Historic American Buildings Survey (Nashville, Tenn.) 1970.
(Document/manuscript/pamphlet/archival material)

Organized by building.

Materials housed in Special Collections Division of the Main Library, Nashville Public Library.

In library use only. Available by appointment.

Scope and content: Measured drawings (diazotypes) produced by the Historic American Buildings Survey in 1970 of four buildings in Nashville, Tenn. Drawings include brief history of the structure, orientation map, plot map, floor plans, elevation drawings, and architectural details. Structures include: Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, attributed to the Wills & Dudley firm of New York; St. Mary's Church designed by William Strickland; Vanderbilt University Gymnasium (Fine Arts Building); and the Morgan-Reeves Building on the Public Square. A duplicate set of drawings of Holy Trinity Episcopal Church reproduced as wash-out prints are part of this collection.

Cite as: Historic American Buildings Survey (Nashville, Tenn.), Special Collections Division, Nashville Public Library

This material may be protected by copyright law (Title 17 U.S. Code).

Source of acquisition unknown;,Acc. RT-100.

Associated materials in digital form can be found in the "Built in America" collection of the Library of Congress American Memory project, where the original Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) materials from projects throughout the United States reside. Digital materials include reproductions of the measured drawings in the Nashville Public Library's collection, as well as additional materials such as photographs and data pages. URL: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/habs_haer.

The Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) began during the Great Depression in December 1933, when Charles E. Peterson of the National Park Service submitted a proposal for one thousand out-of-work architects to spend ten weeks documenting "America's antique buildings." Having operated under various administrative authorities for its first two years, HABS became a permanent program of the National Park Service in July 1934 and was formally authorized by Congress as part of the Historic Sites Act of 1935. The Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) was founded in 1969 to parallel HABS, providing for documentation of engineering works and industrial sites. The HABS/HAER collections at the Library of Congress have grown to constitute a unique, valuable, and extensive repository of knowledge about American buildings, industries, and engineering works. Today's documentation is produced primarily by students pursuing degrees in architecture and in history, and the HABS and HAER programs have proven to be an important training ground for several generations of architects, engineers and historians.

In English

Unknown provenance.

Rehouse,2006;,Linda Barnickel.

No further accruals are expected.