Theodore Conrad papers, 1937-1991

Theodore Conrad papers, 1937-1991

Summary Information

Abstract

Theodore Conrad (1910-1994) was an American architectural model maker. This collection is composed primarily of model photographs, press clippings and other documentation, drawings, and administrative papers. The visual materials mainly consist of model making documentation from Conrad's career as a professional model maker for major architecture firms, most notably Skidmore Owings and Merrill and Edward Durell Stone.

At a Glance

Bib ID:
12009490 View CLIO record
Creator(s):
Conrad, Theodore, 1910-1994; Checkman, Louis, 1914-2004
Repository:
Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
Physical Description:
13 linear feet
Language(s):
English .
Access:

This collection is available for use by appointment in the Department of Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University. For further information and to make an appointment, please email avery-drawings@library.columbia.edu.

Description

Scope and Content

Series I: Projects

This series documents approximately 200 of Conrad's architectural models. The documentation is primarily photographic; however, some projects include tear sheets and reprints featuring the model, some plans and drawings, and other related ephemera. The series is divided into four subseries. Subseries 1: By Architect comprises of 79 architectural models arranged alphabetically by the architect of the project. Subseries 2: By Project Title contains 22 architectural models for projects where the architect is unidentified. The models in this subseries are arranged alphabetically by project title. Subseries 3: Magazine Projects features 27 architectural models created as a magazine design project. The projects are arranged alphabetically by magazine and list the associated architect. Magazines represented are Collier's, Good Housekeeping, Ladies Home Journal, McCall's, and Womasnn's Home Companion House. Series 4: Unidentified Buildings includes 147 photographs for approximately 60 to 70 models. The models are from unidentified projects and architects and are arranged by building type.

Series II: Accounting Records

This series contains billing and (primarily financial) correspondence for Conrad projects dating from the 1940s to the 2000s.

Series III: Professional Papers

The series includes general professional correspondence arranged chronologically from the 1940s to the 1980s, clippings and printed material featuring Conrad or models by Conrad, photographs of Conrad's various model workshops (including photographs of equipment and of construction of various models), papers related to Conrad's historic preservation efforts in Jersey City, and an album complied by Conrad documenting his work during the Second World War designing and fabricating models of aircraft for aircraft identification purposes.

Series IV: Personal Papers

This series contains photographs of Conrad, non-project related drawings, miscellaneous photographs, and papers related to Conrad's Selective Service in the U.S. Navy during World War II.

Series V: Reference

This series primarily includes trade catalogs on model making tools and materials. Additional reference material not related to models is also included in the series.

Series VI: Architectural Drawings

This series consists of architectural drawing reproductions (blueprints, diazo, etc) for 12 identified and unidentified architectural projects.

Publication Date

1937-1991

Arrangement

Using the Collection

Restrictions on Access

This collection is available for use by appointment in the Department of Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University. For further information and to make an appointment, please email avery-drawings@library.columbia.edu.

Restrictions on Use

Columbia University is providing access to the materials in the Library's collections solely for noncommercial educational and research purposes. The unauthorized use, including, but not limited to, publication of the materials without the prior written permission of Columbia University is strictly prohibited. All inquiries regarding permission to publish should be submitted in writing to the Director, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University. In addition to permission from Columbia University, permission of the copyright owner (if not Columbia University) and/or any holder of other rights (such as publicity and/or privacy rights) may also be required for reproduction, publication, distributions, and other uses. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of any item and securing any necessary permissions rests with the persons desiring to publish the item. Columbia University makes no warranties as to the accuracy of the materials or their fitness for a particular purpose.

Preferred Citation

Theodore Conrad papers, Department of Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Source of acquisition--Doris Conrad Brown. Method of acquisition--Donated;; Date of acquisition--2015. Accession number--2015.015.

About the Finding Aid / Processing Information

Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library

Processing Information

This collection was processed by Oskar Arnorsson (Graduate Intern) under the supervision of Shelley Hayreh (Avery Archivist).

Revision Description

2016-11-18 File created.

2019-05-20 EAD was imported spring 2019 as part of the ArchivesSpace Phase II migration.

Biographical sketch

Theodore Conrad was born in a house on 31 Griffith Street, Jersey City, New Jersey, on May, 19, 1910 to German immigrants. His father, Frederick Conrad, was a manager for the Hudson County Consumer's Brewery in Union City and his mother, Edoline Frerichs Conrad. His grandfather was a builder who constructed many of the houses in Conrad's Riverview Park neighborhood, piquing Conrad's interest in building at a young age. After studying draftsmanship at Dickinson High School in Jersey City, where he also received substantial workshop training, Conrad attended the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, where he was trained in the Beaux Arts tradition under Leopold Arnaud. At the age of 18, while still a student at Pratt, Conrad earned a summer internship at the office of Harvey Wiley Corbett, building a model of Corbett's proposal for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Building (never realized), documented in the collection. Conrad earned a full-time job at Corbett's firm upon graduation from Pratt, soon transferring the professional model making work for from Corbett's office to his own shop in the basement of 31 Griffith Street, effectively starting his own business in 1931. As his practice grew, he moved into his own home on 248 Ogden Avenue, while setting up shop next door in an old jewelry factory on 250 Ogden Avenue. The collection includes thorough photographic documentation of Conrad's workshops.

During WWII Conrad was hired by the Navy to design and fabricate models of enemy aircraft which were photographed and published in brochures for identification purposes. The archive holds one such aircraft model, as well as a number of photographs used for the brochures, as well as copies of the brochures themselves. He was also commissioned by the Army to design a plan to camouflage Paterson, NJ, by producing fake rivers to confuse German fighter pilots.

In the 1940s and 1950s, Conrad's enterprise became the largest in the country, at its height employing 26 men and women. His assignments include work for McKim Mead and White, Edward Durell Stone, Louis Kahn, Mies van der Rohe and Skidmore Owings and Merrill, many of whom are in the collection. Conrad was a pioneer in the use of plastics and metals for models instead of the more traditional materials of wood, plaster and cardboard, making the switch in 1936. He was awarded for his model-making innovation in 1962, when he was the recipient of the American Institute of Architects Craftsmanship Medal.

In his later years, Conrad increasingly partook in Jersey City politics and preservation efforts. In 1961, he ran for the city council on the ticket of former Mayor Thomas Gangemi, but lost. He was soon after appointed a city redevelopment commissioner. He was the founding member of the Jersey City Historic District Commission, the Brownstone Revival Committee, and the Riverview Neighborhood Association, and served as the president of the Jersey City Museum Association and the Jersey City Preservation and Restoration Association. His biggest preservation effort was his resulted in the declaration of the Hudson County Courthouse on Newark Avenue as a national historic site in 1971. He also played a major role in advocating for Liberty State Park, documented with drawings in the collection, as well as the preservation of Loew's Jersey Theater.

Subject Headings

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Name
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
Stone, Edward Durell
Subject
Architectural design
Architectural models
Architectural models -- Design and construction
Architecture -- United States -- Designs and plans
Architecture, Modern -- 20th century
Models and modelmaking
Structural frames -- Models

Series I: Projects


Subseries 1: By Architect


A


Box 09 Folder 13

Penchansky Brothers [Adam Black & Sons], 1964

5 photographs


B


Box 09 Folder 14

Sapphire Hill Village Condominium (St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands) [Belfatto and Pavarini], undated

Contains information sheet, 1 color aerial print, 15 color prints of development


Box 09 Folder 15

Gracie Towers (New York, NY) [Sylvan Bien and Robert Bien], undated

2 reproductions of rooftop renderings


Box 09 Folder 16

De Bijenkorf (Rotterdam, Netherlands) [Marcel Breuer], ca. 1957

3 photographic prints


C


Box 09 Folder 17

Colonial Revival House (Pratt Project) [Theodore Conrad], undated

7 photographs (Conrad's first model)


Box 09 Folder 18

Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, North Building (New York, NY) [Harvey Wiley Corbett], ca. 1920s

15 photographs (primarily of the model), 1 exhibition plaque


Oversize 02 Folder 01

Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, North Building (New York, NY) [Harvey Wiley Corbett], ca. 1920s

2 photographs


Box 09 Folder 19

Villa Savoye (Poissy, France) [Le Corbusier], 1970

Client Museum of Modern Art ; 9 photographs (including model in construction) and 1 newspaper clipping


D


Box 09 Folder 20

U.C.P. Rehabilitation Campus [Davis & Sands Architects], undated

6 presentation drawings


Box 09 Folder 21

Southern California Edison, power-transmission poles [Henry Dreyfuss Associates], 1970

3 photographs


F


Box 09 Folder 22

A Small House Competition, N.Y. Chapter A.I.A. [J. Andre Fouilhoux, Archt.], undated

1 photograph


G


Box 09 Folder 23

Newark Midtown Project (Newark, NJ) [Newark Urban Renewal Agency ; Architect Louis Gardner], undated

3 photographs


Box 09 Folder 24

Southside Project No. 1: Mount Vernon Urban Renewal Agency (Mount Vernon, New York) [Louis Gardner], undated

1 photograph


H


Box 09 Folder 25

Cummins Engine Company Medical Center [Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates], 1970

Includes correspondences, billing, lists, product spec sheets, drawings


Box 09 Folder 26

National Bank of South Dakota (Sioux Falls, SD) [Harold Spitznagel and Associates], undated

1 copy of rendering


Box 09 Folder 27

Rockefeller Apartments (New York, NY) [Harrison & Fouilhoux], ca. 1930s

17 photographs; includes photographs of model for Rockefeller Center.


Box 09 Folder 28

The National Air and Space Museum (Washington, D.C.) [Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum, Inc. / Mills, Petticord and Mills], undated

7 photographs; Smithsonian press brochure regarding the building design


Box 09 Folder 29

Hamilton Plaza [Stanley L. Horowitz], 1972

4 photographs


Box 09 Folder 30

Berkshire Commons, University of Massachusetts Amherst (Amherst, MA) [Hugh Stubbins and Associates, Inc.], 1966

5 photographs


J


Box 09 Folder 31 to 32

Monticello (Charlottesville, VA) [Thomas Jefferson], 1976

Includes clippings, brochures, window patterns for model, and photocopied articles for model created for "The Eye of Thomas Jefferson" Exhibition at the National Gallery of Art. 1976


Box 09 Folder 33

Museum of Modern Art, New Wing and Garden (New York, NY) [Philip Johnson], 1962

3 photographs


K


Box 09 Folder 34

Housing Development [Kahn & Jacobs ; William G. Distin], undated

1 photographs


Box 09 Folder 35

Van Dyke Houses (New York, NY) [Kelly & Gruzen], undated

3 photographs


Box 09 Folder 36

Bird House, Bronx Zoo [Morris Ketchum, Jr. and Associates], 1973

Clippings


Box 09 Folder 37

Nassau County Health Administration Building [Morris Ketchum Jr. & Associates / The Office of Max O. Urbahn], undated

Includes photo prints of presentation drawings, copy of site plan with pencil markings


L


Box 09 Folder 38

The Pittsburgh House of Glass (New York World's Fair 1939) [Landefeld & Hatch], 1939

1 photograph, 1 brochure, and Pencil Point tear sheet


M


Box 09 Folder 39

Union College [McKim, Mead, and White], undated

7 photographs


Box 09 Folder 40

Barbizon Hotel (New York, NY) [Murgatroyed & Ogden], undated

Sectional model : 5 photographic prints


R


Box 09 Folder 41

Behr Manning Corporation [Kenneth H. Ripnen], undated

1 photograph, 3 negative photo stats (plot plan, section, elevation)


Box 09 Folder 42

Boulevard East & Broadway Urban Renewal Project (West New York, NJ) [Richard Rivardo], 1967

2 photographic prints


Box 09 Folder 43

Casa Arnstein (San Paulo, Brazil) [Bernard Rudofsky], [1964?]

4 photographic prints; "Photographed for The Museum of Modern Art by Soichi Sunami"


S


Box 09 Folder 44

Pittsburg Center for the Arts (Pittsburg, PA) [Shrader Studios, Inc.], 1964

2 photographs


Box 10 Folder 1

Air Force Academy Chapel (for Architectural Forum) [Skidmore, Ownings and Merrill], 1957

11 photographs; tear sheets from Architectural, SOM newsletter


Box 10 Folder 2

Bank Lambert (Brussels, Belgium) [Skidmore, Owings and Merrill], ca. 1965

9 photographs


Box 10 Folder 3

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University (New Haven, CT) [Skidmore, Ownings and Merrill], undated

2 photographs


Box 10 Folder 4

Canadian Industries Limited Building (Telus Tower) (Montreal, Quebec, Canada) [Skidmore, Owings and Merrill], undated

1 photograph


Box 10 Folder 5

The Chase Manhattan Bank (New York, NY) [Skidmore, Owings and Merrill], 1961

10 photographs, booklets, reprints, schematic plans, site plan, exhibition plaque


Box 10 Folder 6

Connecticut General Life Insurance Company (Bloomfield, CT) [?] [Skidmore, Owings and Merrill], undated

8 photographs


Box 10 Folder 7

Dallas Main Place [Skidmore, Owings and Merrill], undated

2 photographs of downtown Dallas aerial model [not confirmed as related to Dallas Main Place building]; elevation templates and one floor plan template for model


Box 10 Folder 8

Deering Milliken, Inc. (Spartanburg, SC) [Skidmore, Owings & Merrill], 1963-1965

Includes sketches, scale drawings and aerial photographs


Box 10 Folder 9

Equitable Building (Chicago, IL) [Skidmore, Owings and Merrill], undated

4 photographs (including the model on display in Saks Fifth Avenue store window); Equinews, Nov. 1958 featuring the model; Typescript of article by John Farley for Modern Pattern-Making2 X Equitable Agency Time


Box 10 Folder 10

Factory[?] [Skidmore, Owings and Merrill], 1959

3 photographs


Box 10 Folder 11

Ford Motor Company Administrative Center (Dearborn, MI) [Skidmore, Owings and Merrill], undated

1 photograph


Box 10 Folder 12

Fort Dearborn Redevelopment Project (Chicago, IL) [Skidmore, Owings and Merrill] [?], undated

5 photographs


Box 10 Folder 13

Heinz Lab Building (Pittsburgh, PA) [Skidmore, Owings and Merrill], 1955

1 photograph and reprint from Architectural Forum (May 1949)


Box 10 Folder 14

John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company (Kansas City, KS) [Skidmore, Owings and Merrill], 1959

2 photographs


Box 10 Folder 15

John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company (New Orleans, LA) [Skidmore, Owings and Merrill], 1959

3 photographs


Box 10 Folder 16

Lake Meadows Housing (Chicago, IL) [Skidmore, Owings and Merrill], 1956

9 photographs


Box 10 Folder 17

Manufacturers Trust Company (New York, NY) [Skidmore, Owings and Merrill], undated

1 photograph


Box 10 Folder 18

Metro Glass Company, J.C., Camden Plan [Skidmore, Owings and Merrill], 1958

1 photograph


Box 10 Folder 19

Noxzema Chemical Company (Cockeysville, Maryland) [Skidmore, Owings and Merrill], 1960

5 photographs


Box 10 Folder 20

Pennsylvania Avenue Master Plan (Washington, D.C.) [National Capitol Planning Committee / Skidmore, Ownings and Merrill], 1963

12 photographs; copies of New York Magazine article "A Grand Boulevard for Washington"


Box 10 Folder 21

Pepsi-Cola Company, World Headquarters (New York, NY) [Skidmore, Owings and Merrill], 1957

2 photographs


Oversize 02 Folder 02

Puerto Rico Government Ministries Complex [Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill], 1955

5 photographs


Box 10 Folder 23

Union Carbide & Carbon Building (New York, NY) [Skidmore, Owings and Merrill], 1956

9 photographs


Box 10 Folder 24

United Air Lines [Skidmore Owings & Merrill], 1957

4 photographs


Box 10 Folder 25

Warren Petroleum Oil Company (Skidmore, Owings and Merrill], 1955

4 photographs


Box 10 Folder 26

2 Columbus Circle (New York, NY) [Edward Durell Stone], ca. 1964

1 copy of rendering


Box 10 Folder 27

Busch Stadium (St. Louis, MO) [Edward Durell Stone], 1963-1964

7 photographs


Box 10 Folder 28

The Football Hall of Fame, Rutgers University [Edward Durell Stone, Architect], undated

Main floor plan architectural reproduction


Box 10 Folder 29

Liebman House (Museum of Modern Art/Colliers) [Edward Durell Stone], undated

6 photographs


Box 10 Folder 30

Manufacturing and Warehouse Building for Yardley of London, Inc. (Totowa, NJ) [Edward Durell Stone], 1959

1 photograph


Box 10 Folder 31

Model Houses [Edward Durell Stone?], undated

36 photographic prints ; 4 magazine cut-outs


Box 10 Folder 32

Museo de Arte de Ponce (Ponce, Puerto Rico) [Edward Durell Stone], 1962

2 photographs


Box 10 Folder 33

National Cultural Center (John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts) (Washington, D.C.)[Edward Durell Stone], 1962

5 photographs


Box 10 Folder 34

New York Civic Center [Edward Durell Stone ; Eggers & Higgins], 1964

2 photographs


Box 10 Folder 35

Palm Beach Apartments (Palm Beach, FL) [Edward Durell Stone], 1962

12 photographs


Box 10 Folder 36

State University of New York at Albany (Albany, NY) [Edward Durell Stone], 1964

7 photographs


Box 10 Folder 37

U.S. Pavilion, Brussels World's Fair [Edward D. Stone], 1956

2 photographs


Box 10 Folder 38

University of South Carolina (Columbia, SC) [Edward Durell Stone], 1958

2 photographs


T


Box 09 Folder 45

Hapuna Bay Hotel (Hawaii) [William B. Tabler], 1967

4 photographs


Box 09 Folder 46

Oris Hotel [William B. Tabler], undated

1 photograph


Box 09 Folder 47

The Statler Hilton (Dallas, TX) [William B. Tabler], 1955

7 photographs


Box 09 Folder 48

The Statler Hilton (White Plains, NY) [William B. Tabler], 1956

1 photograph


Box 09 Folder 49

Staircase [Theo Hoffstater Co.], undated

6 photographs


W


Box 09 Folder 50

Maine State Cultural Building (Augusta, Maine) [Walker O. Cain Associates], 1968

4 photographs


Box 09 Folder 51

Washington University Main Campus: showing possible future development [Washington University School of Architecture], undated

1 photograph


Box 09 Folder 52

White Plains [Webb and Knap / Raymond & May, Assoc.], 1963

2 photographs


Y


Box 09 Folder 53

Michigan Consolidated Gas Company (Detroit, MI) [Minoru Yamasaki -- Smith, Hinchman, Grylls, Associated Architects and Engineers], [1959?] Jun 26

1 photograph, press release for the unveiling of the architectural model, letter and tear sheets (4 copies) from Architectural Forum highlighting model, clipping featuring the model


Subseries 2: By Project Title


Box 10 Folder 39

Arizona Shopping Center, 1959

6 photographs


Box 10 Folder 40

Battery Park City, 1974

Clipping, Flyer, Battery Park City Chronicle (Spring 1974), photograph of Brooklyn Port Authority Piers (see also Downton Photo Set-up)


Box 10 Folder 41

The Brooklyn Union Gas Company / The Brooklyn Savings Bank, undated

3 photographs


Box 10 Folder 42

Chicago Civic Center (Chicago, IL), undated

1 photograph, correspondence, billing


Box 10 Folder 43

Clara Maass Hospital (Belleville, NJ), undated

Negative transparency of proposed plot plan


Box 10 Folder 44

Community Hospital (and Tower?), ca. 1920s

8 photographs


Box 10 Folder 45

Competition For A Monument to Lenin, ca. 1930s

13 photographs


Box 10 Folder 46

Consolidated Edison Fountain, New York World's Fair, ca. 1939

1 photograph (image of model being constructed in studio)


Box 10 Folder 47

Cornell University Buildings (Ithaca, NY), undated

66 photographs (includes images of model being constructed in studio)


Box 10 Folder 48 to 50

Downtown Photo Set-up (Peter Roth), undated

144 photographs (Battery Park City project?)


Oversize 02 Folder 03

Downtown Photo Set-up (Peter Roth)


Box 10 Folder 51

East Newburgh Urban Renewal Project, 1967

8 photographs


Box 10 Folder 52

General Cigar Company, Chicago World's Fair (and Vintage White Owl Exhibit), ca. 1933

3 photographs


Box 10 Folder 53

General Exhibit Building, Chicago World's Fair, undated

3 photographs


Box 10 Folder 54

Hickory Recreation Center, undated

1 photograph


Box 10 Folder 55

Point Park Development (Pittsburg, PA), undated

Tear sheet featuring Louis Checkman photograph of proposed Point Park development and Golden Triangle


Box 10 Folder 56

South Street Seaport Museum ("Historic Block for Lower Manhattan") (New York, NY), 1967

New York City Department of City Planning Newsletter (February-March 1967); exhibition plaque "Manhattan Landing"


Box 10 Folder 57

Tomorrow's World Model, N.Y. Chapter A.I.A. Show, undated

5 photographs (includes photo of model being constructed), clipping


Oversize 02 Folder 04

Tomorrow's World Model, N.Y. Chapter A.I.A. Show


Box 10 Folder 58

Tomorrow's City Hall, Molecular Structure Building, undated

1 photograph


Box 10 Folder 59

War Department Buildings (Washington, D.C.), undated

"Descriptive Memoranda to Accompany Cabinet Sketches"


Box 10 Folder 60

Wright Aeronautical Corporation (Paterson, NJ), undated

1 photograph : aerial view


Subseries 3: Magazine Projects


Box 11 Folder 01

Collier's Magazine, Model House [Fordyce & Homby], undated

6 photographs


Box 11 Folder 02

Collier's Magazine, House of Ideas [Edward D. Stone, Arch.], undated

Tear sheet and a brochure for Weldtex plywood


Box 11 Folder 03

Good Housekeeping, Doll House [Joseph B. Mason, Ed.], Sep. 1951

Reproductions of pages, presumably Good Housekeeping, letter from Joseph Mason, editor of Good Housekeeping, and typescript from Building Forum


Box 11 Folder 04

Ladies Home Journal, Colonial Houses [Richard Pratt, Arch.], 1947-8

Contains tear sheets from Ladies Home Journal (not of models by Conrad, perhaps used for reference?)


Box 11 Folder 05

McCall's Magazine, A Camp House [Paul Thry, Arch.], undated

Tear sheets from McCall's of model of a house built by Conrad (presumably the landscape only), photographed by Stoller, designed by Paul Thiry


Box 11 Folder 06

McCall's Magazine, A House for the Country [Hudson Jackson, Arch.], Feb. 1946

Tear sheets from McCall's of models of houses and McCall's Home of the Month brochure, "A Farm House"


Box 11 Folder 07

McCall's Magazine, A House with a Room to Play In [I.M. Pei and Frederick G. Roth], undated

Tear sheet


Box 11 Folder 08

McCall's Magazine, All the Family Enjoys this House [William Hamby, Arch.], undated

Tear sheets


Box 11 Folder 09

McCall's Magazine, Easy to Live in [CC Briggs, Arch.], Mar. 1946

Tear sheets


Box 11 Folder 10

McCall's Magazine, House [Royal Barry Wills, Arch.], undated

Tear sheets


Box 11 Folder 11

McCall's Magazine, It Can Grow with the Family [Katz & Waisman, Arch.], Oct. 1946

Tear sheets and a pamphlet titled "McCall's Home of the Month, April 1948"


Box 11 Folder 12

McCall's Magazine, It's Warm & Snug in Zero Weather [Edgar Hunter Arch.], undated

Tear sheet and a pamphlet titled "McCall's Home of the Month, April 1948"


Box 11 Folder 13

McCall's Magazine, Little Red House [William J. Ward Arch.], undated

Tear sheets


Box 11 Folder 14

McCall's Magazine, One Room Cottage Grows Into a House [Frederick Seidenburg, Arch.], Apr. 1948

Tear sheets and a pamphlet titled "McCall's Home of the Month, April 1948"


Box 11 Folder 15

McCall's Magazine, Planned for Children [Frank Funk Arch.], undated

Tear sheets


Box 11 Folder 16

McCall's Magazine, Planned to fit a 50 Foot Lot [Chiarelli & Kirk Arch.], undated

Tear sheets


Box 11 Folder 17

McCall's Magazine, What Color is you Dream House [David J. Arahams, Arch.], undated

Tear sheets


Box 11 Folder 18

McCall's Magazine, Your First House [Huson Jackson, Arch.], undated

Tear sheets


Box 11 Folder 19

Woman's Home Companion, A Home with a Hearth [Perry Duncan, Arch.], May. 1948

Tear sheets


Box 11 Folder 20

Woman's Home Companion, Big as you Like it [Edward D. Stone, Arch.], undated

Tear sheets


Box 11 Folder 21

Woman's Home Companion, Exhibition House [Gregory Ain for The Museum of Modern Art], 1950

2 photographs and tear sheets


Box 11 Folder 22

Woman's Home Companion, Expandable House [Gordon Drake], ca. 1947

Contains drawings, sketches and tear sheets from Women's Home Companion


Box 11 Folder 23

Woman's Home Companion, How a Cottage Grows up-Esi-Bild Country Cottage No 91, undated

Tear sheets


Box 11 Folder 24

Woman's Home Companion, Salt-Box Up to Date [Frank Harper Bissell], Oct. 1949

Tear sheets


Box 11 Folder 25

Woman's Home Companion, Spyrer House, undated

3 photographs


Box 11 Folder 26

Woman's Home Companion, Winter Sun & Summer Breeze [O'Neil Ford & Jerry Rodgers, Arch.], undated

Tear sheets


Box 11 Folder 27

Women's Home Companion House [Ford & Rogers], undated

2 photographs


Subseries 4: Unidentified Buildings


Box 10 Folder 60

Apartment Buildings and Housing Complexes, undated

7 photographs


Box 10 Folder 61

Building Complexes, undated

9 photographs (3 projects)


Box 10 Folder 62

Church, undated

1 photograph


Box 10 Folder 63

City Sections, undated

6 photographs (3 projects)


Box 10 Folder 64

Cross Section Models, undated

4 photographs (4 projects)


Oversize 02 Folder 05

Industrial Plant, undated

1 photograph


Box 10 Folder 65

Miscellaneous Structures, undated

3 photographs (3 projects)


Box 10 Folder 66

Office or Institutional Buildings, undated

25 photographs (11 projects)


Box 10 Folder 67

Recreation Centers, undated

2 photographs (2 projects)


Box 10 Folder 68 to 69

Residences [1 of 2], undated

62 photographs, 3 prints of floor plans (multiple projects)


Oversize 02

Residences [2 of 2], undated

9 photographs


Box 10 Folder 70

Small Town Models, undated

13 photographs (3 projects)


Subseries 5: Reference


Box 09 Folder 54

Images of Models, undated

Color printouts of photographs for a selection of Conrad models [complied after Conrad's death?]

Series II: Accounting Records


Box 01 Folder 01 to 02

Project lists, 1950s-1970s

[2 folders]


Box 01 Folder 03

Project billing and correspondence, 1940s

Bills, 1942, 1948


Box 01 Folder 03 to 13

Project billing and correspondence, 1950s

[1:3] Bills, 1950-1959

[1:4] 1951-1952

[1:5] Job File (#651 to 730), 1954

[1:6] Job File (#736 to 831), 1955

[1:7-8] Job File (#961 to 1159), 1957

[1-9-10] Job File (#1160 to 1371), 1958

[1:11-13] "Jobs Alphabetical Order & Billed Price", 1959


Box 01 to 05

Project billing and correspondence, 1960s

[1:14-15] "Client's Bills Paid", 1960

[1:16] "Bills in Alphab. Order of Architects, Jobs", 1960

[1:17] "Jobs Alphabetical Order & Billing Prices", 1960

[1:18-19] Job File (A to Z), 1960

[1:20] "Customers Unpaid Bills / Numerical order", 1960-1961

[1:21] "Customers Bills Paid / Numerical order", 1961

[1:22] "Bills in Alphabetical Order", 1961

[1:22-24] Job File A to Z, 1961

[2:1-2] "Job File A to Z", 1962

[2:3] Unpaid and Paid Bills, 1962

[2:4-9] "Correspondence & Bills" A to Z, 1963

[2:10-12] "Paid Bills", "Unpaid Bills", "Bills-Alphabetical Order", 1963

[2:13-15] Job File (A to Z), 1963

[3:1] Paid Bills, 1964

[3:2] Bills Alphabetical Order, 1964

[3:3-5] [alphabetical], 1964

[3:6-11] Correspondence (A to Z), 1964

[3:12-13] Paid and Unpaid Bills, 1965

[3:14-16] Job File (A to Z), 1965

[4:1-7] Correspondence (A to Z), 1965

[4:8] Paid and Unpaid Bills, 1966

[4:9-11] Job File (A to Z), 1966

[4:12-13] "Correspondence and Bills A to M", 1966

[4:14] Bills, 1967

[4:15-17] Job File (A to Z), 1967

[5:1] Bills, 1968

[5:2-3] Job File (A to Z), 1968

[5:4] Bills, 1969

[5:5] Job File (A to Z), 1969


Box 05 to 06

Project billing and correspondence, 1970s

[5:6-7] Bills, 1970

[5:8] Job File (A to Z), 1970

[5:9] Bills, 1971

[5:10] Job File (A-Z), 1971

[5:11] Bills, 1972

[5:12] Job File (A-Z), 1972

[5:13] Bills, 1973

[6:1] Job File (A-Z), 1973

[6:2] Bills, 1974

[6:3] Job File (A to Z), 1974

[6:4] Bills, 1975

[6:5] Job File (A to Z), 1975

[6:6] Job File (A to Z), 1976

[6:7] Job File (A to Z), 1977

[6:8] Job File (A to Z), 1978

[6:9] Job File (A to Z), 1979


Box 06 Folder 10 to 11

Project billing and correspondence, 1980s-2000s

[6:10] Job File (A to Z), 1980-1996

[6:11] Correspondence, 1996-2004


Box 06 Folder 12 to 15

Account, Edward Durell Stone, 1955, 1961-1964

Contains bills and some correspondence, arranged alphabetically by year [4 folders]


Box 07 Folder 19

Account, McCall's Magazine, 1946

Contains correspondence and bills regarding model


Box 07 Folder 01 to 09

Account, Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill, 1948-1950, 1953-1965, 1967-1969

[9 folders]


Box 07 Folder 10

Account, Woman's Home Companion, 1950s

Series III: Professional Papers


Box 8 Folder 01

Bulletins and Catalogs

Printed material featuring images of models by Conrad, includes: Rockefeller Center Weekly (May 1937) featuring the "$100,000 House of Tomorrow"); Museum of Modern Art bulletin (Fall 1950) on Skidmore, Owings & Merrill; and The Museum of Modern Art catalog "Buildings for Business and Government" (1957); Stephen Shilowitz, Architects; At Cooper Union Alumni News (1971)


Box 07 Folder 11 to 13

Correspondence, general, 1940, 1952-1959


Box 07 Folder 14

Correspondence, general, 1960s


Box 07 Folder 15

Correspondence, general, 1970s


Box 07 Folder 16

Correspondence, general, 1980s


Box 07 Folder 17 to 18

Correspondence, Vollheim Microfoam Corporation, 1960s-1970s

[2 folders]


Oversize 01 Folder 01

Clippings, Conrad, 1939-1974

Arranged chronologically with undated material at the end


Oversize 01 Folder 02

Clippings, McCall's, 1940s-1950s

Includes models possibly by Conrad and Book "McCall's Book of Modern Houses" (1951)


Oversize 01 Folder 02

Clippings, Models [1 of 2], 1940s-1960s

Newspaper clippings and tear sheets documenting Conrad's projects


Box 08 Folder 03

Clippings, Models [2 of 2], 1937-88

Newspaper clippings documenting Conrad's projects


Oversize 01 Folder 04

Clippings, Universal Atlas Cements Ads, 1956-1957

Includes the following projects: Airport [Victor Gruen Associates], Supper Club (Shoreline Development) [Antonin Raymond & L.L. Rado, Architects], Molecular Structure Building [Louis I. Kahn], St. John's Abbey and University (Collegeville, MN) [Marcel Breuer], Hotel (Puerto Rico) [Toro-Ferrer and Charles H. Warner, Jr.], Stadium [Antonin Raymond & L.L. Rado, Architects], Battery Park Housing (New York, NY) [I.M. Pei]


Box 08 Folder 03

Delta Post-War Shop Planning Contest, 1934

Includes application and correspondence for Delta Workshop Contest


Box 08 Folder 04

Forms, contracts and estimates, undated


Box 08 Folder 05 to 09

Shop and Model Making Photographs, 1930s-1950s?

Includes images of Conrad's model workshops at 250 Ogden Avenue, 31 Griffith Street, Franklin Street, Radio City, and Corbett's Office. Includes interior shop photographs of equipment and of the construction of various models. [4 folders]


Box 08 Folder 15

Standards of Apprenticeship for the Trade of Model Making (U.S. Department of Labor), 1952-1953

Also includes Builder Certificate for Conrad


Box 08 Folder 10 to 13

Washington Village of Jersey City Heights, Hudson City Historical Society, 1980s

Historic preservation packet and scrapbook on Washington Village, New Jersey City. Conrad's House (formerly Gov. Ogden's house) on cover. [4 copies]


Box 08 Folder 14

War Effort Memorial Album ("Dec. 7, 1941") [complied by Theodore Conrad], 1991

Contains stories from the Jersey Journal and includes a piece on Conrad

Series IV: Personal Papers


Box 09 Folder 01

Drawings

Includes mostly non-project related drawings and print reproductions


Box 09 Folder 02

Photographs, Theodore Conrad, ca. 1940s-1970s


Box 09 Folder 03

Photographs, Miscellaneous


Box 09 Folder 04

Selective Service (U.S. Navy), 1942-1944

Correspondence, forms, and other paperwork

Series V: Reference


Box 08 Folder 14

Aircraft Spotters' Guide, Part I-IV, 1942

4 booklets


Box 08 Folder 24

Alfonso Alvarez, Architect, undated

Office pamphlet "Portrait of the Office of Alfonso Alvarez, Architect & Associates"


Oversize 01 Folder 05

Bakery Shop Model Parts, undated

6 photographs


Box 08 Folder 15

Delta Machinery Catalogs, undated

Contains product sheets and catalogs for Delta workshop machinery


Box 09 Folder 5

George Washington Masonic National Memorial, 1925

Publication


Box 08 Folder 16

Grossinger Airport: Plane and Technical Details, undated

Contains black and white prints of WWII aircraft


Box 08 Folder 17

Koven All Steel Swimming Pool, undated

Product sheet


Box 08 Folder 18

Model Aircraft Photographs, undated

4 mounted prints ; stamped note "Not to be used for advertising or reproduced in any manner. Property of U.S. Navy"


Box 09 Folder 06 to 12

Model Making Materials, undated

Contains product sheets and catalogs for model making materials


Box 08 Folder 19

Otis Escalator Drawings, undated

Contains drawing set of Type 32 Escalator ; stamped "Skidmore, Ownings & Merrill"


Box 08 Folder 20

Promotional Material, competitors, undated

Promotional material from Model Buildings Inc. and Industrial Models Inc.


Box 08 Folder 21

Stone, Edward Durell, undated

Clippings


Box 08 Folder 22

Trees, undated

Contains photo prints of trees and notes about standardization of tree types and sizes for model-making purposes


Box 08 Folder 23

Tool Catalogs, undated

Contain product sheets and catalogs for workshop machinery

Series VI: Architectural Drawings


Tube 01 Roll 01

Battery Park City, 1974

10 items : contains siteplan blueprint, 1:500, slab elevation plan 1/16"=1'-0", tower drawings


Tube 01 Roll 02

Battery Park City, undated

14 items : includes siteplan blueprint, design frawings, color coded plans, trace drawings


Tube 02 Roll 03

Battery Park City, undated

10 items : includes siteplans, surveys, etc


Tube 02 Roll 04

Battery Park City, ca. 1973

18 items : includes siteplans, surveys, plans of Manhattan Community College by Caudill, Rowlett, Scott


Tube 03 Roll 05

Battery Park City, undated

14 items : includes siteplans, surveys, etc


Tube 03 Roll 06

Battery Park City, undated

5 items : contains trace drawings that go with drawings in rolls


Tube 03 Roll 07

Collier's Magazine, Model House [Fordyce & Hamby], 1937

8 items : contains blueprints: Plans, elevations, section of Collier House by Ammon Fordyce and William I. Hamby


Tube 03 Roll 08

Collier's Magazine, Weekend House [Edward D. Stone], 1938

4 items : contains blueprints


Tube 03 Roll 09

Hackensack Meadowlands District, New Jersey, undated

2 items : contains "Hackensack Meadowlands District Official Zoning Map", 1"=3,000' and "Hackensack Meadowlands Development Commision" arial poster, 1"=1000'


Tube 04 Roll 10

Hirshhorn Museum [Skidmore, Owings & Merrill], undated

10 items : contains blueprints and sepia prints of Hirshhorn museum by SOMĀ“s Gordon Bunshaft


Tube 04 Roll 11

Liberty Park, undated

2 items : contains siteplan


Tube 04 Roll 12

Manhattan Street Study, undated

1 item : contains one long drawing, badly damaged, depicting Manhattan from Battery Park to Brooklyn Bridge, elsewhere marked "Lower Manhattan, Water St. Study"


Tube 05 Roll 13

Miscellaneous Projects, 1941-42

4 items : contains blueprints: Plan of Rockefeller Apartments, plan of Rockefeller Plaza by Harrison and Fouilhoux, plan of trailer farm display by Johns Manville Corporation


Tube 05 Roll 14

New York World's Fair 1939 [Goodwin, Kebbon, Snow, Ketchum and Snow], 1936-37

3 items : contains diazo prints for Focal Food Buildling


Tube 06 Roll 15

World Trade Center, undated

20 items


Tube 07 Roll 16

Unidentified, Athletics Complex [CUHA?], undated

17 items : contains blueprints, some with sketches on trace paper. Perhaps this is the St. Louis Sports Stadium by Edward Durell Stone as seen in the photocopied newspaper clipping collection, 1963


Tube 07 Roll 17

Unidentified, Athletics Complex [CUHA?], undated

20 items : contains blueprints, some with sketches on trace paper


Tube 07 Roll 18

Unidentified, Highrise Building, undated

2 items : contains identical photocopies of 60 fl. unidentified highrise


Tube 07 Roll 19

Unidentified, Park Complex, undated

6 items : contains blueprints, one over 6' long

Series VI: Object


Model Airplane