Resource Directory
Below are preservation and modern design resources for the Chicago area and beyond. If you know of an organizational, intellectual, or bricks-and-mortar resource in the Chicago area who that should be included on the list below, please contact us Docomomo US/Chicago.
Advocacy Tools
Reports and Surveys
Conserving 20th Century Built Heritage: A Bibliography, Second Edition (edited by Susan McDonald and Gail Ostergren, Getty Conservation Institute, 2013)
Measuring the Economics of Preservation: Recent Findings (prepared for the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation by PlaceEconomics, June 2011)
The Recent Past Survey of Suburban Cook County (via Landmarks Illinois, ongoing)
A Recreational Reuse Study for the Former Elgin State Hospital Laundry Building (prepared by Landmarks Illinois, in partnership with SOM and the City of Elgin, October 2016)
recent landmark nominations
Marina City, City of Chicago Landmark Designation Report (2015)
Robert and Suzanne Drucker House, National Register of Historic Places Nomination (2013)
academic essays and Scholarship
"When the Present Becomes Past" (Dr. Richard Longstreth, 1992)
research libraries and archives
Building Technology Heritage Library
Chicago History Museum, Research Collections
Library of American Landscape History
Ryerson and Burnham Libraries at the Art Institute of Chicago
form letters
Coming soon
National Register Bulletins (US Department of the Interior)
The Secretary of the Interior's Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties
Bulletin 15: How to Apply the National Register Criteria for Evaluation
Bulletin 16: How to Complete the National Register Registration Form
Dining, Events, and Spaces
Tours and Events
Midcentury Bars and Eateries
Hala Kahiki Tiki Bar, River Grove
Event Spaces
Coming soon
Design and Construction
Modern furnishings
Ask an architect
Coming soon
