A love letter to the Heritage Documentation Program and the Library of Congress
As a nation we need to preserve the historic resources of the United States. I feel it is an honor to work with the Library of Congress and the many state and national agencies. Many state agencies from the Department of Transportation to the many local boards appreciate how preserving history brings many windfalls to the public. The many national agencies from the Corps of Engineers to National Board of Transportation work with the Heritage Documentation Program to document some of our great nation’s greatest historic resources.
The Heritage Documentation Program (HDP) which is part of the Nation Park Service (NPS), administers HABS (Historic American Buildings Survey), the Federal Government’s oldests historic preservation program and companion programs Historic American Engineering Record (HAER), and the Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). The documentation produced through the programs is one of the United States (US) largest archives of historic resources such as architecture, architectural resources, landscapes, and engineering documentation.