For over sixty years HABS, the oldest federal preservation program, has played a leading role in preservation through documentation. In 1933 the National Park Service, Department of the Interior established HABS as a make-work program for architects, draftsmen and photographers left jobless by the Great Depression. Its mission then, as today, was to create a lasting archive of America's historic architecture. In so doing, HABS provided a data base of primary source material for the then fledgling historic preservation movement.
Several of the properties listed in the Ebey's Landing Contributing Structures Inventory have been documented through the Historic American Building Survey program, or HABS. These photographs and measured drawings are available through the Library of Congress and have been reproduced here. Links are provided to the Library of Congress website where additional information can be found.