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This collection includes original and reprographic architectural and engineering drawings, specifications, correspondence, and photographs documenting the design and construction of High Lawn, William B. Osgood Field's estate in Lenox, Massachusetts. The main house and related outbuildings were designed by the prominent New York architecture firm Delano & Aldrich between 1908 and 1914. The farm buildings and several other estate structures were primarily designed by New York architect John C. Greenleaf. The collection also includes copy photographs of the Field family and guests at High Lawn during the 1910s. Also included is a small group of drawings and other papers related to neighboring properties in Lenox; as well as drawings for Field's townhouse at 645 Fifth Avenue in New York City, designed by Hunt & Hunt, with interior work by Stuart & Stuart, dating from 1903-1911; and drawings for a building at 8-10 W. 37th St., in New York City, designed by John C. Greenleaf in 1923.

This collection of drawings, photographs and papers documents the architectural history of the William B. Osgood Field family in Lenox, Massachusetts, and New York City from the period 1908 through the 1920s. The bulk of the collection focuses on High Lawn, the private house and working farm located in Lee, MA. Several architects were commissioned to design buildings at High Lawn, including Delano & Aldrich, Alfred Hopkins, and John C. Greenleaf. The collection contains more than 450 drawings, 334 photographs (mostly construction photos of High Lawn Farm), specifications, general project files, and project correspondence between 1908-1914. In addition to the farm in Lee, MA, the collection also contains drawings for several buildings in New York City. There are alteration drawings by Stuart & Stuart (1903) and Hunt and Hunt (1911) for the Field's family home at 645 Fifth Avenue in New York. There are also drawings for a commercial building by John C. Greenleaf for 8 and 10 West 37th Street.