Names: New York State Capitol (Albany, N.Y.) / Subjects: Architecture -- New York (State) -- Albany - Columbia University Libraries Archival Collections Search Results

Start Over Names New York State Capitol (Albany, N.Y.) Subjects Architecture -- New York (State) -- Albany

Creator: Françoise Bollack Architects
Abstract Or Scope: Françoise Bollack Architects is a New York City-based architectural firm founded by Françoise Bollack, a professor of architecture in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University. This collection includes original and reprographic architectural drawings for projects in New York City and the surrounding region undertaken by the firm Françoise Bollack Architects. Principle projects represented include the Lesbian & Gay Community Services Center in Manhatan; renovations and alterations to the New York State Capitol building in Albany, New York. Also included are related project files and digital images.

Creator: Burger, Louis
Abstract Or Scope: Included in this collection are nineteen albumen photographs and one lithographic print of architectural drawings submitted by architects for the competition to design the New York State Capitol building in Albany, circa 1866-1870. Competing architects and architectural firms represented here include Adams & Worthen, Louis Burger, Fuller & Gilman, Fuller & Laver, Schulze & Schoen, and several unidentified architects. Of note are drawings for the New York State Capitol by Louis Burger and Schulze & Schoen bearing inscriptions to Obadiah B. Latham, a member of the Capitol Commission. Also included are nine photographs showing construction in progress on the Capitol between July and September, 1869. Photographs of competition drawings by Schulze & Schoen for the Iowa Capitol, the New York Post Office, and the New York Life Insurance Company Building, as well as an unsigned drawing of the Ohio Capitol building are additionally part of this collection. Several of the images are labeled by the photographer E.S.M. Haines, also practicing as Haines & Wickes, in Albany, New York.

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