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Alexander McMillan Welch architectural drawings and papers, 1886-1937
1,838 architectural drawingsAlfred J. Andrews photographs of early Kentucky architecture, 1940-1969
2 print boxesUndated photographs taken circa 1940s-1960s show interiors and exteriors of eighteenth and nineteenth century buildings in Kentucky. Buildings include The Grange, near Paris, built 1818; the Old Capitol, Frankfort, built 1827-1829; Adam Childers House, Versailles, built circa 1845; Betty Bryan Place, Harrodsburg Pike, built circa 1843; Holloway House, Richmond, built circa 1838; Castlelawn, near Lexington, undated; Junius Ward Place, near Georgetown, built 1859; Warwick, at Danville, built circa 1845; and others.
Alfred N. Boell architectural drawings and papers, 1940s-1990s, bulk 1945-1995
7 document boxesIncludes professional papers, photographs, slides, art, and architectural drawings.
Alfred Neumann architectural records and papers, 1900-1985, bulk 1950s-1960s
8 document boxesAlterations to S/W Apartment 1 Lexington Avenue New York N.Y. / D. Everett Waid, architect, 1932
15 drawingsDrawings show plans, elevations, and sections for the Southwest Apartment on the 11th and 12th story of 1 Lexington Avenue.
American English and European architecture study prints, 1714-1965, bulk 1725-1875
510 SheetsThis collection includes primarily original etchings, engravings, and lithographs, as well as published images from a variety of sources, of individual architectural structures or the built environment. Most of the images are uncolored. The collection is especially strong in images from the United States and England. A significant number of images are plates from Walter Harrison's "A new and universal history, description and survey of the cities of London and Westminister, the borough of Southwark, and their adjacent parts." (London, J. Cooke, 1776). A small portion of the collection depicts decorative arts and interiors. Also included are a few ephemeral items--such as tickets, letterhead, receipts, and bills--that include architectural imagery.
Andrew Alpern collection of drawing instruments, 1700-2004
177 groups of instrumentsThis collection primarily contains 177 groups of English, Continental and American drafting sets and individual instruments dating from circa 1700 to 2004. These instruments were used to create technical drawings, typically by architects, draftsmen, engineers, surveyors, and students. Complementing the instruments are a small group of miscellaneous items, including medals, a model, a necktie, and a charm bracelet, and a large group of published materials, including trade catalogs and other technical, biographical, historical, and scholarly writings about drafting and scientific instruments and related subjects.
Angelo Monaco papers, 1985-2005, 2016
3 itemsAngelo Monaco (CC '87) studied architecture as an undergraduate at Columbia University. Included in this small collection is a 1-page reminiscence on Douglas Darden who was a studio critic while Monaco was an architecture student (2016); a pencil, color pencil, and ink sketch by Darden titled "The Three Temptations" drawn on the verso of a floor plan of Avery Hall's Wood Auditorium (1985); and a signed 10-page lecture "The Diagram as a Space of Difference" by Peter Eisenman (2005).
Annice Alt research papers on Boak & Paris / Boak & Raad, 1940s-2000s
2.5 linear feetThe collection consists of research papers complied by Annice Alt in preparation for the book Boak & Paris / Boak & Raad: New York Architects (2014), and includes newspaper clippings, notes, contemporary photographs of buildings, real estate advertisements, and building information reports created by Alt. The collection also inclues 10 original ink on linen drawings for the Boak & Raad limited profit housing project, Leland House (Bronx, NY); one perspective rendering by Rowe Langston for the David Rose 1945 commissioned apartment, The Thornley, at 215 E. 79th Street (New York, NY); and reproduction of two drawings for the Boak & Paris apartment house 331-345 West 57th Street (New York, NY).