Frederick Gutheim papers, 1939-1997

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Series I: Files

Original file titles maintained. Supplied titles in brackets.



Box 01 Folder 01 to 04 Editorial and Publishing Files (including all Frank Lloyd Wright). Mainly from 1939-1950 (and other things), ca. 1939-1950

Original papers from Gutheim removed from file box; Contains correspondence with individuals such as Lewis Mumford and Frank Lloyd Wright; also includes letters of appreciation regarding the publication of The Potomac; and other letters about historic preservation and other activities undertaken by Gutheim in the 1940s.



Box 01 Folder 05 Gutheim Memoirs [1]



Box 01 Folder 06 Gutheim Memoirs [2]



Box 01 Folder 07 Gutheim Memoirs [3]

About people



Box 01 Folder 08 Gutheim Memoirs [4]



Box 01 Folder 09 Gutheim Memoirs [5]



Box 01 Folder 10 A book about Fritz?



Box 01 Folder 11 Fritz (Gutheim) and Loeffler



Box 01 Folder 12 Gutheim Bio files



Box 01 Folder 13 Gutheim Obit files



Box 01 Folder 14 Mumford letters (copies)



Box 01 Folder 15 Rte 15 history



Box 01 Folder 16 Gropius letter, 1935, from Wyoming archives



Box 01 Folder 17 Henry Russell Hitchcock letter copy



Box 01 Folder 18 Extra Frank Lloyd Wright material re. 1941 book



Box 01 Folder 19 "The Frank Lloyd Wright I knew" and more



Box 01 Folder 20 Frank Lloyd Wright



Box 01 Folder 21 Aalto material



Box 01 Folder 22 Greenbelt revisited, 1947



Box 01 Folder 23 TASK, Gutheim "LETTER FROM WASHINGTON" on postwar planning, 1942



Box 01 Folder 24 "UN from pillar to post" by Gutheim in The Nation, 1946



Box 01 Folder 25 Gutheim editorials published in New York Herald Tribune 1947-53



Box 01 Folder 26 Montgomery County - FG Gift



Box 01 Folder 27 Montgomery County and Potomac—misc.



Box 01 Folder 28 Montgomery County open space planning



Box 01 Folder 29 Gutheim articles / (Congress) Bible report, 1959



Box 01 Folder 30 Gutheim articles published in Wash. Post, 1960-67



Box 01 Folder 31 [Pennsylvania Avenue (Washington, D.C.)]



Box 01 Folder 32 [Pennsylvania Avenue (Washington, D.C.)] National Geographic, etc.



Box 01 Folder 33 [Pennsylvania Avenue (Washington, D.C.] Chronology, 1961-1975 (PADC)



Box 01 Folder 34 [Pennsylvania Avenue (Washington, D.C.] Gutheim (AIA) "Mess in Washington" 1953



Box 01 Folder 35 [Pennsylvania Avenue (Washington, D.C.] Plan, 1974



Box 01 Folder 36 [Pennsylvania Avenue (Washington, D.C.] Excerpts from Ad Hoc Report, 1962



Box 01 Folder 37 [Pennsylvania Avenue (Washington, D.C.] Historic Site Commission, 1967 : estab. Commission on O.A.



Box 01 Folder 38 [Pennsylvania Avenue (Washington, D.C.] Report Work Fall 1968



Box 01 Folder 39 [Pennsylvania Avenue (Washington, D.C.] Gutheim Lecture (London, Rome) 1968



Box 01 Folder 40 [Pennsylvania Avenue (Washington, D.C.] Gutheim Text 1968 FBI Building + National Square



Box 01 Folder 41 [Pennsylvania Avenue (Washington, D.C.] (Report) Gutheim Materials, 1968 [Delay]



Box 01 Folder 42 [Pennsylvania Avenue (Washington, D.C.] McMillian Plan, 1902



Box 01 Folder 43 [Pennsylvania Avenue (Washington, D.C.] 1969



Box 01 Folder 44 [Pennsylvania Avenue (Washington, D.C.] Renewal 1988 Donald Canty Article (Architecture)



Box 01 Folder 45 [Pennsylvania Avenue (Washington, D.C.] Clips 1987



Box 01 Folder 46 Frederick Law Olmsted Sesquicentennial, 1972-73 (with Loeffler) Committee Activities



Box 01 Folder 47 [Frederick Law Olmsted National Gallery of Art Exhibition, 1972]



Box 01 Folder 48 [Frederick Law Olmsted] Sesquicentennial, 1973



Box 01 Folder 49 [Frederick Law Olmsted] book reviews associated with sesquicentennial (Loeffler)



Box 01 Folder 50 to 51 Sugarloaf project, historic trails, Mount Ephraim, Stronghold, etc.— (Mount Ephraim was name of Gutheim's house/property in shadow of Sugarloaf Mountain, compound purchased by Gordon Strong, who created Stronghold there)



Box 01 Folder 52 Photos



Box 01 Folder 53 Gutheim talk, Washington, D.C. as 18th C. City (1981)



Box 01 Folder 54 Other articles, background, bio.



Box 01 Folder 55 Transcribed interviews with Gutheim, 1986-87

Created in preparation for book/article project Loeffler was working on.



Box 01 Folder 56 Loeffler article: draft of PROFILE OF FREDERICK GUTHEIM: "Intelligent Living," (1988)

Submitted to The New Yorker for consideration, rejected. Revised and published in Preservation Magazine in much shorter form.



Box 01 Folder 57 Excerpts from essays gathered for Gutheim's 80th birthday (1988) at George Washington University



Box 01 Folder 58 Gutheim's birthday (82) party at Loeffler's (1990)



Box 01 Folder 59 [Photo album of Gutheim Birthday Party at Loeffler's house]



Box 01 Folder 60 FG=80 1988 (green folder) essays contributed



Box 02 Folder 01 NEA nomination (1988)



Box 02 Folder 02 National Trust for Historic Preservation Crowninshield Award (1990)



Box 02 Folder 03 ARTICLES about FRITZ GUTHEIM in various publications



Box 02 Folder 04 "Frederick Gutheim: A Capital Catalyst" by Jane Loeffler, talk to Maryland Historical Society (1997)



Box 02 Folder 05 Gifts and legal papers/ including gifts to Univ of Wyoming (FG), Historical Society of Washington, D.C. (JCL), Montgomery County Historical Society (JCL), Library of Congress (JCL)



Box 02 Folder 06 to 10 [University of Wyoming American Heritage Center]



Box 03 [Aalto slides]