Douglas D. Schumann Library & Learning Commons: Architecture: Campus & Local Buildings

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Wentworth Institute of Technology - Maps and Plans

Looking for maps and floor plans of Wentworth? Please contact Janine Murphy, Director of Project Administration for Planning and Construction, at murphyj13@wit.edu. See the map of campus buildings below:

Wentworth Campus Map

Wentworth Buildings - History

Wentworth Institute of Technology Buildings
Learn more about the history of each building owned by the Wentworth Institute of Technology and for whom the buildings are named after.

A Century of Honesty, Energy, Economy, System: Wentworth Institute of Technology, 1904-2004 by Joseph P. Clifford
Call Number: 378.744 .W46cli 2003
Publication Date: 2003

Boston Buildings

Boston Landmarks Commission
Detailed reports on historic properties and buildings.
Boston Planning & Redevelopment Association
Go here for ongoing development projects (Article 80 Documents), zoning maps, planning, housing, and demographical research.
Boston Public Library Fine Arts Library
Excellent research library for local architecture and architectural history.
Historic New England
Regional heritage foundation collecting, preserving, and using significant buildings, landscapes, archives, stories, and objects.
Internet Archive
Archives of Boston Public Library's collection of historical Boston planning documents.
Massachusetts Historical Society
Founded in 1791, the Massachusetts Historical Society is a major resource for American history, life, and culture.

Lost Boston by Jane Holtz Kay
Call Number: REF 720.974461 .K39 2006
ISBN: 1558495274
Publication Date: 2006
Heroic: Concrete Architecture and the New Boston by Mark Pasnik; Chris Grimley; Michael Kubo
Call Number: 720.974461 .H46 2015
ISBN: 9781580934244
Publication Date: 2015-10-27
A key primer to the broad range of ground-breaking concrete architecture - inclusive of, but well beyond, brutalism - as it developed in its most accommodating city, Boston, and an important contribution to the efforts to preserve the built legacy of this era.