Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

Use Restrictions

Requests for photocopies should be directed to the Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

Preferred Citation

Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission, Architectural drawings, Virginia. Accession 41999, State government records collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

Acquisition Information

Transferred from the Special Collections Branch, Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia, 23 June 2005.

Biographical/Historical Information

Historic American Buildings Survey, microform (Fiche 27).The Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) is a collection of documentary measured drawings, photographs, and written historical and architectural information for over 31,000 structures and sites in the United States and its territories. The effort began as a make-work program for unemployed draftsmen, architects, and photographers in 1933. In 1934 the National Park Service entered into an agreement with the Library of Congress and the American Institute of Architects (AIA) as cosponsors of the HABS program. Under the agreement the National Park Service continues to set qualitative standards and direct the preparation of records; the Library preserves the records, makes them available for study, and supplies reproductions to the public upon request; and the AIA provides professional counsel. The program continues today with the Historic American Buildings Survey(HABS)/Historic American Enginering Record (HAER) Summer Program. The complete collection of the HABS surveys is in the collection of the Library of Congress.

Scope and Content

This accession consists of 33 sets of architectural elevations, floor plans, and details of structures from across the Commonwealth of Virginia executed by the Virginia Historic Lanmarks Commission on behalf of the Historic American Buildings Survey. The drawings include structures in Accomack, Albemarle, Chesterfield, Dinwiddie, Essex, Greene, Northampton, Pittsylvania, Prince Edward, Rockbridge, Shenandoah, and Sussex Counties and Charlottesville, Hampton, Lexington, and Richmond Cities. Depicted are residences, mills, churches, and farm buildings.

Arrangement

Arranged alphabetically by locality and then by structure name.