HISTORIC AMERICAN BUILDINGS SURVEY:

The Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) was established in 1933 by the National Park Service (NPS) to create a lasting archive of America's historic architecture.

In 1934 the NPS entered into an agreement with the Library of Congress and the American Institute of Architects (AIA) as cosponsors of the HABS program. Under this agreement the NPS administers the operations of HABS with funds appropriated by Congress and supplemented by donations from individuals, foundations, historical organizations, and other local, state and federal agencies. The NPS sets qualitative standards and directs the preparation of records to be placed in the Library of Congress. The AIA provided professional counsel.

HABS operates under congressional authority from the Historic Sites Act of 1935. HABS projects include the creation of measured drawings, written histories, and large-format photographs.

The Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) was established in 1969 as a companion program to document structures of technological and engineering significance.

The program documents America's industrial, maritime and engineering history, and produces measured and interpretive drawings, historical reports, and large format photographs of significant sites nationwide. This information is housed and maintained in the HABS/HAER collection at the Library of Congress, where it is made available to the general public, students, and scholars.

The Minnesota State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) coordinates many HABS/HAER projects in the state, particularly those involving historically-significant properties scheduled for demolition.

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The collection consists of project files, which include photographs, architectural drawings, project reports, microfiche, correspondence, and miscellaneous papers. Correspondents and authors include consulting historians and historical research firms, University of Minnesota architecture students and faculty, the Minnesota Historical Society and its State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO), the Minnesota Department of Transportation, and the National Park Service. Alpha-numeric cross-references on some documents refer to SHPO Review and Compliance files.

A set of architectural and engineering drawings of the Minneapolis Stone Arch Bridge, prepared by the Minneapolis Union Railway Company and by the Great Northern Railway Company, documents the construction of the structure and subsequent repairs and modifications.

The records also include blueline diazo copies of architectural drawings of forty-two historic buildings and properties in Minnesota, prepared in 1934 for the Historic American Buildings Survey, and an accompanying set of photographs for seventeen of those properties and two others.

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These documents are organized into the following sections:

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Availability:

The collection is open for research use.

Preferred Citation:

[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Historic American Buildings Survey Records Relating to Minnesota Structures. Minnesota Historical Society.

See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples.

Alternate Form Available:

Digital versions of HABS and HAER surveys and projects are available at the Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/hh/

Provenance:

Most of the project files originated in the Minnesota State Historic Preservation Office.

A set of 138 HABS survey drawings were acquired by the Minnesota Historical Society from H. A. Rogers Company, Minneapolis, in 1934; an additional 21 drawings were acquired from the Library of Congress in 1965.

Drawings pertaining to the Stone Arch Bridge (Minneapolis) were received from the Minnesota Department of Transportation in 2006.

Nineteen HAER photographs were received from the Minneapolis Public Library in 2006.

Accession Information:

Accession numbers: 3888; 3917; 9997; 10,933; 14,101; 14,218; 14,650; 15,047; 15,439; 15,496; 15,654; 15,832; 16,093; AV2007.122; 17,413

Processing Information:

Processing and cataloging of this collection was supported with a Basic Project grant awarded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC).

Catalog ID number: 990017294980104294

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HABS Surveys and Projects:

HAER Projects

Minneapolis: Stone Arch Bridge Drawings

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State Historic Preservation Office Review and Compliance Files, which contain information about some of these structures and projects, are in the Minnesota Historical Society Archives.

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This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.

Topics:

Breweries -- Minnesota.

Church buildings -- Minnesota -- Sawyer.

Commercial buildings -- Minnesota.

Dams -- Minnesota.

Drugstores -- Minnesota -- Duluth

Fire lookout stations -- Minnesota -- Cloquet.

Fire stations -- Minnesota -- Duluth.

Flour mills -- Minnesota.

Grain elevators -- Minnesota.

Headframes (Mining) -- Minnesota -- Ely.

Historic bridges -- Minnesota.

Historic buildings -- Minnesota.

Historic districts -- Minnesota.

Historic preservation -- Minnesota.

Lighthouses -- Minnesota -- Duluth.

Log buildings -- Minnesota -- Duluth.

Lumber camps -- Minnesota -- Ely.

Office buildings -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis.

Post office buildings -- Minnesota -- Duluth.

Reservoirs -- Minnesota.

Railroads -- Buildings and structures -- Minnesota.

Roads -- Interchanges and intersections.

Water towers -- Minnesota.

Organizations:

Adrian State Bank (Adrian, Minn.).

Alexander Faribault House (Faribault, Minn.).

Alexander Ramsey House (Saint Paul, Minn.).

Ard Godfrey House (Minneapolis, Minn.).

Assumption Parochial School (Saint Paul, Minn.).

Aslesen Building (Saint Paul, Minn.).

Broadway Bridge (Minneapolis, Minn.).

Brown's Hotel (Lake City, Minn.).

Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul, and Pacific Railroad Company Freight House (Minneapolis, Minn.).

Church of Our Lady of Lourdes (Minneapolis, Minn.).

Church of St. Peter (Mendota, Minn.).

Church of the Good Shepherd (Saint Paul, Minn.).

Crookston Commercial Historic District (Crookston, Minn.).

Crown Roller Mill (Minneapolis, Minn.).

Dania Hall (Minneapolis, Minn.).

Duluth & Iron Range Railroad Company -- Buildings -- Minnesota -- Two Harbors.

Duluth Ship Canal.

Ebenezer West House (Minneapolis, Minn.).

Edna G (Tugboat).

Equity Cooperative Exchange Grain Elevator Complex (Saint Paul, Minn.).

Faribault House (Mendota, Minn.).

Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.

First Congregational Parsonage (Wabasha, Minn.).

First Methodist Church (Taylors Falls, Minn.).

First National Bank of Mankato (Mankato, Minn.).

Fort Snelling Historic District (Minn.).

Frederika Bremer Intermediate School (Minneapolis, Minn.).

Gideon Pond House (Bloomington, Minn.).

Glen Lake Sanatorium (Minn.).

Hess, Roise, and Company (Minneapolis, Minn.), author.

Hexagonal Tower (Fort Snelling, Minn.).

High Bridge (Saint Paul, Minn.).

Historic American Engineering Record. author.

Historical Research, Inc., author.

Holman Field (Airport : Saint Paul, Minn.).

Hotel Nicollet (Minneapolis, Minn.).

John H. Stevens House (Minneapolis, Minn.).

Joyce Estate (Grand Rapids, Minn.).

Kiewel Brewery (Little Falls, Minn.).

Lake Street/Marshall Avenue Bridge (Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minn.).

Mackey House (Afton, Minn.).

Malcolm Willey House (Minneapolis, Minn.).

Mattocks School (Saint Paul, Minn).

Minneapolis Brewing Company Brew House (Minneapolis, Minn.).

Minneapolis New Church Society (Minneapolis, Minn.).

Minneapolis Warehouse Historic District (Minneapolis, Minn.).

Minnesota. Department of Transportation, author.

Minnesota Historical Society. State Historic Preservation Office, author.

Minnesota State Academy for the Blind.

Minnesota Veterans Home (Minneapolis, Minn.).

Montgomery Ward Northwestern Catalog House (Saint Paul, Minn.).

Nike Missile Battery MS-40 (Farmington, Minn.).

North Star Woolen Mill (Minneapolis, Minn.).

Northern Pacific Bridge No. 95 (Grand Forks, N.D. and East Grand Forks, Minn.).

Northwest Airways Hangar and Administration Building (Saint Paul, Minn.).

Northwestern Consolidated Elevator A (Minneapolis, Minn.).

Norway Lutheran Church (Muskego) (Saint Paul, Minn.).

Occidental Terminal Elevator (Duluth, Minn.).

Octagonal house (Afton, Minn.).

Old Town Hall (Marine on St. Croix, Minn.).

Peavey Duluth Terminal Elevator (Duluth, Minn.).

Pillsbury A Mill (Minneapolis, Minn.).

Pillsbury Milling Complex (Minneapolis, Minn.).

Postlewaite House (Saint Paul, Minn.).

Point Douglas-Saint Louis River Road Bridge (Stillwater Township, Minn.).

Rabideau CCC Camp (Blackduck, Minn.).

Robert M. Foster House (Forestville, Minn.).

Round Tower (Fort Snelling, Minn.).

St. Anthony Falls Historic District (Minneapolis, Minn.).

St. Hubert's Lodge (Frontenac, Minn.).

Saint Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway Company Shops Historic District (Saint Paul, Minn.).

Samuel P. Ely Shipwreck (Two Harbors, Minn.).

Selby Avenue Bridge (Saint Paul, Minn.).

Sherburne County Courthouse (Elk River, Minn.).

Sperry Building (Saint Paul, Minn.).

Steel Arch Bridge (Minneapolis, Minn.).

Stockyard Exchange (South Saint Paul, Minn.).

Stone Arch Bridge (Minneapolis, Minn.).

Sumner Field Homes (Minneapolis, Minn.).

Taylors Falls Public Library (Taylors Falls, Minn.).

Trinity Episcopal Church (Excelsior, Minn.).

Troy Mill (Troy, Minn.).

United States. National Park Service. Rocky Mountain Regional Office. Cultural Resources Division, author.

United States Customhouse (Saint Paul, Minn.).

University of Minnesota. School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, author.

Wabasha Commercial Historic District (Wabasha, Minn.).

Wabasha Street Bridge (Saint Paul, Minn.).

Washburn-Crosby Milling Complex (Minneapolis, Minn.).

W.H.C. Folsom House (Taylors Falls, Minn.).

Willmar Hospital Farm for Inebriates Historic District (Willmar, Minn.).

Winnebago Agency House (Saint Clair, Minn.).

Winnibigoshish Lake Dam (Deer River, Minn.).

Wold-Chamberlain Field.

Woodbury House (Anoka, Minn.).

Worthington and Sioux Falls Freight Depot (Luverne, Minn.).

106 Group Ltd. (Saint Paul, Minn.), author.

Types of Documentation:

Architectural drawings (visual works).

Microfiche.

Photographs.

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