Museum of New Mexico Press

       

Recording a Vanishing Legacy

The Historic American Buildings Survey in New Mexico, 1933-Today

Perry E. Borchers, Essayist

The first complete history of the Federal Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS )in New Mexico, dedicated to the preservation of centuries of architecture. This includes ancient Pueblo communities, plaza-centered Hispanic villages of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and railroad-era main streets of commerce and tourism.


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"The starting point for a more profound understanding of New Mexico's legacy of historic architecture and a renewed effort to preserve what remains."
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Reviews

"The starting point for a more profound understanding of New Mexico's legacy of historic architecture and a renewed effort to preserve what remains."
-Choice


Trim: 9" x 12"

Pages: 166

Illustrations: 55 black-and-white photographs, 33 line drawings, maps

Folklore/Folk Arts

New Mexico

Culture

©2001

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