Justin Smith Morrill Homestead
The Justin Smith Morrill Homestead is the historic Carpenter Gothic home of United States Senate, United States Senator Justin Smith Morrill (1810–98) in Strafford, Vermont, and was one of the first declared National Historic Landmarks, in 1960. and   It is located at 214 Justin Morrill Highway, south of the village green of Strafford. The homestead is a Vermont State Historic Sites, Vermont State Historic Site owned by the Vermont Agency of Commerce & Community Development, Vermont Division for Historic Preservation, a state agency, and is open for tours from May to October. Description and history The Morrill Homestead is set on of land on the east side of Justin Morrill Memorial Highway, just south of the village green and the heart of Strafford Village Historic District, Strafford Village. The property includes, in addition to the main house, several barns and sheds as outbuildings, and is set off from the road by a flush-boarded fence with granite posts, all painte ...
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Historic American Buildings Survey
Heritage Documentation Programs (HDP) is a division of the U.S. National Park Service (NPS) responsible for administering the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER), and Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These programs were established to document historic places in the United States. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports, and are archived in the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress. Historic American Buildings Survey In 1933, NPS established the Historic American Buildings Survey following a proposal by Charles E. Peterson, a young landscape architect in the agency. It was founded as a constructive make-work program for architects, draftsmen and photographers left jobless by the Great Depression. It was supported through the Historic Sites Act of 1935. Guided by field instructions from Washington, D.C., the first HABS recorders were tasked with documen ...
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