The Buildings of Texas collection contains source materials for the Society of Architectural Historian’s two-volume publication “The Buildings of Texas.” Data was gathered by the research team and donated as spreadsheets to the Alexander Architectural Archives by Gerald Moorhead and includes information about people, places, and events across the state.
See the Buildings of Texas original dataset for the dataset as received: https://doi.org/10.18738/T8/M45YL8.
This donation launched UT Libraries’ efforts to geolocate built works in Texas and map our Architectural collections.
Buildings of Texas V1 is the most complete, accurate, and enhanced version of the data, while beta versions represent works in progress.
VERSION HISTORY
In Buildings of Texas V1 and later, the following significant changes were made from the beta versions: Field names were changed;
Additional fields were added from the original dataset: entry (geographic abbreviations)
city, county, and region
photograph format information
Data for Galveston, Texas from the original dataset was added
Two entries were revised to correct an error in data processing that incorrectly identified Herbert M. Greene as architect instead of Herbert S. Green.
In Buildings of Texas (Beta v. 0.2, https://doi.org/10.18738/T8/NMQA1N), information about places and people/firms described in this dataset have been reconciled with Wikidata and a new field was added to record Wikidata ID information. Building typologies were significantly improved. Field names were changed.
In Buildings of Texas (Beta v. 0.1, https://doi.org/10.18738/T8/YIGGX7), architects and other contributor names have been normalized and building types have been added to portions of the dataset. Built works with identifiable locations have been geocoded. (2021-11-18)
