WORLD TRADE CENTER ARCHIVE
Origins of the archive
In the 1980s, while conducting research for the book, Classics of American Architecture: The World Trade Center, I was invited to pore over the contents of the World Trade Center archives kept at the Port Authority library, on the 55th floor of Tower One.
The archivists kindly permitted me to make copies of anything that seemed useful. When preparing the new edition (2012), I went back though my files and found some 600 pages of documents. Some of these now form the appendix to the new edition. The others I have scanned and uploaded here – with the express permission of the Port Authority – as a kind of virtual archive.
Links to the archive (organized by category)
Early Plans
New West Side Project
Architects and Architecture
Chronologies and “Fact Sheets”
Politics and P.R.
Engineering and Construction
Leasing
Two blog entries on the fate of the Port Authority’s archives
For two blog entries, for the Special Libraries Association, about the fate of the World Trade Center archives formerly held at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, click on the images.
