Recording a Vanishing Legacy

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• ISBN13: 9780890133798
• ISBN10: 0890133794
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-04-01
• Publisher: Museum of New Mexico Pr

Summary

Created in 1933, the Historic American Buildings Society (HABS) federal programme established the first systematic identification and documentation of historic buildings throughout the US. This is a complete history of HABS in New Mexico, an on-going project dedicated to the preservation of four centuries of architecture. The starting point for a more profound understanding of New Mexico legacy of historic architecture and a renewed effort to preserve what remains.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Charles E. Peterson
Acknowledgments	x
Editor's Acknowledgments	xi
Sponsors	xii
The Historic American Buildings Survey	xiii
PART ONE: BACKGROUND
The History of Habs Nationwide	1	(8)
James C. Massey
Habs Recording in New Mexico	9	(14)
Sally Hyer
PART TWO: FIRST-PERSON ACCOUNTS
The 1934 Habs Project	23	(16)
Victor Hornbein
The Bainbridge Bunting Years	39	(8)
Agnesa Reeve
Richard Schalk
Photogrammetric Recording of Communal Architecture	47	(10)
Perry E. Borchers
Habs Recording Today	57	(12)
Morgan Rieder
PART THREE: NEW MEXICO ARCHITECTURE
Pueblo Structures and Worldview	69	(6)
Rina Swentzell
Residential Recording	75	(8)
George Clayton Pearl
Religious Architecture and Sites	83	(10)
Chris Wilson
Civic Buildings	93	(8)
Charles D. Biebel
CONCLUSION	101	(34)
Sally Hyer
PART FOUR: HABS INVENTORY FOR NEW MEXICO
How to Use the Inventory	103	(2)
New Mexico Inventory	105	(21)
Sally Hyer
APPENDIXES
Appendix A Additional Resources for Habs Research	126	(3)
Appendix B Habs Collections in New Mexico	129	(6)
Jan Dodson Barnhart
Carol Joiner
Notes	135	(4)
Glossary of Architectural Terms	139	(4)
Carleen Lazzell
Boyd C. Pratt
Selected Bibliography	143