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brick, frame, plan$, vernacular, sacred
pennsylvania, california, new york, virginia, barbados, charleston
dutch, african, spanish, french, eighteenth, seventeenth
Databases
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- Refine: KEYWORD house?
- Choose Art Retro and Art FullText.
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Full-text backfiles of many important scholarly journals in areas such as anthropology, asian studies, ecology, economics, education, history, literature, math, philosophy, politics, sociology, and statistics. Coverage is usually from the first issue to 3-5 years before the present.
Web Sites
Archives and Databases
- HABS has the digitized records of the Historic American Buildings Survey which began in the 1930's.
- http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/hhhtml/hhhome.html
- Vernacular Architecture Forum contains an extensive searchable bibliography on vernacular architecture in the U.S.
- http://departments.mwc.edu/hipr/www/vafbib.htm
- Craftsman Database contains records on craftsmen in the mid-Atlantic region up to the 1820's.
- http://www.mesda.org/education/cdintro.htm
- login and password provided at the Access desk
- Eighteenth Century Collections Online is a digital archive of 150,000 printed works from the 18th century.
- http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/ECCO?locID=viva_uva
- Resources for Pennsylvania and Delaware
- http://www.math.udel.edu/~rstevens/datasets.html
- Library of Virginia has an index to the Mutual Assurance Society records of properties from 1796 to 1867.
- http://www.lva.lib.va.us/
- Digital Archive of American Barns
- http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2003/03-053.html
Societies and Museums
- Society of Architectural Historians
- http://www.sah.org/articles.html
- MESDA - Old Salem Online
- http://www.mesda.org/about/mesda.htm
Print Resources
Mills Lane. Architecture of the Old South: Louisiana (FA REF NA730 .L8L36 1990)
Sandra L. Tatman et al. Biographical Dictionary of Philadelphia Architects (FA REF NA735 .P5T28 1985)
National Register of Historic Places (FA REF E159 .N34)
Directory of Historic House Museums in the United States (NA REF E159 .W29 2000)
Contact the Librarian: Lucie Stylianopoulos | 924.6604 | lws4n@virginia.edu
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