ARC 101 - Foundation Studio I

Find information about design and construction at the UA, buildings and floor plans, Enterprise Geographic Information System, and sustainability.

Learn the histories of Old Main, Bear Down Gym, Berger Memorial Fountain, Arizona State Museum, Herring Hall, the Douglass Building, and more.

Housed in Special Collections, the archives document growth of the UA campus, from about 1889 to the present.

Copies of this 1960 book can be found in the Main Library and Special Collections.

Copies of this 1987 book can be found in the Fine Arts Library and Special Collections.

A wealth of information about Tucson’s historic architecture and designations.

It offers a Property Research Online tool. It also offers MapTucson, an online GIS tool. The department typically keeps plans of homes and other buildings, but has gaps in its collection.

Located near the UA campus, this Tucson museum's Library & Archives have architectural drawings, digital collections, and more.

See this site's Resources tab for links to other helpful sites.

Use library search for resources.

A 5-volume report by Historic Preservation Consultants, 1969. Available in Special Collections (first two volumes also in Science-Engineering Library).

This handout includes images of historical Tucson architectural styles.

Copies of this 1994 book can be found in Special Collections and the Science-Engineering Library.

Images of Tucson are featured in the Historic American Buildings and Landscapes Collection.

Features resources on historic preservation in Arizona.

Locations include the Arizona History Museum near the UA campus. See the society's digital collections.

Use library search for resources.

Focuses upon the unique cultural heritage of the state and territory of Arizona, beginning in 1863. Includes photographs, slides, negatives, glass plate negatives, tintypes, transparencies, postcards, and more.

Images of Arizona are featured in the Historic American Buildings and Landscapes Collection.

Detailed maps of Arizona cities and towns, providing information such as building outlines, construction materials, heights, street widths, building use dates range from 1867-1970.

Provides geospatial data to download from 1870-2001 and simple prepared maps you can view, save, or print.

The UA Libraries' Special Collections has an online exhibit featuring heritage tourism sites constructed during the New Deal era of the 1930s and 1940s.