Historic American Engineering Record

The Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) document achievements in architecture, engineering, and landscape design in the United States and its territories through a comprehensive range of building types, engineering technologies, and landscapes, including examples as diverse as the Pueblo of Acoma, houses, windmills, one-room schools, the Golden Gate Bridge, and buildings designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Administered since 1933 through cooperative agreements with the National Park Service, the Library of Congress, and the private sector, ongoing programs of the National Park Service have recorded America's built environment in multi format surveys comprising more than 556,900 measured drawings, large-format photographs, and written histories for more than 38,600 historic structures and sites dating from Pre-Columbian times to the twentieth century.

From the description of Quincy Mining Company Survey for Historic American Engineering Record, Circa 1978. (Michigan Technological University). WorldCat record id: 720650498

The Central of Georgia Railroad played a vital role in Georgia's economy, and the complex of buildings constructed for the railroad in Savannah, both before and after the Civil War, is unique. The site was, and (as of 1987) still is subject to development interests, not only because of the railroad structures themselves, but because the complex is located on the site of Savannah's 1779 Revolutionary War Siege. During the summer of 1975, the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) of the Department of Interior's National Park Service, conducted an on-site recording project of the Central's Savannah Shop and Terminal Facilities (an area bounded by West Broad, Jones, West Boundary, and Hull Streets). The resulting photos, measured drawings, and accompanying historical data led to the designation of the train-shed and depot as National Historic Landmarks in 1976, and for the shops complex in 1978. Now the State Museum of Railroad History, the roundhouse and complex are owned by the City of Savannah and have been operated since 1989 by the Coastal Heritage Society.

From the description of Historic American Engineering Record scrapbook on the Central of Georgia Railroad, 1975. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 43886825

The Central of Georgia Railroad played a vital role in Georgia's economy, and the complex of buildings constructed for the railroad in Savannah, both before and after the Civil War, is unique. The site was, and (as of 1987) still is subject to development interests, not only because of the railroad structures themselves, but because the complex is located on the site of Savannah's 1779 Revolutionary War Siege. During the summer of 1975, the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) of the Department of Interior's National Park Service, conducted an on-site recording project of the Central's Savannah Shop and Terminal Facilities (an area bounded by West Broad, Jones, West Boundary, and Hull Streets). The resulting photos, measured drawings, and accompanying historical data led to the designation of the train-shed and depot as National Historic Landmarks in 1976, and for the shops complex in 1978. Now the State Museum of Railroad History, the roundhouse and complex are owned by the City of Savannah and has been operated since 1989 by the Coastal Heritage Society.

From the description of Historic American Engineering Record collection on the Central of Georgia Railroad, Savannah Shop and Terminal facilities, 1975-1976. (Georgia Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 173482487

Picatinny Arsenal, an army facility near Wharton, N.J., was established in 1880 as the Dover Powder Depot, a central east coast facility for the storage of gunpowder and other armaments. It was renamed Picatinny Arsenal in 1907 with the construction of the first army-owned smokeless powder works. Picatinny was a major supplier of munitions during wars from World War I through Vietnam, but also a center of munitions-related research and development and production engineering.

From the description of Report on Picatinny Arsenal, 1982-1983. (Hagley Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122567886

The Historic American Engineering Record was founded in 1969 by the American Society of Civil Engineers, the National Park Service, and the Library of Congress. HAER was based on the older architectural recording program, the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), established in 1933. HAER's mission is to document America's historic engineering structures and industrial facilities through a program of producing measured drawings, large format photographs and site histories. The work is produced under the auspices of the National Park Service and deposited in the Library of Congress.

In the summer of 1975, HAER investigated 73 separate sites in the State of Delaware, of which 11 were selected for full documentary treatment.

From the description of Records of Delaware sites, 1975. (Hagley Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122503435