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HISTORIC MAPS AND ATLASES
If your property deed refers to a certain lot number in a plan of lots, this can be helpful in determining an approximate date of construction.
You will find plans of lots in large bound volumes in the County Office Building and usually there is a note if there were already buildings constructed on the land to be divided. If your home is not shown, it was most likely built after the plan of lots was filed.
Other useful maps can be found in the bound Sanborn Insurance Maps and the G.M. Hopkins Atlases. These are available at the History Center, the Pennsylvania Department of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, and a selection can be found online through the Historic Pittsburgh Project.
If you discover that there is not a reference to a previous volume or there was a Sheriff's sale, ask at the information desk in the second floor for the proper indexes that will get you back on the right trail.
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