Barnard Archives and Special Collections
Buildings and Grounds
Barnard College. Buildings and Grounds
BC03
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257 Linear Feet
37 full size document boxes, 6 half size boxes, 18 oversize boxes, 2 shallow lid boxes; 5 document drawers, 2 oversize folders
7.57 Gigabytes
1891-2024
This collection consists of correspondence, accounts, reports, floor plans, blueprints, photographs, event recordings, court papers, and memoranda relating to the construction and furnishing of campus buildings and landscaped areas.
This collection is located in the Barnard Archives and Special Collections, Barnard Library. To use this collection, please contact the Barnard Archives and Special Collections at 212.854.4079 or archives@barnard.edu.
English
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Access
This collection has no restrictions.
Accruals
Additions are expected.
Acquisition Information
The acquisition date and source of much of this collection unknown. Event recordings were transferred from Instructional Media and Technology Services in 2025.
Collection Arrangement
The records are arranged in three series. The contents are arranged in alphabetical order by building name. The series arrangement of the records is as follows:
Series 1, Court Documents, 1891-1909
Series 2, Planning Materials and Blueprints, 1891-2015
Series 3, Photographs, 1897-2006
Preferred Citation
Buildings and Grounds Collection, 1891-2024; Box and Folder; Barnard Archives and Special Collections, Barnard Library, Barnard College.
Processing History
This collection was processed and the finding aid written by Heather Lember in January 2014. Updated by Joan Hsiao in December 2017. Updated by Aziza Rahman in June 2019. Updated by Martha Tenney in June 2025.
Descriptive Rules Used:
Finding aid adheres to that prescribed by Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Encoding:
Machine readable finding aid encoded in EAD 2002.
Finding aid written in English.
Related Collections
Related materials providing further photographic depiction of buildings and grounds at Barnard College may be found in the following collections in this repository: BC 17 Photography Collection, Series 4: Buildings and Grounds (1899 - 2010).
Collection Scope and Content Summary
This collection includes materials relating to the construction and furnishing of campus buildings and landscaped areas. There are court papers, maps, clippings, correspondence, and building plans related to the Riverside Park extensions and openings at 120th Street that date from 1891-1909.
Also included are blueprints, models, planning materials, reports, renovations, and preservation plans for campus buildings and dormitories.
Additionally, there is a large collection of photographs of the interior and exterior of the campus buildings and dormitories. The photographs depict students, faculty, and various construction projects throughout Barnard's history.
Reproduction Restrictions
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes.
Publication Rights
Permission to publish material from the collection must be requested from the Barnard College Archives and Special Collections. The Barnard College Archives and Special Collections approves permission to publish that which it physically owns; the responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.
Photographs
Architectural drawing
Architectural rendering
Blueprints
Architecture
Barnard College
Women's colleges -- New York (State) -- New York
New York (N.Y.) -- Buildings, structures, etc
Floor plans
Correspondence
Court DocumentsSeries 1/repositories/2/archival_objects/1002.25 Linear Feet3 full size boxes, 1 oversize box1891-1909English.1-3, 46Scope and Contents NoteThis series includes court papers, maps, clippings, and plans related to the Riverside Park Extentions and the Opening of 120th Street.
Printing Block of Milbank Courtyard/repositories/2/archival_objects/18239circa. 1900-1910s67Planning Materials and BlueprintsSeries 2/repositories/2/archival_objects/10116.68 Linear Feet20 full size boxes, 4 half size boxes, 13 oversize boxes, 5 document drawers1891-2024English.Scope and Contents NoteThis series contains planning documents, reports, blueprints, correspondence, historic preservation master plans, and renovation information for Barnard College's buildings and dormitories.
Boxes 38-45 are all dedicated to the Wollman Library.
Box 27 includes information about proposed buildings that were never actually built.
Buildings and Grounds: 1895 - 1934/repositories/2/archival_objects/1024Buildings and Grounds: 1926 - 1939/repositories/2/archival_objects/1035Buildings and Grounds: 1972 - 2007/repositories/2/archival_objects/1046Buildings and Grounds: Cathedral Gardens, 2004 - 2005/repositories/2/archival_objects/1057Buildings and Grounds: Cathedral Gardens, 2005/repositories/2/archival_objects/1068Buildings and Grounds: Blueprints 1980 - 1982/repositories/2/archival_objects/1079Buildings and Grounds: Blueprints 1980 - 1982/repositories/2/archival_objects/10810Buildings and Grounds: Blueprints 1957 - 1958/repositories/2/archival_objects/10911Buildings and Grounds: Blueprints 1957 - 1984/repositories/2/archival_objects/11012Buildings and Grounds: Blueprints 1957 - 1997/repositories/2/archival_objects/11113Buildings and Grounds: Architectural Preservation, 2002 - 2004/repositories/2/archival_objects/11214Buildings and Grounds: 343 Madison Ave./repositories/2/archival_objects/11315Buildings and Grounds: Pi Beta Phi Apt and Holly House/repositories/2/archival_objects/11427Buildings and Grounds: renovations 2000 - 2002/repositories/2/archival_objects/11530Buildings and Grounds: renovations 2000 - 2006/repositories/2/archival_objects/11631Buildings and Grounds: Map of campus, Milbank plan/repositories/2/archival_objects/11732Buildings and Grounds: Nexus Plans, Blueprints, and Schedule/repositories/2/archival_objects/1182003-2007, Undated3356Buildings and Grounds: renovations 1996 - 2004/repositories/2/archival_objects/11934Buildings and Grounds: preservation 2004/repositories/2/archival_objects/12035Buildings and Grounds: Lehman Smotrich and Platt 1984; LeFrak Gymnasium, indoor running track reconstruction plan, Smotrich & Platt 1983; Dance studio/gym memo, 1983/repositories/2/archival_objects/1213654Buildings and Grounds: Altschul/Milbank drawings/repositories/2/archival_objects/12237Buildings and Grounds: Wollman Library 1950's/repositories/2/archival_objects/1232538 - 42, 55Buildings and Grounds: Wollman Library 1998 - 2011/repositories/2/archival_objects/12443Buildings and Grounds: Wollman Library 1983 - 2000/repositories/2/archival_objects/12544Buildings and Grounds: Wollman Library Dedication Book; Wollman Library Dedication Program April 5, 1960; construction, equipment, and furniture data January 1960/repositories/2/archival_objects/1264556Buildings and Grounds: Altschul Hall and McIntosh Center Construction Plans 1967 - 1969/repositories/2/archival_objects/12747Buildings and Grounds: Umberto Innocenti and Richard K. Webel: "Preliminary Plan / for Interior [later Arthur Ross] Courtyard": 11/16/84/repositories/2/archival_objects/12848Buildings and Grounds: Umberto Innocenti and Richard K. Webel: "Preliminary Plan / for the /Arthur Ross Courtyard": 4/89/repositories/2/archival_objects/12949Buildings and Grounds: Drawing by D. Saccio: "McIntosh / Student Center / Ground Floor Plan": 7/93 [copy 1]/repositories/2/archival_objects/13050Buildings and Grounds: Drawing by D. Saccio: "McIntosh / Student Center / Ground Floor Plan": 7/93 [copy 2]/repositories/2/archival_objects/13151Buildings and Grounds: Drawing by A. Sattler: "McIntosh / Student Center / First Floor Plan": 7/93 [Copy 1]/repositories/2/archival_objects/13252Buildings and Grounds: Drawing by A. Sattler: "McIntosh / Student Center / First Floor Plan": 7/93 [Copy 2]/repositories/2/archival_objects/13353Buildings and Grounds: Teaching and Learning Center related materials, 2013 - 2014; The Essential Barnard plans, 1997; Diana Center plans, 2006; Diana Center brochure, 2010; Res Hall Floor Plans, 2001; Residential Hall Master Plans and Review, 2002/repositories/2/archival_objects/1345456Buildings and Grounds: Architectural rendering of Deanery; Lehman floorplan/repositories/2/archival_objects/13521Buildings and Grounds: Dormitory Plot Plans; Sloat Media Center, Barnard College Nexus Electrical Diagrams; Altschul Lehman Auditorium Audio Schematics/repositories/2/archival_objects/13622Buildings and Grounds: Misc. Floor plans; Architectural Renderings/repositories/2/archival_objects/13723Box 59Buildings and Grounds: Miscellaneous architectural renderings and Deanery Residence Renovations of Virginia Gildersleeve/repositories/2/archival_objects/13824Buildings and Grounds: Barnard Campus Architectural Master Plan/repositories/2/archival_objects/1392556Buildings and Grounds: Teaching and Learning Center (later known as the Milstein Center) Plans and Reports/repositories/2/archival_objects/1402014-201525Buildings and Grounds: Barnard College New Building Design Redevelopment Blueprints April 27, 2015 (Milstein)/repositories/2/archival_objects/88972 Linear FeetBC3 Flat File 25two bound oversized books 24 x 18 inches2015-04-27English.25Scope and ContentsBlueprints for Barnard College Milstein Center for Teaching and Learning. New building design issued for redevelopment April 27th 2015. Architecture firm: Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill LLP (SOM). Two copies large format bound blueprints for 40 Claremont Avenue, historically known as Lehman Hall or Lehman Library.
Buildings and Grounds: 1966-1967/repositories/2/archival_objects/6652English.Box 60: Series Series 2Buildings and Grounds: 1968-1989/repositories/2/archival_objects/6653English.Box 61: Series Series 2Models of Milstein/repositories/2/archival_objects/8898.88 Cubic Feet1 boxcirca 2014-201563 Series 2Buildings and Grounds: Contracts and Blueprint for Barnard Hall/repositories/2/archival_objects/13193Barnard College. Buildings and Grounds.84 Linear Feet1916-1917English. 64: Series 2Scope and ContentsSummary: these are eight contracts and one blueprint related to the construction of Students' Hall now called Barnard Hall.
Content: the contracts are with general contractors basing their work on the blueprint completed by Arnold W. Brunner and Buchman and Fox, Associated Architects. The contractors executed work on excavation, steel work, general contracting, contruction of elevators, steam-heating, plumbing, ventilating, and electrical and gas illuminating for fixtures.
Contractors: The companies are Thomas Crimmins Contracting Company Contract,Levering and Garrigues Company, Charles A. Cowen and Company, A.B. See Electric Elevator Company, Baker, Smith and Company, W.G. Cornell Company, Harry Alexander, Incorporated, and Lighting Studios Company, INC.
Suzanne Ketchoyian design documents for campus signage, donor plaques, and "Barnard of Tomorrow" exhibit/repositories/2/archival_objects/143211995-1997 64: Series 2Scale model of "Barnard of Tomorrow" exhibit showing planned campus infrastructure improvements and renovations; created by Suzanne Ketchoyian/repositories/2/archival_objects/14320199765Nexus Building and Altschul building plans, photo and video renderings, and presentations/repositories/2/archival_objects/152562005-2009661-14Scope and ContentsThis box contains the DVDs and CDs copied. The disks contain mostly photo and video 3D renderings of Nexus which is now called the Diana building. There are also powerpoint presentations and photos of the Nexus building progress for fundraising purposes. These files might have come from Communications or Development.
Renderings of Nexus from different angles/repositories/2/archival_objects/152702005661Photos of the Nexus mural faces/repositories/2/archival_objects/152572007662Powerpoint presentations about Nexus building plans/repositories/2/archival_objects/152582007663Powerpoint presentations about Nexus building plans
Nexus powerpoint presentations to all staff/repositories/2/archival_objects/152592007664Altschul renovation plans and interior and exterior renderings of Nexus/repositories/2/archival_objects/152602007665Video rendering of Nexus from the outside/repositories/2/archival_objects/152612008666Video rendering of Nexus interior and exterior/repositories/2/archival_objects/152622008667Photos of Barnard staff in Nexus construction hats/repositories/2/archival_objects/152642007669Photos of Barnard staff in Nexus construction hats
Photos of Nexus construction site/repositories/2/archival_objects/1526520086610Photos of Nexus construction site
Photo renderings and powerpoint presentations of Nexus for fundraising purposes/repositories/2/archival_objects/152662006-20076611Photos of the Barnard board of trustees at the Nexus construction site/repositories/2/archival_objects/1526720096612Photos of the Barnard board of trustees at the Nexus construction site
Video rendering of Nexus interior and exterior./repositories/2/archival_objects/1526820096613Photos, some renderings and some not, of the Nexus building and one PDF of a sekction of the photos compiled./repositories/2/archival_objects/152692008-20096614Event recordings/repositories/2/archival_objects/26622Campus Construction Webinar/repositories/2/archival_objects/26623April 4, 2024Campus Construction Webinar, April 4, 2024
Women Clothing and Climate/repositories/2/archival_objects/26624March 27, 2019Women Clothing and Climate, March 27, 2019
Scope and ContentsPanel on Women, Clothing, and Climate. Held in Event Oval and Design Lab. Event sponsor: Sustainability
PhotographsSeries 3/repositories/2/archival_objects/1415.42 Linear Feet13 full size document boxes1897-2006English.Scope and Contents NoteThe photographs depict the Barnard campus and its buildings. Many of the photographs include images of students and faculty.
Box 29 includes images of New York City landmarks and the Morningside Heights neighborhood.
Buildings and Grounds: 343 Madison Ave. Altschul/repositories/2/archival_objects/14216Buildings and Grounds: Altschul, Barnard Hall, Exteriors/repositories/2/archival_objects/14317Buildings and Grounds: On campus exteriors/repositories/2/archival_objects/14418Buildings and Grounds: Geer Gates, Barnard Hall interior/repositories/2/archival_objects/14519Buildings and Grounds: Barnard Hall interior, Brooks Hall Exterior/repositories/2/archival_objects/14620Buildings and Grounds: Reid, Brooks, and Plimpton Hall/repositories/2/archival_objects/14721Buildings and Grounds: Campus exterior/repositories/2/archival_objects/14822Buildings and Grounds: Lehman Exterior/repositories/2/archival_objects/14923Buildings and Grounds: Campus exterior/repositories/2/archival_objects/15024Buildings and Grounds: Milbank/repositories/2/archival_objects/15125Buildings and Grounds: Milbank, Eliot/repositories/2/archival_objects/15226Buildings and Grounds: Pi Beta Phi Apt and Holly House/repositories/2/archival_objects/15327Buildings and Grounds: Morningside Heights; Sulzberger construction, 1987; Cathedral Gardens, 2006; Sloate Media Center, 2002/repositories/2/archival_objects/15428Buildings and Grounds: Landmarks NYC/repositories/2/archival_objects/15529Buildings and Grounds: Misc. Oversize Photos of Buildings on Campus/repositories/2/archival_objects/15623Photographs of campus signage and "Barnard of Tomorrow" exhibit/repositories/2/archival_objects/14322199764