Historic Architecture of the Virgin Islands, Historic American Buildings Survey
1966. Historic Architecture of the Virgin Islands, Historic American Buildings Survey. Historic Structure Report. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Eastern Office of Design and Construction. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The Virgin Islands National Park is an American national park preserving about 60% of the land area of Saint John in the United States Virgin Islands, as well as more than 5,500 acres (2,226 ha; 9 sq mi) of adjacent ocean, and nearly all of Hassel Island, just off the Charlotte Amalie, Saint Thomas harbor. Shortly after the Historic American Buildings Survey was reactivated in 1957, public concern for the preservation and study of the significant historic architecture of the Virgin Islands grew because of rapid land development. The postwar years had brought an economic prosperity to the Islands that they had not enjoyed since the early nineteenth century when sugar production was at its peak and the Islands' great wealth had been created. This rapidly expanding economy, based to a great extent on tourism, has threatened many important structures that had been left untouched since the time when the Islands were a Danish colony. This document collects various HABS records detailing structures in Virgin Islands National Park.
- Type
- Published Report
- Date of Issue
- 1966-02
- Publisher
- U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Eastern Office of Design and Construction
- Units
- PWR , VIIS
- Keywords
- HABS, Historic American Buildings Survey, St. Croix, St. Thomas