Featured Books
The Architecture of Baltimore: An Illustrated History
Call Number: MSEL Gen Ref NA735 .B3 A73 2004
A Guide to Baltimore Architecture
Call Number: MSEL Gen Ref NA735 .B3 D67 1997- Tracing the History of the Baltimore Structure: A Guide to the Primary and Secondary Sources
Call Number: MSEL Gen Ref F189 .B18 A225 1980 - Baltimore City's Designated Landmark List, 2003
Call Number: MSEL GPML Ref State B21 D25 2:B22
Finding Materials in the Library Catalog
Use the catalog to search the library's holdings on architecture in Baltimore City. Try the pre-set searches below.
Selected Websites
- Baltimore Architecture Foundation The Foundation provides a bibliography and biographies of Baltimore architects.
- Baltimore Architecture: Then and Now. Maryland Historical Society Images and historical discriptions of notable Baltimore City buildings.
- Built in America: Historic American Building Survey/Historic American Engineering Record 1933-Present. Documents architecture, engineering, and design in the United States and it territories. Includes drawings, photographs, and written histories of structures. Note: Baltimore structures may be found under Maryland -- Independent City -- Baltimore.
- Maryland Historic Trust Founded in 1931, Preservation Maryland is the state's oldest historic preservation organization. It is dedicated to preserving Maryland's historic buildings, neighborhoods, landscapes and archaeological sites through outreach, funding, and advocacy.
- My Baltimore: The Baltimore Architecture Project The Johns Hopkins University’s Sheridan Libraries have launched a collaborative effort that will bring together on-line documents relating to Baltimore’s rich architectural history that are now scattered among libraries, churches, hospitals, and museu
- Passano Historic Structure Index This index is located at the Maryland Historical Society. The index of over 100,000 3x5 cards provides references for thousands of historic buildings in Baltimore City and throughout Maryland. Street addresses are followed forward and backward in time.
- Baltimore Commission for Historical and Architectural Preservation The mission of CHAP is to enhance and promote the culture and economy of Baltimore through the preservation of buildings, structures, sites and neighborhoods that have have aesthetic, historic and architectural value.
- National Register of Historic Places Part of a national program to coordinate and support public and private efforts to identify, evaluate, and protect our historic and archeological resources. Properties listed include districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects.
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