Architectural Documentation (Investigation Type)
Descriptive and analytical research that documents, describes, and/or interprets detailed data on historic structures in an area, including images and floor plans.
1,151-1,175 (4,199 Records)
Handwritten draft of a Historic American Buildings Survey for an administration building, Building 616, at Fort Sam Houston, Texas.
Historic American Buildings Survey Draft, Building 646 Band Quarters, Fort Sam Houston, Texas (1980)
Handwritten draft of a Historical American Buildings Survey draft for Band Quarters, Building 646, at Fort Sam Houston, Texas.
Historic American Buildings Survey Level II Report, Building 5303 (ANC-00932) and 5312 ANC-00933), United States Air Force Joint Base Elmendorf Richardson (2013)
Long-term plans for Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson (JBER), Alaska and call for significant re-configuration that will require demolition of some aging buildings. These plans were based on the June 10, 2010 Memorandum for the Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies, Disposing of Unneeded Federal Real Estate, which is a federal initiative that intended to develop sustainable installations as detailed in the Environmental Assessment for Demolition of Building 5303 and 53121. Since JBER was...
Historic American Buildings Survey Photographs: Written Historical and Descriptive Data (2022)
Historic American Building Survey (HABS) of Brooks Air Force Base
Historic American Buildings Survey, Building 40 Clock Tower, Fort Sam Houston, Texas (1980)
Historic American Buildings Survey of the Clock Tower, Building 40, at the center of the Quadrangle building at Fort Sam Houston.
Historic American Engineering Record Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Launch Complex 39, Shuttle Landing Facility (John F. Kennedy Space Center) (2011)
HAER documentation of Launch Complex 39, Shuttle Landing Facility located on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. This record contains written, graphic, and photographic material as required for mitigation when a significant historic resource is altered or demolished. The Shuttle Landing Facility (SLF) Historic District, which is comprised of the SLF Runway, the Landing Aids Control Building (LACB), and the Mate-Demate Device (MDD), is considered eligible for listing in the National...
Historic American Engineering Record Documentation for the Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex (SRMSC), Volume I and II (1996)
The purpose of this document is to establish the history of the SRMSC within the historic Cold War context. Additionally, this document provides a description of the facilities at the SRMSC. The HABS/HAER documentation, which includes narrative descriptions, detailed photographs and construction drawings of each significant structure, provides a permanent archival record of the SRMSC for future historians and scholars. Volume 1 contains the historical context of SRMSC and Volume 2 contains...
Historic American Engineering Record Documentation of Launch Complex 1/2 Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Brevard County, Florida (2016)
HAER documentation of Launch Complex 1 & 2 located on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. This record contains written, graphic, and photographic material as required for mitigation when a significant historic resource is altered or demolished. Constructed between 1951 and 1953, Launch Complex 1/2 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station played a significant role in the larger missile research and development program that provided the United States with an operational, conventional, and...
Historic American Engineering Record Documentation of Launch Complex 14 Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Brevard County, Florida (2016)
HAER documentation of Launch Complex 14 located on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. This record contains written, graphic, and photographic material as required for mitigation when a significant historic resource is altered or demolished.Constructed in 1956-1957, Launch Complex 14 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) was designed to support the Atlas missile program, the United States' first operational ICBM. Complex 14 was the site of the first Atlas launch in 1957.
Historic American Engineering Record Documentation of Launch Complex 3/4 Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Brevard County, Florida (2016)
HAER documentation of Launch Complex 3/4 located on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. This record contains written, graphic, and photographic material as required for mitigation when a significant historic resource is altered or demolished. With over 125 missile launches between 1950 and 1960, Launch Complex 3/4 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station played a vital role in the larger missile research and development program that provided the United States with an operational, conventional,...
Historic American Engineering Record Documentation of Launch Complex 9/10 Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Brevard County, Florida (2016)
HAER documentation of Launch Complex 9/10 located on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. This record contains written, graphic, and photographic material as required for mitigation when a significant historic resource is altered or demolished. Constructed 1953-1957, Launch Complex 9/10 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station was designed to support the Air Force's Navaho winged intercontinental missile. Although the program was cancelled soon after completion of the complex, test flights...
Historic American Engineering Record Level II Documentation of Launch Complexes 1/2, 3/4, 9/10, 14, and 34 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida (2016)
This report presents Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) Level II documentation of Launch Complexes 1/2, 3/4, 9/10, 14, and 34, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS), Florida. These facilities have played an important role in the American missile and manned space programs ,that began largely as a result of the Cold War. As the “arms race” expanded in the 1950s and 1960s, missile systems with increasing range and destructive power were deployed on both American and foreign soil. To...
Historic American Engineering Record of Complex 13, 26, 36 Cape Canaveral Air Station, Cape Canaveral, Florida (1994)
The following report contains historical, architectural, and photographic documentation of Launch Complex 13, 26, and 36 at Cape Canaveral Air Station, Florida. All three complexes were constructed in the late 1950s as part of a national effort begun during the Kennedy administration to send man into space. These three sites are some of the less altered complexes from this era of space exploration. The complexes vividly illustrate the developments in space technology from the early Redstone...
Historic American Engineering Record of Launch Complex 17 Cape Canaveral Air Station, Cape Canaveral, Florida (1997)
HAER documentation of Launch Complex 17, located on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. This record contains written, graphic, and photographic material as required for mitigation when a significant historic resource is altered or demolished.
Historic American Engineering Record of Launch Complex 19 Cape Canaveral Air Station, Cape Canaveral, Florida (1994)
Launch Complex 19 is a NHL due to the accomplishments of the Gemini project in the Man in Space program. The Air Force determined that restoration of Complex 19 was not possible due to rapid deterioration from the salty environment, in addition to its status as a safety hazard. The Air Force demolished the erector/service tower (erector) and remaining test stand. The "white room", an environmentally protected room atop the erector, was removed, restored, and relocated to Cape Canaveral's...
Historic American Engineering Record of Level II Documentation of Launch Complex 21/22, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida (2008)
This report presents Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) Level II documentation of Launch Complex 21/22, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS), Florida. Launch Complex 21/22 has played an important role in the American missile program that began largely as a result of the Cold War.
Historic American Engineering Record of Level II Documentation of Launch Complex 31/32, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida (2008)
This report presents Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) Level II documentation of Launch Complex 31/ 32, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS), Florida. Launch Complex 31/32 has played an important role in the American missile program that began largely as a result of the Cold War.
Historic American Engineering Record Solid Rocket Booster Disassembly & Refurbishment Complex (2013)
HAER documentation of Launch Complex 39, Solid Rocket Booster Disassembly and Refurbishment Complex located on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. This record contains written, graphic, and photographic material as required for mitigation when a significant historic resource is altered or demolished.
Historic American Engineering Record, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Launch Complex 39, NASA KSC Railroad System Historic District (John F Kennedy Space Center) HAER No FL-S-A (2013)
HAER documentation of the KSC Railroad System Historic District located on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. This record contains written, graphic, and photographic material as required for mitigation when a significant historic resource is altered or demolished.The NASA KSC Railroad System Historic District is considered eligible for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places in the context of the U.S. Space Shuttle Program (ca. 1969 - 2011) under Criterion A for its...
Historic American Engineering Record, Fort Sam Houston Hangar Building 1198, Historical Documentation (1999)
Documentation of Building 1198 was carried out under provisions of a programmatic memorandum of agreement regarding cultural resources at Fort Sam Houston. The work was prepared under the direction of Prewitt and Associates, Inc. for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Fort Worth District. Field investigation and documentation was accomplished by David Gauthier of Jaster-Quintanilla & Associates, Inc. and Joe C. Freeman, AIA, Architect. Drawings were prepared by Jim Frisch of Jaster-Quintanilla &...
Historic American Engineering Record, HAER No. AZ-6, Theodore Roosevelt Dam (1992)
Roosevelt Dam comprises the key structure in one of the first major federally sponsored reclamation projects in the West. Authorized as one of the Reclamation Service's first projects in 1903, it continues to store water for agricultural lands, homeowners, and industrial concerns in the Phoenix region that are served by the Salt River Project. Used to impound floodwaters of the Salt River, the 280-foot-high Roosevelt Dam was distinguished as the tallest and last major stone masonry gravity dams...
Historic American Engineering Record: China Wash Flume (2016)
The San Carlos Irrigation and Drainage District (SCIDD) is undertaking a 10-year rehabilitation project (project) of the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) eligible Florence-Casa Grande (FCG) Canal (also known as the Main Canal/ AZ AA:3:215[ASM]) in Pinal County, Arizona. The canal, which is currently operated and maintained by SCIDD, was constructed by the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) between 1923 and 1928 and incorporated into the San...
Historic American Engineering Record: Harlan & Hollingsworth Roundhouse (Car Shop Number One), Wilmington, Delaware (1991)
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Historic American Engineering Record: Stewart Mountain Dam (1992)
Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. AZ-12 presents a written historical summary and relevant historical documentation about the construction and use of Stewart Mountain Dam, a key component of the Salt River Project that provides water and power to the Phoenix Basin. The structure is also an important example of a radius arch dam designed using the trial load method. Stewart Mountain Dam is one of a series of dams that along with the earlier Roosevelt, Horse Mesa and Mormon Flat...
Historic American Landscape Survey, Wake Island: Photographs, Written Historical and Descriptive Data (2010)
Written historical and descriptive data of photographs taken at the Wake Island National Historic Landmark.