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• From the blog of the New York Public Library: Who Lived In a House Like This? A Brief Guide to Researching the History of Your NYC Home by Philip Sutton, posted October 14, 2011.

• From the blog of the New York Public Library: Who Lived In a House Like This? A Brief Guide to Researching the History of Your NYC Home by Philip Sutton, posted October 14, 2011.
• The Library of Congress has a Research Guide online: Finding Architectural Documentation Online: Selected Listings of Research Guides, Archival Resources, and Scholarly Articles & Dissertations -- introduced in the blog post Finding Architectural Documentation—a New Reference Aid Points the Way! posted on April 14, 2016 by Barbara Orbach Natanson

Other finding aids and search strategies:

• From the blog of the New York Public Library: Who Lived In a House Like This? A Brief Guide to Researching the History of Your NYC Home by Philip Sutton, posted October 14, 2011.

Edited to add:

Newspaper articles have been the most productive source of information so far. The blogger I mentioned above posted about one of my areas of interest; through her posts I learned about a fire that damaged a building I was researching, and when it was torn down. Her posts gave the dates that the story was written up in the local papers, which made the articles much easier to search for.

Newspaper articles have been the most productive source of information so far. The blogger I mentioned above posted about one of my areas of interest; through her posts I learned about a fire that damaged a building I was researching, and when it was torn down. Her posts gave the dates that the story was written up in the local papers, which made the articles much easier to search for.