Contemporary videographic and computer processing technology was adapted for documenting buildings, merging computer hardware and software with photography and photogrammetry. Dimensional images of buildings can be extracted directly from the resulting survey. National Park Service properties and other cultural resources of national significance have served as test sites for the development of this methodology. The key component of the documentation system is VCAD, the Videographic Computer Assisted Designer software package developed by VideoCad, Inc. as an interactive videographic database manager.