About the Modesto Architecture Database

In 1984, the Stanislaus County Historical Society started a survey of historically significant buildings in Modesto. They surveyed more than 1000 buildings documenting as much information as they could gather. A copy of the survey is in the Special Collections Room of the main library downtown and available to everyone. David Breazeale compiled the information into a digital database for your use online. Over the last several months, we have updated the database, eliminating buildings no longer in existence, adding newer buildings and ones that were not included in the original survey. As of July 2009, the database has more than 1012 buildings and continues to expand. We believe it may be the largest single-city architecture database in the world.

 

AT&T Building, Modesto, California, by Clarence Peterson and Wendell Spackman, 1949