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Recording a Vanishing Legacy: The Historic American Buildings Survey in New Mexico, 1933-Today
Recording a Vanishing Legacy The Historic American Buildings Survey in New Mexico 1933-Today Author:New Mexico Architectural Foundation, American Institute of Architects Created in 1933 by the federal government, the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) program established the first systematic identification and documentation of historic buildings throughout the United States. This significant book is the first complete history of HABS in New Mexico, an ongoing project dedicated to the preservation of four ... more »centuries of architecture. Complete with measured drawings and historical photographs of sites, encompassing New Mexico's ancient Pueblo communities, plaza-centered Hispanic villages of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and railroad-era main streets of commerce and tourism.« less