Check out the Course Reserves.

Archipedia (Society of Architectural Historians)

Oxford Art Online (Grove Dictionary of Art)

Buildings of Massachusetts: Metropolitan Boston / edited by Keith N. Morgan; principal authors, Richard M. Candee ... [et al.]; photography by Peter Vanderwarker with additional photographs by Antonina Smith.
Oversize & Ref: NA735.B7 B85 2009

Boston Architecture, 1975-1990.
Oversize: NA735.B7 M54

Built in Boston: City and Suburb, 1800-2000.
Oversize: NA735.B7 S53 1999.

The Boston Society of Architects' AIA Guide to Boston.
Ref. NA735.B7 S68 2008

Buildings and Landmarks of Old Boston: a Guide to the Colonial, Provincial, Federal, and Greek Revival Periods, 1630-1850.
Oversize: NA735.B7 A53 2001

Planning the City Upon a Hill: Boston Since 1630.
Stacks: HT168.B6 K46 1992

Boston's Back Bay: the Story of America's Greatest Nineteenth-Century Landfill Project.
Stacks: TD795.7 .N545 2006

Gaining Ground: a History of Landmaking in Boston Oversize: NA735.B7 A53 2001

Cambridge Buildings and Architects

The Oxford Companion to Architecture

Building Types Study (in Architectural Record)

The American Institute of Architects: Practicing Architecture

A. Use Library Catalogs to find books

1. Tufts Libraries Catalog

2. WorldCat (beyond Tufts)

B. Searches & Results

(note the search pattern; modify to your own needs)

1. Architects or Buildings:

Gropius, Walter

McKim, Mead and White

"public library" and boston and architecture

2. in the contexts of building types/Styles/Periods:

Public architecture

Architecture domestic

Dwellings

Historic buildings

church architecture

sustainable architecture

Architecture, Gothic

Skyscrapers

3. related Topics/ Issues:

Architecture and Gothic and revival and boston

4. Browse Boston Architecture in Tisch Library

architecture Massachusetts

architecture Massachusetts Boston

Boston (Mass.) -- Buildings, structures, etc.

Digital Images

ARTstor (including SAHARA Project by the Society of Architectural Historians)

Artifact (Tufts University)

Great Buildings (in Boston)

Art Project (museums from around the world by Google)

Image Quest (two million rights-cleared images)

American Landscape and Architectural Design, 1850-1920: "Boston".

American Architecture and Interior Design,1935-1955: "Boston".

Turn-of-the-Century Boston

Frederick Law Olmsted: Boston's Emerald Necklace

Built in America Historic American Buildings Survey [HABS]: "Boston".

Boston Historical Society. (Over 3,000 online photographs of Boston streets and views.)

Brighton Allston Historical Society

A Digital Archive of American Architecture: Boston Architecture.

Farber Gravestone Collection. (1,059 photographs of gravestones in Boston and the neighborhoods.)

Old Boston Photographs (a series of late 19th century photographs of historic Boston sites)

 

Books with images at Tisch

Boston Then & Now: 59 Boston Sites Photographed in the Past and Present. Bookstacks: F73.37 .V36 1982

Historic Buildings of Massachusetts: Photographs from the Historic American Buildings Survey with Written Historical and Descriptive Data. Oversize: NA730.M4 H57 1976

Survey of Architectural History in Cambridge. Oversize: NA735.C28 A5

Fine Arts Department, Boston Public Library. (Tel. 617.859.2275)
Boston Picture File.
This file consists of mounted and unmounted photographs and clippings about Boston buildings, parks, monuments, streets, etc. The material is indexed in the Boston Architecture Reference File. A postcard collection of about 1,500 items depicting Boston buildings is included.

Boston Pictorial Archive.
19th and 20th century photographs documenting Boston's architecture and development as well as the daily life of the city.

A. Use the subject databases to find journal articles.

1 & 2. JSTOR and Project Muse
JSTOR is a favorite with its full texts in core journals of all disciplines. Project Muse does not include exactly the same JSTOR journals, but it has more recent and current articles on many topics.

3. Architecture (the Avery Index)

(the principal database)

 

 

4. Culture and History

America: History and Life

American Periodicals (1740 - 1940)

Boston News (Boston Globe and Local Newspapers)

Boston Globe (1872-1979)

 

5. When use GoogleScholar, set your Library Links to access Tufts full texts.

B. Variety of Keywords to cover all aspects

Search with a whole range of keywords: the building, its type, its locale, the city or the country, its period or style; its client/patron, its materials, its setting/site, the architect and his/her theory and ideals, etc.

C. Learn the Language of the Source

In Avery citations on the fairly recent project "the Big Dig House in Lexington, Massachusetts" you will find such subject terms as "Adaptive reuse", "Construction and demolition debris"

The search on the "Wellesley College Library" in Avery finds few articles on the building itself at this point. However, a search on the architect discovers articles on their past and related works University and College Libraries. You place your specific question in a larger context--the study of a type of buildings.

D. Finding Full Texts

1. Click on the button in your search results screen to a window of three sequential options:

a. link to the digital full text when available;

b. link to a Library Catalog search for the print journal;

c. link to ILliad for requesting the article when the above two options are negative.

2. Search for a journal directly here:

a. Tufts Library Catalog (including e-journals)

b. Electronic journals list

c. Use ILliad to request your article, if Tufts does not have your journal.

E. Request Articles/Books

Set up for your ILliad account

Use ILLiad, our Interlibrary Loan Service, to request articles, books and other materials that are not available at Tufts.

Current:

Massachusetts Newsstand

LexisNexis Academic

Factiva (more international coverage)

Historical

Boston Globe (1872-1979)

New York Times Online Archive
(1851 - 3 years before current date)

Times Digital Archive  (1785 - 1985)

Art Index Retrospective   (1929- 1982)

 

Readers' Guide Retrospective (1890-1982)

American Periodicals (1740 - 1940)

British Humanities Index (1962- )
British Periodicals (1680s - 1930s)

Chicago Style Manual

RefWorks