The following pages in this category are filled with preservation resources that are all available to the general public. We encourage you to look at them to help your understanding of historic preservation.
City of Seattle
Gold Fever! Seattle outfits the Klondike Gold Rush
History House of Greater Seattle
Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park
Museum of History and Industry (MOHAI)
Providence Archives, Seattle (Sisters of Providence)
Sanborn Maps at Seattle Public Library
Seattle Department of Neighborhoods’ Historic Resources Survey
Seattle Department of Planning and Development Microfilm Library
Seattle Historic Preservation Program
Seattle Pacific University Archives
Seattle Public Library – Special Collections
Seattle Public Schools Archives
King County
4Culture Historic – Preservation
Association of King County Heritage Organizations (AKCHO)
King County Department of Permitting & Environmental Review
King County Archives – Photograph Collection
Mercer Island Historical Society
Snohomish County
Snohomish County Public Records
State of Washington
The Society of Architectural Historians Marion Dean Ross (Pacific Northwest) Chapter
Washington Department of Archaeology & Historic Preservation
Washington State Archives – Puget Sound Regional Branch
Washington Trust for Historic Preservation
Washington State Legislative Building
University of Washington – Special Collections
Art and Architecture collections
National
National Scenic Byways Program
National Trust for Historic Preservation (Preservation Nation)
Skyscraper Page – More than just Seattle!
International
Association for Preservation Technology International (APTI)
LinkedIn Groups
US Green Building Council (USGBC)
Educational:
Goucher College – Historic Preservation
Harvard Graduate School of Design
Port Townsend School of Woodworking
University of Oregon – Historic Preservation Program
University of Pennsylvania – Historic Preservation Program
University of Washington – Historic Preservation Certificate Program
Professional consultants
Additional Resources
Illustrated Architecture Dictionary
Illustrated Styles of Architecture
Historic Places Near Seattle
Ballard Avenue Historic District
Bell Apartments and the Barnes Building
Boeing Airplane Company Building No. 105
Columbia City Historic District
Harvard-Belmont Historic District
Eagles Building Auditorium
Fire Station No. 25
German Club/Assay Office
Harvard-Belmont Historic District
Hoge Building
Iron Pergola and Totem Pole
Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park
King Street Station
International District (Seattle Chinatown Historic District)
Leamington Hotel and Apartments
Pike Place Public Market Historic District
Pioneer Square-Skid Road Historic District
Seattle, Chief of the Suquamish, Statue
Seattle Electric Company Georgetown Steam Plant
Washington Street Public Boat Landing Facility
Published Research Sources
Booth, T. William.
Carl F. Gould: a life in architecture and the arts.
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1995.
Maddex, Diane, ed.
Built in the U.S.A.: American buildings from airports to zoos.
Washington, D.C.: Preservation Press, 1985.
Crowley, Walt.
National trust guide, Seattle: America’s guide for architecture and history travelers.
New York: Preservation Press, J. Wiley & Sons, 1998.
Elenga, Maureen.
Seattle Architecture: A Walking Guide to Downtown.
Seattle Architecture Found, 2008.
Foley, Mary Mix.
The American house.
New York: Harper & Row, 1980.
Goldberger, Paul.
The skyscraper.
New York: Knopf, 1981.
Goldberger, Paul.
On the rise: architecture and design in a post modern age.
New York, N.Y.: Times Books, 1983.
Huxtable, Ada Louise.
The tall building artistically reconsidered: the search for a skyscraper style.
New York: Pantheon Books, 1984.
Allied Arts of Seattle.
Impressions of imagination: terra-cotta Seattle.
Seattle, Wash.: Allied Arts of Seattle, 1986.
Jacobs, Jane.
The death and life of great American cities.
New York: Modern Library, 1993.
Kreisman, Lawrence.
Apartments by Anhalt.
Seattle, The Office of Urban Conservation, 1978.
Kreisman, Lawrence.
Art Deco Seattle.
Seattle: Kreisman, Gardaya, 1979.
Kreisman, Lawrence.
Made to last: historic preservation in Seattle and King County.
Seattle: Historic Seattle Preservation Foundation in association with the University of Washington Press, 1999.
Kreisman, Lawrence.
The Stimson legacy: architecture in the urban West.
Seattle, WA: Willows Press: Distributed by University of Washington Press, 1992.
Kreisman, Lawrence.
The Arts and Crafts Movement in the Pacific Northwest
Timber Press, 2007.
Maddex, Diane, ed.
Master builders: a guide to famous American architects.
New York: J. Wiley, 1996.
McAlester, Virginia.
A field guide to American houses.
New York: Knopf, 1984.
Naylor, David.
American picture palaces: the architecture of fantasy.
New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1981.
Ochsner, Jeffrey Karl.
Distant corner: Seattle architects and the legacy of H.H. Richardson.
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2003.
Ochsner, J, ed.
Shaping Seattle architecture: a historical guide to the architects.
Seattle: University of Washington Press in association with the American Institute of Architects Seattle Chapter and the Seattle Architectural Foundation, 1998.
Ore, Janet
The Seattle Bungalow (A Samuel and Althea Stroum Book)
University of Washington Press, 2006.
Poppeliers, John C.
What style is it?: a guide to American architecture.
New York: J. Wiley, 1996.
Poppeliers, John C.
What style is it?: a guide to American architecture.
New York: J. Wiley, 1996.
Rifkind, Carole.
A field guide to contemporary American architecture.
New York: Dutton, 1998.
Sears Roebuck & Co.
Sears Modern Homes, 1913
Dover Publications, 2006.
Swope, Caroline
Classic Houses of Seattle: High Style to Vernacular, 1870-1950
Timber Press, 2005.
Woodbridge, Sally Byrne.
A guide to architecture in Washington State: an environmental perspective.
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1980.