LINKS

Union Bank Square designed by Garrett Eckbo, Los Angeles, CA

While the Internet is a superb research tool, many primary source materials can only be found in the archives of local historical societies and park departments, in library special collections, or in the homes of the descendants of historic properties.

• Horticultural Services Division, Smithsonian Institution, includes the Archives of American Gardens and the W. Atlee Burpee Collection:www.gardens.si.edu/
• The Cultural Landscape Foundation : www.tclf.org
• Alliance for Historic Landscape Preservation: www.ahlp.org
• The Garden Conservancy: www.gardenconservancy.org
• National Park Service Historic Landscape Initiative: www.nps.gov/search/index.htm?page=1&query=historic+landscape+initiative
• • National Park Service’s Making Historic Landscapes Accessible: https://www.nps.gov/tps/how-to-preserve/briefs/32-accessibility.htm#historic-landscapes
• California Preservation Foundation: www.californiapreservation.org
  
• The Landscape History Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians: www.sahlandscape.org
  
• Southern California Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians: www.sahscc.org
  
• Northern California Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians: www.nccsah.org
  
• Pacific Horticulture quarterly magazine: www.pacifichorticulture.org
  
• Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens: www.huntington.org
  
• Rancho Los Alamitos Historic Ranch and Gardens: www.rancholosalamitos.com
  
• Heritage Rose Foundation: www.heritagerosefoundation.org
  
• California Garden Clubs, Incorporated: www.californiagardenclubs.org
  
• Office of Historic Preservation, California: www.ohp.parks.ca.gov/
• California State Parks: www.parks.ca.gov
  
• Horticultural Services Division, Smithsonian Institution, includes the Archives of American Gardens: www.gardens.si.edu
  
• The Library of American Landscape History: www.lalh.org
  
• HALS (Historic American Landscapes Survey): www.loc.gov/pictures/search/?st=list&co=hh
  
• HABS (Historic American Buildings Survey): www.loc.gov/pictures/search/?st=list&co=hh
  
• HAER (Historic American Engineering Record): www.loc.gov/pictures/search/?st=list&co=hh
  
• NARA (U.S. National Archives & Records Administration Online Archival Research Catalog “ARC”): www.archives.gov/research_room/arc/
  
• Garden History Society, Great Britain: www.gardenhistorysociety.org
  
• Sunset Magazine: A Century of Western Living, 1898-1998, Historical Portraits and Bibliography:  https://exhibits.stanford.edu/sunset/catalog/mg521wx9078
  
• Australian Garden History Society: www.gardenhistorysociety.org.au
  
• University of Virginia, School of Architecture, Center for Cultural Landscapes & Landscapes Studies Initiative: https://www.arch.virginia.edu/ccl
  
• The National Preservation Institute National Preservation Institute (npi.org)
  
• Advisory Council on Historic Preservation www.achp.org