Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia
We've developed an expansive list of recommended reading on topics related to local history, architecture, social and cultural history, and preservation theory. Additionally, we've solicited book suggestions from our Preservation Alliance Tour Guides, and have some fun ideas for the architect or preservationist in your life.
Dark History of Penn's Woods: Murder, Madness, and Misadventure in Southeastern Pennsylvania
Jennifer L. Green
Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia
Architectural History of Philadelphia and Local Authors
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Philadelphia Area Architecture of Horace Trumbauer
Old York Road Historical Society and Rachel Hildebrandt
Historic Preservation, Third Edition: An Introduction to Its History, Principles, and Practice
Norman Tyler, Ilene R. Tyler, et al.
The Past and Future City: How Historic Preservation Is Reviving America's Communities
Kevin C. Murphy and Stephanie Meeks
Why Old Places Matter: How Historic Places Affect Our Identity and Well-Being
Thompson M. Mayes
Tasting Freedom: Octavius Catto and the Battle for Equality in Civil War America
Daniel R Biddle and Murray Dubin
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Isabel Wilkerson
Rush: Revolution, Madness, and Benjamin Rush, the Visionary Doctor Who Became a Founding Father
Stephen Fried
Barn: Preservation and Adaptation, the Evolution of a Vernacular Icon (Revised)
Elric Endersby, David Larkin, et al.
Illustrated Dictionary of Historic Architecture
Recording Historic Structures
Segregation by Design: Local Politics and Inequality in American Cities
Jessica Trounstine
How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood
Pe Moskowitz
Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, and What We Can Do about It
Mindy Thompson Fullilove
Prairie Boy: Frank Lloyd Wright Turns the Heartland Into a Home
Barb Rosenstock and Christopher Silas Neal
