Are you a homeowner looking for information on your older home or preservation how-to? A student researching local history and land use? Or a history buff interested in the physical environment?

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Our non-circulating library collection contains material related to:

• architecture & urban design

• local history

• conservation techniques & DIY

• historic interior & period furnishings

• … and much more

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We have over 600 books, dozens of magazine titles, a 120-year run of Ithaca City Directories, thousands of photographs and slides, surveys of historic resources throughout Tompkins County, scrapbooks, maps, and ephemera.