Bibliography

Selected bibliography of key sources. For more extensive bibliography, see Tannler, "A Select Bibliography..." below under Research Aids.

• Research Aids
• Research Collection
• Key Books
• Key Journals and Serials
• Key Articles
• Monographs and Catalogs Raisonne
• Papers, Theses and Dissertations

• Allegheny County, Pensylvania, Real Estate Web Site
• AIA Historical Directory of American Architects. Includes: American Architects Directory. New York, R. R. Bowker Co., 1956, 1962, 1970.
• Aurand, Martin. Pittsburgh Architecture: A Guide to Research. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Architecture Archives, 1991. Updated by this Web site.
• Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals [Various publishers and dates.] Indexing ca. 1900- .
• "Bibliography of the Works of James D. Van Trump." In Van Trump, James D. Life and Architecture in Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation, 1983. 363-392.
• The Burnham Index to Architectural Literature. 10 vols. New York: Garland, 1989. Indexing ca. 1919-1965. Now incoporated into the online version of the Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals.
• Postwar Pittsburgh Architecture Bibliography (Martin Aurand / Carnegie Mellon University Architecture Archives)
• Tannler, Albert M. "A Select Bibliography of Landmark Architecture in Pittsburgh and Allegheny County." In Kidney, Walter C. Pittsburgh's Landmark Architecture: The Historic Buildings of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County. Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation, 1997. 665-690.
• Tannler, Albert M. A List of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County Buildings and Architects, 1950-2005. 3rd ed. Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation, 2005.
• Uhl, Lauren and Audrey Iacone. How to Discover the History of Your Old House. Pittsburgh: Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, 1996.
• Vater, David J. "Architect and Author: A Review of Books Written by Western Pennsylvania Architects." Columns 17:2 (March 2003), 12-17.
• Withey, Henry F. Biographical Dictionary of American Architects (Deceased). Los Angeles: New Age Publishing Company, 1956. Reprinted Detroit: Omnigraphics, 1997.

Research Collections

• Historic Pittsburgh
  A comprehensive collection of online resources that supports personal and scholarly research of the western Pennsylvania area.  Includes:
  • Texts
  • Maps
  • Images
  • Archival Finding Aids
  • Census Records
  • Chronology
  • Videos
    
  
  

• Aurand, Martin. The Spectator and the Topographical City. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007.
• Bolden, Frank E., Lawrence A. Glasco, and Eliza Smith Brown. A Legacy in Bricks and Mortar: African-American Landmarks in Allegheny County. Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation, 1995.
• Donnelly, Lu et al.  Buildings of Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania.  Charlottesvilles, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2010.
• Gay, Vernon and Marilyn Evert. Discovering Pittsburgh Sculpture. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1983.
• Grimley, Chris, Kubo, Michael, and El Samahy, Rami. Imagining the Modern: Architecture and Urbanism of the Pittsburgh Renaissance. New York, New York: The Montacelli Press, 2019.
• Kidney, Walter C. Landmark Architecture: Pittsburgh and Allegheny County. Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation, 1985.
• Kidney, Walter C. Pittsburgh's Landmark Architecture: The Historic Buildings of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County. Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation, 1997.
• Kidney, Walter C. Pittsburgh's Bridges: Architecture and Engineering. Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation, 1999.
• Stotz, Charles Morse. The Early Architecture of Western Pennsylvania. New York: W. Helburn for the Buhl Foundation, 1936; reprinted as The Architectural Heritage of Western Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1966; reprinted with a new introduction by Dell Upton. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995.
• Swetnam, George. A Guidebook to Historic Western Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 1976; revised and enlarged, 1991.
• Tannler, Albert M. Pittsburgh Architecture in the Twentieth Century: Notable Modern Buildings and Their Architects. Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation, 2013.
• Toker, Franklin. Buildings of Pittsburgh. Chicago: Society of Architectural Historians; Santa Fe: Center for American Places; Charlottesville: In association with the University of Virginia Press, 2007.
• Toker, Franklin. Pittsburgh: An Urban Portrait. University Park, Pa.: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1986; reprinted Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1994.
• Toker, Franklin. Pittsburgh: A New Portrait. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009.
• Van Trump, James D. Life and Architecture in Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation, 1983. With a Van Trump bibliography.
• Ziegler, Arthur P. and James D. Van Trump. Landmark Architecture of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation, 1967.

Key Journals and Serials

• Builder (Pittsburgh) (vols. 20-34:3), 1904-1919 [only extant volumes in region].
• Builders Bulletin (vols. 1- 89:13), 1916-2005. Continued online for members of the Pittsburgh Builders Exchange.
• Catalogue of the Annual Architectural Exhibition by the Pittsburgh Chapter, American Institute of Architects. Pittsburgh: 1898.
• Charette (vols. 1-54), 1920-1974. View online at Charette.
• Columns (vols. 1- ), 1987- . View issues since November, 2005 online at Columns.
• Construction (vols. 1-3), 1905-1906. Continuation of The Municipal Record.
• Construction Record (vols. 45:1-55:9), 1910-1916 [only extant volumes in region].
• Engineering News / Engineering News Record (vols. 1- ), 1874- .
• Inland Architect and News Record / Inland Architect and Builder (vols. 1-52), 1883-1909.
• Interstate Architect and Builder (vols. 1-4), 1899-1902. Continued as Ohio Architect & Builder.
• Ohio Architect & Builder (vols. 1-33), 1903-1919. Continuation of Interstate Architect and Builder.
• Pennsylvania Architect (vols. 1-7:1), 1988-1994.
• PHLF News [Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation News]. (vols.1- ), 1966- . View online at PHLF Newsletters.
• Pittsburgh Architectural Club Exhibition Catalogs (vols. 1-11), 1900-1916. Index available at Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation.
• Pittsburgh History: A Magazine of the City and its Region (vols. 72-81), 1989-1998. Continuation of Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine. Continued as Western Pennsylvania History. View online at Western Pennsylvania History.
• Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine (vols. 1-71), 1918-1988. Continued as Pittsburgh History. View online at Western Pennsylvania History.
• Western Pennsylvania History (vols. 82-), 1999- . Continuation of Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine and Pittsburgh History. View most issues online at Western Pennsylvania History.
• Yearbook of the Pittsburgh Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (vols. 1-2), 1970-1971.

Key Articles

• [1911] Schuyler, Montgomery. "Buildings of Pittsburgh." Architectural Record (The Pittsburgh Number) 30:3 (September 1911), 204-282.
• [1915] Embury, Aymer. "Impressions of Three Cities: III Pittsburgh." Architecture 31:4 (April 1915), 105-109.
• [1949] "Pittsburgh Renascent." Architectural Forum 91:5 (November 1949), 59-73.
• [1968] Kidney, Walter C. "Pittsburgh: A Study in Urban Identity." Progressive Architecture 49 (March 1968), 116-127.
• [1982] Barnett, Jonathan. "Designing Downtown Pittsburgh." Architectural Record 170:1 (January 1982), 90-107.
• [1997] Schmertz, Mildred F. "Pittsburgh's Latest Revival. Architecture 86:6 (June 1997), 49-52.
• [2003] Ryan, Raymund. "View From Pittsburgh." Architectural Review 214:1282 (December, 2003), 30-31.
• [2012] O'Toole, Christine H. "Pittsburgh: The Former Steel Town Enbraces Its Rivers and Green Design." Architectural Record 200:10 (October 2012), cover, 94-103.
  

• Aurand, Martin. "Prairie School Architecture in Pittsburgh." Pittsburgh History 78:1 (Spring 1995), 4-20.
• Kuncio, Gerald M. "Golden Age in the City of Bridges." Western Pennsylvania History 82:2 (1999), 58-68, 70-73.
• Muller, Edward K. and Bauman, John F. " The Olmsteds in Pittsburgh: Landscaping the Private City." Pittsburgh History 76:3 (1993), 122-140; 76:4 (1993-1994) 191-205.
• Tannler, Albert M. "D.H. Burnham & Company in Pittsburgh." PHLF News 175 (April 2009), 16-21.
• Van Trump, James D. "Art Deco." Carnegie Magazine 51:5 (May 1977), 198-219.
• Van Trump, James D. The Gothic Revival in Pittsburgh: A Medievalistic Excursion. Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation, 1975; reprinted from Carnegie Magazine 48:2 (February 1974), 57-69.
• Van Trump. "The Romanesque Revival in Pittsburgh." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 16:3 (October 1957), 23-29.

Monographs and Monographic Articles

• Aurand, Martin. The Progressive Architecture of Frederick G. Scheibler, Jr. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press,1994.
• Bates, John C., Esq. "John T. Comès, Catholic Architect (1873-1922)." Gathered Fragments: A Publication of the Catholic Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania 23 (Fall 2013), 23-50.
• Kidney, Walter C. Henry Hornbostel: An Architect's Master Touch. Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation, 2002.
• Floyd, Margaret Henderson. Longfellow, Alden & Harlow: Architecture After Richardson, Boston and Pittsburgh. Chicago: University of Chicago Press; Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation, 1994.
• Miller, Donald. The Architecture of Benno Janssen. Richmond, VA: 1997.
• Miller, Donald and Aaron Sheon. Organic Vision: The Architecture of Peter Berndtson. The Hexagon Press, 1980.
• Washy, Kathleeen. "Designing in God's Name" Architect Carlton Strong." Gathered Fragments: A Publication of the Catholic Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania 26 (Fall 2016), cover, 2-31.

Papers, Theses, and Dissertations

• Althouse, Carol Anne. Peter Eisenman's Design for the Carnegie Mellon Research Institute. M.A. Thesis, University of Pittsburgh, 1998.
• Bamberg, Angelique. Planning and Maintaining the Ideal Community: The History and Preservation of Chatham Village, Pittsburgh, Pa. M.A. Thesis, Cornell University, 1998.
• Belnap, Gillian Hirth. The Apartment Buildings of Frederick G. Scheibler, Jr., With a Catalogue of All His Multiple Residences. Phd. Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh, 1985.
• Brown, Mark M. The Architecture of Steel: Site Planning and Building Type in the Nineteenth-Century American Bessemer Steel Industry. Phd. Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh, 1995.
• Brown, Mark M. The Cathedral of Learning, 1921-1926: A History of an Architectural Design for the University of Pittsburgh. M.A. Thesis, State University of New York at Binghamton, 1983.
• Clouse, Jerry A. A Study of Agricultural/Vernacular Architecture of Central and Southwestern Pennsylvania: With a Particular Emphsis on the Barns of These Regions. Harrisburg: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 1995. Upublished manuscript.
• Flemming, Ulrich, et al. A Pattern Book for Shadyside. Department of Architecture, Carnegie Mellon University, 1985.
• Golden, David Andrew. The 1920's Single Family Houses of Frederick G. Scheibler, Jr.: An Architectural Analysis of Four Examples Built in Pittsburgh's East End. Master of Architecture Thesis, Carnegie Mellon University, 1988.
• Gordon, Susan. The Success of Chatham Village, 1932-2003: A Planned Community by Clarence Stein and Henry Wright in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. M.A. Thesis, Cornell University, 2003.
• Grantmyre, Laura. Visual Representations of Redevelopment in Pittsburgh's Hill District, 1943-1968. Phd. Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh, 2014.
• Grash, Valerie Sue. The Commercial Skyscrapers of Pittsburgh: Industrialists and Financiers, 1885-1932. Phd. Dissertation, Pennsylvania State University, 1998.
• Greenwalt, Justin P. Pittsburgh's East Liberty Project: Preserving the Artifacts of the Urban Renewal Era. M.S. Thesis, Columbia University, 2010.
• Harchelroad, Jean L. The Evolution of Public Elementary School Architecture in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1835-1915: An Analysis of Changing Styles and Functions. Phd. Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh, 1988.
• Hetherington, Edwin S. The Allegheny County Courthouse and Jail by Henry Hobson Richardson. Thesis, Princeton University, 1971.
• Jucha, Robert. The Anatomy of a Streetcar Suburb: A Development and Architectural History of Pittsburgh's Shadyside District, 1960-1920. Phd. Dissertation, George Washington University, 1980; Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilm International, 1984.
• Klukos, Arnold William. Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. M.A. Thesis, University of Pittsburgh, 1973.
• Koegler, Karen. Building in Stone in Southwestern Pennsylvania. Phd. Dissertation, University of Kentucky, 1992. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International, 1993.
• Mead, Clyde Pfouts. Henry Hornbostel: A Transitional Architect. M.A. Thesis, Cornell University, 1968.
• Rosenblum, Charles Loren. The Architecture of Henry Hornbostel: Progressive and Traditional Design in the American Beaux-Arts Movement. Phd. Dissertation, University of Virginia, 2009.
• Simpson, Donald E. American Halicarnassus: The Mary E. Schenley Memorial, Andrew Carnegie, and the Origin of Pittsburgh's Oakland Cultural Center. M.A. Thesis, University of Pittsburgh, 2009.
• Simpson, Donald E. Civic Center and Cultural Center: The Grouping of Public Buildings in Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and Detroit and the Emergence of the City Monumental in the Modern Metropolis. Phd. Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh, 2013.
• Taylor, Rives Trau. The American College and Its Architecture: An Institutional Imperative [Hornbostel and Carnegie Tech]. M.S. Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988.