Alan Burnham papers, 1874-1999, bulk 1940-1982

Subseries III: Professional Papers

Contains correspondence, clippings, photographs, negatives, slides, organizational newsletters, notes, and publications regarding professional organizations Burnham participated in or extensive research projects Burnham conducted for a professional organization as well as original articles and talks written by Burnham. He maintained a series of files for organizations like the American Institute of Architects, the Municipal Arts Society, and the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. This series contains files from Burnham's architectural history class that he taught at the New School in 1965 under file folders named Architecture US as well as research he undertook for the Friends of Cast Iron Architecture regarding James Bogardus and Niels Poulson. It also contains a draft of Burnham's manuscript for New York Landmarks as well as correspondence regarding its publication. There is an oversided folder containing some of Burnham's larger pencil drawings and architectural renderings.


Box 29 Folder 57 AIA - American Institute of Architects, 1948 - 1978


Box 29 Folder 58 AIA - Architectural Criticism & Aesthetics, 1948, 1962

Includes notes on Conference on Aesthetic Responsibility (1962)


Box 29 Folder 59 AIA - Awards, 1940 - 1979


Box 39 Folder 24 AIA - Centennial Material, 1957


Box 29 Folder 60 AIA - Committee on Civic Design, 1955 - 1956


Box 30 Folder 1 AIA - Constitution, 1857, 1897


Box 30 Folder 2 AIA - Fellows, 1961 - 1973


Box 30 Folder 3 AIA - Historic Buildings Committee, 1957 - 1967


Box 30 Folder 4 American Architectural Archive (Forms), undated


Box 30 Folder 5 American Scenic & Historic Preservation Society, 1970 - 1979


Box 30 Folder 6 Architectural League of New York City, 1951 - 1956


Box 30 Folder 7 Architectural Societies, 1945 - 1955


Box 30 Folder 8 Architecture Definitions, undated


Box 30 Folder 9 Architecture US - Age of Indecision, undated

Includes notes for course on American Architecture that Burnham taught in 1965 at the New School for Social Research


Box 30 Folder 10 Architecture US - Colonial America, c. 1980s

Includes photographs (2 photos)


Box 30 Folder 11 Architecture US - Contemporary I, c. 1960s


Box 30 Folder 12 Architecture US - Contemporary II Residential, 1965


Box 30 Folder 13 Architecture US - Eclecticism I, 1909 - 1965

Includes photographs (13 photos)


Box 30 Folder 14 Architecture US - Eclecticism II, c. 1960s

Includes photographs (2 photos)


Box 30 Folder 15 Architecture US - Examination, c. 1965


Box 30 Folder 16 Architecture US - French Influence, c. 1960s

Includes photographs (5 photos)


Box 30 Folder 17 Architecture US - Georgian, 1964


Box 30 Folder 18 Architecture US - Gothic Revival, 1949 - 1965


Box 30 Folder 19 Architecture US - Italianate, 1950 - 1965

Includes photographs (21 photos)


Box 30 Folder 20 Architecture US - New Forces at Work, 1965


Box 30 Folder 21 Architecture US - Outline, undated


Box 30 Folder 22 Architecture US - Romanesque Revival, 1965


Box 30 Folder 23 Architecture US - Use Categories, 1964


Box 30 Folder 24 Articles (Published & For Publication), 1952 - 1978

Includes photograph of Alan Burnham and negative (1 photo) (1 negative)


Box 30 Folder 25 Book Reviews (Burnham), 1952 - 1974


Box 30 Folder 26 Cast Iron, 1892 - 1956


Box 30 Folder 27 Cast Iron - Bogardus, James, 1876 - 1967


Box 30 Folder 28 Cast Iron - Bogardus, James (Specific Buildings), 1948 - 1976

Includes photographs and negatives ((2 photos)


Box 30 Folder 29 Cast Iron - Correspondence, 1948 - 1976


Box 30 Folder 30 Cast Iron - Exhibit, 1954 - 1975


Box 31 Folder 1 Cast Iron - Miscellaneous I, 1953 - 1970

Includes photographs (7 photos)


Box 31 Folder 2 Cast Iron - Miscellaneous II, 1912 - 1979


Box 31 Folder 3 Cast Iron - Notes, 1956 - 1971


Box 31 Folder 4 Cast Iron - Phoenix Column (1 of 2), 1949 - 1968


Box 31 Folder 5 Cast Iron - Phoenix Column (2 of 2), 1900s - 1960s

Includes photographs (14 photos) (15 negatives)


Box 39 Folder 25 Cast Iron - Poulson, Niels (1 of 2), 1958 - 1962


Box 31 Folder 6 Cast Iron - Poulson, Niels (2 of 2), c. 1960s

Includes images with annotations from a Poulson exhibit, negatives of the "Copper House" (18 negatives)


Box 31 Folder 7 Cast Iron - Reference to Specific Buildings:, 1950 - 1978

Includes photographs (9 photos)


Box 31 Folder 8 Classical America, 1957 - 1980

Includes "The Annigoni Frescoes at Wethersfield House" (1973)


Box 31 Folder 9 Committee for the Preservation of Architectural Records, 1977 - 1980


Box 31 Folder 10 Connecticut Historical Commission, 1980 - 1982


Box 31 Folder 11 Connecticut Historical Commission (Answers for Owners), 1977 - 1981


Box 31 Folder 12 Connecticut Historical Commission (Driving Tours), 1981 - 1983


Box 31 Folder 13 Connecticut Office of the State Historic Preservation Officer, 1979 - 1983


Box 31 Folder 14 Connecticut Trust for Historic Preservation, 1979 - 1983


Box 39 Folder 26 Cos Ceb Railway Station, 1967

Contains correspondence directed to President Lyndon B. Johnson


Box 32 Folder 1 Criteria - Architectural & Preservation, 1956 - 1980


Box 32 Folder 2 Davis, A.J. - Lyndhurst, 1963 - 1970

Includes correspondence regarding the Landmarks on the Hudson Conference and the Lyndhurst Council


Box 32 Folder 3 Eyre, Wilson, Jr., 1944 - 1981

Includes notes and correspondence for lecture delivered by Burnham at Philadelphia Art Alliance (May 1953) and exhibition on Eyre (1 photo)


Box 32 Folder 5 Eyre, Wilson, Jr. - Office Lists, 1903 - 1962

Includes photographs, negatives, list of buildings (9 photos) (1 negative)


Box 32 Folder 4 Eyre, Wilson, Jr. - Correspondence Louisa Eyre, c. 1950s

Includes correspondence with Louisa Eyre regarding the life and work of her brother, Wilson Eyre Jr.


Box 32 Folder 6 F.D.R. Memorial, 1962 - 1978

Includes FDR Memorial Competition Burnham scheme for 65 Fairfield Road


Box 32 Folder 7 FAIA - Applications, 1963 - 1966


Box 32 Folder 8 FAIA - Applications & Letters, 1966 - 1968


Box 32 Folder 9 Fellowship Applications, 1941 - 1968

Includes Burnham's application for the McKim Fellowship, Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship


Box 32 Folder 10 Flagg, Ernest, c. 1970s

Includes correspondence with Margaret Flagg, Flagg's wife, Burnham authored biography, and photographs (8 photos) (18 negatives)


Box 32 Folder 11 Foundations (Grants, Scholarships), c. 1970s


Box 32 Folder 12 Frick Mansion, 1969 - 1998

Includes correspondence, copy of article published in Apollo Magazine (1971), photographs and negative (6 photos) (1 negative)


Box 32 Folder 13 Friends of Cast Iron, c. 1970s


Box 32 Folder 14 Greenwich Historic District Commission, 1963 - 1983


Box 32 Folder 15 Greenwich Historical Society, 1980


Box 32 Folder 16 Greenwich Neighborhood & Building Survey, 1984


Box 32 Folder 17 Greenwich, Architectural Conservancy of, 1975 - 1981

Includes photographs (3 photos)


Box 32 Folder 18 Historical Societies, 1931 - 1977


Box 32 Folder 19 History & Theory Review Counsel, 1982, 1996

Contains notes from an Architectural Review Board course


Drawer 202 Folder 1 Miscellaneous - Drawings, undated

Includes drawings by Burnham of miscellaneous structures


Box 32 Folder 20 Municipal Arts Society (1 of 3), 1953 - 1980


Box 32 Folder 21 Municipal Arts Society (2 of 3), 1953 - 1980

Includes minutes from monthly meetings


Box 33 Folder 1 Municipal Arts Society (3 of 3), 1953 - 1980

Includes minutes from monthly meetings


Box 33 Folder 2 Municipal Arts Society -Landmark Additions, c. 1960s

Includes photographs (3 photos)


Box 33 Folder 3 National Endowment for the Arts (Washington D.C.), 1978


Box 33 Folder 4 National Register of Historic Places, c. 1970s

Contains Nomination form for Duke Ellington Residence


Box 33 Folder 5 National Trust for Historic Preservation, 1948 - 1980


Box 33 Folder 6 New York City: Walking Tours, 1952 - 1983

Includes notes prepared by Henry Hope Reed


Box 33 Folder 7 New York Landmarks - Bibliography of the Greater New York, 1962

Contains bibliography for Landmarks of New York City (second draft)


Box 33 Folder 8 New York Landmarks - Letters (1 of 2), c. 1960s - c. 1970s


Box 33 Folder 9 New York Landmarks - Letters (2 of 2), c. 1960s - c. 1970s


Box 33 Folder 10 New York Landmarks - Manuscript (1 of 3), 1963

Contains sections general index through sculpture


Box 33 Folder 11 New York Landmarks - Manuscript (2 of 3), 1963

Contains sections styles through bibliography


Box 33 Folder 12 New York Landmarks - Manuscript (3 of 3), 1963

Contains sections index through text for illustrations


Box 33 Folder 13 New York Landmarks - Manuscript Bibliography, 1951 - 1981


Box 33 Folder 14 New York Landmarks - Manuscript Galley (1 of 2), 1963


Box 33 Folder 15 New York Landmarks - Manuscript Galley (2 of 2), 1963


Box 33 Folder 16 New York Landmarks - Master Copies, 1960

Contains two master copies of Burnham's New York Landmarks


Box 33 Folder 17 New York Landmarks - Photographs, c. 1960s

Includes original and printed photographs for New York Landmarks


Box 33 Folder 18 New York Landmarks - Publicity (1 of 2), 1962 - 1983


Box 33 Folder 19 New York Landmarks - Publicity (2 of 2), 1962 - 1983


Box 34 Folder 1 New York Landmarks - Notes, c. 1960s - c. 1970s


Box 34 Folder 2 New York Landmarks Conservancy, 1978, 1979


Box 34 Folder 3 New York Landmarks Preservation Commission, 1961 - 1983


Box 34 Folder 4 New York Landmarks Preservation Commission - History & Data (1 of 3), c. 1960s - c. 1970s

Includes photograph (1 photo)


Box 34 Folder 5 New York Landmarks Preservation Commission - History & Data (2 of 3), c. 1960s - c. 1980s

Includes photograph (1 photo)


Box 34 Folder 6 New York Landmarks Preservation Commission - History & Data (3 of 3), c. 1960s - c. 1970s

Includes negatives (6 negatives)


Box 34 Folder 7 New York Landmarks Preservation Commission - Newspaper Clippings & Publications, c. 1960s - c. 1970s


Box 34 Folder 8 New York Landmarks Preservation Commission - Vandam Historic District, 1999


Box 34 Folder 9 New York Society of Architects Bulletin, c. 1950s


Box 34 Folder 10 New York Society of Architects Bulletin, c. 1950s


Box 34 Folder 11 New York Society of Architects Bulletin, c. 1960s


Box 34 Folder 12 New York State Association of Architects, 1950 - 1956


Box 34 Folder 13 New York State Council on the Arts, 1972

Contains New York State Award brochure


Box 34 Folder 14 Oculus - A.I.A. Bulletin, c. 1960s - c. 1970s


Box 34 Folder 15 Office of Metropolitan History, 1975 - 1980


Box 34 Folder 16 Our Urban Architecture, 1960


Box 34 Folder 17 Preservation - Correspondence, 1952 - 1977

Includes correspondence that Burnham filed under the general heading of preservation


Box 34 Folder 18 Preservation - New York City, 1961 - 1978


Box 34 Folder 19 Priced Books, 1892 - 1960

Includes notes on costs of books


Box 34 Folder 20 Recommendations, 1978 - 1982

Includes letters of recommendations


Box 34 Folder 21 Renderings, undated


Box 34 Folder 22 Society of Architectural Historians, 1941 - 1959


Box 34 Folder 23 S.A.H. - Committee on Local Chapters, 1957 - 1966


Box 34 Folder 24 S.A.H. - New York Chapter, 1943 - 1968


Box 34 Folder 25 S.A.H. - Newsletters, 1958 - 1979


Box 34 Folder 26 Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, 1972 - 1980


Box 35 Folder 1 Special Libraries Association, 1969


Box 35 Folder 2 Squares of New York City - Correspondence, 1979

Contains Burnham article for Architectural Record


Box 35 Folder 3 Stamford Historical Society - Newsletters, 1977 - 1980


Box 39 Folder 27 Student Papers, 1963

Contains Ronald Freyberger's paper on Luxury Apartment Houses in Manhattan


Box 35 Folder 4 Talks - Schedule, 1951 - 1978

Includes talks delivered like "The Treatment of Streets," "New York Architecture 1850 to Present"


Box 35 Folder 5 Talks - Landmark Preservation Commission (1 of 4), 1964 - 1972

Includes copies of speeches delivered


Box 35 Folder 6 Talks - Landmark Preservation Commission (2 of 4), 1964 - 1972

Includes copies of speeches delivered


Box 35 Folder 7 Talks - Landmark Preservation Commission (3 of 4), 1964 - 1972

Includes correspondence regarding LPC talks


Box 35 Folder 8 Talks - Landmark Preservation Commission (4 of 4), 1964 - 1972


Box 35 Folder 9 Tenth Street Building, 1956

Includes photographs and negative (1 negative) (7 photos)


Box 39 Folder 28 Theory of Architecture: Hamlin, undated

Contains Burnham's notes and drawings on Hamlin (1938-1939)


Box 35 Folder 11 Victorian Society in America (1 of 2), c. 1960s - c. 1970s

Includes newsletters and member publications


Box 35 Folder 12 Victorian Society in America (2 of 2), c. 1960s - c. 1970s


Box 35 Folder 13 Wanamakers Architectural Record Article, 1956

Contains Burnham article for Architectural Record (4 photos)


Box 35 Folder 14 Westside Urban Renewal Institute, 1957

Contains Burnham talk on Riverside


Box 35 Folder 15 Withers, Frederick C - Correspondence, 1956 - 1976

Contains correspondence with Margaret Withers