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Avery Drawings & Archives

Avery Drawings & Archives

300 Avery Hall
1172 Amsterdam Ave.
New York, NY 10027, USA
avery@library.columbia.edu
Avery Library’s Drawings & Archives department collects drawings, photographs, and architectural records documenting architecture and design practices. Our collections focus largely on American and New York City architecture of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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Benjamin W. Morris architectural drawings, 1893-1936

3 sketchbooks
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Three sketchbooks; the first, 1893-1894, containing sketches from his student years at the Columbia School of Mines, Department of Architecture (he received his degree in 1894); the second, 1894-1896, containing sketches made as a student at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris; and the third, circa 1896-circa 1905, containing sketches for a variety of projects and designs. Buildings and other structures depicted include the Academy of Music on 14th Street, New York City (a seating plan); Wells Fargo Bank Building, Portland, Oregon, 1910; Reunion Hall, Princeton University, 1902; lantern for the Aetna Building, Hartford, Connecticut; Woodland Street entrance to Kinney Park, Hartford, Connecticut, 1905 (some drawings are by others). Program notes from the classes of Paul Blondel and J. Gaudet at the Ecole des Beaux Arts are included. Also, designs (some done in partnership with Joseph Urban) for proposals for the Metropolitan Opera Company on various sites in New York City, circa 1920s; and designs for shopping and music centers in New York City, to 1936.

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Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue architectural drawings and papers, 1882-1980

50 linear feet
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This collection contains architectural drawings, photographs, business records and reference materials related to the projects and designs of Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue and his successor firm, Mayers, Murray & Philips, primarily in the New York City region. A large portion of the collection consists of personal and professional correspondence to and from Goodhue from the early 1900s until his death in 1926. Relatively few architectural drawings from his professional practice survive.

Birch Burdette Long architectural drawings, 1906- 1935

30 Sheets
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This collection primarily contains architectural renderings executed by Long in 1906 for a memorial issue of BUILDINGS magazine dedicated to New York architect Stanford White. These drawings represent White's most famous structures designed while he was a partner with McKim, Mead & White. Buildings depicted include Madison Square Garden, the New York Herald Building, and the Washington Memorial Arch, all in New York City, among others. Also included in this collection are miscellaneous architectural drawings by Long, Chester B. Price, and others, circa 1920s-1930s; and printed material.

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Boak & Raad architectural drawings, 1949-1958

34 Sheets
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The collection is made up of three separate Boak & Raad projects commissioned by Rose Associates, Inc., which are as followed: 17 pencil and ink on drafting cloth drawings for Apartment Building, S.E. corner of 22nd street and Lexington Avenue, New York, NY (May 20, 1949) ; 8 pencil on drafting cloth drawings for Apartment Building, west side of Broadway, between E. 9th and E. 10th Street, New York, NY (Feb.-June 1955) ; 9 pencil on drawing cloth drawings for 209 to 223 East 53rd Street, New York, NY (1958).

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Bradley Delehanty architectural drawings and papers, 1910s-1960s

2 document boxes
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The collection consists of architectural drawings, photographs, and some personal papers.

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Brander Matthews Dramatic Museum Theatre and Costume print collection, 1787-1966

2100 items
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This collection contains primarily 19th-century published prints depicting British and French dramatic theatres, with a small representation of international theatres. Images of sculpture, costumes, and fashion plates are also included. The majority of images are from published sources and are colored. Nearly all the prints are titled and most include artist, printer, and/or publisher information. Many noted printmakers are represented in this collection.

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Brennan and Sloan concrete construction photographs, 1920-1966, bulk 1920-1966

128 photographs
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This collection includes black and white and color photographic prints of construction sites in and around New York City. Notable projects represented in this collection include the American Bible Society headquarters, the CBS headquarters, the United Nations, Port Authority, and the Parking Garage next to the Brooklyn and Battery Tunnel and Washignton Street El, all in New York City; the Northwest Airlines Terminal at Idlewild Airport in Queens, N.Y; Highbridge House in Bronx, N.Y.; and the Gateway Center in Pittsburgh, Pa.

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Buckingham Hotel (New York NY) records and drawings, 1874-1875

0.1 linear foot
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This small collection consists of 11 drawings, work receipts, bills, specifications, printed material, and a some correspondence and legal papers related to the erection of The Buckingham Hotel.

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Calculations for an Inn, Northeast Carry, Maine / Thesis of George W. Clark., 1947

20 pages
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Columbia University student project.

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Calvin Pollard architectural drawings and papers, 1830-1850

41 items
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Pollard's architectural drawings for churches, and residential and commercial buildings, located largely in New York and New Jersey, many undated, circa 1830s. Included are drawings for St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church, Petersburgh, Va., built, 1838, and destroyed in a fire, 1854; a prison, probably submitted by Pollard to the 1835 competition for the New York Hall of Justice. Also, a broadside, undated, describing the projected Washington Monument, New York City; a letter Pollard from Charles C. Taber, 1850, describing his plans for four houses on three adjacent lots on 25th Street, with sketched plans on verso; and two trade cards of C. Pollard's Ohio Fire Proof Mineral Paint attached.

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