Historic America : buildings, structures, and sites recorded by the Historic American Buildings Survey and the Historic American Engineering Record ; checklist compiled by Alicia Stamm ; essays edited by C. Ford Peatross

Format:

Book

Government document

Contributor:

Stamm, Alicia.

Peatross, C. Ford.

Historic American Buildings Survey

Historic American Engineering Record

Library of Congress.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture--United States.

Architecture.

Historic buildings--United States.

Historic buildings.

Historic sites--United States.

Historic sites.

Physical Description:

xvi, 708 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.

Place of Publication:

Washington : Library of Congress : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 1983.

Contents:

Using the HABS/HAER collections at the Library of Congress / Mary M. Ison

The historic American buildings survey : its beginnings / Charles E. Peterson

The survey in Louisiana in the 1930s / Samuel Wilson, Jr.

Documenting a city : Philadelphia / George B. Tatum

Cape May, New Jersey : preservation of a Victorian town / Carolyn Pitts

Main Street : its revitalization / Carole Rifind

Documenting early American technology : covered bridges / Richard Sanders Allen

Recording a room : the kitchen / Rodris Roth

Fittings and fixtures : miscellaneous Americana in survey photographs / Denys Peter Myers

America's cast-iron heritage / Margot Gayle

Vernacular construction in the survey / Carl Lounsbury

Recording the work of an architect : Frank Lloyd Wright / David G. Delong

HABS at an awkward age : the 1960s and 1970s / Robert Bruegmann

Recording historic buildings : new philosophies, new techniques, new technologies / John Burns

A rich vein in the mother lode : HABS in the Library of Congress / C. Ford Peatross

Future directions for the historic American buildings survey / Robert J. Kapsch

The checklist of buildings, structures, and sites

Using the checklist / Alicia Stamm.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0844404314 :

OCLC:

9785137