Historic American Building Survey - Legends of America
The Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) is the nation's first federal preservation program, begun in 1933 to document America's architectural heritage
www.legendsofamerica.comstarted in 1933 as a Depression-era program to record the nation's architectural heritage. run by the National Park Service and the Library of Congress with private-sector cooperation, creating a public archive of measured drawings, historical reports, and large-format photographs. The program has cataloged more than 43,000 historic structures and sites, totaling over 581,000 drawings, photographs, and written histories, covering periods from Pre-Columbian times through the 20th century. Additional source facts include HABS is a public archive of measured drawings.