MN-43
TWO HARBORS VIC
Split Rock Lighthouse
/
0
8
0
MN-43-A
TWO HARBOR'S VI
Split Rock Lighthouse,Keeper's Cottages
/
0
1
0
MN - 49
WATSON
Watson Farmer's Elevator
/
0
3
0
MO-65
DONIPHAN VIC.
Current River Bridge
/
0
9
13
MO-60
GENTRYVILLE
Grand River Bridge
/
0
10
5
MO- 52
NIXA VIC.
Howard Ford Bridge
/
0
16
18
MO-62
ASH GROVE VIC.
Leeper Ford Bridge
/
0
13
17
MO-55
HOPKINS VIC.
Noakes Bridge
/
0
12
6
MO- 30
ST. CHARLES
Old St. Charles Bridge
/
0
22
39
MO-61
ST. JOSEPH VIC.
Saxton Road Bridge
/
0
12
5
MO-64
LONGWOOD VIC.
Trickum Road Bridge
/
0
7
8
MO-37
CAP-AU-GRIS
Upper Miss. Riv. 9-Ft. Chnl. Proj., Lock /
0
93
9
MO-50
CLARKSVILLE
Upper Miss. Riv. 9-Ft. Chnl. Proj. Lock /
0
0
125
MO-36
CLARKSVILLE
Upper Miss. Rive. 9-Ft. Chnl. Proj. Lock/
0
44
9
MO-63
KIMMSWICK
Windsor Harbor Road Bridge
/
0
14
5
NV- 10
RENO
Riverside Bridge
/
0
18
7
OH- 59
PENINSULA VIC.
Ohio & Erie Canal
/
1
2
10
OH-61
EVERETT VIC.
Ohio & Erie Canal, Furnace Run Aqueduct
/
1
0
0
OH-59-E
PENINSULA VIC.
Ohio & Erie Canal, Lock No. 28
/
0
3
0
OH-59-A
PENINSULA
Ohio & Erie Canal, Lock No. 29
/
1
5
0
OH-59-B
VALLEY VIEW
Ohio & Erie Canal, Lock No. 37
/
1
2
0
OH-59-C
VALLEY VIEW
Ohio & Erie Canal, Lock No. 38
/
1
4
0
OH-59-D
VALLEY VIEW
Ohio & Erie Canal, Lock No. 39
/
1
6
0
OH-59-F
VALLEY VIEW
Ohio & Erie Canal, Tinker's Creek Aqueduc/
0
8
0
OH-60
VALLEY VIEW VIC
Ohio & Erie Canal, Typical Lock Gates
/
3
0
0
OR- 11
BONNEVILLE
Bonneville Project
/
0
42
75
PA-132-A
SCRANTON
D L & W RR, Scranton Yards, Bridge 60
/
3
9
10
PA-132-J
SCRANTON
D L & W RR,Scranton Yards, Cedar Avenue B/
1
8
11
PA-132-D
SCRANTON
D L & W RR,Scranton Yards, Coal Trestle
/
1
6
12
PA-132-G
SCRANTON
D L & W RR,Scranton Yards, Gas House
/
3
10
18
PA-132-I
SCRANTON
D L & W RR,Scranton Yards, Mattes St. Sig/
2
7
18
PA-132-E
SCRANTON
D L & W RR,Scranton Yards, House
/
2
7
9
PA-132-K
SCRANTON
D L & WRR,Scranton Yards, Roundhouse
/
0
4
0
PA-132-F
SCRANTON
D L & W RR,Scranton Yards, Scrap Platform/
1
7
12
PA-132-B
SCRANTON
D L & W RR,Scranton Yards, Switch Shanty /
1
1
10
PA-132-C
SCRANTON
D L & W RR,Scranton Yards, Track Scales /
1
5
15
PA-132-H
SCRANTON
D L & W RR, Scranton Yards, Washington Ave/
1
6
11
PA-132
SCRANTON
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western R:Scranto/
3
29
81
RI-27
NEW SHOREHAM
Block Island Southeast Light
/
12
53
54
TX-15
voss VIC.
Elm Creek Silo
/
0
4
7
TX-20
voss VIC.
Leaday Crossing
/
0
3
5
TX-14
voss VIC.
Red Wire Pasture, Lime Kiln
/
0
5
5
TX-19
voss VIC.
Tickle, E. T. Dam
/
0
3
6
TX-
voss VIC.
Works Progress Administration, Bridge No./
0
1
4
TX-18
voss VIC.
Works Progress Administration, Bridge No./
0
1
4
UT-42-L
MOUNTAIN HOME V
High Mt. Dams in Upaco Unit, Superior Lak/
0
4
3
UT-42-A
MOUNTAIN HOME V
High Mt. Dams in Upalco Unit, Bluebell La/
0
8
3
UT-42-B
HANNA VIC.
High Mt. Dams in Upalco Unit, Brown Duck /
0
6
3
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APPENDIX I
FY 1992 HAER Transmittals, cont'd.
HAERCODE
CITY-TOWN
RECORD NAME
/NDRW NPHO DATA
UT- 42
MOUNTAIN HOME V
High Mt. Dams in Upalco Unit, Central Uta/
1
0
7
UT- 42
HANNA VIC.
High Mt. Dams in Upalco Unit, Clements La/
0
5
3
UT-
MOUNTAIN HOME V High Mt. Dams in Upalco Unit, Deer Lake D/
0
7
3
UT- 42
MOUNTAIN HOME V
High Mt. Dams in Upalco Unit, Drift Lake /
0
6
3
UT- 42-F
MOUNTAIN HOME V
High
Mt. Dams in Upalco Unit, East Timoth/
0
9
3
UT-
MOUNTAIN HOME V
High Mt. Dams in Upalco Unit, Farmers Lak/
0
6
3
UT-42-
MOUNTAIN HOME V
High Mt. Dams in Upalco Unit, Five Point /
0
8
3
UT-42-I
HANNA VIC.
High Mt. Dams in Upalco Unit, Island Lake/
0
8
3
UT-42-J
HANNA VIC.
High Mt. Dams in Upalco Unit, Kidney Lake/
0
9
3
UT-42-K
MOUNTAIN HOME V
High Mt. Dams in Upalco Unit, Milk Lake D/
0
7
3
UT- 42 M
MOUNTAIN HOME V
High Mt. Dams in Upalco Unit, Twin Pots D/
0
19
2
UT-42-N
MOUNTAIN HOME V
High Mt. Dams in Upalco Unit, Water Lily /
0
4
3
UT-42-0
MOUNTAIN HOME V
High Mt. Dams in Upalco Unit, White Mille/
0
5
3
UT- 50
JENSEN
Jensen Bridge
/
0
21
12
UT- 57
MARYSVALE
Marysvale Bridge
/
0
11
13
UT-60
CASTLE DALE VIC
San Rafael Bridge
/
0
17
10
UT- 59
HURRICANE VIC.
Virgin River Bridge
/
0
9
28
WA- 6
OROVILLE VIC.
Enloe Dam
/
0
30
10
WA-6-A
OROVILLE VICINI
Enloe Dam, Power House
/
0
19
0
WA- 28
GRAYS RIVER VIC
Grays River Covered Bridge
/
0
19
8
WA- 24
NEWHALEM
Skagit Power Dev. Skagit & Newhalem Hydr/
3
31
99
WA- 24-F
NEWHALEM VIC.
Skagit Power Development, Diablo Dam
/
1
12
0
WA- 24-D
NEWHALEM VIC.
Skagit Power Development, Diablo Powerhou/
6
43
0
WA- 24-C
NEWHALEM VIC.
Skagit Power Development, Gorge High Dam /
1
10
0
WA- 24-B
NEWHALEM
Skagit Power Development, Gorge Powerhous/
3
29
0
WA- 24-E
NEWHALEM VIC.
Skagit Power Development, Incline Railway/
0
4
0
WA- 24-A
NEWHALEM
Skagit Power Development, Newhalem Powerh/
1
7
0
WA- 24-H
NEWHALEM VIC.
Skagit Power Development, Ross Dam
/
0
5
0
WA- 24-G
NEWHALEM VIC.
Skagit Power Development, Ross Powerhouse/
0
22
0
WA- 29
SPOKANE
Washington Water Power Co. Monroe St. P1/
0
28
16
WI- 65
LA FARGE
Bridge No. 18
/
0
17
5
WI-61
PRESCOTT VIC.
Prescott Bridge
/
0
25
42
WI- 64
LA FARGE VIC.
State Highway Bridge No. 16
/
0
17
5
WV-47
WHEELING
LaBelle Iron Works
/
5
62
52
WV- 48
WHEELING
Warwood Tool Company
/
4
38
31
WV-48-A
WHEELING
Warwood Tool Company, Worker's House
/
0
1
0
WY-45
KEYSTONE VIC.
Joker Mine
/
0
1
22
WY-
KEYSTONE VIC.
Joker Mine, Log Cabin
/
0
2
0
WY-45-A
KEYSTONE VIC.
Joker Mine, Shafthouse
/
0
12
0
The above listing is from the HABS/HAER data base. Maintained on the National Park Service (NPS) Hewlett-Packard
main frame coinputer, il was the first inajor cultural resource data based developed by NPS, in 1983. This was made
possible only through the use of donated funds. The HABS/HAER data base is currently under the supervision of
HABS/HAER Collections Management Specialist Georgette R. Wilson. It keeps track of HABS/HAER documentation
produced on 26,000 historic structures.
134
TORIC AMERICAN ENGINEERING RECORD (HABS/
HAER)
OVERSIGHT HEARING
BEFORE THE
SUBCOMMITTEE ON
ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
OF THE
COMMITTEE ON
INTERIOR AND INSULAR AFFAIRS
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
ONE HUNDRED SECOND CONGRESS
SECOND SESSION
ON
HISTORIC AMERICAN BUILDINGS SURVEY AND HISTORIC AMERICAN
ENGINEERING RECORD (HABS/HAER)
HEARING HELD IN PHILADELPHIA, PA
MAY 11, 1992
Serial No. 102-62
Printed for the use of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
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WASHINGTON : 1992
For sale by the U.S. Government Printing Office
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COMMITTEE ON INTERIOR AND INSULAR AFFAIRS
CONTENTS
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
GEORGE MILLER, California, Chairman
Page
PHILIP R. SHARP, Indiana
DON YOUNG, Alaska,
EDWARD J. MARKEY, Massachusetts
Ranking Republican Member
Hearing held: May 11, 1992
1
AUSTIN J. MURPHY, Pennsylvania
ROBERT J. LAGOMARSINO, California
NICK JOE RAHALL II, West Virginia
RON MARLENEE, Montana
MONDAY, MAY 11, 1992
BRUCE F. VENTO, Minnesota
JAMES V. HANSEN, Utah
Statements:
PAT WILLIAMS, Montana
barbara F. VUCANOVICH, Nevada
Opening statement of Chalrman Peter H. Kostmayer
1
BEVERLY B. BYRON, Maryland
BEN GARRIDO BLAZ, Guam
Panei consisting of:
RON DE LUGO, Virgin Islands
JOHN J. RHODES III, Arizona
Susan Maxman, first vice presldent, the American Institute of Archl-
SAM GEJDENSON, Connecticut
ELTON GALLEGLY, California
tects
2
PETER H. KOSTMAYER, Pennsylvania
ROBERT F. SMITH, Oregon
Roland Bowers, deputy director, Cultural Resources, the National
RICHARD H. LEHMAN, California
CRAIG THOMAS, Wyoming
Park Service, accompanied by Dr. Robert Kapsch, chief of HABS/
bill RICHARDSON, New Mexico
JOHN J. DUNCAN, Jr., Tennessee
HAER Program; John Burns, AIA deputy director of HABS/HAER
GEORGE (BUDDY) DARDEN, Georgia
RICHARD T. SCHULZE, Pennsylvania
Program, and Paul Dollnsky, chief of the HABS Program
9
MEL LEVINE, California
JOEL HEFLEY, Colorado
John E. Durrant, district director, district four, American Soclety of
WAYNE OWENS, Utah
CHARLES H. TAYLOR, North Carolina
Civil Engineers accompanied by Edward Kuchefski, director of the
JOHN LEWIS, Georgia
JOHN T. DOOLITTLE, California
Fairmont Water Works Interpretive Center, Phlladelphla Water
BEN NIGHTHORSE CAMPBELL, Colorado
WAYNE ALLARD, Colorado
Department
17
PETER A. DEFAZIO, Oregon
RICHARD H. BAKER, Louislana
Ford Peatross, Curator of Architectural Design and Engineering Col-
ENI F.H. faleomavaega,
American Samoa
lections, Library of Congress, also presenting a letter from the
Librarian of Congress
23
TIM JOHNSON, South Dakota
CHARLES E. SCHUMER, New York
Panel consisting of:
JIM JONTZ, Indiana
David Bahlman, executive director, the Society of Archltectural His-
torians
37
PETER HOAGLAND, Nebraska
HARRY JOHNSTON, Florida
Jeff Marshall, director of historic preservation, Bucks County Conser-
41
LARRY LAROCCO, Idaho
vancy
NEIL ABERCROMBIE, Hawaii
APPENDIX
CALVIN M. DOOLEY, California
ANTONIO J. COLORADO, Puerto Rico
MONDAY, MAY 11, 1992
DANIEL P. BEARD, Staff Director
RICHARD MELTZER, General Counsel
Additional material submitted for the hearing record:
DANIEL VAL KISH, Republican Staff Director
Letter of April 24, 1992, to Secretary of the Interior Lujan from Congress-
man Neil Abercrombie
51
Letter of July 8, 1992, to Secretary of the Interior Lujan from James P.
Cramer, AIA and tripartite agreement
52
SUBCOMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Memo to Co-Chairman of November 14, 1979
57
PETER H. KOSTMAYER, Pennsylvania, Chairman
Letter to Secretary of the Interior Andrus from David Meeker, AIA
61
Memo of September 20, 1979, from Hilda Guadalupe
63
PHILIP R. SHARP, Indiana
JOHN J. RHODES III, Arizona
Telegram to President Jimmy Carter, Secretary of the Interlor Andrus
EDWARD J. MARKEY, Massachusetts
BEN GARRIDO BLAZ, Guam
and Chrls Deiaport, Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service of
SAM GEJDENSON, Connecticut
CRAIG THOMAS, Wyoming
September 16, 1979, from Adolf Placzek, president, Soclety of Architec-
CHARLES E. SCHUMER, New York
JOEL HEFLEY, Colorado
tural Historians
65
AUSTIN J. murphy. Pennsylvania
CHARLES H. TAYLOR, North Carolina
Memo: Friends of HABS from F. Blair Reeves and Charles Peterson,
BILL RICHARDSON, New Mexico
JOHN T. DOOLITTLE, California
FAIA
66
GEORGE (BUDDY) DARDEN, Georgia
WAYNE ALLARD, Colorado
JIM JONTZ, Indiana
Letter to Dr. Boorstin, Library of Congress from Charles E. Peterson,
DON YOUNG, Alaska
Secretary Pro-tem
68
RICHARD H. LEHMAN, California
Letter from Charles E. Peterson, friends of HABS, June 29, 1979
69
WAYNE OWENS, Utah
GEORGE MILLER, California
Letter to the President from Elmer Botsai, president, AIA, March 31,
1978
70
DAVID WE188, Staff Director
Letter to Mr. Charles Peterson, Philadephia, PA, from Danlel Boorstln,
LYNN MILLER, Congressional Fellow
Librarian of Congress
71
AMY Schneckenburger, Congressional Fellow
Letter to Mr. Vint, NPS, from Edmund Purves, executive director, AIA
72
EMILY GRAY, Clerk
Letter from Perry Triplett, executive director, Citizens for the Restora-
CHRISTOPHER B. Kearney, Minority Counsel on Energy and the Environment
tion of Historlal LaMoti, Inc
73
(ii)
(iii)
IV
Page
OVERSIGHT HEARING ON HISTORIC AMERICAN
Additional material submitted for the hearing record-Continued
National Historic Landmark nomination of Lucretia Mott and the U.S.
BUILDINGS SURVEY AND HISTORIC AMERI-
Colored Troops site
74
Statement of record from Ed Grusheski, Fairmont Water Works Interpre-
CAN ENGINEERING RECORD (HABS/HAER)
tive Center, Philadelphia Water Department
90
MONDAY, MAY 11, 1992
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
SUBCOMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT,
COMMITTEE ON INTERIOR AND Insular AFFAIRS,
Washington, DC.
The subcommittee met, pursuant to call, at 10:00 a.m., at 1st
Bank of the United States, Independence National Historic Park,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Hon. Peter H. Kostmayer (chairman of
the subcommittee)] presiding.
Present: Representative Kostmayer.
OPENING STATEMENT OF CHAIRMAN PETER H. KOSTMAYER
Mr. KOSTMAYER. The subcommittee will come to order. The Sub-
committee on Energy and the Environment meets today in Phila-
delphia in this historic building, the architectural drawings of
which are now preserved in the Library of Congress. We meet for
an oversight hearing on the Historic American Building Survey,
HABS, and the Historic American Engineering Record, HAER.
America has a long and rich architectural heritage in historic
buildings and engineering structures which still remain as evi-
dence of how earlier Americans lived, worked, and worshipped.
Since the establishment of HABS in 1933 and HAER in 1969, sur-
veys have been completed and documentation has been recorded on
more than 27,000 structures all of which are now in the Library of
Congress for research and are accessible to the American public.
Because of their holistic approach and extraordinary vision,
these programs have brought about an increased awareness of pres-
ervation needs and preservation technology. In the initial memo-
randum from Charles Peterson, architect with the National Park
Service, to his superiors, he stated that such a survey, "should be a
list of building sites which include public buildings, churches, resi-
dences, bridges, forts, barns, mills, shops, rural outbuildings, and
any other kind of structure of which there are good specimen
extant and those structures which by fate or accident are identified
with historic events."
HABS operates under congressional authorization and a tripar-
tite agreement among the Department of Interior, the Library of
Congress, and the American Institute of Architects. HAER oper-
ates under an agreement between Interior, the Library of Congress,
and the American Society of Civil Engineers. Due to the infrequent
(1)
2
3
and small appropriation increases over the past few years and the
increasing costs of carrying out its mission, the ability of HABS
firm's project involves the restoration of historic buildings and
and HAER to respond to new projects is now in serious jeopardy.
Advisory boards for HABS and HAER were sunsetted in the
committed to the recycling of buildings throughout my career.
structures. And I have been both personally and professionally
1970's. Some of the testimony today will focus on the need to rees-
On behalf of the 56,000 members of the AIA, I would like to ex-
tablish these noncompensated advisory boards to provide much
press our appreciation for this opportunity to appear before your
needed technical assistance in targeting and implementing docu-
committee to discuss the Historic American Buildings Survey. As
mentation projects. We will hear from witnesses today on the large
you know, the AIA is a partner in a tripartite agreement with the
number of historic structures which are on the National Register
of Historic Places but which have yet to be recorded.
HABS. Thus, it is very near and dear to all of our hearts.
National Park Service and the Library of Congress in supporting
Some of these structures have been destroyed or altered to the
I would like to share with you an excerpt from a delightful arti-
point that they are no longer representative of their place in histo-
cle by the architecture critic Wolf Von Eckardt that appeared in
ry. Last week I introduced in Washington legislation which will
the creation of HABS:
the December 1, 1979, edition of the "Washington Post" telling of
allow Federal historic preservation funds to aid efforts to restore
and preserve historic religious sites. We in the Philadelphia area
On Sunday, November 18, 1933, in the middle of the Great Depression, Charles E.
have long been saddened by the neglect that Independence Hall
has suffered. The carefully-detailed engineering and architectural
the Secretary of the Interior. Peterson proposed that reilef employment be provided
Peterson, a National Park Service architect, wrote a iengthy memo to Haroid Ickes,
for architects by having them record interesting and significant buildings of ali kinds
drawings that have been prepared by the Independence National
before they pass into oblivion.
Historical Park will hopefully ignite a greater response from the
Administration to protect and preserve the site where American
tems analysis, fast-track decisionmaking processes, and management consultants, sys- but
These were the days before advanced computerized communications, Xerox,
independence was established.
Harold Ickes made his decision on Thursday, November 17, 1933, four days later.
PANEL CONSISTING OF SUSAN MAXMAN, 1ST VICE PRESIDENT,
that 1,200 architects were being employed for six months to measure, photograph, and
Hopkins, approved the idea and on November 29, the "Washington Post" reported
Within another few days, President Franklin D. Rooseveit's man in charge, Harry
THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS; ROLAND BOWERS,
DEPUTY DIRECTOR, CULTURAL RESOURCES, THE NATIONAL
forts, barns, mills, rural outbuildings, and other structures. Indian pueblos, Russian
prepare carefui drawings of historic public buiidings, churches. residences, bridges,
the James River in Virginia were also to be included.
remains in Alaska, mining settiements and ruins of eariy settiements such as found at
PARK SERVICE, ACCOMPANIED BY DR. ROBERT KAPSCH,
CHIEF OF HABS/HAER program; JOHN BURNS, aia, DEPUTY
DIRECTOR OF HABS/HAER PROGRAM; AND PAUL DOLINSKY,
entered into a so-called "Tripartite Agreement" with the American Institute of
In July 1934, the Department of the Interior, on behalf of its National Park Service,
Architects and the Library of Congress concerning the building survey. Under the
CHIEF OF THE HABS PROGRAM; JOHN E. DURRANT, DISTRICT
agreement, the Park Service was to administer the program. the aia to supply the
DIRECTOR, DISTRICT FOUR, AMERICAN SOCIETY OF civil EN-
architects, architecture students were to survey historic buildings, and the Library of
GINEERS, ACCOMPANIED BY EDWARD KUCHEFSKI, DIRECTOR
Congress would receive the survey documents and make them availabie to the public.
OF THE FAIRMOUNT WATER WORKS INTERPRETIVE CENTER,
The importance of the HABS drawings to the American public is
philadelphia WATER DEPARTMENT; AND FORD PEATROSS,
CURATOR OF ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN AND ENGINEERING
demonstrated by the fact that an average of 600 to 800 people pa-
tronize the Library of Congress' HABS collection each month,
COLLECTIONS, library OF CONGRESS
making these drawings the Library's second most popular collec-
Mr. Kostmayer. I want to welcome our first panel: Susan
tion. Inquiries about the HABS collection constitute about one-
Maxman, who is the 1st Vice President of The American Institute
quarter sion. of all inquiries to the Library's Prints and Drawings Divi-
of Architects and, as I understand it, the president-elect nationally;
Roland Bowers, the Deputy Director of Cultural Resources from
Despite its popularity, HABS has been the proverbial red-haired
The National Park Service; John E. Durrant, the District Director
stepchild in terms of funding. Unlike probably any other govern-
of District Four of the American Society of Civil Engineers; and
ment agency, HABS is forced to find two-thirds of its funding for
Ford Peatross, Curator of Architectural Design and Engineering
projects from sources other than its Federal appropriation. The
Collections from the Library of Congress. I want to welcome all of
cost-of-living increases, service fees, and other items have eroded
you here today. Ms. Maxman, would you like to begin?
the HABS funding base to where this year there are no Federal
Ms. MAXMAN. Thank you.
Mr. Kostmayer. Thank you. You might want to turn that micro-
phone just a little bit towards you.
STATEMENT OF SUSAN A. MAXMAN
Ms. MAXMAN. Good morning, Mr. Chairman. My name is Susan
Maxman. I am an architect, and I currently serve as 1st Vice Presi-
dent president of the of American the Institute of Architects. and I will become
4
5
funds available for travel, equipment, supplies, material, and repro-
ductions. As a result, HABS ability to respond to new projects is in
very serious jeopardy.
THE AMERICAN INSTITI TEOF ARCHITECTS
The President has recommended only $2.1 million for HABS and
its engineering counterpart, the Historic American Engineering
Record for fiscal year 1993. The AIA testified earlier this year
before the House Interior Appropriations Subcommittee that this
money should be augmented with the $1 million for emergency and
high priority recording projects, for a total of $3.1 million.
The AIA also believes that the HABS Advisory Board, as out-
lined in the Tripartite Agreement, should be reestablished. The
Carter Administration saw fit to reorganize the Federal preserva-
tion programs and, in effect, abolished the HABS Advisory Board.
It had consisted of 11 noncompensated representatives of the three
organizations as well as nationally competent experts to set policy
and guide HABS' effort.
The AIA is currently discussing various options with Secretary
Statement of
Lujan's office and hope that he will take action soon. I would like
to submit for the hearing record a copy of the 1962 Tripartite
Susan A. Maxman, FAIA
Agreement for Continuing the Historic American Buildings Survey,
as well as pertinent correspondence and newspaper articles.
on behalf of
Given the increasingly difficult financial situation of the HABS
program, the Advisory Board could provide much needed technical
The American Institute of Architects
assistance with documentation projects as well as raising the visi-
bility of the program. It would allow the private sector to assist in
before the
the Federal government's efforts lending valuable and free exper-
tise to the HABS professional staff. I can only wonder why the Ad-
U.S. House of Representatives
ministration is so hesitant to take advantage of such a golden op-
Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
portunity. During the late 1980s, the AIA completed an in-depth
study of the future of the architectural profession and the construc-
Subcommittee on Energy and Environment
tion industry. This study indicates that a very significant percent-
age of the structures that America will be using in the 21st Centu-
ry already exist today. So you see, preservation is not really a
May 11, 1992
luxury; it is a necessity.
We must ensure that our nation's preservation programs are
adequately funded and efficiently organized to meet what will be a
growing demand for education, cultural research, and materials
technology. The AIA believes that HABS can play an important
role in meeting the challenges that the future presents.
I would like to take this opportunity to recognize Charles Peter-
son for his courage and conviction in protecting our nation's rich
architectural heritage. I am proud to be his colleague in the archi-
tectural profession.
In closing, I would like again to quote Wolf Von Eckardt who
said, and I quote, "HABS and HAER are essential brain cells in
America's memory. Without them, it would be almost impossible to
maintain continuity for the tangible aspect of our culture." Thank
you again for this opportunity to testify, and if you have any ques-
tions, I would be very happy to answer them.
[The prepared statement of Ms. Maxman follows:]
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Mr. Chairman, my name is Susan Maxman and I am an arcbitect. I am a Fellow of The American
Institute of Architects and currently serve as its First Vice President. 1 will become President of
"Within another (ew days, President Franklin D. Rooseveit's man in charge, Harry
the Institute In 1993. I have been active in preservation in both my professional and private life.
Hopkins, approved the idea and on November 29, the Washington Post reported
I am committed to the encouragement of the recycling of buildings. A very great percentage of
that 1,200 architects were being employed for six months to measure, photograph,
my firm's projects invoive the restoration of historic buildings and structures, inciuding the
and prepare careful drawings of historic public buildings, churches, residences,
restoration of the Strawberry Mansion Bridge in Fairmount Park. Currently, we are restoring a
bridges, forts, barns, mills, rural outbuiidings and other structures. Indian pueblos,
very significant mid-eighteenth century house in London Grove, Pennsylvania. Our offices are in
Russian remains in Alaska, mining settiements and ruins of early settlements such
the Robert Lewis House, an 1886 Frank Furness building that was saved from utter ruin thanks to
as found at the James River in Virginia were also to be included.
funding from Investors who took advantage of the rehabilation tax credits in 1984. When asked
"In July 1934, the Department of the Interior, on behalf of Its National Park
to become the first woman member of the Carpenter's Company, I welcomed the opportunity to
Service, entered a so-cailed Tripartite Agreement" with the American Institute of
become a part owner of that marvelous historic building. Through the Carpenter's Company, I
had the opportunity to get to know Charles Peterson, FAIA, certainly the Company'a most
Architects and the Library of Congress concerning the bullding survey. Under the
renowned member, and the person we can thank for the Historic American Buildings Survey.
agreement, the Park Service was to administer the program, the AIA was to supply
the architects, architecture students were to survey historic buildings and the
Library of Congress would receive the survey documents and make them available
On behalf of the 56,000 members of the AIA, I would like to express our appreciation for this
to the public."
opportunity to appear before your committee to discuss the Historie American Buildings Survey.
ALA members consider themselves "partners" with federal, state, and local preservation programs
The AIA believes that increased federal funding is needed for HABS. Unlike probably any other
that protect and Interpret America's rich architectural heritage, and HABS is very near and dear
government agency, HABS is forced to find two-thirds of its funding for projects from sources
to our hearts.
other than its federal appropriation. Appropriations increases have been small and very
infrequent. Cost of living increases, service lees, and other items have eroded the HABS/HAER
Historic preservation has iong been a high priority of the Institute. Over one hundred years ago,
base to where. this year, there are no federal funds available for travel, equipment, supplies,
in 1890, the AIA established a Committee on the Conservation of Public Architecture, declaring:
materials, and reproductions. At the same time, individual bills passed by Congress for National
The history of civiilzation and the world is traced by the character of its buildings and
Park Service historic structures requiring HABS/HAER services (in addition to the annual NPS
architecture, and the degree of civilization of a people is determined by the monuments they have
appropriations) have greatly increased. As a resuit, HABS/HAER's ability to respond to these
left." Now called the AIA's Committee on Historic Resources, It continues to be among the
new projects is in serious jeopardy.
largest and most active committees of the Institute. The first discussions of establishing a
National Trust for Historic Preservation were heid in The Octagon, at that time the ALA's
The President has recommended only $2.1 million for HABS/HAER for FY '93. The AIA
headquarters building.
testified earlier this year before the House Interior Appropriations Subcommittee that this money
should be augmented with $1 million for emergency and high priority recording projects, for a
As you know, the AIA is a partner in a tripartite agreement with the National Park Service and
total of $3.1 million.
the Library of Congress in supporting the Historic American Buildings Survey. HABS has been
the primary vehicle for documentation of America's historic structures. The Historic American
The importance of the HABS drawings to the American public is demonstrated by the fact that
Engineering Record (HAER) was created in 1969 to conduct documentation of structures
an average of 600 to 800 architects, students, preservationists, historians, and homeowners
representing technological and engineering significance, and to date, HABS/HAER has recorded
patronize the Library of Congress' HABS collection each month, making the HABS drawings the
more than 22,000 structures.
Library's second most popular collection. Inquiries about the HABS collection constitute about
one-quarter of ali inquiries to the Library's Prints and Drawings Division. There has been an
I would like to share with you an excerpt from a delightful article by architecture critic Wolf Von
increase in use of the HABS collection by homeowners and other non-professionals Interested in
Eckardt that appeared in the December 1, 1979, edition of The Washington Post teiling of the
the design of historic structures.
creation of HABS:
The AIA also believes that the HABS Advisory Board, as outlined in the 1934 Tripartite
On Sunday, November 13, 1933, in the middle of the Great Depression, Charles
Agreement, and revised in 1962, should be reestabiished. The Advisory Board consisted of 11
E Peterson, a National Park Service architect, wrote a iengthy memorandum to
non-compensated representatives of the three organizations as weli as nationally prominent
Haroid Ickes, the Secretary of the Interior. Peterson proposed that relief
experts, to set policy and guide HABS efforts. The Librarian of Congress was an ex officio
employment be provided for architects by having them record interesting and
member. The Carter Administration saw fit to reorganize the federal preservation programs and,
significant buildings of aii kinds before they pass into oblivion.
in effect, abolished the HABS and HAER advisory boards without notifying the AIA in writing as
required by the Tripartite Agreement signed in 1962.
"These were the days before advanced computerized communications, Xerox,
systems analysis, fast-track decision-making processes, and management consuitants,
Since that time, Charlie Peterson, the "Father" of HABS, has worked tirelessly to have the HABS
but later. Haroid Ickes made his decision on Thursday, November 17, 1933-four days
advisory board recstabiished. The AIA's latest attempt to reopen discussions with Secretary Lujan
has been met mostiy with silence. I'd like to submit the most recent correspondence between the
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ALA and the Interior Department for the hearing record. Please note the dates of the
correspondence. I would like to submit for the hearing record a copy of the 1962 Tripartite
Bowers. Mr. Kostmayer. Thank you, Ms. Maxman, very much. Mr.
Agreement for Continuing the Historic American Buildings Survey, as well as pertinent
correspondence and newspaper articles.
STATEMENT OF ROLAND BOWERS
Given the increasingly difficult financial situation of the HABS program, the Advisory Board
could provide much needed technical assistance in targeting and implementing documentation
Mr. BOWERS. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I appreciate the oppor-
projects, as well as raising the visibility of the program.
tunity to appear before your subcommittee and provide informa-
tion concerning HABS and HAER. I am accompanied by Dr. Robert
Reactivating the HABS Advisory Board would allow the private sector to assist the federal
government's efforts, lending valuable--and free-expertise to the professionals faced with
Kapsch, Chief of the HABS/HAER program; John Burns, his
recording our nation's historically significant structures. It would link HABS to a network of
deputy; and Paul Dolinsky, Chief of the HABS program. I will
56,000 architects across this country to ensure that every significant historic structure is recorded
briefly summarize the statement that has been provided to you.
for posterity. Increasing public-private sector initiatives has been a theme in nearly every facet of
As you have pointed out, the HABS/HAER collection in the Li-
President Bush's administration, and one that the AIA fuily supports. I can only wonder why the
Administration is so hesitant to take advantage of such a golden opportunity.
brary of Congress is the largest of its kind in the world, document-
ing over 27,000 structures. There are over 48,000 drawings, 145,000
Preservation is not a luxury-it is a necessity. During the late 1980s, the AIA completed an in-
large format photographs, and 85,000 pages of histories. Mr. Chair-
depth study of the future of the architectural profession and the construction industry. This study
man, we are proud of the fact that the HABS/HAER collections
indicates that a very significant percentage of the structures that Americans will be using in the
have about doubled in the last 10 years, and that is to the credit of
21st Century already exist today. We must ensure that our nation's preservation programs are
adequately funded and efficiently organized to meet what will be a growing demand for education,
the current leadership of the HABS/HAER program.
cultural research in conservation methods, and materials technology. The AIA believes that
One of the principal issues of interest here today is the reestab-
HABS can play an important role in meeting the challenges that the future presents.
lishment of HABS and HAER Advisory Committees. These commit-
tees were very active until they were allowed to terminate under
I would like to take this opportunity to recognize Charlie Peterson for his courage and conviction
in protecting our nation's rich architectural heritage. I am proud to be his colleague in the
the provisions of the Federal Advisory Committee Act in 1979. We
architectural profession.
see the Advisory Committees as serving three functions: first, the
committees serve to coordinate activities between the Federal agen-
In closing, I'd like again to quote Wolf Von Eckardt who said "HABS and HAER are essential
cies and nonprofit organizations with principal interest in HABS/
brain cells in America's memory. Without them, it would be almost impossible to maintain
HAER program.
continuity for the tangible aspect of our culture Thank you again for this opportunity to
testify, and if you have any questions, I would be happy to address them.
Second, they provide professional advice and consultation to the
various organizations comprising HABS and HAER. Third, they
link the HABS/HAER programs to the larger community of archi-
tectural engineering and academic practice. Neither the HABS nor
the HAER Advisory Committees were statutorily authorized. Both
were activated under the tripartite agreements. As has been point-
ed out, currently, the issue of reestablishing the HABS and HAER
Advisory Committees is undergoing internal review by the Depart-
ment of the Interior.
Let me mention several other aspects of the HABS/HAER pro-
gram. The two programs have consistent standards concerning the
size and format of documentation as well as its reproducibility of
the records. The uniform format and reproducibility make the
records easily accessible to the public and set the collections apart
from mentation. most other collections of architectural and engineering docu-
Funding for the HABS/HAER program is unique in that over
half of it originates from other Federal/State agencies and the pri-
vate sector and other NPS units. Among the many projects and
programs HABS/HAER becomes involved with, a relatively new in-
Navigation and Canal Heritage area.
volvement is with Heritage areas such as the Delaware and Lehigh
HABS/HAER usually plays a significant role within these Herit-
age areas by identifying and documenting significant historic re-
sources such as our work at the Ashley Anthracite Breaker last
summer or our work at Concrete City, both within the Delaware
and Lehigh Navigation and Canal Heritage corridor.
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HABS has also recently been involved with the documentation of
historic religious sites. Two HABS projects may be of interest to
you. Working in conjunction with our Alaska Regional Office,
STATEMENT OF ROWLAND BOWERS, DEPUTY ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, CULTURAL
RESOURCES, NATIONAL PARK SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
HABS has documented over 37 surviving Russian Orthodox church-
BEFORE THE HOUSE SUBCOMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT, HOUSE
es in Alaska. Some of the documentation is presented over here to
COMMITTEE ON INTERIOR AND INSULAR APFAIRS, ON AN OVERSIGHT HEARING
my left. A second project scheduled to begin next year is the docu-
TO EXAMINE ISSUES SURROUNDING THE HISTORIC AMERICAN BUILDINGS
SURVEY (HABS) AND THE HISTORIC AMERICAN ENGINEERING RECORD (HAER).
mentation of Eastern Europe churches established in central Penn-
sylvania in the late 19th and early 20th Century as industries ac-
May 11, 1992
tively recruited labor from Eastern Europe.
We have a number of associations with academic programs. Ap-
Mr. Chairman, I appreciate the opportunity to provide your
proximately, 20 universities and colleges throughout the United
subcommittee with information and data concerning issues
States offer some version of HABS/HAER-measured drawings as a
surrounding the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) and the
Historic American Engineering Record (HAER). I am accompanied by
course for architectural students. Over 3,000 architects have
Dr. Robert Kapsch, Chisf of HABS/HAER.
worked for HABS/HAER. Most still are involved in the historic
Background on HABS/HAER: The HABS/HAER Division of the National
preservation field. HABS/HAER funds measured drawing courses
Park Service is composed of two programs: the architectural
at historically Black Colleges and Universities. Howard University
documentation program (historic houses, churches, historic
and Tuskegee University are among those colleges.
landscapes, etc.): HABS; and the enginesring and industrial
In addition, HABS/HAER funds an intern program with Howard
documentation program (historic bridges, factories, steam plants,
company towns, etc.): HAER.
University. HABS/HAER also administers a number of fellowship
and internship programs. The HABS/HAER U.S./Internation
The mission of HABS/HAER is to document the most important examples
Council on Monuments and Sites (U.S./ICOMOS) program is the
of America's architectural, engineering and industrial heritags.
This is expressed in the Secretary of the Interior's Standards for
largest providing HABS/HAER experience to approximately 20
Architectural and Engineering Documentation:
students from other countries.
The Historic American Buildinge Survey (HABS) and Hietoric
Mr. Chairman, that concludes my summary of the testimony. Dr.
American Engineering Record (HAER) are the national historical
Kapsch have. and I would be glad to answer any questions you might
architectural and engineering documentation programs of the
National Park Service that promote documentation incorporated
into the HABS/HAER collections in the Library of Congress.
[The prepared statement of Mr. Bowers follows:]
The goal of the collections is to provide architects,
engineers, scholars, and interested members of the public with
comprehensive documentation of buildings, sites, structures
and objects significant in American history and the growth of
the built environment.
HABS/HAER documentation is a compilation of both graphic and
written records that explain and illustrate the significant
characteristics of an historic building, eite, structure or object.
Compiled over the past five decades, the documentation is the basis
of an encyclopedic record of the hietoric built environment of the
United States.
Architectural and engineering documentation broadens the American
historical experience. Historic buildings, sites, structures and
objects are frequently the only tangible evidence of history. They
can open new avenues through which later observers can understand
the past. One technique of studying history is by examining
artifacts from the past. Historic buildings, sites, structures and
objects are physical evidence that can provide insights into past
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cultures, activities, practice, evants, or persons.
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The two programs have consistant etandards concerning the eize and
HABS/HAER Programs: HABS/HAER documentation is produced in
three ways:
format of documentation as well as its reproducibility. Tha
uniform format and reproducibility are what sets the HABS and HAER
collections apart from most other collections of architectural and
1. HABS/HAER teams and field offices supervised by the
HABS/HAER Washington, D.C. offics.
anginearing documentation, making the records eaeily accessible to
the American public.
Field Officas are sstablished by HABS/HAER for those projects
that cannot be complated within a twelve week summer recording
documentation: HABS/HAER does thie through producing thrae typee of
season. Current HABS/HAER field teame includs:
HABS White Houss Project
1. Msasured drawings
HABS Lincoln/Jaffsrson Msmorials Project
2. Large-format photographs
HAER America's Industrial Heritage Project
3. Histories
HAER Mon Valley Project
HAER Birmingham Project
This material works together to interpret and explain
HABS/HAER Naw Jersey Coastal Hsritage Project
historic sitas, etructuree and buildings. All documentation ie
produced to a 500-yaar service lifs and ie deposited in the Library
Summer Teams are managed from the Washington, D.C. office
of Congress where the HABS and HAER collectione are made available
employing approximately 150 professors, architectural students,
to the American public.
graduate etudents and scholars from other countrise.
HABS/HAER collections in the Library of Congrese are the
2. HABS/HAER Mitigation Documentation
largsst of their kind in the world.
Under the provisions of the National Historic Pressrvation
Current size (as of April 1, 1992):
Act of 1966 as amended(16 U.S.C. 470 et ssq.), Fedaral agenciss
planning to demolish or substantially alter historic buildings or
TOTAL
HABS
HAER
structuras on or eligible for the National Register of Historic
Drawings
48,347
46,547
2,020
Placas must first document those historic buildings or structures
Largs Format Photographe
144,797
110,514
34,648
to the standards of HABS/HAER.
Pagss of Historiss
85,615
58,917
27,071
No. of Structures/Bldgs.
26,806
23,470
3,374
3. HABS/HAER Donation Programs
The HABS/HAER collections at the Library of Congrass are the
HABS/HAER receives large amounts of documentation, usually
most widaly used of all the spacial collectione within the Library
measured drawings but sometimes photographs and histories, meating
of Congress. All HABS/HAER materials are copyright-free and
HABS/HAER standards and eligibla for inclusion into the HABS/HAER
reproducible. In addition, HABS/HAER materials are available on
collections in the Library of Congrass.
microfilm/microfiche at over 100 libraries throughout the United
States.
HABS/HAER also undertakes special programs to encourage
donations of HABS/HAER quality documentation to HABS/HAER. The
HABS/HAER hae approximately doubled the eize of these
largest and best known of these programs is the Charles E. Peterson
collections in the last ten years.
Prize for Measured Drawings. Established in 1981 in honor of HABS
founder Charles E. Peterson, this annual award providee caeh prizes
Collsotions
Transmittals
for the best set of architectural drawings producad by an
As of 1980
FY80 - FY91
architectural student and donated to HABS/HAER for inclusion in the
HABS/HAER collections in the Library of Congress. Since 1983, the
Drawings
31674
13223
year of the first award, 1,804 sheets of HABS maasured drawinge
Largs Format Photographs
51184
89738
have been produced by 730 students from forty-two collsgae and
Pagss of Histories
26264
56519
universities. The approximate total value of thase drawings ie $2
No. of Structures/Bldge.
13223
13010
million, achieved at little Federal outlay.
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Contributing Programs: To theee three primary HABS/HAER
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programs, there are eeveral contributing programs:
Agency Regulations for Documentation
program primarily to dieseminate to the American public resulte
o Publications. HABS/HAER maintains an active publishing
HABS/HAER standards for documentation are entitled,
from research.
"Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Architectural and
Engineering Documentation," and were published in 1983. These
o Tschnology. HABS/HAER sponsore research and demonstration
standards deal with a great deal of minute detail with HABS/HAER
projects aimed at furthering the etate-of-the-art of architectural
documentation, but they may be summarized by the four performance
standarde which all HABS/HAER documentation must meet:
and engineering documentation.
Standard I. Documentation shall adequately explicate and
o Professional Societiee. HABS/HAER managee numerous
with architectural and engineering documentation.
cooperative programe with those professional societiee aesociated
illustrate what ie significant or valuable about the hietoric
building, eite, etructure or object being documented.
Standard II. Documentation ehall be prepared accurately from
HABS and HAER Advisory Committees
reliable sourcee with limitatione clearly etated to permit
independent verification of the information.
until they were allowed to terminate under the provisione of the
The HABS and HAER Advisory Committeee were extremely active
Standard III. Documentation ehall be prepared on materiale
Federal Advisory Committee Act's eunset provision in 1978-1979,
that are readily reproducible, durable and in etandard eizee.
when HABS/HAER wae under the auspicee of the Heritage Conservation
and Recreation Service.
Standard produced. IV. Documentation ehall be clearly and concieely
The HABS and HAER Advieory Committeee eerved three functione:
relate to specific HABS/HAER documentation requirements ie attached
A chart of these four performance standards and how they
1. Coordination. The HABS/HAER program involves two Federal
(see Attachment 1).
agenciee and two non-profit organizations (later increased to eix).
The two Advisory Committees therefore eerved ae a coordination body
between the different organizatione.
Funding
2. Profeseional Advice and Coneultation. From both the HABS
The HABS/HAER program is unique in that over half of ite
and HAER tripartite agreements it is clear that one of the
principal functions of the Advisory Committees was to provide
funding originates from sources other than its base appropriation.
The source of HABS/HAER funding for Fiscal Year 1992 is ae followe:
HABS and HAER.
advice and consultation to the various organizatione comprieing
Appropriations
Funds Received from Other NPS Units
$1,389,000 -- 44.68
3. Linkage to Larger Community. The minutee of the HABS and
Funds Received From Other Federal Agenciee
694,000 -- 22.58
HAER Advieory Committeee indicate that one of the principal
Funds Received From State Agencies
418,000 -- 13.5%
functions wae to link the HABS/HAER programs to the larger
Funds Received From Private Organizatione
177,000 -- 5.7%
community of architectural, engineering and academic practice.
408,000 -- 13.2%
TOTAL 3,086,000
Neither the HABS nor the HAER Advisory Committee
statutorily authorized -- both were activated under tripartite wae
The above table does not include appropriated funds that
passed through to other organizations or the value of documentation are
agreemente. Currently, the issue of reestablishing the HABS and
received by HABS/HAER from Federal agenciee or donatione. It aleo
HAER Department. Advieory Committees is undergoing internal review by the
excludes small amounte of donated funds.
with the exception of HABS/HAER appropriatione the above
shown funde are provided to HABS/HAER under agreement with the
significant sites, structures and buildings. The details of those
agency or organization requesting documentation of nationally
projects are yearly included in the HABS/HAER Annual Report.
Not only does a significant portion of HABS/HAER's financial
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Mr. KOSTMAYER. Thank you very much, Mr. Bowers. Mr. Dur-
rant.
support come from outside sources, as shown above, but that outside
support is growing. This is shown in the following table covering
the years 1986-1992.
STATEMENT OF JOHN durrant
HABS/HAER FUNDING 1986-1992
Mr. Durrant. Good morning, Mr. Chairman and members of the
(all figures in thousands)
committee. Thank you for the opportunity to appear today before
1986
1987
1988
1989
1990
1991
1992
the Interior and Insular Affairs Subcommittee on Energy and the
Environment. I am John Durrant, the District Four Director repre-
Appropriations
833
860
1313
1437
1443
1442
senting Pennsylvania, and a member of the Board of Directors of
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the American Society of Civil Engineers.
Project Funding
670
750
1088
1099
1320
1903
2141
Founded in 1852, ASCE is the oldest national engineering organi-
Totals
1503
1610
2131
2071
2291
2822
zation in the United States. Membership, held by more than
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110,000 individual professional engineers, is about equally divided
among engineers in private practice; engineers working for Feder-
al, State, or local governments; and those employed in research and
I would be pleased to answer any questions.
academia. The Society's goals are to develop engineers who will im-
prove technology and apply it to further the objectives of society as
a whole, to promote the dedication and technical capability of its
members, and to advance the profession of civil engineering.
In addition to my responsibilities with ASCE, I currently serve as
Chief of the Materials Testing Laboratory here at the Philadelphia
Water Department. I brought along with me today Edward Ku-
chefski, who is the Director of the Fairmount Water Works Inter-
pretive Center for the Philadelphia Water Department, as he
would have an interest in the hearing today.
ASCE has a deep and longstanding interest in the Historic Amer-
ican Engineering Record. America's vast size, plentiful natural re-
sources and regional differences have contributed to the nation's
rich and diverse history of technical invention and innovation. His-
torical structures not only testify to the creativity and imagination
of America's engineers and builders, but also illustrate the nation's
physical development and document its technological heritage.
The Historical American Engineering Record was established in
1969 by an agreement among the Department of the Interior, the
Library of Congress, and ASCE. This accord, also known as the tri-
partite agreement, was later ratified by four other engineering so-
cieties: the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Insti-
tute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, the American Institute
of Chemical Engineers, and the American Institute of Mining, Met-
allurgical and Petroleum Engineers.
Under the tripartite agreement, the Interior Department's Na-
tional Park Service administers the HAER program with funds ap-
propriated by Congress and supplemented by donations from out-
side sources. The National Park Service sets qualitative standards,
organizes and staffs recording projects, and selects sites for docu-
mentation. The Library of Congress curates the records, makes
them available for study, and provides reproductions to the public.
ASCE and other engineering societies provide professional counsel
through their national memberships.
HAER performs a valuable role by documenting the nation's his-
toric industrial and engineering heritage. HAER surveys and docu-
ments America's historic industrial, engineering, and transporta-
tion resources, and records the working and living conditions of the
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people associated with them. HAER conducts a nationwide pro-
gram of documentation in cooperation with state and local govern-
ments, private industry, professional societies, universities, and
ASCE
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF
preservation groups, as well as other Federal agencies.
CIVIL ENGINEERS
Recognizing that many significant technological resources cannot
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graphs, and written data. It is in this last area of writing the histo-
ries of particular sites where civil engineering students are often
quite involved in HAER's activities.
Last summer in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, for instance, a field
TESTIMONY OF
team conducted a documentation project on early wrought iron and
cast iron bridges. Other examples of recent HAER work in our
MR. JOHN E. DURRANT
area include Moravian tile works in Doylestown and the Fair-
MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTION
mount Water Works done in 1978 here in Philadelphia.
Through the use of HAER's interdisciplinary teams to survey
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS
and document the nation's historic industrial, engineering, and
transportation resources, the U.S. has established itself as a world
ON THE
leader in the documentation of sites. Documentation is America's
great contribution to historic preservation.
HISTORIC AMERICAN ENGINEERING RECORD
ASCE believes strongly that the HAER Advisory Committee,
which performed admirably from 1969 through 1979 before being
BEFORE THE
sunsetted by Executive Order, should be reestablished. The HAER
Advisory Committee, whose membership included prominent civil
SUBCOMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
engineers and historic preservationists, provided a vital link be-
tween government and professional organizations. Now that the
COMMITTEE ON INTERIOR AND INSULAR AFFAIRS
Historic American Engineering Record has come of age, it is time
to reestablish the Advisory Committee to further strengthen
HAER's important programs.
UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Mr. Chairman, this concludes my formal remarks. I would be
happy to respond to any questions.
[The prepared statement of Mr. Durrant follows:]
MAY 11, 1992
ASOT
Civil engineers make the difference
They build the quality of life
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Good morning, Mr. Chsirman and members of the committee.
The HAER was establiehed in 1969 by an agreement smong the
Thank you for the opportunity to appear today before the Interior
Department of the Interior, the Library of Congress, and the ASCE.
and Insular Affsirs Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment. I
Thie accord, elso known as the tripartite sgreement, use leter
ae John Durrant, the Dietrict Four Director representing
rstified by four other engineering societies: the American Society
Pennsylvenis, and s member of the Board of Direction of the
of Mechanical Engineere, the Institute of Electrical and Electronic
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).
Engineers, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, and the
Founded in 1852, ASCE is the oldest national engineering
American Inetitute of Mining, Metallurgicel and Petroleum
organizetion in the U.S. Membership, held by more than 110,000
Engineers.
individual professionel engineers, is about equally divided emong
Under the tripsrtite egreement, the Interior Department'e
engineers in private practice; engineers working for Féderel, state
National Park Service (NPS) sdminiaters the HAER program with funds
or local governments; and those employed in reeearch end ecademis.
appropriated by Congreee and supplemented by donations from outside
The Society'e goals ere to develop engineers who will improve
eources. The NPS eets qualitative etendards, organizee end staffe
technology and apply it to further the objectives of society se a
recording projecte, and selects sites for documentation. The
whole, to promote the dedication and technical capability of ite
Library of Congress curates the recorde, makes them aveilable for
eembers, and to edvance the profession of civil engineering.
etudy, end providee reproductions to the public. ASCE and other
In addition to my responsibilities with ASCE, I currently
engineering societies provide professional counsel through their
serve ss Chief of the Msterisle Testing Laboretory et the
national membershipe.
Philsdelphia Water Department.
HAER performs a valuable role by documenting the nation'e
ASCE has e deep and long-stsnding interest in the Historic
industrial and engineering heritage. HAER surveys and documents
American Engineering Record (HAER). Americs'e vast size, plentiful
America'e historic industrial, engineering, and transportation
nstural resources and regional differences have contributed to the
resourcea, and records the working and living conditiona of the
nation's rich and diverse history of technical invention and
people asaociated with them. HAER conducts a nationwide program of
innovation. Hietorical structures not only testify to the
documentstion in cooperation with state and local governments,
creativity and imsgination of America's engineers and builders, but
private industry, profeasional societies, universities, end
slso illustrate the nation's physical development and document its
preservation groupa, ae well as other federal agenciee.
technological heritage.
Recognizing that many aignificant technological resourcee cannot be
asved, HAER documents the historic structures and objects through
measured and interpretive drawinga, large-format photographs, and
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written dets. It is in this last area of writing the histories of
Mr. KOSTMAYER. Thank you very much, Mr. Durrant. Mr. Pea-
tross.
particuler sitss whers civil snginsaring studants ers often quite
involved in HAER's ectivitiss. Last summer in Bsthlehem,
STATEMENT OF FORD PEATROSS
Pennsylvanis, for instance, s fisld tsam conducted e documentation
Mr. PEATROSS. Mr. Chairman, I am pleased to be able to testify
this morning on behalf of the Librarian of Congress in support of
project on ssrly wrought iron end cast iron bridges.
the reactivation of the Advisory Boards which are critical features
Through the uss of HAER's interdisciplinery tsems to survey
of the governance of the Historic American Buildings Survey and
the Historic American Engineering Record.
and document the Nation's historio industriel, sngineering, and
Additionally, the Librarian wishes me to encourage you to make
transportation resources, the U.S. has sstablished itself ss a
available to these programs the resources necessary to allow emer-
world lsader in the documentation of sitss. Documentetion is
gency recording of endangered historic sites or structures. I have
brought with me his letter affirming these positions, of which I be-
Americs's great contribution to historic pressrvation.
lieve you have a copy. With your permission, I would ask that it be
ASCE believss strongly that the HAER Advisory Committse, which
submitted in this part of the record.
Mr. Kostmayer. Without objection.
performed edmirebly from 1969-1979 befors being sunsetted by
Mr. PEATROSS. The Library of Congress was instrumental in the
Executive Order, should be rs-established. The HAER Advisory
creation of the Historic American Buildings Survey in 1933, help-
ing to design the original and standardized format of its records
Committee, whose membership included prominent civil engineers and
and providing a system for their cataloging and service. Since that
historic preservetionists, provided e vitel link bstween government
time, the Library's Prints and Photographs Division has served as
and professionel orgenizations. Now that the HAER hes coms of ags
the custodian of this valuable, useful, and ever-growing body of doc-
umentation, providing for its systematic organization, preservation,
it is time to rs-establish the Advieory Committse to further
and service to the public.
strengthen HAER's important programe.
In 1983, the Library of Congress celebrated the fiftieth anniver-
sary of the Historic American Buildings Survey with a major publi-
Mr. Cheirman, this concludes my formal remarks. I would be
cation, "Historic America: Buildings, Structures and Sites," and an
happy to reepond to any queetions.
exhibition. I have brought a copy of that publication with me this
morning for your information.
Since the creation of the Historic American Engineering Record
in 1969, the Library of Congress has served in the same capacity
for the custody of its records. Together, the Historic American
Buildings Survey and the Historic American Engineering Record
have grown to include documentation for almost 27,000 historic
sites, structures, and artifacts in all 50 states, the District of Co-
lumbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. These records are
in the form of over 49,000 original measured drawings, 145,000
large format photographs, and over 96,000 pages of written archi-
tectural and historical information, in addition to field documenta-
tion and service copies.
Today these collections are counted among the Library's best
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known and most widely used and disseminated. Over 100 libraries
and archives, both in this country and abroad, now have copies of
these materials in their collections. These records have provided
the basis for countless publications, exhibitions, and special studies;
for the analysis, appreciation, repair, restoration, and even rebuild-
ing of the nation's heritage of historic sites and structures; and as
source materials for almost four generations of students, scholars,
and professionals in architecture, engineering, design, historic pres-
ervation, history, genealogy, and many other subjects.
From their inception, both the Historic American Building
Survey and the Historic American Engineering Record have oper-
ated under tripartite agreements among the Department of the In-
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terior, the Library of Congress, and the organizations representing
the professions of architecture and engineering. A critical feature
of each of these agreements was the provision of Advisory Boards
STATEMENT OF C. FORD PEATROSS
composed of representatives of the parties to the agreement in ad-
CURATOR, ARCHITECTURE, DESIGN AND ENGINEERING COLLECTIONS
dition to leading professionals.
PRINTS AND PHOTOGRAPHS DIVISION
For almost 50 years, until they last met in 1978, these Advisory
THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
Boards served as the principal vehicle for reporting, comment, and
before the
review among these parties and their professional advisors. The
Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment
Committee on interior and Insular Affairs
Advisory Boards served well in both facilitating the administration
United States House of Representatives
of these programs and in garnering free professional advice and
Phiiadeiphia, Pennsyivania
support from the private sector.
May 11, 1992
The Boards further provided a long-term model of cooperation
between the public and private sectors and insured balanced over-
Mr. Chairman, I am pleased to be able to testify on behaif of the Librarian of
sight and direction of the activities of both programs. As a signato-
Congress in support of the reactivation of the advisory boards which are critical
features of the governance of the Historic American Buildings Survey and the
ry of the tripartite agreements under which both programs oper-
Historic American Engineering Record.
ate, the Librarian of Congress therefore enthusiastically supports
the reactivation of both Advisory Boards.
Additionaliy, the Librarian wishes me to encourage you to make available to
He would also recommend that you consider a longstanding need
these programs the resources necessary to allow emergency recording of endangered
of both surveys, the ability to undertake emergency recording of
historic sites or structures.
endangered historic sites and structures. Every year highly signifi-
cant examples of American achievements in architecture and engi-
I have brought with me his letter affirming these positions, of which I believe
you have a copy.
neering are lost without suitable visual or historical record, but not
without warning. This is a situation which should be remedied.
The Library of Congress was instrumental in the creation of the Historic
The history to date of the Historic American Building Survey
American Buildings Survey in 1933, helping to design the originai and standardized
and the Historic American Engineering Record is a remarkable
format of its records and providing a system for their cataioging and service. Since
success story. The return on the government's investment in these
that time the Library's Prints and Photographs Division has served as the custodian
modest programs has been manifold. The reactivation of the Advi-
of this valuabie, usefui and ever growing body of documentation, providing for its
sory Boards will help to protect, insure, guide, and encourage the
systematic organization, preservation and service to the public. In 1983 the Library
continued proper functioning of these programs, while a provision
celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the Historic American Buiidings Survey with a
major publication, Historic America: Buildings, Structures and Sites, and an
for emergency recording will correct a longstanding deficiency.
exhibition.
These actions will allow these two programs to continue to fulfill
the aims set out almost six decades ago in the language of the
Since the creation of the Historic American Engineering Record in 1969, the
original tripartite agreement. In closing my remarks before you
Library of Congress has served in the same capacity for the custody of its records.
today, it is appropriate to quote from that document, which so
Together the Historic American Buildings Survey and the Historic American
clearly stated this mission.
Engineering Record have grown to include documentation for aimost 27,000
I quote, "The task of preserving records of the historic monu-
historic sites, structures and artifacts in all fifty states, the District of Coiumbia,
Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. These records are in the form of over
ments of America has become a work of vital necessity. The clear-
49,000 original measured drawings, 145,000 iarge format photographs, and over
est record of the Nation's life lies in the structures it has built
96,000 pages of written architecturai and historical information, in addition to fieid
Even while we are preserving and restoring some of the
documentation and service copies.
monuments of our history, many others are daily disappearing.
Through slow destruction by decay and swift loss by fire, the ex-
igencies of civic and commercial developments; we are through suc-
ceeding generations losing many of the most perfect monuments of
our past culture in history. The National Government cannot be
expected to arrest all of these local losses, but it can lend its au-
thority and aid to the making of records before all of these historic
buildings are lost to posterity. It should be the aim of such govern-
mental direction to make available these records for future refer-
ence by architects, students, and the public in general."
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
[The prepared statement of Mr. Peatross, and a letter from the
Librarian of Congress, follows:]
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Today these collections are counted among the Library's best known and
and widely used and disseminated. Over 100 libraries and archives, both in this country most
abroad, now have copies of these materiais in their collections. These records
"The task of preserving records of the historic monuments of America has
have provided the basis for countiess publications, exhibitions and special studies;
become a work of vital necessity. The clearest record of the Nation's life lies In the
for the analysis, appreciation, repair, restoration and even rebuilding of the nation's
structures it has built Even while we are preserving and restoring some of the
heritage of historic sites and structures; and as source materiais for almost four
monuments of our history, many others are daily disappearing. Through slow
generations of students, schoiars and professionais in architecture, engineering,
destruction by decay and swift loss by fire; the exigencies of civic and commercial
design, historic preservation, history, genealogy and many other subjects.
developments; we are through succeeding generations losing many of the most
perfect monuments of our past cuiture in history. The National Government
From their inception, both the Historic American Buildings Survey and the
cannot be expected to arrest all of these local losses, but it can lend its authority and
Historic American Engineering Record have operated under tripartite agreements
aid to the making of records before all of these historic buildings are lost to posterity.
among the Department of the Interior, the Library of Congress, and the
It should be the aim of such governmental direction to make available these records
organizations representing the professions of architecture and engineerIng. A
for future reference by architects, students, and the public in general."
critical feature of each of these agreements was the provision of advisory boards
composed professionals. of representatives of the parties to the agreement in addition to leading
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
For almost fifty years, until they last met in 1978, these advisory boards served
as the principal vehicle for reporting, comment, and review among these parties
and their professional advisors. The advisory boards served well in both facilitating
the admlnistration of these programs and in garnering free professional advice and
support from the private sector. The boards further provided a long-term model of
cooperation between the public and private sectors and insured balanced oversight
and direction of the activities of both programs. As a signatory of the tripartite
agreements under which both programs operate, the Librarian of Congress therefore
enthuslastically supports the reactivation of both advisory boards.
He would also recommend that you consider a iongstanding need of both
surveys, the ability to undertake emergency recording of endangered historic sites
and structures. Every year highiy significant examples of American achievements
in architecture and engineering are lost without suitable visual or historical record,
but not without warning. This is a situation which should be remedied.
The history to date of the Historic American Buildings Survey and the
Historic American Engineering Record is a remarkabie success story. The return on
the government's investment in these modest programs has been manifoid. The
reactivation of the advisory boards will help to protect, Insure, guide and encourage
the continued proper functioning of these programs, while a provision for
emergency recording wiii correct a long-standing deficiency. These actions will
allow these two programs to continue to fulfill the aims set out aimost six decades
ago in the language of the originai tripartite agreement. In closing my remarks
before you today, it is appropriate to quote from that document, which so clearly
stated their mission:
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Thank you again for asking me to participate in your hearing on this subject of
concern to the Library of Congress.
THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS
WASHINGTON. DC. 20540
Sincerely,
July The James Librarian H. Billington of Congress
May 8, 1992
The Honorable Peter H. Kostmayer
Chairman
Subcommittee on Energy and Environment
Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
Dear Mr. Chairman:
U.S. House of Representatives
Washington, D. C. 20515-6201
I appreciate your invitation to present testimony at the oversight hearing to
examine the Issues surrounding the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) and the
Historic American Engineering Record (HAER). I regret that prior commitments prevent my
attendance. C. Ford Peatross, Curator of Architecture, Design, and Engineering Collections
in our Prints and Photographs Division, will state the position of the Library of Congress in
my stead.
The Library of Congress helped to initiate both of these excellent programs
and remains responsible for the preservation, organization, and service to the public of the
documentation which they produce. Since the first HABS records arrived at the Library of
Congress in 1934, these collections have grown to be among our largest and most widely
known and used. Today, thousands of historic sites and structures throughout the nation bear
bronze plaques stating that their HABS or HAER documentation in preserved in the Library
of Congress.
The Library is proud of this achievement and takes seriously its responsibilities
as a party to the tripartite agreements under which the Historic American Buildings Survey
and the Historic American Engineering Record operate. It is in this light that I support the
reactivation of the two advisory boards which serve as the principal mechanisms for the
proper functioning of these agreements and as outstanding models of the benefits of
cooperation between both government agencies and the public and private sectors.
In addition, I would like to recommend that you consider the possibility of
making available 10 these programs the resources necessary to allow emergency recording of
endangered historic sites or structures, a long-standing need.
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Mr. Kostmayer. Thank you very much. Ms. Maxman, let me ask
you about this documentation which is collected. Since I am not an
Mr. BOWERS. The request is with the Department right now.
architect or an engineer, it wouldn't mean anything to me or to
Mr. Kostmayer. Well, I know that.
those of us who are not architects or engineers. Is that right?
Mr. Bowers. Yes. And we are waiting for the Department to
Ms. MAXMAN. Would it not mean anything?
review it. I think you have seen some of the correspondence that
Mr. Kostmayer. It would not mean anything. It is simply a col-
has come to the Department.
lection of drawings, surveys. It wouldn't mean anything unless you
Mr. Kostmayer. When was the request first made of the Depart-
were an architect or an engineer. Is that right?
ment that the Board be reestablished?
Ms. Maxman. I don't think that is true.
Mr. BOWERS. If I am not mistaken, in December.
Mr. Kostmayer. Okay. Why is it not true?
Mr. Kostmayer. December of 1991?
Ms. Maxman. I think that anyone can benefit. Often, it is the
Mr. BOWERS. 1991. Yes.
only record we have of the structure that existed. I think that ar-
Mr. Kostmayer. And when will you have an answer for us?
chitects, engineers, and lay people can learn so much from the
Mr. BOWERS. I would like to say immediately, but I think the De-
drawings, their elevations and things that are very easy to under-
partment will probably take some time in taking a look at it. The
stand and that really show what our history was. And, certainly, ar-
Department of the Interior has the second-highest number of advi-
chitecture does always reflect our culture, and so we think it is
sory boards of any Federal department, and they are under pres-
really incredibly important. Obviously, it is a wonderful tool for ar-
sure to reduce that number and not to add any new ones, although
chitects and engineers but as well for lay people too.
this would be reinstituting an old one. So they will be taking time
Mr. KOSTMAYER. But do you think it has some use beyond use to
to look at it to, I think, weigh the benefits of reestablishing against
architects and to engineers who would understand it?
what the costs might be.
Ms. Maxman. Absolutely. In terms of documenting what a struc-
Mr. Kostmayer. What would the cost be?
ture looks like and if it is going to be destroyed, certainly, then you
Mr. Bowers. The costs, to some extent, involve the time and
have a record of it, and people come and trace the development
effort of staff people to handle the staffing of the advisory board.
of-you know, historians and so on would certainly benefit from it.
Sometimes when advisory boards are established, the Park Service
Mr. Kostmayer. Let me ask you, you favor the reestablishment
budget pays for the travel of those boards.
of the Advisory Board. Is AIA prepared to help sustain the Board
Mr. Kostmayer. So you have to pay for travel.
financially if it is reestablished with the kinds of costs that you
Mr. BOWERS. Support costs.
mentioned? Is there some possibility of private sector help here?
Mr. KOSTMAYER. You have to pay for accommodations if they are
Ms. MAXMAN. Well, I think that initially I am not quite certain
visiting various
of the cost. The members, obviously, are not compensated for their
Mr. BOWERS. It is a combination. The cost also includes the
time; that is all volunteer.
salary that goes to staff to handle support of the advisory board.
Mr. Kostmayer. Right.
Mr. Kostmayer. Do you have an estimate on what the cost would
Ms. Maxman. So the AIA would certainly contribute to that. In
be?
terms of the management of that committee, I am not sure what
Mr. Bowers. I do not have one, but we could certainly work one
costs are involved, but I think AIA does feel very strongly about it
up for you and submit it for the record.
and would certainly look to carry its share of support as it has
Mr. Kostmayer. Well, I would like you to do that, but I wonder
done in the past in whatever way it could.
if you could give me some indication of the time by which the De-
Mr. Kostmayer. So the AIA has contributed financially in the
partment would have an answer?
past to sustaining the Board?
Mr. BOWERS. I wish I could, sir, but I can't speak for the Depart-
Ms. Maxman. That I am not really certain of.
ment on that.
Mr. Kostmayer. Yes. I am not sure either.
Mr. Kostmayer. Well, give us a ballpark figure. Let us try to
Ms. Maxman. I am not certain what the costs are or what they
nail it down.
have been in the past, but I know that in the past they have-
Mr. KOSTMAYER. Well, my point is not so much what they are
months. Mr. Bowers. Do you want me to guess? I would say within six
but whether or not AIA and other private sector organizations
Mr. Kostmayer. In six months. All right. Well, I hope we can do
would be willing to pick up part of the tab here that the govern-
a little better than that, but let me ask you if the problems with
ment is no longer, apparently, prepared to provide.
funding, not the advisory board since it doesn't exist, but funding
Ms. MAXMAN. No. I would think that we would be willing to sup-
beyond that, have limited the capacity of HABS and HAER to do
port it in whatever way we possibly could.
Mr. KOSTMAYER. Great. Mr. Bowers, are you going to reestablish
the do? work that they need to do or that, in your view, they need to
this Advisory Board? You are with the Park Service?
Mr. BOWERS. I think the limits on funding hurt us in several
Mr. BOWERS. Yes, sir.
ways. Often, the significant structures that need recording are
Board? Mr. Kostmayer. Are you going to reestablish this Advisory
those that have the greatest threats, those that we are about to
lose. And, unfortunately, those are the ones that have the least
amount of support in terms of private donations. So in those situa-
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tions, HABS or HAER cannot move in and do that work since
there are no appropriated funds for recording activities.
derstand the plans and the surveys, I don't think I would. So the
Mr. KOSTMAYER. Do you have examples of this work that should
photographs, I think, are a good deal more meaningful to those of
be ongoing which is not because of the lack of funds?
us who are neither engineers nor architects. So tell me about the
Mr. BOWERS. I might ask Dr. Kapsch if he might have any exam-
photographs? Do they always accompany a project in which you
ples that have come up in the past.
are surveying a building?
Dr. KAPSCH. We have had problems, Mr. Chairman, in respond-
Mr. BOWERS. Recording is usually accomplished with drawings
ing to disaster recording. Hurricane Hugo was an example. We had
and photographs, although photographic documentation is one
a problem at the time receiving funding to document destruction or
level of documentation that can satisfy certain situations.
damage by Hurricane Hugo. Loma Prieta earthquake was another
Mr. Kostmayer. Are there instances in which there is not any
problem area. And beyond disaster recording, generally, we can
photographic documentation of your work?
Mr. BOWERS. Not that I am aware.
only document what third parties donate money to us-100 percent
of the funds to document-and many other historic structures
Dr. KAPSCH. If I may respond, Mr. Chairman, in all cases, photo-
remain undocumented.
graphic documentation-a five-inch by seven-inch large format is
Mr. KOSTMAYER. And there are donations being made to HABS
timely processed to a 500-year standard-is prepared for every
structure that we document.
and HAER these days from the private sector?
Mr. BOWERS. There are some donations from the private sector.
Mr. Kostmayer. Now, are these photographs like this or are
Most of our work is reimbursable from other Federal agencies or
these interior photographs or are they photographs that could be
donations from the public sector.
displayed that ordinary folk would enjoy or are they something
Mr. KOSTMAYER. What level of donations are coming from the
more esoteric than that, that only you engineers and architects
would understand?
very generous private sector?
Mr. BOWERS. Do you have a number on that, Bob?
Dr. KAPSCH. Actually, we just had a request from a colleague on
Dr. KAPSCH. Yes, sir. It is in our testimony. HABS/HAER re-
your committee, Congressman Abercrombie, to include HABS pho-
ceives, from private organizations, in the order of approximately
tographs in his office in the Longworth House of Representatives
$400,000 a year including a $250,000 donation from the American
Building. Generally, the photographs are very, very widely used
Institute of Architects to document the White House on the 200th
both by lay people and also by professionals. We primarily do
anniversary of the laying of the corner stone of the White House.
black-and-white photographs because of the archival stability of
Mr. Kostmayer. I see. Well, you are already providing some-
black-and-white. And the Library of Congress has just assisted us
thing.
through their conservation laboratory to make color photographs
Ms. MAXMAN. Right.
archivally stable to our 500-year service life.
Mr. KOSTMAYER. Let me ask you if there are plans for recording
Mr. Kostmayer. And how many photographs exist now?
other historic structures in the area of southeastern Pennsylvania
Dr. Kapsch. There are, approximately, 150,000 photographs that
besides the work that is ongoing, I think, in Bucks County and
the Library of Congress has in their collections. The number is in-
other areas that you are aware of?
cluded in the testimony.
Dr. KAPSCH. Mr. Chairman, right now with the support of Con-
Mr. Kostmayer. And the oldest date back to the 1930's?
gressman Murtha we have extensive projects in central Pennsylva-
Dr. KAPSCH. Actually, Charles Peterson had some photographs
nia. It is called the American's Industrial Heritage Project. Next
from 1933. There are a few photographs that preexist the develop-
year, we will be documenting religious churches throughout central
ment of HABS and they date back to perhaps 1931.
Pennsylvania, in eastern Pennsylvania, and particularly southeast-
Congress? Mr. Kostmayer. Are all of the photographs in the Library of
ern Pennsylvania. Our plans are right now with the Delaware and
Lehigh Navigation Canal which we cosponsored. That would be to
Dr. KAPSCH. That is correct, sir.
document Concrete City. It is a HAER project. It is a follow-up on
Mr. Kostmayer. Are there any aside from those going to Mr.
the Ashley anthracite breaker that was done last year. Testimony
Abercrombie's office that are going to be on public display, or is
was provided on that.
there some kind of regular schedule for displaying these photo-
Mr. KOSTMAYER. And the churches in central Pennsylvania,
graphs around the country in the communities in which they were
whose project is that?
taken, for example? Or are they—
Dr. KAPSCH. That is part of America's Industrial Heritage
Mr. KAPSCH. This year we have two major exhibits in Washing-
Project which is sponsored by Congressman Murtha. And the idea
ton, D.C. The first was historic architecture of the National Park
is that to this day, Eastern European churches have never been
Service at the National Building Museum. That will be made into a
studied in the United States and are a very important part of the
traveling exhibit that will be traveled throughout the National
heritage of the State of Pennsylvania.
Park system. The second was of the White House.
Mr. Kostmayer. Now, do photographs always accompany the
surveys and the drawings? To what degree are photographs a part
parks? Mr. Kostmayer. And that is photographs of buildings within the
of this? I ask because even though some might recognize and un-
Mr. KAPSCH. That is correct. The Park Service has 20,000 historic
buildings, and HABS documents these through photographs and
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drawings of a selection of those historic buildings throughout the
Mr. KOSTMAYER. And how many of them are out on public dis-
National Park system. In addition, we were talking about having
play?
the Alaska Russian Orthodox Church photographs exhibited and
Mr. PEATROSS. It is very hard to estimate, just like it is very hard
sponsored by the Alaska delegation of Congress. We also have held
to estimate our actual use of the collection because for 50 years we
a number of other exhibits of our material.
have been pushing this collection out to the public. As early as the
photographs? Mr. Kostmayer. So there are ongoing efforts to display these
1940s, people were ordering thousands of copies of these photo-
graphs every year for archives, for libraries. Because it is an all
Dr. KAPSCH. Yes, sir.
public domain collection, there is no restriction.
Mr. Kostmayer. And who inquires about the plans and the draw-
So people are using this collection in libraries all over the coun-
ings and the photographs? You have a lot of inquiries I am told.
try as we sit here, and then they will just order-and often in the
These are architects, engineers? Who?
Prints and Photographs Division because all of those things have
Dr. KAPSCH. Sir, I would like to defer to the Library of Congress.
the negative number or the drawing number on it-they will order
Mr. Kostmayer. OK. Mr. Peatross, who makes these inquiries?
them for their exhibits, and we never know about it.
Who is interested in this?
Mr. Kostmayer. All right. I think it is important to get them out
Mr. PEATROSS. A very broad range of the public, Mr. Chairman.
where people can see them especially in these communities where
We have the interests of professionals, architects, students, engi-
they were taken. Have you told the Secretary of the Interior that
neers, but a great many of the people who use our collections are
you think the Boards ought to be reactivated? Have you made the
historians, genealogists, and, in fact, a good many people who come
views Interior? of the Librarian of Congress known to the Secretary of the
in, they just come in to see the photographs or drawings of their
family home or their local community.
Mr. PEATROSS. Not since they were initially sunsetted.
Mr. Kostmayer. Well, how many of the
Mr. Kostmayer. Back in the 1970s?
Mr. PEATROSS. It is almost a sense of visiting the Library of Con-
Mr. PEATROSS. Yes. We have maintained that they are temporari-
gress.
ly deactivated but except when this was initiated. We have not
Mr. Kostmayer. 150,000 photographs and how many of them are
made our position of issue in that sense.
stored, them? and how many are out being displayed where people can see
Mr. Kostmayer. Don't you think it would be a good idea if the
Librarian sent a little note over to the Secretary and let him know
Mr. PEATROSS. Well, the whole collection that is processed in the
that-will you do that?
Prints and Photographs Division because we are now in a program
Mr. PEATROSS. Yes.
to incorporate all the material that Historic American Building
Mr. Kostmayer. Good. You have asked for additional funding for
Survey has recorded over the past 20 years. But all that is put
emergency purposes. What is that funding for? I guess it is for de-
right in our reading room as soon as it is catalogued. Anyone can
termining right? if a site or structure is in danger of being lost. Is that
walk in, sign into our reading room in the Prints and Photographs
Division, walk right back. It is all on the shelf, the photographs,
Mr. PEATROSS. Yes, Mr. Chairman. It can be the type of thing, for
the data, and reduced-size copies of the drawings.
instance, where it is a very important bridge that you know is
Part of the genius of Mr. Peterson's plan, and he was working
going to be demolished.
with Lester Holland who was then Chief of our division in the Li-
Mr. Kostmayer. Well, do you know how many of these sites and
brary, was that these records be usable. So every photograph has a
structures will be demolished or will be lost over the next 12-month
negative, and the negative number is on that mounted photoprint.
period, for example?
Every drawing has a drawing number. The data pages can be Xe-
Mr. PEATROSS. No, no. If we were allowed to do this, obviously,
roxed. And so
the criteria would be established and acted on by the survey itself,
Mr. Kostmayer. But how many of the photographs are actually
not the Library of Congress. We just know
on public display as opposed to having to go back into the stacks
Mr. Kostmayer. Well, let me ask Mr. Bowers if you or your asso-
and find them and
ciate know how many-give us some estimate of how many build-
Mr. PEATROSS. None of them is on public display.
ings, how many structures, how many bridges, how many sites
Mr. Kostmayer. Well, there are some, I am told, that are dis-
funding? would be lost over the next year if we are not able to get additional
played. Mr. Abercrombie is going to have some, and there is a dis-
Mr. BOWERS. We don't keep records on structures that will be
play of the Park Service buildings that is going to be traveling
around the country, and you mentioned a couple.
lost over the next year. We do have a section 8 report that we do
Mr. PEATROSS. I just meant in the Library of Congress. At any
submit to Congress every year on threatened and endangered na-
tional historic landmarks, and there are about 324 structures on
time and all over the country, there are exhibits using photographs
that list that are in danger-
Mr. Kostmayer. On that threatened list?
Mr. KOSTMAYER. These photographs?
Mr. PEATROSS. Right.
Mr. BOWERS. Right. And they are on there because they are
either about to be lost or are threatened over the short term.
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Mr. Kostmayer. How long has that list been in existence?
Mr. Bowers. I would guess at least for 12 years now.
toric Preservation of the Bucks County Conservancy. Mr. Bahlman,
do you want to start off?
Mr. Kostmayer. And how has it changed over the past 12 years
in terms of the numbers of sites, structures on it?
PANEL CONSISTING OF david bahlman, EXECUTIVE DIREC-
Mr. BOWERS. The number of total national historic landmarks is
2,030.
TOR, THE SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS; AND
JEFF MARSHALL, DIRECTOR OF HISTORIC PRESERVATION,
Mr. Kostmayer. Well, of the 1,700, 200 are on the endangered
BUCKS COUNTY CONSERVANCY
list. Is that right?
Mr. BOWERS. Endangered or threatened list, yes.
Mr. Kostmayer. Right. And is that a growing list? Was it less
STATEMENT OF DAVID BAHLMAN
than 200 last year
Mr. BOWERS. I would guess
Mr. BAHLMAN. Certainly. Mr. Chairman, I am pleased to be here
Mr. Kostmayer [continuing]. Or was it 400 and it came down to
today, and I hope that my comments and recommendations on
200?
behalf of the Society will be helpful to you in your deliberations.
Mr. Bowers. I would guess that it is growing slightly. One of the
In many ways, the Historic American Building Survey and the
problems that we have is not being able to go out and monitor all
Society of Architectural Historians grew up together. In 1940,
of the national historic landmarks.
seven years after Charlie Peterson wrote a detailed memorandum
Mr. Kostmayer. So there could be even more?
that served as a charter for the Historic American Building
Survey, the Society of Architectural Historians was founded to en-
Mr. BOWERS. There could be more. Certainly.
Mr. Kostmayer. Well, probably there are more than 200.
courage research and teaching in architectural history. There are
Mr. BOWERS. There could be.
today nearly 4,000 worldwide members of the Society made up of a
Mr. Kostmayer. What was it 12 years ago?
wide range of professionals, from architects and planners to preser-
Mr. BOWERS. I could find that figure out for you, but I don't
vationists and scholars, as well as a large number of interested
amateurs.
know.
Mr. Kostmayer. Well, that is the only question you haven't been
Many early members of the Society worked for HABS. The
able to answer today so-but it was less than 200?
number has been estimated at about 2,000 so far. Furthermore, in
Mr. BOWERS. I would have to find out. I would guess it is.
1951, Charlie Peterson became president of the Society for a term
of one year and later served several terms on the Board. At least
Mr. Kostmayer. OK. Mr. Durrant, are you going to pick up part
of the tab as private sector groups here if they get the Board going
six past presidents of the Society have been employed by HABS,
again along with
and one of our recent past presidents, Professor Osmund Overby of
Mr. DURRANT. I guess we
the University of Missouri, boasts of at least 10 summers spent
Mr. Kostmayer. Are you going to help Ms. Maxman?
with HABS in various projects across the country.
Mr. Durrant. I guess we would be in a similar situation. ASCE
The staff of HABS has set the standards for documentary excel-
has a number of liaisons with a number of other organizations, and
lence and scholarship in recording historic structures, a matter of
I am certain that we could support our members becoming part of
great concern to the Society. The first textbook on the topic, "Re-
this Advisory Committee.
cording Historic Buildings, was written by architectural historian
Mr. Kostmayer. Well, I know that, but I am looking for more
Harley McKee of Syracuse University who met Charlie Peterson
than membership. The architects are already providing at least a
during an SAH summer field trip on Nantucket in 1951. The sig-
quarter of a million dollars. Are the engineers doing anything? Are
nificantly enlarged and revised edition of the text, "Recording His-
they providing any money yet?
toric Structures," published by HABS in 1989, continues to set the
Dr. KAPSCH. Primarily consultative at this time, Mr. Chairman.
pace for written, drawn, and photographic work throughout the
Mr. Kostmayer. That means no, I guess.
field. This record is crucial. In many instances, HABS documenta-
Mr. Durrant. I sit on the Board of Directors, and I know we are
tion is the only reliable guidance we have for the study of major
short of funds. But this is an important area, and I am sure we
architectural monuments which have been altered, damaged, or de-
would consider it. And, again, let me reiterate. We would certainly
stroyed by remodeling, willful destruction, neglect, or natural dis-
support our members participating in the committee.
asters. In fact, on more than one occasion, the reconstruction of a
Mr. Kostmayer. So you most likely would try your very best to
major monument has been possible due only to HABS records. Fur-
provide something?
thermore, the accessibility of this documentation through the hold-
Mr. DURRANT. Sure.
ings of the Library of Congress is available to individual citizens
Mr. Kostmayer. All right. I don't think that I have any addition-
communities. who seek to learn about and preserve structures in their respective
al questions. I appreciate the testimony of all of the panelists.
Thank you all very much. I appreciate it and call our second panel:
The "Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians"-Amy
David Bahlman who is Executive Director of the Society of Archi-
has a dozen copies here if any of you don't know it and would like
tectural Historians; and Jeff Marshall who is the Director of His-
to see it-has been universally respected for 50 years as the leading
periodical of the profession. In 1979, the Preservation Committee of
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the Society published the first issue of "Preservation Forum," a
newsletter dedicated to specific preservation issues. In many ways,
MAY 11, 1992
the success of these publications has been linked directly to the
standards set by the Historic American Building Survey.
STATEMENT OF DAVID A. BAHLMAN, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, SOCIETY OF
HABS publications have earned the respect of the Society. In
ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS, BEFORE THE HOUSE INTERIOR AND INSULAR
1989, for example, after reviewing over two dozen architectural sur-
AFFAIRS SUBCOMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT ON AN OVER-
SIGHT HEARING ON THE HISTORIC AMERICAN BUILDING SURVEY (HABS) AND
veys, the Society bestowed its Antoinette Forrester Downing Award
THE HISTORIC AMERICAN ENGINEERING RECORD (HAER).
for the best publication based on a local architectural survey to
Mr. Chairman:
publication. "The Alabama Catalog," an Historic American Building Survey
I am pleased to be here today, and I hope that my comments and
In the Society of Architectural Historians' "Bylaws," the purpose
recommendations on behalf of the Society will be helpful to you
in your deliberations.
of the Society was well established, not only to encourage research
and teaching in architectural history but to promote the preserva-
In many ways, the Historic American Building Survey and the
tion of important architecture, The Society's involvement in preser-
Society of Architectural Hiatorians (SAH) grew up together. In
1940, seven yeara after Charles Peterson wrote a detailed
HAER. vation issues has been nurtured by its association with HABS/
memorandum that served as the charter of the Historic American
Building Survey, the Society of Architectural Historians was
For example, several years ago, the Society co-sponsored with the
founded to encourage research and teaching in architectural his-
Religious Properties program of the Philadelphia Historic Preser-
tory. There are, today, nearly 4,000 worldwide members of the
Society, made up of a wide range of professionals from
vation Corporation a conference on the preservation of religious
architects and plannera to preservationists and scholars as
structures in Philadelphia. Many of the recommendations which
well as a large number of interested amateurs. Many early Ben-
resulted from this conference were based on restoration standards
bers of the Society worked for HABS. Furthermore, In 1951,
Charles Peterson became President of the Society, and later
established by HABS documentation.
served several terms on the Board. At least aix paat presidents
The close relationship between the Society and HABS/HAER
of the Society have been employed by HABS, and one of our recent
continues to the present day. The first volumes of the Society's
past preaidents, Professor Osmund Overby, boasts of at least ten
"Buildings of the United States" series, published by Oxford Uni-
summers spent with HABS in varioua projects across the country.
versity Press, are about to appear. The project has benefited great-
The staff of HABS has set the standards for documentary
ly from a special arrangement with HABS/HAER to facilitate
excellence and scholarship in recording historic structures, a
matter of great concern to the Society. The first textbook on
architectural guide for each state.
access to the collection, an invaluable tool for writing a scholarly
the topic, Recording Historic Buildings, was written by architec-
tural historian Harley McKee of Syracuse University, who met
Sally Kress Tompkins, deceased Deputy Chief of HABS/HAER,
Charles Peterson during an SAH summer field trip on Nantucket in
1951. The significantly enlarged and revised edition of this
served on the Editorial Board of the "Buildings of the United
text, Recording Historic Structures, published by HABS in 1989,
States." In recognition of her great contribution to the Society and
continues to set the pace for written, drawn and photographic
to this project in particular, the Sally Kress Tompkins Fellowship
work throughout the field. This record is crucial. In many
has been established as a joint fellowship between HABS/HAER
instances, HABS documentation is the only reliable guidance we
have for the study of major architectural monuments that have
and the SAH to provide funding for a HABS/HAER summer in-
been altered, damaged or destroyed by "remodelling", willful
ternship for an architectural history graduate student.
destruction, neglect, or natural disasters. In fact, on more
I speak for the Society, and specifically for Professor Michael
than one occasion, the reconstruction of a major monument has
been possible due only to HABS records. Furthermore, the acces-
Tomlan, Director of the Graduate Program in Historic Preserva-
sibility of this documentation through the holdings of the
tion at Cornell University-he is also Chair of the National Council
Library of Congress is invaluable to individual citizens who seek
for Preservation Education and Chair of our own Preservation
to learn about and preserve structures in their respective com-
munities.
Committee-in strong support of the work that HABS/HAER has
been doing to record our architectural and engineering heritage.
The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians
In view of this long history of cooperation and mutual support, it
here are copies for you to examine has been universally
respected for fifty years as the leading periodical of the
Committees should be reactivated. This action would indisputably
is the Society's firm belief that the HABS and HAER Advisory
sional and scholarly organizations.
strengthen the ties between HABS/HAER and all related profes-
Thank you for the opportunity to speak. I will be glad to answer
any questions.
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prepared
statement
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published the first issue of Preservation Porum, a newsietter
profession. In 1979, the Preservation Committee of the Society
Mr. Koztmayer. Thank you, Mr. Bahlman. Mr. Marshall.
dedicated to specific preservation issues. In many ways, the
STATEMENT OF JEFF MARSHALL
success of these pubiications has been linked to the standarda
set by the Historic American Buiiding Survey.
Mr. MARSHALL. Good morning, Mr. Chairman. My name is Jef-
HABS publications have earned the respect of the Society.
frey Marshall. I am the Director of the Historic Preservation De-
1989, for example, after reviewing over two dozen architectural In
partment of the Bucks County Conservancy, a private nonprofit
Award for the best publication based on a locai architectural
surveys, the Society bestowed its Antoinette Forrester Downing
conservation and preservation organization with headquarters in
survey to The Alabama Catalor, Historic American Building Survey.
Doylestown, Pennsylvania. My testimony this morning will hope-
fully give a local perspective to the HABS/HAER projects.
estabiished; not only to encourage research and teaching in
In the Society'a Bylaws, the purpose of the Society was well-
I have been working in the historic preservation field in the
Bucks County region since 1975. I have seen the destruction of nu-
srchitectural tsnt history, but to promote the preservation of impor-
issues has been nurtured by its association with HABS/HAER. For
architecture. The Society's involvement in preservation
merous historic resources during this time. In Bucks County, these
resources are continually threatened by destruction, alteration, and
exampis, several years ago the Society co-sponaored with the
the other effects of growth in suburbia. There is an axiom in pres-
Reiigious Properties program of the Phiiadelphia Historic Preser-
vation Corporation, a conference on the preaervation of religious
ervation which states: "Once it is gone, it is gone forever."
structures in Philadelphia. Many of the recommendationa which
For many of the buildings that we have lost, this is, unfortunate-
establiahed by HABS documentation.
resuited from thia conference were based on reatoration atandards
ly, true. Nothing remains to mark these structures. Merges and
recordation are a growing need in our area. The Bucks County Con-
The close reiationship between the Society and HABS/HAER
servancy is actively involved with historic sites surveys to identify
tinues to the present day. The first volumes of the Society'a con-
Buildings of the United States aeries, pubiished by Oxford
historic resources and in the preparation of National Register
University Presa, are about to appear. The project has benefited
nominations and preservation ordinances to help protect them.
greatly from a speciai arrangement with HABS/HAER to facilitate
In the past four years alone, we have identified over 11,000 re-
access to the coilection, an invaiuable tool for writing a
sources on over 4,000 properties as part of our Comprehensive His-
kins, deceased Deputy Chief, HABS/HAER, served on the Editorial
schoiariy srchitectural guide for each State. Saliy Kress Tomp-
toric Sites Survey. Several thousand more have been identified in
her Board of the Buildings of the United States. In recognition of
previous surveys. The Bucks County Conservancy has completed
to ticular, the Saiiy Kress Tompkins Fellowship has been established par-
great contribution to the Society and to this project in
eight historic district nominations and 20 individual nominations
architectural history graduate student.
provide funding for a HABS/HAER summer internship for an
which have led to successful listing in the National Register.
Recently, a large HABS project was undertaken in the county to
document vernacular architecture rather than individual historic
I speak for the Society, and specifically for Profesaor
at Tomlan, Director of the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation Michaei
landmarks. This was the first such project that I am aware of being
Corneil University, Chair of the National Council for Preser-
done in one of the oldest counties of Pennsylvania. Professional his-
vation Education, and Chair of the Society of Architecturai His-
torians, architects, librarians, and members of local historical soci-
that HABS/HAER has been doing to record our architectural
torians Preservation Committee, in strong support of the work
eties, historic commissions as well as concerned individuals came
engineering tion heritage. In view of this long history of and
together to compile a list of properties worthy of documentation.
and mutual aupport, it is the Society's firm belief coopera- that the
Not surprisingly, the list far outstripped the number of properties
HABS and HAER Advisory Committees be reactivated. This action
would indisputably strengthen the ties between HABS/HAER and all
which were able to be included within the project.
reisted professionai and scholarly organizationa.
The focus of the selected buildings was vernacular structures
which retained much of their architectural integrity. They repre-
Thank you for this opportunity to speak. I will be glad to ans-
sented examples of many different regional and ethnic buildings
wer any questions that you might have.
once common in the county. These buildings are increasingly rare.
One of these buildings which has been documented has been de-
molished and at least one other is seriously threatened today. We
are now awaiting funding from the state of Pennsylvania to create
and mount an exhibit of these photographs which were taken sev-
eral years ago.
HABS/HAER photographic documentation and/or measured
drawings are often our last card to play as we attempt to salvage
some record of these structures. Any tool we have for preserving
this finite set of 18th and 19th Century buildings is gratefully ac-
cepted. The HABS/HAER program is, in Bucks County, an under-
used tool to document the often rapidly disappearing historic re-
sources which have shaped the county.
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Traditionally, we have used the National Register as the corner-
stone of our preservation efforts. The National Register is an im-
portant tool, but we cannot depend on it exclusively. It is a miscon-
BUCKS COUNTY CONSERVANCY
ception to believe that all significant historic resources are listed
85 Old Dublin Pike, Doylestown, Pennsylvania 18901
215 345-7020
on the National Register.
Even if they are listed, the National Register often cannot pro-
My name is Jeffrey L. Marshall. I am the Director of the Historic
tect historic resources from a property owner who wants to destroy
Preservation Department of the Bucks County Conservancy, a private non-
them. Unfortunately, even being listed on the National Register
profit conservation and preservation organization with headquarters in
Doylestown, Pennsylvania.
does not assure detailed documentation. Additionally, the National
Register program has several shortcomings. A number of proper-
I have been working in the historic preservation fieid in the Bucks
ties identified as being National Register-eligible through our his-
County region since 1975. I have seen the destruction of numerous historic
toric surveys far exceed the number of properties which have been
resources during this time. In Bucks County, these resources are continually
listed or have been adequately documented. This is because the Na-
threatened by destruction, alteralion, and the other effects of growing
tional Register is actually a voluntary process, and many property
suburbla. There is an axiom In preservation which states: "Once it's gone, it's
owners do not know about the register or care to go through the
gone forever". For many of the buildings we have lost, that is unfortunately
bureaucracy and expense of listing their properties; the National
true. Nolhing remains to mark these structures. The Bucks County
Conservancy is actively involved with historic sites surveys to identify
Register, at least as administered in Pennsylvania, does not recog-
historic resources and in the preparation of National Regisler nominations
nize portions of buildings which are worthy of listing.
and preservation ordinances to help protect them.
So very important historic resources with later unsympathetic
additions are not deemed eligible for listing; individual architectur-
In the past four years alone, we have documented over 11,000 resources
ally significant buildings located within National Register historic
on over 4,000 properties as parl of a Comprehensive Historic Sites Survey.
districts often do not have the documentation they deserve. And
Several thousand more have been identified in previous surveys. The Bucks
once an historic district has been created, nominations for individ-
County Conservancy has completed eight historic district nominations and
ual properties within its boundaries are not accepted for process-
twenty individual nominations were have led to successful listings in the
National Regisler.
ing; many properties worthy of note do not have a preservation pri-
ority system under the Pennsylvania priority system which does
Recently, a large HABS project was undertaken in the county. This was
not allow them to be nominated at all.
the first such project I am aware of being done in one of the oldest counties in
HABS/HAER documentation is an excellent tool to document a
Pennsylvania. Professlonal historians, architects, librarians, and members of
large number of properties which we have documented as having
local historical societies and historic commissions as well as concerned
historic or architectural significance which may not be National
individuals came together to compile a list of properties worthy of
Register-eligible, but which are certainly worthy of future study, or
documentation. Not surprisingly, the list far outstripped the number of
properties which were able to be Included within the project. The focus of the
possess individual elements worthy of detailed documentation.
selected buildings was vernacular structures which retained much of their
Finally, I would like to state that the HAER documentation is an
architectural Integrity. They represented examples of many different regionai
even more overlooked tool. Bucks County has a large number of
and ethnic buildings once common in the county. These buildings are
bridges, including covered bridges, stone-arched bridges, camelback
increasingly rare. One of these buildings has been demolished and al least
canal bridges, iron bridges, and a number of WPA bridges which
one other is seriously threatened.
are increasingly threatened as the once rural areas are upgrading
their infrastructure to accommodate the suburban boom which has
HABS/HAER Photographic documentation and/or measured
covered much of the county.
drawings are often our last card to play as we attempt to salvage some record
We hope that the documentation of historic resources becomes a
of these structures. Any tool we have for preserying this finite sel of
eighteenth and nineteenth century buildings is gratefully accepted. The
requirement in the permitting process for the issuance of demoli-
HABS/HAER program is, in Bucks County, an underused tool to document
tion permits for any publicly or privately owned historic resource
the often rapidly disappearing historic resources which have shaped the
located within or outside of any historic district, whether or not
county.
any Federal authorization, licensing, or funding is involved. Be-
cause otherwise "Once it is gone, it is gone forever." Thank you
very much.
[The prepared statement of Mr. Marshall follows:)
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Mr. KOSTMAYER. Thank you very much. Mr. Marshall, let me ask
The National Register is an important tool, but we cannot depend on it
you if the destruction of historical resources by which we mean
exclusively. It is a misconception to believe that all significant historic
buildings and also sites, what are historical sites that are not struc-
resources are listed on the National Register. Even if they are listed, the
tures?
National Register often can not protect historic resources from a property
owner who wants to destroy them.
Mr. MARSHALL. We have a number of archeological sites in Bucks
County which are currently under threat.
The number of propertles identified as being National Register eligible
Mr. KOSTMAYER. And you gave the figure of 11,000 sites in Bucks
through our historic surveys far exceed the number of properties which have
County?
been listed or are adequately documented. This is because:
Mr. MARSHALL. 11,000 resources on 4,000 sites.
The National Register is voluntary and many property owners do not
Mr. Kostmayer. I am sorry. 11,000
know about the register, or care to go through the bureaucracy and expense of
Mr. MARSHALL. Resources-buildings.
listing their properties.
Mr. Kostmayer. 11,000 buildings?
The National Register, at least as administered In Pennsylvania, does
Mr. MARSHALL. Yes.
not recognize portions of buildings as being worthy of listing. So very
Mr. Kostmayer. And in addition to 11,000 buildings, 4,000
important historic resources with later unsympathetic additions are not
deemed eligible.
Mr. MARSHALL. On 4,000 different properties.
Individual architecturally significant buildings located within
Mr. Kostmayer. Oh. 11,000 structures on 4,000 different proper-
National Register historic districts often do not have the documentation they
ties. That is a lot of buildings for one county-11,000.
deserve; and once an historic district has been created, nominations for
Mr. MARSHALL. Well, as I said earlier, Bucks County is one of the
individual properties within its boundaries are not accepted for processing.
three oldest counties in Pennsylvania, and we have under
Many properties worthy of note do not have a preservation priority
Mr. Kostmayer. Many of these are private homes?
under the Pennsylvania priority system.
Mr. MARSHALL. Most of them.
Mr. Kostmayer. Most of them are private homes. And some of
HABS/HAER documentation is an excellent tool to document that
these buildings are in danger?
large number of properties we have documented as having historic or
Mr. MARSHALL Yes.
architectural significance which may not be National Register eligible, but
Mr. Kostmayer. How many?
which are certainly worth future study, or possess Individual elements
worthy of detailed documentation.
Mr. MARSHALL. We have, in the last month that I have been
studying it for a number, have lost three buildings that we have
Finally, I would like to state that HAER documentation is an even
previously documented who have some sort of identification as
more often overlooked tool. Bucks County has a large number of bridges,
being over 50 years old and an historic resource.
Including covered bridges, stone arched bridges, "camel back" canal bridges,
Mr. KOSTMAYER. Three buildings that were how old?
and WPA bridges which are increasingly threatened as once rural areas are
Mr. MARSHALL. Over 50 years old.
upgrading Infrastructure to accommodate the suburban boom which has
Mr. Kostmayer. Right. And what buildings, were they all private
covered much of the county.
residences?
Mr. MARSHALL. Yes, they were.
We hope that documentation of historic resources becomes a
Mr. Kostmayer. So how serious a problem is it?
requirement in the permitting process for the issuance of demolition permits
for any public or privately owned historic resource, located within or outside
Mr. MARSHALL. We have problems of destruction for suburban
of any historic district, whether or not any federal authorization, licensing or
growth and a very more insidious problem of as these houses are
funding is involved. Because otherwise "Once its gone, its gone forever".
being purchased by 20th Century owners, they are being altered.
Thank you very much.
And we are losing our historic fabric faster than we are losing
buildings, but still we are losing it and feel these things should be
Jeffrey L. Marshail, Director of Historic Preservation
documented in an as-is condition.
Bucks County Conservancy
Mr. Kostmayer. Mr. Bahlman, are there areas of the country
85 Old Dublin Pike, Doylestown, PA 18901
that are more architecturally valuable than others?
Mr. BAHLMAN. If you are a vernacularist, you would say no; but
yes, certainly.
Mr. Kostmayer. And is this one of them?
Mr. BAHLMAN. This is one.
Mr. Kostmayer. And is Bucks County one of them?
Mr. BAHLMAN. Bucks County is. In our publishing project "Build-
ings of the United States," we have a running joke about the
volume on North Dakota.
Mr. KOSTMAYER. You have a running joke about
Mr. BAHLMAN. We have a running joke about the volume on
North Dakota, and there are those that think there aren't too
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many structures in North Dakota to worry about. In fact, there
Mr. BAHLMAN. It depends on the circumstances. I would say, in
are. They are vernacular rather than high style. It is all important.
general, it is easier here.
Every bit of it. But
Mr. Kostmayer. Easier here?
Mr. Kostmayer. But there, obviously, are more structures in this
Mr. BAHLMAN. Yes.
part of the country-
Mr. BAHLMAN. Yes. That is correct.
Mr. Kostmayer. And why is that?
Mr. Kostmayer [continuing]. Since this part of the country is
Mr. BAHLMAN. Probably because of the length of time that we
older.
have been preserving structures, and there aren't as many watch-
Mr. BAHLMAN. You can't argue with numbers here in the East.
dog organizations set up to protect these.
Mr. Kostmayer. And the destruction of these properties is a seri-
Mr. Kostmayer. You mentioned the Society's "Buildings of the
ous problem?
United States" project?
Mr. BAHLMAN. That is correct.
Mr. Bahlman. Absolutely.
Mr. Kostmayer. Now, what can be done about it?
Mr. Kostmayer. Can you just tell us what that is?
Mr. Bahlman. Well, I think general awareness
Mr. BAHLMAN. Again, Nicholas Pessner charged the Society 20
Mr. Kostmayer. I mean, you are concerned primarily with col-
years ago to create a project whereby every state in the union
lecting the drawings and the surveys of these buildings architectur-
would have an architectural guide, a scholarly guide to the archi-
selves? ally. But do you deal with the preservation of the buildings them-
tecture of the state. We are about to publish the first four volumes
of this series, and we, obviously, have a long way to go. But it will
Mr. BAHLMAN. We have a Preservation Committee that provides
be the vehicle for bringing architecture to a much popular audi-
expert testimony in cases where architectural historians are called
ence. There will be books. A gross analogy would be the Michelans.
in to testify to the attributes of a particular structure. Being an or-
It will be a book that people could keep in the glove compartments
ganization more on the scholarly side, this is the best contribution
of their cars and travel throughout Pennsylvania and look at the
we can make to historic preservation.
architecture.
Mr. Kostmayer. And what is that contribution?
Mr. Kostmayer. I asked Ms. Maxman this question, but I wanted
Mr. Bahlman. Expert testimony in preservation cases.
to ask you.
Mr. Kostmayer. Well, is this a serious problem in other coun-
Mr. BAHLMAN. Sure.
tries
Mr. Kostmayer. I understand the value of the photographs, obvi-
Mr. BAHLMAN. Absolutely.
ously, but being neither an engineer nor an architect, I understand
Mr. Kostmayer [continuing]. The destruction of these buildings?
less the value of the drawings to people who aren't architects or
Mr. BAHLMAN. Absolutely. Look what is happening in Yugoslav-
engineers. Can you explain that value?
ia.
Mr. BAHLMAN. To our constituency, certainly an architectural
Mr. KOSTMAYER. Is it handled differently than it is in this coun-
historian
try generally?
Mr. Kostmayer. Well, I understand the value to architects and
Mr. BAHLMAN. There are worldwide scholarly organizations like
engineers, and I understand the value of the photographs to people
ours which provide a kind of watchdog function for the destruction
who are neither architects nor engineers. But I don't understand
of properties. And it is amazing how often the preservation move-
necessarily, unless you are trying to reconstruct a building which
ment is begun by the colleges and the universities and the scholars
has been destroyed or simply for the sake of scholarship, the value
involved in trying to preserve these things.
of preserving the drawings - even doing the drawings themselves.
Mr. Kostmayer. Are there efforts which are working in other
Mr. BAHLMAN. Well, from our perspective, it is a scholarly detail
countries perhaps more successfully than preservation efforts are
that is tremendously important, and we get a lot of calls in the
working in this country?
office as well. Ford indicated that the Library of Congress gets
Mr. Bahlman. Yes. There are countries such as England which
many calls. We get a lot of calls from people restoring homes that
keep a much tighter grip on what they have got.
have been in their families, and we are able to refer them to the
Mr. Kostmayer. And how do they do that, and how don't we do
HABS/HAER collection. If it is a distinctive structure and it is ca-
that?
talogued in HABS/HAER, it is the only way of really knowing
Mr. BAHLMAN. It is very similar to ours. They have had scholar-
what the original parameters of the building were.
ship longer than we have, obviously, and the series that we are
Mr. Kostmayer. I see. And you mentioned that one major monu-
doing now, "Buildings of the United States," is patterned after a
ment had actually been reconstructed based on these drawings?
series that Pessner did in England called, "The Buildings of Eng-
Mr. Bahlman. I think there have been many.
land." Pessner was here 20 years ago and said, "Why doesn't this
Mr. Kostmayer. Can you speak to that?
exist in the United States? Isn't there an architectural record for
every state in the union?"
Mr. BAHLMAN. Yes, sir. One of the photographs here is of a na-
tional historic landmark, one of the 1,700 national historic land-
Mr. Kostmayer. Well, is it easier to destroy an historic building
in the United States than it is in England?
marks we have in this country. That was documented by HABS in
1940. It burned and it was reconstructed using HABS drawings.
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But there are maybe hundreds of examples. In the winter of
Mr. MARSHALL Photographs have been completed. Bucks County
1981
Conservancy staff and volunteers have done historic research on
Mr. Kostmayer. Did you say hundreds of examples?
those buildings to prepare for an exhibit, and we are awaiting
Mr. BAHLMAN. Hundreds of examples where HABS drawings
funding from the state of Pennsylvania to mount that exhibit at
have been used for restoration. In the winter of 1981, there was a
this time.
very bad fire in Franklin Delano Roosevelt's ancestral home. And
Mr. KOSTMAYER. Yes, 80 I am. Okay. So there will be an exhibit
the next day Congress appropriated money for the restoration of
once the funding is forthcoming. Is that right?
that national historic landmark, and HABS drawings were shipped
Mr. MARSHALL. That is correct.
up that day from the Library of Congress which enabled the archi-
Mr. Kostmayer. Okay. Well, I appreciate your testimony, and I
tects to restore the building to initial appearance.
appreciate your hard work. Thank you both very much for your
In the case of Independence Hall, if there is storm damage, man-
made damage, the drawings that have been prepared for Independ-
testimony. There is going to be, I guess, a presentation in about 15
ence Hall will allow the National Park Service to restore that na-
minutes. This will be a presentation, I think, of the architectural
tional historic landmark to its original appearance.
drawings of Independence Hall, and it will be made by the Park
Mr. Kostmayer. Are there crucially historic buildings in the
Service to HABS, I think, and so I hope you will stay. It is going to
country for which the drawings have not yet been completed?
occur in just about 15 minutes. At this point, the subcommittee
Mr. BAHLMAN. That is correct, sir. The bulk of 20,000 historic
stands adjourned. Thank you very much.
buildings in the National Park Service and the bulk of 1,700 na-
[Whereupon, at 11:10 a.m., the subcommittee was adjourned.]
tional historic landmarks have not yet been documented to HABS
and HAER standards.
Mr. KOSTMAYER. How difficult would it be to rebuild these struc-
tures without the plans?
Mr. BAHLMAN. Very, very difficult, sir.
Mr. Kostmayer. OK. Thank you. Mr. Marshall, I sponsored some
legislation, you may know, for a cooperative effort between HABS
and the Committee for Documentation of Historic Resources in
Bucks County, and you were the site coordinator, I guess, for that
project.
Mr. MARSHALL. Yes, sir.
Mr. Kostmayer. Can you tell me about the current progress and
the success of the project where you are?
Mr. MARSHALL. Well, we-
Mr. Kostmayer. And describe the project, if you would.
Mr. Marshall. The project was identified regional, vernacular
architecture which we felt were National Register-eligible but were
not previously documented. So we got together-a group of histori-
ans, architectures, and groups from throughout the county and got
together a list of buildings that we thought were worthy of preser-
vation and worthy of documentation.
Mr. KOSTMAYER. How many members served on this panel?
Mr. Marshall. It was an ad hoc committee. Our largest single
meeting had 14 people, and I would say total it must have been
almost 40 people who attended.
Mr. Kostmayer. These are architects and historians?
Mr. MARSHALL. Architects and historians, concerned individuals,
members of historic societies, historic commissions.
Mr. Kostmayer. And you came up with a list of buildings as well
as sites or-
Mr. MARSHALL. We came up with a list of 100 buildings.
Mr. Kostmayer. Only buildings, not sites.
Mr. Marshall. At which because of the time constraints and the
funding, approximately, it was pared down to 30 buildings which
were documented.
Mr. Kostmayer. And the documentation has been completed?
APPENDIX
MAY 11, 1992
ADDITIONAL MATERIAL SUBMITTED FOR THE HEARING RECORD.
NEIL ABERCROMBIE
U.S. HOUSE OF
COMMITTEE ON
NY DISTRICT. HAWAB
ARMED SERVICES
COMMITTEE ON
INTERIOR AND INSULAR AFFAIRS
SECURITY
SELECT COMMITTEE
ON AGIMS
Øongress of the United States
House of Representatives
ashington. B.G. 20515
April 24, 1992
The Honorable Manual Lujan, Jr.
Sacratary of the Interior
1849 C Street, NW
Room 6151
Washington, D.C. 20240
Dasr Mr. Secratary:
I am writing to request tha reestsblishment of the Historic
American Buildings Survey (HABS) Advisory Board as sanctioned by an
Act of Congres in 1935. As a new Member of Congress, I just
recently began to learn of the grest accomplishmenta of tha HABS
nation. and its irreplscaabla role in racording tha history of our grest
As tha only Membar of Congresa to visit the HABS office, I can not
sdequstely axpress my amazement and appreciation of the work that
its tslented staff has undertsken to prassrva our heritsga. I
sppreciste those Members of Congress who had tha foresight and
intslligence to cresta this organization back in 1933. Aftar
seeing some of the photographs and drawings on fila, I balieve
svery Member of Congress should have the opportunity to display, on
loan by HABS and tha Library of Congress, historical picturas of
their district in their Congressional offices. What battar way to
make someone who has travelled, perhsps thousands of miles, to fael
st home and aducate them on the history of their hometown.
Reinstatement of the Advisory Board ia vital to the continuanca of
the preservation of our history. As you asy recall, under tha 1962
Tripsrtite Agreement, the Advisory Board shall consist of elevan
members appointed by the Secretary of tha Interior. It is my
fervent desire to sea the HABS Advisory Board raestsblishad.
I thank you for your attention to this matter and look forward to
your reply. Mahalo.
nc.rely
Hell Abercombie
Member of Congress
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THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE 14 AMOUNTECTS
The Honorable Manuel Lujan Jr.
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The principal responsibility for comprehensive planning and operation of
continuous survey programs should be that of the National Park Service.
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July 8, 1991
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The American Institute of Archliects should assist in local execution of the
work as well as for the implementation of the latest standards of the profession.
The Library of Congress should be the custodian of the records.
The Honorable Manuel Lujan Jr.
Secretary of the Interior
Within the organization of the agreement, an Advisory Board should determine
U.S. Department of Interior Bullding
the correct methods for the work and provide solutions to particular problems.
C Street between 18 & 19 Street, N.W.
This Board should continue unill the national officers of the Institute (AIA)
Washington, DC 20240
make changes or additions to IL
Dear Sir:
Members of the Board should serve without compensation.
The American Institute of Architects is presenting this letter to advocate the
In 1962, in light of economic and social changes which had occurred, the
continustion of the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) in accordance
Memorandum was updated. "To date, this Tripartite Agreement" has been a
with the 1934 Memorandum of Agreement, and the governing legislation of 1935
useful guide for the excellent HABS programs and works. The Institute views with
(49 Stat. 666, as amended).
admiration the progress of HABS in recent years and when to contribute to Its
professional success in the future.
The Initial pisn for HABS was put in place in 1933 under the Civil Works
Administration. It used unemployed architects and draftsmen to record and
The AIA in presently funding the willing and publishing of a third volume on the
assemble an archive of carly architecture and historic structures across the nation.
history of the White House while further working with HABS in its recording of
The program was so successful, Its product forming such an excellent basis for the
the building It has become apparent that many changes have occurred in the field
future, that there was consensus among The American Institute of Architects, the
of preservation since the last Advisory Board meeting Because of this, we believe
National Park Service and the Library of Congress to follow the established
is imperative that the Board once again be available to provide HABS with
standards of such recording enterprises.
professional oversight; with program suggestions and project direction; and as a
resource to review current projects and to resel the goals and standards desired.
A Memorandum of Agreement signed by those three parties in July 1934 and
sanctioned by Congress August 1935 states:
The Advisory Board under the 1962 Agreement is to consist of eleven members
serving without compensation as follows:
HABS should act as a useful model of future recording of historic American
buildings and the cultures they represent.
The chairperson of the AIA committee on Historic Resources and the
Librarian of Congress as CX officio members.
1. l.d - "
IN Monn.
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The Honorable Manuel Lujan Jr.
TRIPARTITE AOREEMENT EQR CONTINUING THE
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HISTORIC AMERICAN BUILDINGS SURVEY
The importance of the HABS collections is confirmed by the great
Five architects nominated by the AIA with concurrence of the National Park
public use ite records have already received. As the years go by
their value increases.
Service. The Institute is currently reviewing the qualification of potential
nominees.
Changing conditions have caused the co-operating agencies to change
their form of participation. Without altering the basic intentions
Four Lay members nominated by the National Park Service.
of the "Tripartite Agreement" first made in 1933-and so profitably
followed eince then-ve pledge our support of the Survey and renew
the Agreement as herein brought up to date.
We suggest that you be prepared to nominate the appropriate four persons to
serve on this Board
I. General Statement
It is Imperative that the HABS maintain its position at the forefront of
The Historic American Buildings Survey, begun in 1933 and sanctioned
by Act of Congress approved August 21, 1935 (49 Stat. 666), is a
international preservation. We believe that continuation of our long effective
long-range plan for assembling an archive of historic American
standards of operation, with modifications if necessary, provides the best means of
architecture. It is sponsored by the three agencies subscribed
attaining this goal.
hereto. The collections consist of measured dravings, record photo-
graphs and textual material-all prepered according to careful
We look forward to your prompt response to this proposal.
ttandards. They are 60 filed in the Library of Congrese that they
my be readily consulted and copies (reproductions) furnished at the
published raten of the Library's Photoduplication Service to institu-
Jann James P. Cramer, Hon. ALA
Sincerely
tions or individuals desiring to obtain them.
II. The National Park Service
The Park Service shall administer the planning and operation of the
Survey using such funds as may be appropriated by Congress and such
Executive Vice President/CEO
Cifts ae may be obtained from other sources. It shall eet up qual-
itativo standards, select and approve subjects for recording, direct
the process of making the records and deliver the finished product
to the Library of Congress.
Enclosure: Tripartite Agreement
III. The American Institute of Architeots
The Institute shall, through its organization and its individual
B Elizabeth Davis
membere, aid and encourage the Survey in all ways, including the
Richard W. Hobbs, FAIA
enlistment of support-financial and otherwise-and the giving of
Norman L Koonce, FAIA
professional advice when needed and called upon.
Edward Masek jr, ALA
IV. The Library of Conzress
C. Ford Peatross
Tnc Library shall accept, permanently preserve, make readily avail-
able for etudy, and furnish copies (reproductions) of matcrial presented
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to it, at the published rates of the Library's Photoduplication
Service, to institutions or individuals desiring to obtain them.
332 Spruce st.
Phila., PA 19106
It shall make readily available by loan to the National Park Service
November 14, 1979
all matcrials required for examination, revision, or copying.
Memo to Co-Chairman. Steering Committee & other Friends
This material. 4 paoes of 1t. was received from litchoil's office by mail
V. The Advisory Board
today. We are xeroxing it and sending it out to you immediately.
The Board shall be concerned with policy matters in a broad way and
It is plain that Hr. Delaporte still intends to abrogate the Tri-Partite
Agreement and drop the HABS Advisory Comittee.
be evailable for consultation, as a whole or in part. It shall be
essisted in the conduct of its business by the three agencies sub-
We have just begun to fight!
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scribed heroto. It shall elect from its membership a chairman,
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Secretary pro-tem
The Board shall consist of eleven members appointed by the Secretary
of the Interior and serving without compensation as follows:
Mi.Mit.
1. The Chairman of the ATA committee on historic preservation and
the Librarian of Congress shall be ex officio members.
Meeting Notes
INCEIVID
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B. In addition there shall be five architect members nominated by
Thursday, October 25. 1979
the President of the AIA with the. concurrence of the Park Service.
12:00 BOOR
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Mr. Deleporte's Office
HHBS
C. There shall also be four lay members nominated by the Director
Attendess:
of the National Park Service.
Chris T. Deleporte, Director - Weritegs Conservation &
Inc Board shall be dirocted by a chairman elected by the members
Recreation Service (ECRS)
John Poppeliere, Chief - Mistoric American Suildings Survey (LLABS)
from ito membership. It shall meet at its convenience as a whole
Entuan B. Mitchell, PAIA, Presidene - American Institute of
or in part and shall be assisted in the conduct of its business by
Architects
the three agencies subscribed hereto.
Alan Perm, Director Special Collections - Librery of Chagress
Maurice Payne, axa. Director - Professional Interest Pregrams, AIA
Michael Cohn, Assistant Director - Prefessional Interest Programs, ALA
VI. Termination of Arreement
This agreement may be terminated by the Park Service, the Institute,
Mitchell - related AIA's interests in preservation and perticularly
or the Library by mutual consent, or by any one thereof, by giving
concere for nass.
to the others a written notice of its intention to withdraw, not
less than sixty days before such withdrawal becomes effective.
Deisporte - referred to previous mesting with Peterson and "someone
from ALA"
Somod With 3/2/12
Mitchell - (A1A was not represented at such a meeting). ucas is not
keeping. AZA informed on HABS and advisory board.
Conred L. Wirth
Date
(Question wee raised .. to why Advisory Board is not meeting.)
Director, National Park Service
Deleporte - "cherter" expired in December "78; the metter esceped his
attention.
Mitchell - What is the "Cherter"1
of L. Quincy Aming Limford mumfored
2-6-62
Deisporte - "Cherter" is an operational. document withie Interier which is
Date
a funding and suthorisetion process through the Secretary.
Librarian of Congress
Form - reviewed Tripertite Agreement and its Advicery Board. Explained
velue of Advisory Beard.
Poppciisrs - explained that during organization et MCRS there was a
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study of advinory boards. vid not understeed "Cherter" et
Philip
Date
that time and ,lid not find out what it meat until after
President, AIA
HANS "Charter" had uspired. A change was aspected in ferms-
tion of a broader edvisory group: tharefore did eot sotify
AIA & Librery of Conginss in anticipation of . ecv structure.
Delapoite - repressed Interest In having advlunry lunction in the cul-
tural progrim nrea; later defined "culsural" as lices'. preservation
program.
Michell - A&A 11ke: Alway anotice of mulnisining identity of HABS
In receal of HABS/HALR "alling and would like ROBA
Indication from DCRS that they expected input from ASA.
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Hesting Hotss
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10/25/79
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paga three
,Delaporte - LICES will try to make edvisory board reflact ALA intereets
Fern - esked lor delinition of the term "cubture" es it is used by MCRS.
expressed administration concorn about roie el advisory
bosrds 10 loraios gevernment policy is etama thet effect
Deisports - The HCRS program refers to bistoric preservetion and thet be
members ei tbat boerdl aesd to reflect public interaste
does not mcan to include iltersture; visuel performing arts
without conliicts of interest.
and other such activities 01 Library er Smithsonies.
Form - expisiesd Library of Congress's epproach to advisory boards.
A complete manual 01 IICES programs cod ectivities should be
They have many such beerde which dsel with technical issues.
ready is approximetsly 1 yasr.
These groups era not political and there is no conflict of
interest.
Payne -inquires " to the time table of the various decisions, annouace-
ments, and actione that ere of greet letarest to erchitecte
and the public.
Me also explained the difference between MABS sad HAER in
tares of the producte they treesmit to the librery, and
Deieports - Should be ebie to report beck is 2 weeks on the revised
steted tbst ucas should maintain the distinction between
the programs.
divisioo ol sctivities, and on idsatity cod came changes.
And should be able to determine roie of an edvisery board
Delaporte - he is currectly developing the concepte of name and
(le reletion to the oversii culturel programs) is apprexi-
matsiy 1 month.
identity el HABS/MAER in the nev Division of National
Architsctural and Engineering Record.
Fere - eteted that there should by " affective advisory board that will
make substantiva cootributions and that its RETUCTURE should
Fera - stated that MABS has been in existence 45 yoore and that it's
name hee 8 high level of recognition and thet it would be
The 10 the Tripertite Anteement. Offers Librery of Coogress
Assistance la developing details.
pelitically dangerous to "fiddle eround" with it.
Hitcholl - asks Deleports for some assurances thet these mattera will
Delaporte - egreed with Form - referred to his visit with Sieir Reevee
be eddressed is an expeditious maneer.
at Nantucket where they discussed this and other issuee.
Stated be was interasted in etarties a Precervetion Inetitute -
Deieporte - could oot give specific assurances.
West eimilar to Reeve's Institute is Nantocket.
Form - an advisery board could ascist in eterting such . program.
Form - euggasts thet the Librery of Congrass couvene . meeting of an
interim edvisory boerd, et the Librery, within 1 month.
Mitchell - The ALA bas many members with . high level of espettise is
this erse which could be of velue to NCRS. Asks if Tri-
This could opse communications sed set up e board which could
postite Agreement ie velid?
be tsedy to operete under e revised Agreement.
Deisporte - Yes - eacapt for the provisions for an advisory board.
Deisports - agrees with interim group concept, indicetes full RCRS
participation and thet he would try to ettend if echadule
sllowed.
Mitchell - osks Delsporte if be is in egreement with ALA .. to the
value of the advisory board and If stepe will be taken to
revive it.
Farm - reittereted that interim group should must witbie che month.
Delsporte - would like to ... HCRS program prollierste high quatity
Delsporte - agrees to talk to the Secretery about developics . DEW
ectivities and programs. Advisory board could help improve
advisory board.
recognition ie Congrass and etate governments.
Poppeiiers - suggess that he wight elso relk to the Boliciter Gemerel's
office lor . legel intorptetation.
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Mitchell - the ALA could essiet politically
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ectivisies. Interested is . pilet progrem that would
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duplicate the federal ectivity et . stete level.
David Olan Meeker, Ir., FAIA
Vern - From experience with UPA that . preliferetion of local programs
Executive Vice President
develope coordination and control problems.
Deleporte - thought that the message he geve to Blair Reavee would
get to ALA.
Mitchell - Recalled recently meeting Reevee by chance is Floride but
September 28, 1979
ves'eet expection 9 report (Reevee is not ecting .. - AIA
representative to ncas)
Delaporte - would like meeting of interin advisory board to develop
The Honorsble Cecil D. Andrus
on estimats of the ecope of work it would require to -
plate the survey.
Secretery of the Interior
Washington, D.C. 20240
Reported that he was that ofternoon fillies vecancies with
acting steff.
Doer Mr. Secretary:
At an oppropriete time he would like to meet with ALA to
explain what he 10 doing in HCRS.
I - writing you with a sense of urgancy about a lack of communica-
tion between the Heritege Consarvation and Recreetion Service and
Mitchell - ala needs timely answere and information in order to keep
the American Institute of Architects. The AIA has for many years
membets infermed, to allow ressoned communication, and to
minimize alermist reactione.
tepresented the architactural profaseion's interest in the prassr-
vatioo of the Nation's historic and architecturally significaot
buildings. In perticuler, the Inetituta bas hed a role in the Hie-
toric American Buildings Survay from its creation in 1934 by means
of a "Tripertite Agreement" mong your Department, tha Librery of
Congress, end the AIA. This Agraement was reeffirmed in 1962 and
legally remains in effect.
The Tripertite Agreement has baen a longetanding contract of co-
operatioo among the Librery of Congress, the Exacutive, and the
public constitusocy through the AIA. Howsvar, Mr. Chris r. Dela-
porta, Dirsctor of HCRS and the Exacutiva's rapresentetiva in the
Agreement, has chosen to trest this Agreement casually by failing
to inform or consult with the other partiee of the Agreement. The
Tripertite Agreement is e legel document thet requires consultation
and must not be ignored. It preecribad a means of consultstioo
through an eppointed Advisory Board. Since the creetion of HCRS,
cooperetion among tbs parties of the Agraement has ceased to exist,
and the Advisory Boerd has been purportedly termsd by Hr. Delaporte
to be "technically dsed". Vecencies on the.Advisory Board have not
been fillsd, and meatings have not baen bald.
In May, 1978, shortly after the Department of the Intarior's creation
of the MCRS, the AIA received e response to its inquiry regarding the
future of HABS within the newly asteblished HCRS. In his response
Mr. Deleporte essured us thet an important consideration in this re-
organization was the AIA's interasts. However, the AIA has haard
nothing further from Mr. Deleporte. Accordingly, end elso because
we hed over the surmer heard of continuing reorgánizationel etudits
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September 20, 1979
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being developed within HCRS, AIA President Ehraan B. Mitchell, Jr.
invited Hr. Deleporte along with the Librerian of Coogrese, Dr.
held Tuesday in Hashington.
Mr. Ehrown 8. Hitchell telephoned to give you a report on the meeting
Dadiel Booretio, to e meetiog here on September 4th, which wes
postponed to September 18th to eccomodete Mr. Deleporte'e echedule.
The meeting'e purpose was to review the stetua of the Tripartite
Mr. Delaporte did not show. Instead, he sent Ken Anderson and a secre-
Agreement for curreocy with whetever nev place Mr. Deleporte wes
tary from IICRS.
developing. Dr. Also Fern, the Librery's Director of Special Col-
lections, arrived with Dr. Boorstin's euthority to review and evan
Mr. Hitchell was much impressed with Dr. Fern's demonstration and he
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negotiete an update of the Agreement if appropriete. Regrettably,
and Fem hit it off very well. They were both very firm, to say tha laast.
Mr. Delaporte's office informad us et the last minute thet be wes
unable to ettend, but, et our insistance that there be a meeting,
Both Mitchell and Fern advised Anderson that they considered Delaporte's
he eant . etaff member. with apologies.
non-appearance an INSULT and that Delaporte should get ready for a face to
face confrontation.
The AIA pressed further that a meeting with Mr. Delaporte must
take plece, but on numerous ettempte to eet e date for . timely
Anderson had some alternative dates given to him by Delaporte for a
meeting, the detee proposed by his office were all after. October
meeting sometime in Movember. Mitchell & Fern did not accept this at all.
first, by which date, we understand, an HCRS reorganization plan
will be forwerded to you for consideretion'and epproval. We beve
Mitchell & Fern gave Anderson an ultimatum to give to Delaporte -- that
received no firsthand information about this plan-much leee the
Delaporte meet with Fem & Mitchell before October 1, and furthermore, that
ability to comment-so it would eerve no purpose to meet after a
Delaporte would only have 48 hours to give them the date of the meeting. If
plan is epproved. Mr. Delaporte'e continued unevailability has
the meeting date is not scheduled when the 48 hours are up (tomorrow noon),
impeded our eccase to important information and does not reflect
-- and the meeting must be before October 1 -- Fern & Hitchell will proceed
an appropriate spirit of Preeidant Carter's policy of opan govern-
to contact the Secretary, legislative bodies and the Appropriations Committee.
ment.
Also, private citizens, not necessarily architects/historians, etc. will be
roused and advised of this "cayalier" attitude.
The ata places great importance upon the Tripertite Agreement and
seeks to reveree any erosion of the HABS program. Therefore, on
Hitchell asked Anderson to convey to Delaporte that Delaporte's attitude
behalf of the Instituts, I urge you to defer ection on any proposal
should consider the politics of this matter.
didn't appear to be a viable way to his mentor's candidacy and that Delaporte
until the members of the Tripertite Agreement and other intereeted
groups ere brisfed 8 its purpose and have an adequete opportunity
to review and comment. In the meantime, the terme of the Agreement
Delaporte's secretary told Bo Payne on Friday (9/14/79) that Poppeliers
must be edhered to: vecancies on the Advisory Boerd must be filled;
would be present at the meeting. Poppeliers did not appear but he did tele-
and, it muet resume functiooiog. Please know thet the AIA does not
phone Do Payne and advised that he (Poppeliers) was not informed of his required
oppose change, but we do feel thet whet appeare to be heppaning
able to attend on such short notice.
presence at the Tuesday noon meeting until midnight Honday and he was just not
Agreement. within HCRS is e unilsteral ection contrary to the HABS Tripertite
Mr. Hitchell again mentioned how impressed he was with Dr. Fern's firmess
The ala has made vital contributions in the pest to the HABS Pro-
on this matter and they, on the part of the AIA and the Llb. of Congress WILL
gram; we weit your reepoose eod hope for prompt and effective com-
DO SOHETHING ABOUT THIS if Delaporte continues his non-cooperation.
munication over this metter eo that our contribution may contioue.
Hitchell will be away in Hawaii, Ula, Hashington and other places but Bo
Sinceraly youre,
Payne is In charge of this matter and you should contact Payne to learn If a
Bavil Olou Theaters
meeting is scheduled and 1f it is not, Payne will proceed with ACTION.
David 0. lieeker, FAIA
Hilds rg Guadalupe
Executive Vice Preeident
enclosures: Tripertite Agreement (1934, 1962)
p.t.o.
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IDENTIFICATIONS (see reverse)
SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS
Hitchell: National president of the American Institute of Architects for
this year.
Ken Anderson: A young architect from Texas and a former student of CEP at
Columbia University.
TELEGRAM TO: President Jimmy Carter
Cecil Andrus, Sec'y. of the Interior
Dr. Fern: Representative of Librarian of Congress Boorstin and an old friend
Premium
Chris Delaporte, Head, Heritage
of HABS.
ADDLF PLACTON
Conservation and Recreation Service
for ...
Bo Payne: Veteran staffer at the AIA's Octagon, Washington.
DAVID ESCHARD
DATED:
16 September 1979
- I'm Persodent
DANIS BILLMAN
Dr. Poppeliers: Head of Historic American Buildings Survey.
SAVID VAN SANTSM
Treasure
ON BEHALF OF SOCIETY or ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS
Hilda Guadalupe: Secretary to Mr. Peterson (absent in Albany).
ROBERT - JORGSHSEN
Home. Country
NATIONAL ORGANIZATION OF ARCHITECTURAL CONCERN
Waiting in the Wings - but not present at luncheon
SOWIN . ROME
Secretary
AND SCHOLARSHIP COMPRISING 4800 MEMBERS ACROSS
Neal FitzSimons: Washington engineer. deeply involved with HAER and the repre-
ROBANK . GERRY
sentative of the American Society of Civil Engineers.
THE NATION STRONGLY ADVISE AGAINST PROPOSED
JOURNAL
-
Peterson: Secretary Pro-Tem, Friends of HABS.
CHRISTIAN . OTTO
REVISION OF HABS ADVISORY BOARD HABS
- Enere rim
NAOMI WILLED
ADVISORY BOARD HAS PROVIDED ESSENTIAL EXPERTISE
NEWSLETTER
** Chris Therral Delaporte. Director
-
AT MINIMAL COST BOARD REPRESENTS COMMITMENT TO
Heritaga Conservation and Recreation Service
DORA P CROUCH
DIRECTORS
PROFESSIONALISH REQUISITE FOR QUALITY OF PROGRAM
Chris Therral Delaporte of Oklahoma City, was confirmed as Director of
BRUPY . ALEXANDER
Interior's former Bureau of Outdoor Recreation (DOR) on June 5, 1977.
DISWARD , BETTO
REGARDING AMERICA'S ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE
Secretary Andrus announced creation of the new Heritage Conservation and
BAINBRIDGE BUNDING
ALONANCER . COCHRAN
Recreation Service (HCRS) January 25. 1978, to administer President Carter's
BORA . CROICH
National Heritage Program and named Delaporte as head of the new Agency.
MARIAN C DONNELL.
ADOLF K. PLACZEK
PAUL
AUCITING
The HCRS combines most functions of the former BOR with the National
PRESIDENT, SOCIETY OF
WILLIAMS scac.
Natural Landmarks Program (HNLP) and the Office of Archeology and Historic
ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS
CARULN .RINga.
Preservation (ONIP), including the llistoric Preservation Grants Program
0 AANIMOLOWIS
and the Mational Register of Historic Places, former programs of the llational
.. ward r.
Park Service.
sa.: SUCCESADY
MEM. IOMAL MAZAZINOR
Before coming to the Department of the Interior, Delaporte was Director
CHRISTIAN O'TO
of State Parks in Oklahoma,.a position he held four years. During three os
DEVENDOVENOY
these years (1973-1976), he was simultaneously the Executive Director of the
AILIANCH morreo.
- AMOUNT
National Association of State Outdoor Recreation Liaison Officers (NASORLO).
Earlier, he was the Director of the North Georgia Mountains Authority.
Mr. Delaporte was born on June 30, 1941, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He
m.m.
is 8 graduate of Oklahoma State University where he majored in political
science. He is a former Captain in the U.S. Air Force. Delaporte was named
Outstanding Public Administrator in 1970 by the Oklahoma Chapter of the Ameri-
can Society of PUblic Administration.
Mr. Delaporte resides on Capitol 11131 in Hashington. D.C.
03.00.00
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7:10-0221
OF
730-02
.. From an official Press Release dated February, 1970.
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FRIENDS OF H.A.B.S.
is the Summer 01 1977 $ serias of open meetings was announced is
Washington 1a which the public was askvd to express itself sbout the
national probicms of historic preservation. We are not presuming to
A nation-wide citizens' committee has been forwed to right far the
avaiuate those proceedings but they were falt aftenerds by wany to have
Historic American Buildings Survey 1a its hour of need. It 1s composed
been maly window dressing. If they led directly to anything, we don't
know about it.
far the most pert of persons who have worked for and with the Survey.
It's now claar that we have . rest struegie on our handa. Is the
Trouble far HADS became ovident by the and of the year when there
lant few weeks and days we have succeeded 1a petting the Issues out onto
was an attempt to ditch the ILABS Advisory Committen. When it was inarned
the tabia. After nesrly " yesrs of comparative peace the fature of HABS
that that cowidn't be done unilsterally, the move to sbnilsb was quiatiy
1s is $ stsio of crisis brought on by persons who came with the Carter
dropped. Members af the Comsittee were not sdvised af their status and
adulaistration. The trouble lies within the laterier Department during
it was (presumably) supposed to consider itself astinct.
the 1sst two years.
gut - March 31, 1979 the President of the American Institute of
The Peaceful Years, 1923-1977
Architects toisgraphed President Carter expressing the Institation's dis-
approvel. This drew only a bland brushoff In the form of sa acknowladge-
The Historic Americsa Baildings Survey wee originated by National
met by HCRS Director Chris T. Delsporte. in the mesatime the HAER Com-
Part Service architects is November 01 1933. Early on It had a dramatic
mittes was getting the sam treatment. preparing for some kied of a re-
success and within two months an exhibition of fine drawings was hald at
modelling under the name of afficiancy. 9y July of 1979 it losked out
the National Musaum. The permanent value of such . collection was $0
that things internally were getting desperste and It did eat oscape our
evident that 1a June of 1934 the se-called "Tri-Partite Agreement" was
observation that some at the must highly placed professionals were leaving
NCRS unhappy.
gned by the Secretary of the interior, the Librerian of Congress and
the President of the American Institute of Architacts. The letarier Do-
As late as July 17 Mr. Delsporte claimed that be didn't know If the
partment promoted and administered the orcbitectural recerding process,
the Library archived the vast product, onking it casily sccessible to 811.
NABS Committee exists: -- or noti by August 3 (and that was eat discovered
The ALA halped organise, promote and professionally golde the whole from
until well ofter the 1sct) the combining of MABS end HAES was oficially
the beginning. Its cbief input was through the MABS Advisory Committee
presented to -- sad then spproved by -- Assisteat Secretary af the Interier
which had 8.mierity of architects experienced 1a hintoric works.
Marbst. The two Tri-Partite Agreements had thus been abregated without
metice. It " BOW stated that the approval of Interier Department Secretary
The Survey has assembled an immense quantity of useful records for
Andrus la expected eat later than October 1,
collections of nationsl architecture In the world. One of its most est-
the Library of Congress. or its kind, It Is prchably one of the largest
VE OBJECTI
standing characteristics is that it KSS organized to be used. The drawn.
photographic and written enteris] 1s listed is catalogs and 1a crallable
The first HABS Advisory Committee. appointed by Secretary Ickes at the
to all through photodupiicates. From the beginning it bes been - of the
and of 1933, we . very distinguished one and probably the first committee
most used resources of that great treasure house on Capitol M11.
of the sort over convened by the Federal Government. Through the yesrs it
has been served by arcbitects distinguished for their work is the field of
Bealdes its abvieus usefulness to resteretionista and bisterians, the
bistory. Members donsted their tiem and the only expense was for transper-
Survey has been of the grestest old is training young architects to mader-
tailon to meet. Actual assembly. however. was eat necessary because
stand and sppreciate enthods of building no imsger vied. It has also
opinion could olways be gethered by call and telephone. is - intervel of
taugbt may communities that they have valuable beirleoms is their midsti
elsven of the most active years the Committee did not once met. But our
buildings worth saving. So great has been the ancesss of HABS with the
odverseries now claim that the Committee 1a too expensive to mintain, on
public that each season of operations bee brought forth contributions from
opinius obviewsly unjustified.
the outside to equal the cash outlay of the Incerior Department.
We believe that HABS edvisory function calls for specialists in the
Observing that achlavement the American Seciety of Civil Engineers la
evelution of design and construction of buildings. NAER was formed because
1959 decided to sponsor . parallel progres to record engineering works like
the busy people is HABS coulde't stratch ^heir responsibilities to cover
the dama, bridges and Industrial works which were ⑉ important part of the
magineerieg works. so . aeparete progres was set up advised by engineers.
American past but which -- even more sa than buildings : tend to become
Me mintain that any mongrel committee intended to cover several subjects
tion (HAER) md using HABS as a model, as Advisory Committee wsa sat up. this
obsolascomt sed dissppesr. Called "Tha Mistoric American Enginearing Record"
will fail to be affective is my one of them. first class apecialists --
and there are not too many of then to call on -- are required for guidance
Park gram bas had a notsble success and crested a new constituency. Under the
bringing In enginears rsther this architects 08 advisors. The new pro-
to both MABS and HAER program. No good MA will went to sit through dis-
custions of subjects on which ha is not Informed -- or even Interested.
coordinated by the sealer officers of that bureny,
Service the program prograssed alongside that of HARS, the two being
NEXT STEPS
1977 and Danger Signals
President Ehrman 9. Mitchell at the American Institute of Architects
has studied the record and Is up to data on the problem. Ne has invited the
One would have thought that the Carter administration would have been
Librarian of Congress and Mr. Deisporte to , meting at the Octagon (Mosbing-
contant to leave well enough siene, bat such did net apposr to bu the
ton) on Twesday, September 4.
detsched Archeology and Historic Preservation (which included HABS and (LAER) was
of Drustic changes were proposed under the quise of "improvencate". The Office caso.
New that the Executive Establishment is clearly fsiling to respond to
had from its perent. the National Park Service and joined with
mr plas, we are thrown back on the trsditional American method of working
vstion been the gureau at Outdoor Recrestion and cade into the Meritsge whst
through our alected representatives ot the Capital. Me know that they will
1a and Recreation Service (IICRS). Now bistoric buildings find themsalves Censer-
want to help.
bod with vast programs for recreation in the Americsa cities.
1. Blsir Reves FAIA
Charias E. Peterson FAIA
The new administration, which sid 11 mented to nimplify and reduca the
Co-Chsirman
Secratory pre-toe
number The of Wsshington sucheies. thus created a third is the historic riaid.
Box 1139
332 Spruce Street
dence PARK Service certify to hold the historic rest extits 11ka the Indepen-
Mantucket. m 02554
Philadelphis. PA 19106
Part in Philadeiphia. the battinfinids, etc. And there 1s sisa the
(617) 229-2705
(215) 922-3623 (affica 6
Presidentistly-spoolated Advisory Committan (Carvay Country).
(witll September 8, 1979)
residence)
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FRIENDS OF H.A.B.S.
FRIENDS OF H.A.B.S.
332 Snruce Streat
Philadalphia, PA 19106
June 29, 1979
332 Spruce St.
Phila. PA 19106
July 6, 1979
EMERGENCY CALL TO OUR ARCHITECTURAL COLLEAGUES1
Danièl J. Boorstin, Librarian
Library of Congress
The Historic American Buildings Survey as we have known it for nearly
forty-six years is 1a nrave dangar. Steady pressure is being exerted by the
Washington, D.C. 20025
present administration in !lashington.
Re: HABS Advisory Board
Two years ano the imerican Institute of Architects was invited to par-
ticipate in policy discussions relating to the plans of President Cartar for
basic changes. For unknown reasons the staff headquarters et the Octagon
Dear Dr. Boorstin:
(then under the direction of yilliam Slayton) never acknowladged the levits-
tion. Perhaps with justification, the Interior Department assumed that the
Just now I am looking at your letter to me of November 22, 1977 of
AIA wasn't interested in the federal historical conservation programs.
which a copy is enclosed. I guess we have all been hoping that the HABS
There soon followed e move to abolish the HABS Advisory Board. But it
troubles would go away -- but they haven't. And the final crunch is now
was immediately pointed out that there existed e 3-way contract that could
on.
not be voided without mutuai consent. Recently, things have been quiet on
the surface and many have essumed that everything is OR.
This is to advise you that we architects are mounting a heavy campaign
NOT SO!
to resist the current moves against HABS especially the Junking of the
Advisory Board of which you are -- or were - a member.
To ell intents end purposes. the regular staff of HARS is bound and
gagged end cannot speak up. But the truth is leeking out 1a all directions.
The center of our problem seems to be Director Delaporte of the Heri-
Those close to the facts have decided that the FHADS, which was tente-
tage Conservation and Recreation Service. I have been trying to contact
tively orgenized severe1 seasons ago, must spring into ection and see that
him for weeks but without success. He is going to hear from a lot of
the HABS is not compromisad end denatured. The Librarian of Congress (one
of the parties to the contrect) has declared himself 1e favor of the HABS
people very soon. When the White House learns what's going on, maybe we
Advisory Board, existence of which must be reaffirmed.
will get some help from abova.
RECOME A CHARTER MEMBERI
The Library of Congress has been in on HABS from the very start. A
Blair Reeves FAIA of the University of Florida is just now opening his
Washington Post clipping for November 29, 1933 is enclosed. Dr. Holland
summer shop on Mantuckot. He has agreed to co-chair the Friends and to help
was one of our great heroes.
us get together a wer chest for stamps end phone cells.
Hoping to discuss this in person with you soon, I-am
ettached. Be e loyal Friend and mail & check to Bleir by the next mil. Coupon
Sincerely yours,
Yours in haste.
Charles E. Petarson
Charles E. Peterson
Secretary pro-tem
Secretary pro-tem
tear off
CEP:hg
F. Biair Reeves, FAIA
Encl.
Co-Chairman, FHABS
(check one)
Yes, you my use my name.
P.O. Box 1139
cc: Prof. Reeves (Nantucket)
Mantucket, MA 02554
No, keep it confidential,
Mr. Bartley
Dear glair:
I am on your side enclosed please find my check for the following FILABS member-
P.S.: Enclosed is a copy of an "alert" sent out to architects several days
ship: Charter, $15.00. Staunch Supporter, $50.00. Lest Oitch Givar, $100.00.
ago. Since then the situation has been deteriorating fast.
Plaase print: Hame
Address:
zip
CEP
Jeiaphona: (
)
Date:
. 1979.
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LWASHINGTON, D.C.]
March 31, 1978
" 68 NON
The President
The Whits House
THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS
Washington, D.C. 20500
WASHINGTON D.C. 20540
Dear Mr. President:
I have reviewed the objectives of the Department of Interior's new National
Ninness
Heritage Program. and I am encouraged that its emphasis will be to expand the
November 22, 1977
Identification documentation, selection and protection of our nation's cul-
tural and natural resources. Recently, the American Institute of Architects'
Mational Committee on Historic Resources brought to my attention their con
Board which was created by a Tri-Partits Agreement between the National Park
cern for the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) program and its Advisory
Service, the Library of Congress, and the American Institute of Architects (AIA).
The following resolution, passed unanimously by this committee on February 27,
1978, is an affirmation of this interest:
Dear Mr. Paterson:
WHEREAS, The Historic American Buildings Survey over a period of more
than forty years has created a great national architectural archives
and and, has been an important force in the historic preservation movement
Thank you for your thoughts about the advisory board of
the Historic American Buildings Survey. I an aware of the high
WHEREAS, the Survey has been a major factor 1a educating architects for
quality and beevy usa of the HABS materials hare, and I can
the responsibilities of historic preservation, and
reedily see that the edvisory board serves effectively to give
WHEREAS, the Advisory Board to the Survey has been responsible for much
professional counsel to the HABS staff. I think this function is
of the financial support generated for it at the local and state level
important, and I an certainly inclined to urge continuation of the
and from the private section, and
board if I an asked for my opinion.
WHEREAS, the American Institute of Architects believes that the architec-
tural profession has. and should, continue to provide guidance and
support, and,
I hope you will understand that I cannot actively oppose
WHEREAS, the President of the United States has invited citizens' partici-
(or approve) an action in the Executive Branch of the Federal
pation In the conduct of the national historic programs, now, therefore,
Government just on the baeis of a rumored change. As I understand
BE IT RESOLVED, that the Secretary of the Interior and the Librarian of
1t, the edvisory boerds of all agencies are being looked at, but
Congress be advised that the American Institute of Architects wishes to
not necesserily all being ebolished. With your letter in mind,
continue the Tri-Partite Agreement which established the HABS Advisory
however, I shall watch closely to eee if any threat to the
entity. Board and recommends that the Board continue as a separate and independent
committee actually eppears, and if it doee I shall take whatever
action I can. I beve a bigh regerd for the work the HABS board
In continuing our efforts to develop the most productive historic preservation
has sccomplished in the many yeare it hae been in existance, and
programs within the Department of Interior, the AIA offers its assistance towards
I hope it will continue for many years to come.
and Recreation Service.
the implementation of HABS as it is incorporated into the Heritage Conservation
Yours truly,
Sincerely,
sl 4/10/78
Danie J. Boorstin
Elmer E. Botsai, FAIA
President
Librerian of Congrese
Mr. Charles E. Peterson, F.A.I.A.
FHM/185
332 Spruce Street
Society Hill
CC: Cecil Andrus, Secretary, Dept. of Interior
Philadelphie, Pennsylvania 19106
Dr. Daniel J. Boorstin, Librarian of Congress
George McMath. Chairman. HABS Advisory Board
Dr. Emest A. Connally, Hon. AIA, Associate Director
Heritage, Conservation, and Recreation Service. Dept.
of Interior.
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THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS
THE OCTAGON, 1741 NEW YORK AVENUE. N.W., WASHINGTON 6. D
Administration)Building
1735 New York Ave, N.V.
November 12, 3952
11=2
12015 WASO-D
Sattons
VINTOU
Dear Mr. Vints
that
May I, on behali of President Stenton, inform you that the
Satt
change you had recommended in the Memorandum of Agreement between the
National Part Service, the American Institute of Architests, and the
Library of Congress relating to the Histeric American Buildings Survey
was approved " the Board of Directors of the Institute at its
October 1932 meeting.
The text is that on which you and Pres. Stanton had agreed
as given is his letter to you of July 29, 1952.
is the initiater of the change, may ve presume that you will
take care of draving up the formal agreement in triplicate for signa-
ture by the three parties and seeing that those are properly excented.
Sincerely youre,
them 12. Para
Edwund 1. Purves
Executive Director
Thomas O. Vist
Chief of Design and Construction
Netional Park Service
U.S. Department of Interior
Washington 25. D.C.
Pigop
⑉ Mr. Stanton
Mr. Earl R. Reed
Mr. Pettengill
Clemson University
3 1604 009 698 699
HABS/HAER STAFF ROSTER
(Summer 1993)
Mailing Address:
Street Address:
HABS/HAER Division
Suite 300
National Park Service
800 North Capitol Street, NW
P.O. Box 37127
Washington, D.C. 20005
Washington, D.C. 20013-7127
INQUIRIES - 202-343-9618
FAX:
- 202-343-9624
Area Code: (202)
KAPSCH, Robert J.
Chief, HABS/HAER
343-9606
BURNS, John A., AIA
Deputy Chief, HABS/HAER
343-9604
DAVIS, Judy R.
Division Secretary
343-9618
CARTER, Virginia L.
University of Maryland Intern
343-1025
CARY, Brian L.
Collections Management Assistant
343-1027
MURPHY, Monica M.
Collections Management Assistant
343-9598
RUSSELL, Annamieka C.
Field Program Assistant
343-9611
SCHEID, Dwayne L.
University of Maryland Intern
343-1025
WILSON, Georgette R.
Collections Management Specialist
343-9599
YEARBY, Jean P.
Publications Specialist
343-3798
HISTORIC AMERICAN BUILDINGS SURVEY [HABS]
DOLINSKY, Paul D.
Chief, HABS
343-HABS
ARZOLA, Robert
Architect
343-9630
BALACHOWSKI, Joseph D.
Architect
343-9629
BARTHOLD, Elizabeth J.
Historian, L'Enfant Project
343-3900
BOUCHER, Jack E.
Photographer
343-9614
HOAGLAND, A. Kim
Senior Historian
343-9601
HOMEYER, Shelley
Architect, Lincoln/Jefferson Memorials Project
343-3878
LAVOIE, Catherine C.
Architectural Historian
343-9609
LEACH, Sara Amy
Architectural Historian
343-9607
LINDSTROM, Frederick J.
Architect
343-9610
LOCKETT, Dana L.
Architect, Lincoln/Jefferson Memorials Project
343-1578
MADRID, Christine L.
Historian
343-1023
SCHARA, Mark S.
Architect, Lincoln/Jefferson Memorials Project
343-9631
SMITH, Lori A.
Howard University Intern
343-1017
VAZQUEZ, Jose Raul
Architect, Lincoln/Jefferson Memorials Project
343-1580
WALLACE, Kim E.
Historian, AIHP Project
343-9617
YANG, Isabel C.
Architect, Monticello Project
343-9616
HISTORIC AMERICAN ENGINEERING RECORD [HAER]
DeLONY, Eric N.
Chief, HAER
343-HAER
BROOKS, Robyn M.
Secretary
343-9625
CROTEAU, Todd A.
Architect
343-1019
FITZSIMONS, G. Gray
Historian/Engineer
343-3901
HERRIN, Dean A.
Historian
343-9633
LOWE, John T. "Jet"
Photographer
343-1020
MARSTON, Christopher H.
Architect, Mon Valley Steel Project
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O'CONNOR, Richard J.
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ROSE, Kenneth D.
Historian, AIHP
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SABADASZ, Joel
HAER Historian, Mon Valley Steel Project
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STRONG, Craig N.
Architect
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