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Charles A. Platt architectural records and papers, 1879-1981, bulk 1882-1933
3,989 architectural drawingsCommittee for the Preservation of the National Capitol Records, 1949-1958
1.25 linear feetCollection consists of correspondence, clippings, reports, press releases, memorandums, memos, meeting minutes, printed material, notes, financials, and one photograph. The collection is arranged alphabetically in two series: Committee Records and Reference material. Reference material includes printed booklets and copies of the Congressional Record recording the proceedings and debates of Congress.
Paul Philippe Cret architectural drawings, 1901-1936
1 print boxIncluded are photocopies of Cret's architectural drawings for the Hartford County Building, Hartford, Conn., 1926-1927; the Federal Reserve Building, Washington, D.C., 1936; the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., 1929; and miscellaneous projects. Also, Cret's sketches for monuments (including studies for the Quentin Roosevelt Fountain, 1919), covers and title pages for publications, a bridge, a bas-relief, a map, a medal, and a bookplate, circa 1901-1931. Includes one student drawing from the Ecole des Beaux Arts.
Samuel Gottscho American architecture photographs and negatives, 1925-1939
30,000 itemsApproximately 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.
Wallace K. Harrison architectural drawings and papers, 1913-1986, bulk 1930-1980
22 manuscript boxesYork & Sawyer architectural drawings, 1921-1931
340 SheetsArchitectural drawings for projects designed by the firm. The drawings, mostly blueprints, documents Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Mountainside Hospital, Glen Ridge, N.J.; The Department of Commerce Building, Washington, D.C.; The New York Academy of Medicine, New York, N.Y.; Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York, N.Y.; and University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.