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    <unittitle>James Renwick and James Renwick Jr : architectural drawings and papers</unittitle>
    <origination label="Creator">
      <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80097863" source="naf">Renwick, James, 1792-1863</persname>
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    <origination label="Creator">
      <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82024321" source="naf">Goodhue, Bertram Grosvenor, 1869-1924</persname>
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    <origination label="Creator">
      <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82027484" source="naf">Renwick, James, 1818-1895</persname>
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      <language langcode="eng" scriptcode="Latn">English</language>
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    <physdesc altrender="whole">
      <extent altrender="materialtype spaceoccupied">58 items</extent>
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    <unitdate datechar="creation" normal="1813-01-01/1960-01-01" type="inclusive">1813-1960</unitdate>
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    <head> Restrictions on Access</head>
<p>This collection is available for use by appointment in the Department of Drawings &amp; Archives, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University. For further information, please email avery-drawings@library.columbia.edu.</p>  </accessrestrict>
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    <head>Summary</head>
<p>Collection includes James Renwick's sketches, 1813, for the layout of Columbia University's second campus on Park Row (there have been four campuses to date: the first on Wall Street, the third on 49th Street and Madison Avenue, and the current campus in Morningside Heights), and a medal awarded him, 1824, by the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia. James Renwick, Jr. is represented by his architectural drawings of St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York, which he designed. Some of the drawings are signed by Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue. Also, published drawings of the Cathedral, 1886; negatives and photographs, circa 1860s, showing the Cathedral under construction; interior and exterior photographs, circa 1930s-1960s, of the Cathedral; and photographs of Grace Church, New York, also designed by James Renwick, Jr. Renwick family correspondence, 1930s, and typescript copies of 19th century Renwick family correspondence relating to family history and genealogy; photographs of James Renwick, Jr; typescript copies of family Bible records, 1792-1863; Renwick coat of arms.</p>  </scopecontent>
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    <head>Preferred Citation</head>
<p>James Renwick and James Renwick, Jr.: architectural drawings and papers. Dept. of Drawings &amp; Archives, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University, New York, N.Y.</p>  </prefercite>
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    <head>Immediate Source of Acquisition</head>
<p>Source of acquisition--Gift, 1000.014.</p>  </acqinfo>
  <bioghist id="aspace_f6b39856ca51c3c9b89dc1908584a79d">
    <head>Biographical / Historical</head>
<p>James Renwick and James Renwick, Jr. (1818-1895) were architects practicing in New York City.</p>  </bioghist>
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    <subject source="lcsh">Architecture -- United States -- Designs and plans</subject>
    <subject authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007101284" source="lcsh">Architecture -- New York (State) -- New York</subject>
    <subject authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85006614" source="lcsh">Architecture -- Awards</subject>
    <subject source="lcsh">Church buildings -- New York (State) -- New York</subject>
    <subject source="lcsh">Church architecture -- New York (State) -- New York</subject>
    <geogname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116331" source="lcsh">New York (N.Y.) -- Genealogy</geogname>
    <geogname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116322" source="lcsh">New York (N.Y.) -- Pictorial works</geogname>
    <genreform authfilenumber="http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300033973" source="aat">Drawings (visual works)</genreform>
    <genreform authfilenumber="http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300127104" source="aat">Photographic prints</genreform>
    <genreform authfilenumber="http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300127173" source="aat">negatives (photographs)</genreform>
    <genreform authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85006565" source="lcsh">Architects</genreform>
    <corpname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81024714" source="naf">Columbia University</corpname>
    <corpname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n99280892" source="naf">Grace Church (New York, N.Y.)</corpname>
    <corpname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79133150" source="naf">Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.)</corpname>
    <corpname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79138672" source="naf">St. Patrick's Cathedral (New York, N.Y.) -- Pictorial works</corpname>
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