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2 ink and wash drawings of Meridan Hall, Commodore David Porter's house in Washington, D.C. Signed George Hadfield, September 1798. Front elevation and ground floor plan. Garden front elevation and storey plan. One drawing includes a note: "Hadfield exhibited Arc. designs at Royal Academy in 1780-82. Brought to Washington from London by Col. Trumbull."

Included are approx. 7,000 architectural drawings, circa 1910s-1940s, for projects designed by Delano & Aldrich, including La Guardia Airport in New York; several buildings at Yale University; Willard Straight Hall at Cornell University; various buildings at United States Military Academy at West Point; the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.; alterations to the White House; numerous residences throughout the New York City metropolitan area, particulary the Dwight W. Morrow house in Englewood, N.J., the J.A. Burden house in Syosset, N.Y., and the Willard D. Straight house on East 92nd Street in New York City; and various schools, churches, and residential structures throughout the United States. Rendered competition drawings are included. Drawings made by William Adams Delano while a student at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, circa 1900. Also, 6 boxes of photographs of Delano & Aldrich completed projects, chiefly residential structures.

Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, announcements, and notes relating to the purchase, proposed publication, and research into the history and authenticity of the Serlio manuscript; manuscripts, with related notes, of Dinsmoor's article "The literary remains of Sebastiano Serlio" published in ART BULLETIN and correspondence, 1942, from the people who had received reprints of the article; a transcription and translation of the manuscript; and a photostatic copy of the Munich manuscript of the 6th book.

Collection of letters and telegrams centered around the remodeling of a house called "Dunlora" aka Merry Hill, located at 8605 Park Heights Avenue in Pikesville Maryland. The house was built for Robert Brent Keyser in 1899 by the firm Hoppin and Koen of New York. The remodeling was done by American architect Grosvenor Atterbury. The vast majority of the letters are between Atterbury (and his firm) and Robert Brent Keyser. They describe various plans and issues surrounding the remodeling of the house. A few letters discuss construction at the Homewood campus of Johns Hopkins University. Some of the other names mentioned in the letters are J.L. Marshall & Son (the builders), Mr. Sperry, Judge Harlan, Morgan-Harjes, Mr. Manly, and Charles E. Reeder.

The collection includes 1134 images (photographs and postcards, with some duplicates) of approximately 60 buildings, including some earlier photographs, plans, and renderings that Morris copied to add context to her own contemporary photographs. Of properties with identified architects, the great majority were designed by Alexander Jackson Davis, with a few examples of the work of Richard Upjohn, James Renwick, and several other lesser-known architects. Major sites depicted include Lyndhurst, Tarrytown, N.Y.; Fonthill Castle, Bronx, N.Y.; Lovat, Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y.; Hurst-Pierrepont, Garrison, N.Y.; Belvoir, Yonkers, N.Y.; Beechwood, Yonkers, N.Y.; Mount Ida, Troy, N.Y., Llewellyn Park, Orange, N.J.; and Malbone, Newport, R.I. Some 18th-century buildings, and one 17th-century building (the Christopher Billop House, near Tottenville, Staten Island, built circa 1699), are also depicted.

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.

This collection includes research papers, photographs, notes, and manuscript material compiled by Keith Morgan during his research on American architect Charles Adams Platt.

Original drawings for published series containing illustrations of facades, floor plans, interiors and decorative details from 77 of America's most beautiful homes representing the Georgian era (1714-1830).

Includes professional papers, photographs, slides, art, and architectural drawings.