Weather you're a long-time community advocate or just curious about your older home, a preservation professional or looking to inspire a some-day architect, our Preservation Month reading list is a collection of our favorite classics and recently published books on our preservation book shelf. And, don't forget, you can order many of these titles from your local St. Pete or Tampa Bay area book seller.
A Guide to Florida's Historic Architecture; Edited by the Florida Association of the American Institute of Architecture and F. Blair Reeves, 2017.
Historic Sites and Architecture of St. Petersburg, Florida; Ken Breslauer, 2011.
Sophie & Zack at Sunken Gardens; Published by the Sunken Gardens Foundation
St. Petersburg and the Florida Dream, 1888–1950; Arsenault, Raymond, 1988.
St. Petersburg’s Historic African American Neighborhoods; Rosalie Peck and Jon Wilson, 2008.
Saving South Beach; M. Barron Stofik. 2005.
Florida's Historic African American Homes (Images of America; Vedet Coleman-Robinson, 2021.
Frank Lloyd Wright's Florida Southern College; Dale Allen Gyure, 2010.
Florida's Historic Places Illustrated; Tim Ohr, Michael Sanders, et al., 2012.
The Past and Future City: How Historic Preservation is Reviving America's Communities; Stephanie Meeks and Kevin C. Murphy; 2016
Historic Real Estate: Market Morality and the Politics of Preservation in the Early United States; Whitney Martinko, 2020.
Historic Preservation Theory: An Anthology: Readings from the 18th to the 21st Century; Jorge Otero-Pailos, 2022
When Jackie Saved Grand Central: The True Story of Jacqueline Kennedy's Fight for an American Icon; Natasha Wing and Alexandra Boiger, 2017
Sites of Memory : Perspectives on Architecture and Race; Craig Evan Barton, 2001.
A Field Guide to American Houses: The Definitive Guide to Identifying and Understanding America's Domestic Architecture; Virginia Savage McAlester, 2015
Why Old Places Matter: How Historic Places Affect Our Identity and Well-Being; Thompson M. Mayes, 2018.
Main Street's Comeback: And How It Can Come Back Again; Mary Means, 2021.
The Women Who Changed Architecture; Jan Cigliano Hartman (Editor), 2022.
Preservation and Place: Historic Preservation by and of LGBTQ Communities in the United States; Katherine Crawford-Lackey and Megan E. Springate, 2019.
Teardown: Memoir of a Vanishing City; Gordon Young, 2013.
The Death and Life of Great American Cities; Jane Jacobs, 1961.
What style is it - A guide to American Architecture; John C. Poppeliers and S. Allen Chambers, 2008.
