

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

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