Survey Guidance & Training Materials

Survey and VCRIS Basics: Highlights what a cultural resources survey entails and guidelines for using VCRIS when conducting a survey.

VCRIS Quick Guide (revised Sept. 2017): Provides guidelines for using VCRIS for data entry and preparing architectural survey materials for submission to DHR.

Additional Information: Architecture Data Entry for VCRIS:

Historic District vs. Complex Guidance (pdf): DHR has added “complex” as a new resource to VCRIS.
Building Component Selections (pdf): Updated, December 2018
Resource and Category Types (pdf) Updated, May 2016
Guidelines for Recording Attached and Semi-Attached Buildings (pdf): Updated, December 2018
Demolished Resource Data Entry Guidance (pdf): Updated, December 2018.

Photo of Italianate house in Danville. — This ca. 1880 Italianate-style house in Danville is one of many properties documented in DHR’s Architectural Inventory.

Any questions about this material should be directed to Blake McDonald. He can also be reached by phone at (804) 482-6086.

Updated November 14, 2022