Vintage Cover Gallery
View vintage RECORD covers from throughout our 125 years. Check back each month for new additions!
October 1981
Mid-May 1981
December 1980
November 1980
December 1979
April 1979
April 1978
July 1978
May 1977
July 1976
February 1975
Mid-May 1975
May 1974
December 1973
July 1973
December 1972
August 1972
April 1972
May 1971
November 1970
June 1968
May 1967
February 1967
May 1966
November 1965
July 1963
June 1962
September 1961
November 1959 and August 1960
July and September 1958
April 1955 and May 1957
June and July 1954
February and April 1954
January and October 1953
January and August 1952
February and June 1951
October 1949
November 1946
September 1946
May 1946
April 1946
March 1946
July 1945
July 1944
July 1943
January 1942
50th Anniversary Issue from 1941
June 1938
April 1936
December 1934
March 1932
August 1931
January 1930
July 1929
May 1929
August 1928
October 1915
The October 1915 issue cost 35 cents, or $3 per year.
June 1913
A copy of the June 1913 issue cost just 25 cents, or $3 per year.
October 1911
The October 1911 issue featured "Two Unusual Houses by Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright": the Babson House by Sullivan and the Coonley House by Wright.
April 1923
May 1914
The issue from May 1914 included Frank Lloyd Wright's second "In the Cause of Architecture" essay, titled “Style, therefore, will be the man, it is his. Let his forms alone.” Read the article and see the original pages here.
May 1891
Architectural Record's inaugural issue, from May 1891, included Frank Lloyd Wright's first "In the Cause of Architecture" essay (read it here). At this point, the magazine was a quarterly publication.