Sarah Landau papers, 1874-1999

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Series I: Research Files



Box 1 Folder 1 William A. Potter "Doubtful Works", 1873-1874

Research Notes, Correspondence, Photographs (includes three photographic prints and one small photograph album dated circa 1918), and Source Materials (includes 90th anniversary souvenir booklet from St. John the Evangelist, Barrytown NY, dated 1964).



Box 1 Folder 2 William A. Potter, 1894-1895

Research Notes and Source Materials



Box 1 Folder 3 William A. Potter Government Buildings, 1876

Research Notes and Source Materials



Box 1 Folder 4 William A. Potter, 1879-1881

Research Notes, Correspondence, Photographs, and Source Materials



Box 1 Folder 5 William A. Potter, 1882-1887

Research Notes, Correspondence, Photographs, and Source Materials



Box 1 Folder 6 William A. Potter, 1890

Research Notes, Correspondence, and Source Materials



Box 1 Folder 7 William A. Potter, 1896

Research Notes, Correspondence, and Source Materials



Box 2 Folder 1 William A. Potter Unlocated and Doubtful Works, 1890

Correspondence



Box 2 Folder 2 William A. Potter Government Buildings 1, 1875

Research Notes, Correspondence, and Source Materials



Box 2 Folder 3 William A. Potter Government Buildings 2, 1875

Research Notes, Correspondence, and Source Materials



Box 2 Folder 4 William A. Potter General Government Collateral

Research Notes



Box 2 Folder 5 William A. Potter General Government Collateral

Correspondence



Box 2 Folder 6 William A. Potter General Government Collateral

Source Materials



Box 2 Folder 7 Edward T. Potter, 1855-1860

Research Notes, Correspondence, and Source Materials



Box 3 Folder 1 Edward T. Potter, 1861-1862

Research Notes, Correspondence, and Source Materials



Box 3 Folder 2 Edward T. Potter, 1861-1862

Christ Church, Reading PA, 1826-1926 Centennial Souvenir



Box 3 Folder 3 Edward T. Potter, 1863-1865

Research Notes, Correspondence, and Source Materials



Box 3 Folder 4 Edward T. Potter, 1863-1865

Source Materials



Box 3 Folder 5 Edward T. Potter, 1865-1867

Research Notes, Correspondence, and Source Materials



Box 3 Folder 6 Edward T. Potter, 1867-1868

Research Notes and Source Materials includes The Witness (4/11/1929) and What's In a Name: The Church of the Heavenly Rest in New York City by Frederick C. Grant



Box 4 Folder 1 Edward T. Potter, 1869

Research Notes, Correspondence, and Source Materials



Box 4 Folder 2 Edward T. Potter, 1869

Brochures and Saint John's Church at Brooklyn: 1976 150th Anniversary Year by Edward P. Dyer, Jr. et al



Box 4 Folder 3 Edward T. Potter, 1871-1872

Research Notes, Correspondence, and Source Materials



Box 4 Folder 4 Edward T. Potter, 1874

Research Notes, Correspondence, and Source Materials



Box 4 Folder 5 Edward T. Potter Doubtful Works

Research Notes, Correspondence, and Source Materials



Box 4 Folder 6 Edward T. Potter Unlocated Buildings and Other Works, 1856-1870

Correspondence



Box 4 Folder 7 Edward T. Potter Rejected Works

Research Notes and Source Materials



Box 4 Folder 8 Edward T. Potter Biographical

Research Notes, Correspondence, and Source Materials



Box 5 Folder 1 Edward T. Potter Material from Avery Box

Research Notes and Source Materials



Box 5 Folder 2 Edward T. Potter Collateral

Research Notes and Source Materials



Box 5 Folder 3 Edward T. Potter Writings, Housing Material, and Patents

Research Notes and Correspondence



Box 5 Folder 4 Edward T. Potter Writings, Housing Material, and Patents

Source Materials



Box 5 Folder 5 1864-1869(71)

Lord and Taylor Building, Mutual Life Insurance Company, Metropolitan Savings Bank, Robbins & Appleton Building (1-5 Bond Street), National Park Bank, and Misc. (includes Kennison Notes)



Box 5 Folder 6 1858ff E.T.P. Alumni Hall (Nott Memorial, Union College), 1858

Research Notes, Correspondence, and Source Materials



Box 5 Folder 7 Starkweather - Potter Building, 1883-1886

Research Notes and Source Materials



Box 6 Folder 1 St. Mary's - in Tuxedo & Collateral W.A.P. [William A. Potter], 1887-1888, 1890, 1897, 1901, and earlier work

Research Notes, Correspondence, and Source Materials



Box 6 Folder 2 Somerville Church

Research Notes, Correspondence, and Source Materials



Box 6 Folder 3 Mark Twain House Ideas and Collateral [Edward T. Potter]

Research Notes and Source Materials



Box 6 Folder 4 Mark Twain House Information and Chafee Thesis [Edward T. Potter], 1873-1874

"A 'Villa Normandie' in Connecticut: The Mark Twain House" by Sarah Bradford Landau, research notes, and correspondence



Box 6 Folder 5 Mark Twain House Information and Chafee Thesis [Edward T. Potter], 1873-1874

pamphlets and brochures



Box 6 Folder 6 Mark Twain House Information and Chafee Thesis [Edward T. Potter], 1873-1874

Source Material - Archival and Source Material - Published



Box 6 Folder 7 Lutheran Church of the Advent [William A. Potter]

Research Notes and Source Materials



Box 6 Folder 8 Colt: Factory Complex and Sundries

Research Notes, Correspondence, and Source Materials



Box 6 Folder 9 Problems of the Church of the Good Shepherd

Research Notes, Correspondence, and Source Materials



Box 7 Folder 1 St. Agnes Chapel, School House, and Rectory, 1888

Research Notes and Source Materials (incl two copies of Year Book and Register of the Parish of Trinity Church in the City of New York A.D. 1882 and 1889



Box 7 Folder 2 St. Martin's Harlem (Holy Trinity), 1887

Research Notes and Source Materials



Box 7 Folder 3 Union Theological Seminary - Potter & Lord, 1881

Research Notes and Source Materials



Box 7 Folder 4 Cathedral of St. John the Divine & Other Notes, 1888

Research Notes and Source Materials (Archival, Published, and Photographic)



Box 7 Folder 5 Church of the Good Shepherd/Parish House - Hartford, St. John's - Hartford, Jarvis Letters, Franklin Diary Notes, Library at Armsmear, 1867, 1894, 1871-1872

Research Notes and Correspondence



Box 7 Folder 6 Church of the Good Shepherd/Parish House - Hartford, St. John's - Hartford, Jarvis Letters, Franklin Diary Notes, Library at Armsmear, 1867, 1894, 1871-1872

Source Materials



Box 7 Folder 7 Post: Western Union, 1872-1875 ff

Research Notes and Source Materials



Box 7 Folder 8 Marine National Bank, c. 1870-1871

Research Notes



Box 7 Folder 9 25 Union Square: Tribune Building (Hunt), Coal & Iron Exchange, Evening Post, 1872-1876

Research Notes and Source Materials



Box 8 Folder 1 Peabody & Stearns, United Bank Building, Post: Produce Exchange, Hanan Building, DeVinne Press, 691 Broadway, 1880-1886

Research Notes, Correspondence, and Source Materials



Box 8 Folder 2 Church of the Divine Paternity [William A. Potter]

Research Notes and Source Materials (includes 19th Century Lithograph of an Engraving of the High Altar from American Architect and Building News 9/14/1897 No. 1132)



Box 8 Folder 3 Church of the Divine Paternity [William A. Potter]

Howe, Charles A. The Larger Faith: A Short History of American Universalism. Boston: Skinner House Books, 1993. Paperback print edition signed by the author and dedicated to Sarah Bradford Landau November 16, 1997



Box 8 Folder 4 Teacher's College [William A. Potter]

Research Notes and Source Materials



Box 8 Folder 5 Loggia: Metropolitan Club (Washington, D.C.) and St. James Lutheran Church, 1888-1890

Research Notes, Correspondence, and Source Materials



Box 8 Folder 6 Apartment Houses and Tenements

Research Notes and Correspondence



Box 8 Folder 7 Apartment Houses and Tenements

Source Materials



Box 8 Folder 8 Brown Brothers

Research Notes and Source Materials



Box 8 Folder 9 Delano Material - Scribner's

Research Notes, Correspondence, and Source Materials



Box 9 Folder 1 Collateral: Other Architects includes Babb & Cook, Charles W. Clinton, Horace S. Bush, Henry Ferirach, James Brown Lord, H. Edwards-Ficken, Snelling & Pottes, Robert Gibson, John Sturgis, Sturgis & Brighton, Peter B. Wight, James W. Pirsson, Hubert, Pirrson, & Co., Chas C. Haight, The Upjohns, Henry Vaughan, F.L. Olmstead, William Halsey Wood, L.C. Tiffany, Alfred H. Thorp, A.J. Davis, Richardson, Chester Babcock, Vaux, Bruce Price

Research Notes, Correspondence, and Source Materials



Box 9 Folder 2 Extra Notes for Periodicals and Misc. (Henry Hobson Richardson)

Research Notes and Source Materials



Box 9 Folder 3 Pre-Civil War and Cast Iron Buildings I: Banks & Hotels, Moffat Building, Park Theater, Castle Garden, Gilsey BuildingBank of New York, A.T. Stewart Store

Research Notes and Source Materials



Box 9 Folder 4 Pre-Civil War and Cast Iron Buildings II: Academy of Music, Astor Library, Lyceum of National History, Richard M. Upjohn Buildings, Old New York Times Building, Cast Iron Buildings and Hotels, Harper Brothers

Research Notes and Source Materials



Box 9 Folder 5 Collateral: Upjohn: Father and Son, H.C. Potter, Olmstead, Howard Potter, Vaughan, Delano & Aldrich, Family - Potter Collateral, Bibliography, Cram, American Colleges, M. Crook

Research Notes, Correspondence, and Source Materials



Box 9 Folder 6 Albany Tricentennial

Research Notes, Correspondence, Completed Work, and Source Materials



Box 10 Folder 1 [Richard Morris] Hunt Research - Research Notes



Box 10 Folder 2 [Richard Morris] Hunt Research - Correspondence



Box 10 Folder 3 [Richard Morris] Hunt Research - Source Materials



Box 10 Folder 4 [Richard Morris] Hunt Research - Photographs

Large Format Prints and Contact Sheets



Box 10 Folder 5 [Richard Morris] Hunt Research - Photographs

Small Format Prints



Box 10 Folder 6 Nott Memorial Article

Speech, Drafts and Notes, Correspondence, and Source Materials (includes Photographs)



Box 10 Folder 7 American Collateral, 1876-1882 ff

Research Notes, Correspondence, and Source Materials



Box 11 Folder 1 Chicago Research - Research Notes



Box 11 Folder 2 Chicago Research - Completed Works I



Box 11 Folder 3 Chicago Research - Completed Works II



Box 11 Folder 4 Chicago Research - Source Materials



Box 11 Folder 5 Wight Research - National Academy of Design



Box 11 Folder 6 Odds and Ends includes Potter Statement, List of Recent Photos Made at Avery, Hitchcock on Ruskin, Wodehouse on William A. Potter, My Outline, Unfiled AABN



Box 11 Folder 7 Miscellaneous New York City, Buffalo, Sturgis &c.

Research Notes, Correspondence, and Source Materials



Box 11 Folder 8 Edward Tuckerman Potter - Several Churches - Two Complete

Research Notes (includes Thesis/Dissertation Notes) and Source Materials



Box 11 Folder 9 William A. Potter, 1899

Research Notes



Box 11 Folder 10 Church Architecture - Biography

Research Notes, Correspondence, and Source Materials



Box 12 Folder 1 William A. Potter, 1875-1878

Research Notes amd Correspondence



Box 12 Folder 2 William A. Potter, 1875-1878

Source Materials



Box 12 Folder 3 Colt

Research Notes, Photographs, and Source Materials



Box 12 Folder 4 Potter and Robertson Private Commissions, 1875

Research Notes, Correspondence, and Source Materials



Box 12 Folder 5 Providence

Downtown Providence Statewide Historical Preservation Report - Rhode Island Historical Preservation Commission



Box 13 Folder 1 Miscellaneous Research Notes



Box 13 Folder 2 Miscellaneous Correspondence



Box 13 Folder 3 Miscellaneous Source Materials



Box 13 Folder 4 Miscellaneous Photographs

Includes one original nineteenth century photograph of Brighthurst, West Orange NJ, summer home of John Crosby Brown by William A. Potter in 2016.



Box 13 Folder 5 Miscellaneous Source Materials



Box 13 Folder 6 Miscellaneous Source Materials



Box 14 Folder 1 Victorian Gothic Research Files I



Box 14 Folder 2 Victorian Gothic Research Files II



Box 14 Folder 3 Victorian Gothic Research Files III



Box 14 Folder 4 Victorian Gothic - Foreign Sources

Correspondence and Source Materials