Architecture Images Online

• Grove Art Online
  Click on Images and enter a search for Plan.
• ARTstor
  
• American Memory: Architecture & Landscape Images
  
• Built in America: Historic American Buildings Survey
• Chicago Imagebase
• AP Images (Associated Press)
• NYPL Digital Gallery
  
• Library of Congress Prints & Photographs
  
  

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Reference Books

• Encyclopedia of American Architecture
• Early Illustrations and Views of American Architecture
• World Architecture Index
• World Atlas of Architecture
  
  

Floor Plans

• American Memory: Architecture & Landscape Images
• AP Images (Associated Press)
  
• NYPL Digital Gallery
  

Other suggestions :

• Search the Library catalog
  Architecture--designs and plans
  Architectural drawing
  floor plans
  
  
• Visit the City of Chicago, Department of Buildings, Public Records Section.
  121 N. LaSalle St, Room 1109
  
  Floor plans of Chicago buildings may possibly be obtained under the Freedom of Information Act from the City of Chicago, Department of Buildings. 
  Please note: A Freedom of Information Request Form must be completed and the request may be denied for security purposes. More info.
  
  
• Visit the Chicago History Museum Archives.
  1601 N. Clark St.
  
  
• Check the web site of the building or architecture firm associated with the building. You can also try contacting the realtor that represents the building.
  
  

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