Established in 1933 as a work relief effort for unemployed architects during the Great Depression, the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) is the federal government's oldest historic preservation program.  By means of detailed architectural measured drawings, archival photography, and historical reports, HABS and its sister programs have produced documentation of more than 45,000 historic sites across the United States, today comprising the world's largest architectural archive at the Library of Congress.  The presentation will provide a history of the HABS program and discuss the HABS methodology of building documentation, including the use of new technologies.

Mark Schara, AIA, is an architect with the National Park Services’ Historic American Building Survey team.

This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Architectural History in the School of Architecture and the UVA Library Scholars' Lab. It is open to the public and will be held in Campbell Hall, Room 220B.