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05/30/2024

Heritage Documentation Programs, NPS is pleased to announce an ongoing unique partnership during !

The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation joins a national preservation effort by making a collection of historic architectural documentation available to the public as part of the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) Collection housed in The Library of Congress. Colonial Williamsburg’s architectural research collection is vast, spanning three centuries of construction and including structures ranging from estates to agricultural buildings.

For the collaboration with HABS, Colonial Williamsburg is sharing more than 570 drawings representing nearly 200 structures built primarily between 1750 and 1850 which were documented by Colonial Williamsburg architectural historians starting in the 1980s. The Foundation’s "Agricultural Buildings Project" was created at a time when many important everyday buildings were disappearing. Thanks to this project, many of these buildings were before they were lost, providing a wealth of information for future researchers that will now be forever preserved thanks to the partnership among The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, HABS and the Library of Congress.

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See a sampling of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation’s Agricultural Buildings Project documentation in the HABS Collection at https://tinyurl.com/2s4kjapx

Read the full press release announcing the partnership among The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, HABS and the Library of Congress at https://tinyurl.com/bddfbchn

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