Oregon’s architectural history is now as close as your smartphone, thanks to a collaboration between library specialists at the University of Oregon and Oregon State University.

The two schools have created a web-based database containing thousands of photos of historic buildings around the state. People who stumble on an old building and want to know what it looked like way back when can probably find images on the site, buildingoregon.org.

The project and website was featured in a story in The Register-Guard on Monday, Aug. 9.

Ed Teague, head of the Architecture and Allied Arts library for UO Libraries, worked on the project with colleagues from OSU. He said it’s a way for people to get in touch with their community’s history through its buildings.

“People’s connection to history is often through the built environment,” he told the newspaper.

For the full story, see “UO, OSU join forceds to produce Web app that brings Oregon history alive.”