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• Mission 66 Visitor Centers: The History of a Building Type (2000), by Sarah Allaback (illustrated HTML at National Park Service)

• The Architecture and Landscape Gardening of the Exposition: A Pictorial Survey of the Most Beautiful of the Architectural Compositions of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition (second edition, revised; San Francisco: P. Elder and Co., c1915), by Maud Wotring Raymond and John Hamlin, ed. by Paul Elder, contrib. by Louis Christian Mullgardt (multiple formats at archive.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• American Urban Architecture: Catalysts in the Design of Cities (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Wayne Attoe and Donn Logan (illustrated HTML at UC Press)
• Displaying the Orient: Architecture of Islam at Nineteenth-Century World's Fairs (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Zeynep Çelik (HTML at UC Press)
• Architecture and Democracy (1918), by Claude Fayette Bragdon
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text

• SAH Archipedia (free electronic edition), ed. by Society of Architectural Historians (illustrated HTML at sah-archipedia.org)

• SAH Archipedia (free electronic edition), ed. by Society of Architectural Historians (illustrated HTML at sah-archipedia.org)

• Journal of the American Institute of Architects (partial serial archives)
• The Charette (1920-1974) (partial serial archives)

• North Carolina Architect (partial serial archives)
• Southern Architect (full serial archives)

• The American Builder's Companion: or, A New System of Architecture, Particularly Adapted To The Present Style of Building in the United States of America (Boston: Etheridge and Bliss, 1806), by Asher Benjamin
  • page images at Wisconsin
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Behind the Postmodern Facade: Architectural Change in Late Twentieth-Century America (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), by Magali Sarfatti Larson (HTML at UC Press)

• Behind the Postmodern Facade: Architectural Change in Late Twentieth-Century America (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), by Magali Sarfatti Larson (HTML at UC Press)

• Behind the Postmodern Facade: Architectural Change in Late Twentieth-Century America (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), by Magali Sarfatti Larson (HTML at UC Press)

• Designs on the Public: The Private Lives of New York's Public Spaces (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, c2007), by Kristine F. Miller (illustrated HTML with commentary at umn.edu)

• Colonial Homes and Their Furnishings (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1917), by Mary Harrod Northend
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• New England Georgian Architecture: 55 Measured Drawings With Full Size Details (New York: Architectural Book Pub. Co., 1913), by Ralph Clarke Kingman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historic Homes of New England (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1914), by Mary Harrod Northend
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century (Jamestown 350th Anniversary Historical Booklet #11; Williamsburg: Virginia 350th Anniversary Celebration Corporation, c1957), by Henry Chandlee Forman (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Remodeled Farmhouses (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1915), by Mary Harrod Northend
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Don't Pay More Rent! (1947), by Irving Howe (multiple formats at archive.org)

• California Tenants: A Guide to Residential Tenants' and Landlords' Rights and Responsibilities (electronic edition; c2010), by California Department of Consumer Affairs (HTML at ca.gov)

• Don't Pay More Rent! (1947), by Irving Howe (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Caucasians Only: The Supreme Court, the NAACP, and the Restrictive Covenant Cases (third printing; Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973), by Clement E. Vose (multiple formats at Google)

• Chicago Renters' Resource Guide (electronic edition, in English, Spanish and Chinese), by Lawyers' Committee for Better Housing (Chicago, Ill.) (PDF with commentary at lcbh.org)

• Supervisory Skills for Housing Managers: Instructor's Guide (Washington: GPO, 1979), by United States Department of Housing and Urban Development Office of Policy Development and Research and Temple University Center for Social Policy and Community Development (page images at HathiTrust)
• Supervisory Skills for Housing Managers: Participant's Workbook (Washington: GPO, 1979), by United States Department of Housing and Urban Development Office of Policy Development and Research and Temple University Center for Social Policy and Community Development (page images at HathiTrust)

• Chicago Renters' Resource Guide (electronic edition, in English, Spanish and Chinese), by Lawyers' Committee for Better Housing (Chicago, Ill.) (PDF with commentary at lcbh.org)

• The Van Dwellers: A Strenuous Quest for a Home (New York: J. F. Taylor and Co., 1901), by Albert Bigelow Paine (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1890), by Jacob A. Riis
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • illustrated HTML at Bartleby
• The Battle with the Slum, by Jacob A. Riis (illustrated HTML at Bartleby)

• The Usonian House: Souvenir of the Exhibition "60 Years of Living Architecture: The Work of Frank Lloyd Wright" (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1953), by Frank Lloyd Wright
  • Flash with commentary at guggenheim.org
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Advanced Materials by Design (1988), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Asbestos in Buildings: Guidance for Service and Maintenance Personnel (1985), by United States Environmental Protection Agency Office of Toxic Substances (page images at HathiTrust)

• The American Builder's Companion: or, A New System of Architecture, Particularly Adapted To The Present Style of Building in the United States of America (Boston: Etheridge and Bliss, 1806), by Asher Benjamin
  • page images at Wisconsin
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Displaying the Orient: Architecture of Islam at Nineteenth-Century World's Fairs (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Zeynep Çelik (HTML at UC Press)

• The Homes of Our Ancestors in Stonington, Conn. (Salem, MA: Newcomb and Gauss, printers, 1903), by Grace Denison Wheeler
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Biscayne National Park Historic Resource Study (1998), by Jennifer Brown Leynes and David Cullison (PDF files at National Park Service)

• Martin Luther King, Jr., National Historic Site: Historic Resource Study (1994), by Robert W. Blythe, Maureen A. Carroll, and Steven H. Moffson
  • illustrated HTML at National Park Service
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Historic Montgomery County, Maryland: Old Homes and History (c1952), by Roger Brooke Farquhar (page images at HathiTrust)

• Old Landmarks and Historic Personages of Boston, by Samuel Adams Drake (page images at MOA)

• Some Annals of Nahant, Massachusetts (Boston: Old Corner Book Store, 1928), by Fred A. Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Forts and Firesides of the Mohawk Country, New York: The Stories and Pictures of Landmarks of the Pre-Revolutionary War Period Throughout the Mohawk Valley and the Surrounding Country Side, Including Some Historic and Genealogical Mention During the Post-War Period (Philadelphia: E. E. Brownell, 1943), by John J. Vrooman, ed. by Elijah Ellsworth Brownell (page images at HathiTrust)

• The New York of the Novelists (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1916), by Arthur Bartlett Maurice (page images at HathiTrust)

• Monuments Erected by the State of Texas to Commemorate the Centenary of Texas Independence (1938), by Commission of Control for Texas Centennial Celebrations, ed. by Harold Schoen (page images at HathiTrust)

• Arlington House, the Robert E. Lee Memorial: North Dependency Historic Structure Report (2009), by Charles Fisher, Chad Randl, and Kaaren Staveteig
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Arlington House, the Robert E. Lee Memorial: South Dependency Historic Structure Report (2009), by Charles Fisher, Chad Randl, and Kaaren Staveteig
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Virginia: The Old Dominion, As Seen From its Colonial Waterway, the Historic River James (Boston: The Page Co., 1921), by Frank W. Hutchins and Cortelle Hutchins
  • HTML and page images at LOC
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML

• The Architectural Heritage of Early Western Pennsylvania: A Record of Building Before 1860 (originally published in 1936 as The Early Architecture of Western Pennsylvania; this edition Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1966), by Charles Morse Stotz (page images at Pitt)

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