Key Repositories and Resources

Libraries and Archives

Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Main (Oakland)

• Builder (Pittsburgh)
• Builders Bulletin
• Charette (w/ partial index)
• Columns
• Construction
• Engineering News Record
• Inland Architect and News Record
• Interstate Architect and Builder
• library collections
• newspapers and magazines
• Ohio Architect & Builder
• Pittsburgh Architects card index and Information File
• Pittsburgh Architecture card index and Information File
• Pittsburgh Architectural Club Exhibition Catalogs
• archival and special collections
  • Western Pennsylvania Architectural Survey Collection

Pennsylvania Department

• architectural brochures
• atlases, plat books, and fire insurance maps
• biographies, pictures, and portraits card indexes
• business directories
• city directories
• clippings and ephemera file
• library collections

• archival and special collections
  • Pittsburgh Photographic Library
    • City of Pittsburgh Department of Public Works Collection

Carnegie Mellon University Libraries

• atlases, plat books, and fire insurance maps
• Columns
• Historic American Buildings Survey / Historic American Engineering Record data
• Inland Architect and News Record
• library collections

Architecture Archives

• architectural brochures
• Builders Bulletin
• Charette
• clippings and ephemera file
• drawings
• Historic American Buildings Survey / Historic American Engineering Record data
• manuscripts
• models
• Pittsburgh Architectural Club Exhibition Catalogs
• photographs

• archival and special collections
  • see Collections Information
  
  

University of Pittsburgh Libraries

Archives & Special Collections

• atlases, plat books, and fire insurance maps
• building permits
• drawings
  
  
• archival and special collections
  • Allegheny County Courthouse Collection
    
  • Landscape Records of Southwestern Pennsylvania
  • Pittsburgh City Photographer Collection
  • Pittsburgh, Pa. City Planning Commission Records
  • see also: Historic Pittsburgh Finding Aids
    

Frick Fine Arts Library

• library collections
  

Carnegie Museum of Art

Heinz Architectural Center

• drawings
• library collections
• models
  

Senator John Heinz History Center

Detre Library and Archives

• atlases, plat books, and fire insurance maps
• Business and Biography card index
• business directories
• city directories
• clippings and ephemera file
• library collections
• newspapers and magazines

• archival and special collections
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Collection
  • see also: Historic Pittsburgh Finding Aids
  
  

Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation

James D. Van Trump Library

• Allegheny County Historic Sites Survey data
• architectural brochures
• atlases, plat books, and fire insurance maps
• Charette
• city directories
• clippings and ephemera file
• library collections
• National Register of Historic Places data
• neighborhood and municipal site surveys
• PHLF News (w/ index)
• photographs
• postcards

• archival and special collections
  • James D. Van Trump papers

Government Offices

County of Allegheny

Office of Records Administration

• Works Progress Administration Property Survey

Recorder of Deeds

• deeds
• mortgages

Recorder of Deeds, Plan Department

• atlases, plat books, and fire insurance maps
• plan maps

Board of Property Assessment, Block and Lot Office

• block and lot card file

Board of Property Assessment
Property Assessment Appeals Review and Registry

• block and lot maps

City of Pittsburgh

Bureau of Building Inspection

• building permits
• drawings
• permanent plans card file