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Los Angeles Historic Buildings
Welcome to the UCLA Library guide to accompany the Los Angeles Historic Buildings OpenUCLA Virtual Wikipedia Edit-a-thon in Collaboration with Los Angeles Public Library.
Quick Links
- Pacific Coast Architecture Database (PCAD)This should probably be your first place to check for information about Los Angeles buildings!
Information regarding the buildings and designers of California, Oregon, and Washington. Related professionals such as landscape architects, interior designers, developers, and building contractors and their work are also included. Building records contain information about their creators (when possible) and includes historical and geographic information in addition to images when available. - Historic Places LALos Angeles Historic Resources Inventory
- Los Angeles County; in: Philadelphia Architects and Buildings DatabaseIncludes links to records from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), the National Register of Historic Places, and more!
- SAH Archipedia - CaliforniaSAH Archipedia is an authoritative online encyclopedia of the U.S. built environment organized by the Society of Architectural Historians and the University of Virginia Press. It contains histories, photographs, and maps for over 20,000 structures and places.
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California Architectural Archives
- Finding Design Records (Society of American Archivists)A listing of repositories with records documenting the built environment, maintained by the Design Records Section of the Society of American Archivists.