Stanford White correspondence and architectural drawings3460603Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library

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This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2025-04-15 18:36:36 -0400.Description is written in: English, Latin script.Describing Archives: A Content Standard Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library Stanford White correspondence and architectural drawings White, Stanford, 1853-1906 Boring, William A (William Alciphron), 1859-1937 Hunt, Richard Morris, 1827-1895 Saint-Gaudens, Augustus, 1848-1907 Tiffany, Louis Comfort, 1848-1933 La Farge, John, 1835-1910 McKim, Charles Follen, 1847-1909 Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903 Warren, Whitney, 1864-1943 Bardini, Stefano, 1836-1922 White, Bessie Springs Smith Chase, William Merritt, 1849-1916 Ware, William R (William Robert), 1832-1915 Cox, Kenyon, 1856-1919 Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 1843-1899 Baker, Percy Gilbert, Cass, 1859-1934 Hassam, Childe, 1859-1935 Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925 Wanamaker, John, 1838-1922 Dewing, Thomas Wilmer, 1851-1938 Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903 White, Richard White, Lawrence Grant Carrère & Hastings McKim, Mead & White 3460603 English . /repositories/3/resources/660 39 manuscript boxes 300 drawings approximate 1887-1922 1887-1907 Restrictions on Access

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 Summary

Collection consists primarily of White's letterpress books and correspondence, with some related bills, receipts, and other ephemera, 1887-1906, relating to his professional and personal matters. Correspondence, 1907, relates to his estate. Correspondents of note include William A. Boring, Richard Morris Hunt, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Louis C. Tiffany, John La Farge, Charles McKim, Frederick Law Olmsted, Whitney Warren, Stefano Bardini, Bessie White, William Merritt Chase, William Robert Ware, Kenyon Cox, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Percy Baker, Cass Gilbert, Childe Hassam, John Singer Sargent, John Wanamaker, Carrère & Hastings, Thomas Dewing, James McNeill Whistler, Lawrence White, Richard White, and other architects, artists, contractors, suppliers, clients, friends, and family members. One letter book contains letters, 1922, by White's son Lawrence Grant White. Also included are White's architectural drawings for houses he built for himself at St. James, Long Island, 1892-1904, and 121 East 21st Street, New York, undated; miscellaneous drawings; and a few architectural drawings by Lawrence Grant White, and drafts of his translation of Dante's DIVINE COMEDY.

 Preferred Citation

Stanford White correspondence and architectural drawings. Located in the Dept. of Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University.

 Terms Governing Use and Reproduction

Avery Drawings & Archives maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator or their heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron. Contact avery-drawings@columbia.edu for more information.

 Immediate Source of Acquisition

Source of acquisition--Various gifts.

 Biographical / Historical

Architect. Partner in the New York architectural firm McKim, Mead & White.

 Other Finding Aids

Collection inventory is available as a PDF file.

 Publications About Described Materials

Dante Alighieri. The Divine comedy : the Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso; new translation into English blank verse by Lawrence Grant White, with illustrations by Gustave Doré. New York : Pantheon Books, 1948.

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