This is a small sampling of the RTC Library's books on Pacific Northwest architecture, and architectural preservation, restoration, and conservation.
If you're not sure what you need, or how to begin, come in to the RTC Library, call us at (425) 235-2331, or email us at librarian@RTC.edu. We'll be glad to help.
Pest management in museums, archives, and historic houses / David Pinniger; illustrated by Annette Townsend; rodent and bird chapter by Adrian Meyer. Call Number: 069.53 PINNIGE 2001
A history of architectural conservation / Jukka Jokilehto. Call Number: 363.69 JOKILEH 1999
Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life into Vintage Homes / George Nash. Call Number: 363.69 NASH-G 2003
Architectural conservation: principles and practice / Aylin Orbaslı. Call Number: 363.69 ORBASLI 2008
Paint research in building conservation / edited by Line Bregnhøi ... [et al.]. Call Number: 363.69 PAINT 2006r
The preservation of historic architecture: the U.S. government's official guidelines for preserving historic homes / Department of the Interior. Call Number: 363.69 PRESERV 2004h
The Economics of Historic Preservation: A Community Leader's Guide / Donovan D. Rypkema. Call Number: 363.69 RYPKEMA 1994
Historic preservation: an introduction to its history, principles, and practice / Norman Tyler. Call Number: 363.69 TYLER 2000
The American Mosaic: preserving a nation's heritage / edited by Robert E. Stipe and Antoinette J. Lee. Call Number: 363.690973 AMERICA 1987m
Innovative Tools for Historic Preservation / By Marya Morris. Call Number: 363.690973 MORRIS 1992
A richer heritage: historic preservation in the twenty-first century / edited by Robert E. Stipe. Call Number:363.690973 RICHER 2003
Preparing a Historic Preservation Plan / By Bradford J. White & Richard Roddewig. Call Number: 363.690973 WHITE 1994
Historic Preservation and the Imagined West / Judy Morley. Call Number: 363.690978 MORLEY 2006
Period details / Judith and Martin Miller. Call Number: 643.7 MILLER 1987
Housekeeping for historic homes and house museums / By Melissa M. Heaver. Call Number: 648.5 HEAVER 200U
Historic preservation: project planning & estimating / Swanke Hayden Connell Architects. Call Number: 690.24 SWANKE 2000
Historic Preservation Technology / By Robert A. Young. Call Number: 690.24 YOUNG 2008
Stone buildings: conservation, repair, building / Patrick McAfee. Call Number: 693.1 MCAFEE 1998
Landscapes and gardens for historic buildings; 2nd ed., rev. / Rudy J. Favretti and Joy Putman Favretti. Call Number: 712.0973 FAVRETT 1997
What style is it?: a guide to American architecture / by John C. Poppeliers, S. Allen Chambers, Jr. Call Number: 720.973 POPPELI 2003
Adobe conservation: a preservation handbook / compiled by the technical staff of Cornerstones Community Partnerships; with illustrations by Francisco Uviña Contreras. Call Number: 721.0288 ADOBE 2006c
Conservation of historic buildings; 3rd ed. / Bernard M. Feilden. Call Number: 721.0288 FEILDEN 2003
Historic building façades: the manual for maintenance and rehabilitation / New York Landmarks Conservancy; William G. Foulks, editor. Call Number: 721.0288 HISTOR 1997b
Materials & skills for historic building conservation / edited by Michael Forsyth. Call Number: 721.0288 HISTOR 2008b
The Visual Dictionary of American Domestic Architecture / By Rachel Carley Call Number: 728.0973 CARLEY 1997
Old House Dictionary: An Illustrated Guide to American Domestic Architecture (1600-1940) / By Steven J. Phillips. Call Number: 728.0973 PHILLIP 1994
American House Styles: a concise guide / by John Milnes Baker. Call Number: 728.370973 BAKER 2002
The Vintage House Book: Classic American Homes 1880-1980 / By Tad Burness. Call Number: 728.370973 BURNESS 2003
Architectural tiles: conservation and restoration: from the medieval period to the twentieth century / Lesley Durbin. Call Number: 738.60288 DURBIN 2005
Toward a new regionalism: environmental architecture in the Pacific Northwest / David E. Miller. 720.4709795 MILLER 2005
Made to last: historic preservation in Seattle and King County / Lawrence Kreisman. Call number: 363.6909797 KREISM 1999
The Arts and Crafts Movement in the Pacific Northwest / Lawrence Kreisman and Glenn Mason. Call number: 709.7950904 KREISMA 2007.
Beautiful America's Northwest Victorians / Kenneth Naversen. Call number: 720.979709 NAVERSEN 2001
Seattle Architecture: A Walking Guide to Downtown / Maureen R. Elenga. Call number: 720.9797772 ELENGA 2007.
Distant Corner: Seattle Architects and the Legacy of H.H. Richardson / Jeffrey Karl Ochsner and Dennis Alan Anderson. Call number: 720.9797772 OCHSNER 2003.
The Seattle Bungalow: People and houses, 1900-1940 / Janet Ore. Call number: 728.3730977 ORE-J 2007
Built in Washington: 12,000 years of Pacific Northwest archaeological sites and historic buildings / written by the staff of the Washington State Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation. Call number: 979.7 BUILT 1989i
National trust guide, Seattle: America's guide for architecture and history travelers / Walt Crowley; with Paul Dorpat, photography editor. Call number: 979.778 CROWLEY 1998
