Collections : [Avery Drawings & Archives]

This collection includes photographs taken by Robert Bien of historic and architecturally significant churches and railroads in New York City, New York State, California, Connecticut, Colorado, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Pensylvania, Québec, Rhode Island, Texas, and Toronto between 1982 and 2002.

The collection consists of pencil sketches and drawings by Romaldo Giurgola for three Michell/Guirgola Architects architectural projects. The three projects represented in this collection are Mission Park Residential Houses for Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts (1971), three schemes for The American Institute of Architects National Headquarters Building Competition in Washington, D.C.(1965-67), and The Sherman Fairchild Center for Life Sciences at Columbia University in New York City (1977).

The collection documents the design development and construction of the Randolph and Amalie Rothschild Residence in Baltimore, MD. The papers, collected by the owners, Randolph and Amalie Rothschild, consist primarily of correspondence, specifications, and floor plans and sketches by architect Percival Goodman. There is a significant amount of correspondence between the Rothschild's and Goodman regarding alterations to the design. This correspondence underscores the larger theme of client-architect relationships and its influence on the design process.

This collection includes architectural drawings on linen, tracing paper, and paper, microfilmed drawings; photographic prints; a job list; and a small group of specifications and correspondence for the Ogden Reid residence. Buildings represented are primarily in New York City, with a few commisions built in the surrounding region. Projects include apartment buildings, private residences, offices, hotels, and hospitals.

The four sheets include : [1] NYDA.1000.108.0001. [Design for a residence in Bristol, R.I. : front and side elevations] ; [2] NYDA.1000.108.0002. [Residence for Mr. Alexander Perry, Bristol, R.I. : side elevation] [3] NYDA.1000.108.0003. [Residence for Mr. Alexander Perry, Bristol, R.I. : front elevation] ; [4] NYDA.1000.108.0004. [Westminister Church (2nd. Unitarian) Providence, R.I. : perspective view] / Russell Warrn & Jas. C. Bucklin Architects. (Signed) M. Swett Invt. & delt. Pendletons Lithography.

Approximately 30,000 negatives and prints of buildings primarily on the East Coast, designed by various architects, including the Baltimore Museum of Art, Constitution Hall and the National Archives Building in Washington, D.C., and several churches and houses, all designed by John Pope Russell; four houses by Electus D. Litchfield; houses and other projects by Grosvenor Atterbury; houses by Peabody, Wilson & Brown; the John Ringling mansion in Sarasota, Florida, among other houses, churches, and office buildings designed by Dwight James Baum; numerous houses and apartment buildings in Miami Beach, Florida, especially those by Russell T. Pancoast and Robert Law Weed; many other houses throughout Florida by architects such as John L. Volk and Treanor and Fatio; and many houses and estates located in suburbs of New York City, particulary Greenwich, Conn., Montclair, N.J., and Mt. Kisco, Locust Valley, Oyster Bay, and South Hampton, N.Y.

Includes the publications of, and much correspondence about, the American Institute of Architects, as well as other organizations affecting the architect; copies of bills and correspondence about legislation affecting architectural practice; obituaries of architects, and certain material dealing with the World War, besides some personal correspondence and memorabilia.

The collection consists of research files primarily on New York City architectural history. Prominent topics include Friends Meeting House, Cast Iron, James Renwick, and Grace Church.

Miscellaneous letters collected or found in the Seymour B. Durst Old York Library.

The collection is made up of full sheets, removed from Harper's Weekly, which contain illustrations by Thomas Nast.