Provides approximately 25,000 images with accompanying documentation about the architectural heritage of the Pacific Northwest with special emphasis on Oregon’s historic sites and built environment. Many items represent works listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Database created by the Oregon State Historic Preservation Office provides PDF documentation of National Register sites as well as thousands of Oregon works listed in cultural resources inventories.
This database reproduces plans produced by Sears. From 1908–1940, Sears, Roebuck and Co. sold about 70,000 - 75,000 homes through their mail-order Modern Homes program. Over that time Sears designed 447 different housing styles.
Digitized photographs, articles, sheet music, manuscripts, ephemera, and more from the collections of Oregon State University and the University of Oregon.
The Building Technology Heritage Library (BTHL) is primarily a collection of American and Canadian, pre-1964 architectural trade catalogs, house plan books, and technical building guides.
Database created by the Oregon State Historic Preservation Office provides PDF documentation of National Register sites as well as thousands of Oregon works listed in cultural resources inventories.
This database reproduces plans produced by Sears. From 1908–1940, Sears, Roebuck and Co. sold about 70,000 - 75,000 homes through their mail-order Modern Homes program. Over that time Sears designed 447 different housing styles.
The world’s largest online digital collection of color fire insurance maps, real estate atlases, and similar land use maps for North America. Geographic coverage includes Oregon and Washington, and publishers include Sanborn, Nirenstein's National Realty Map Co., Baist, Kroll, and more.
Database created by the Oregon State Historic Preservation Office provides PDF documentation of National Register sites as well as thousands of Oregon works listed in cultural resources inventories.
Designed to convert historic addresses to current ones, and vice versa, this site contains the records of 235,945 Portland-area addresses, including 14.1% with historic information about the past residents or businesses.
Large-scale, detailed, black & white maps of 177 Oregon towns and cities, as well as municipalities in California, Washington, and Idaho
Originally created for fire insurance purposes, Sanborn maps have become a valuable tool for studying the history, growth, and development of cities, towns, and neighborhoods. Users can pan and zoom as well as download PDF versions of each sheet. The MAP Library also has paper versions of many of these maps.
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