Those with more than a cursory interest in the Buildings of Smith College would do well to consult one or more of the following sources outside the 22. Buildings collection:

• Construction / acquisition date
• Architect
• Information on who the building was named for
• Information on how the building has been used at various times
• Cross-references to specific locations outside of 22. Buildings
• List of "house mothers" (current and former student residences)
• Small identifying photograph of the building

• 00. Northampton and Local History may be helpful in understanding the early growth and expansion of the College within the context of the local community.
• 10. Postcard Collection features images of nearly all Smith buildings. This collection is digitized and available online at http://clio.fivecolleges.edu/smith/postcards/.
• 20. Buildings and Grounds-General includes maps of campus, some architectural information not contained in 22., and other general information about the College's physical plant. There is no finding aid yet available for this collection.
• 24. Buildings and Grounds-Grounds is the counterpart to 22. Buildings. It contains information on the Botanic Gardens, Paradise Pond, the old Allen Field, and numerous other college properties. There is no finding aid yet available for this collection.
• 32. Presidential Papers of Laurenus Clark Seelye (1875-1910), Marion LeRoy Burton (1910-1917), William Allan Neilson (1917-1939), Herbert John Davis (1940-1949), Benjamin Fletcher Wright (1949-1959), Thomas Corwin Mendenhall (1959-1975), Jill Ker Conway (1975-1985), and Mary Maples Dunn (1985-1995). All of these collections have finding aids.

• President's Reports of Smith presidents named above.
• Smith Alumnae Quarterly, Smith College Weekly, SCAN, The Sophian. These publications are helpful when there is a controversy surrounding a building, or when a building is to be built or demolished. The December 15, 1944 special one-page edition of SCAN reporting on the fire in Dickinson House is a particularly good example. Access these publications through the card catalog, or simply look up the appropriate dates in the Reading Room copies.

• Smith College Physical Plant Department holds most of the college's oversized architectural plans. Researchers are welcome to view these plans, but an appointment must be scheduled ahead-of-time with Physical Plant, either directly or through the Archives. Plans are viewed at the Physical Plant facility on West Street.
• http://www.smith.edu/construction/ is a website, current as of March 2002, containing information on current Smith College building projects.
• Campus Tours are conducted for students interested in attending Smith College, so the focus is not necessarily on the actual buildings, but a tour would enable a non-Smith researcher to see extant buildings "live" with a guide. Call the Admissions Office for tour schedules, or take a "virtual tour" at http://www.smith.edu/tour/ (web address current as of March 2002).

The Early History of Smith College 1871-1910. L. Clark Seelye. Houghton Mifflin: Boston, MA, 1923.

This, the House We Live In: The Smith College Campus from 1871 to 1982. Eleanor Terry Lincoln and John Abel Pinto. Smith College: Northampton, MA, 1983.

Note: This, the House We Live In is the most directly useful in this context, providing short histories of each building in the order of their construction or acquisition by the College and an alphabetical index. It also contains a quick but thorough narrative history of Smith College's expansion from the original Dewey and Lyman Homesteads to its present-day landholdings, and a discussion of the overall architectural history of the College. The book also separately lists the construction date and architect of each building if that information is known.