Collections : [Avery Drawings & Archives]

This collection contains photocopied images and original published plates of buildings in the United States and abroad designed by the New York architectural firms of Emery Roth and Emery Roth & Sons between the 1920s and the 1980s. The photocopied images are organized by project in binders; the original plates and photographic prints are organized by project in six folders.

This collection included primarily original and reprographic architectural drawings by Roth, circa 1907-circa 1949, largely of apartment buildings located in Manhattan and designed during the 1920s and 1930s. Represented are the San Remo Towers, The Beresford, The Oliver Cromwell, the Normandy, and numerous other apartment buildings. There are also drawings for several hotel and private residences. A two-volume typescript autobiography is also included.

This collection primarily contains architectural drawings, correspondence, business records, and a small number of photographs related to the projects of Emery Roth & Sons and its subsidiary entities. A large portion of the entities are represented only in the Office Records series and are identified as such. Some projects on which Emery Roth & Sons acted as architect of record are not represented in this collection, most notably the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center.

Files of the company, 1911-1920, much of which consists of unsucessful architectural bid documents, each noting the architect, building, and location, as well as estimated costs, sketches, and related correspondents. These bid documents represent commissions not awarded to NYATCC, and do, in some cases, indicate the outcome of the bid. Architects represented include McKim, Mead & White; Cass Gilbert; George Post; D.H. Burnham & Company; Warren & Wetmore, Schwartz & Gross, and many others. Also includes correspondence and office memoranda, including some describing the formative years, 1911-1914, of the National Terra Cotta Society, trade catalogs, and job photographs. Also, two albums containing photographs of sample pieces of terra cotta, and month by month construction records for three buildings, including the American Theater (42nd Street, New York, 1892) by Charles Coolidge Haight; the Renaissance Apartments (Brooklyn, N.Y., 1889) and the Imperial Apartments (Brooklyn, N.Y., 1890) both by Montrose Morris.

Flash drive contains a video file in MP4 format of the video documenting the history of Emery Roth and Sons, Architects. Oral History was commissioned by Annice Alt.

Also, McKim, Mead & White; Pearsall and Mills; Boring and Tilton; Peabody, Wilson and Brown; Holabird and Root; John B. Peterkin; York and Sawyer; Jackson, Robinson and Adams; George Vernon Russell; John H. Barry; Pliny Rogers; Allen and De Young; Augustus N. Allen; Henry Ives Cobb, Jr.; Bottomley, Wagner and White; Andrew J. Thomas; Harvey Stevenson; R.A. Tissington; John C. Dodd; Walker and Gillette; Grosvenor Atterbury, John Tompkins Assoc.; Donn Barber; Wakefield Worcester; Farrar and Watmough; Henry Wright II; Ralph Thomas Walker; Schultze and Weaver; Henry B. Marsh; Hunter McDonnell; and a few unidentified architects

Architectural, electrical, mechanical, plumbing, structural, and elevator drawings for the Eldorado Apartment Building at 300 Central Park West in New York City.