Sarah Landau papers, 1874-1999

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Series II: Lectures and Talks



Box 17 Folder 2 Lectures on Housing and Apartment Houses I

includes English Terrace Housing, Irving Gill, New York's Nineteenth Century Buildings, Irish Architecture, Philadelphia 1800-1840, Latrobe, The Stick Style from Unamerican Perspectives, and New York's Arcaded Buildings



Box 17 Folder 3 Lectures on Housing and Apartment Houses II

includes The Row House, Nott Memorial, Richardson's Buffalo Psychiatric Center, the Upper West Side, Greenwich Village, P.B. Wright's legacy to Frank Furness, A Taste for the French: Early Work of Lienau and Hunt in New York and Newport, The Potter Brothers: High Victorian Gothic Specialists, and William Potter's Princeton



Box 17 Folder 4 Lectures on Housing and Apartment Houses - Source Materials



Box 17 Folder 5 Skyscraper Lecture



Box 17 Folder 6 Skyscraper Lectures I

includes Skyscraper Museum Lecture, The First Skyscrapers: Innovation in the 1870's, The Birth of the Skyscraper in New York, New York Skyscrapers: A Talk at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rise of the New York Skyscraper 1865-1913, New York Before the Skyscraper: Aspects of Mid-Nineteenth Century Commercial Architecture, Creation of the Early Skyscraper: Reappraisal in Favor of New York City, The Early New York Skyscraper: Relationship Between Site and Design



Box 18 Folder 1 Skyscraper Lectures II

includes The Tower, Rise of the Office Building in New York, Buell Talk: Early Skyscrapers, Francis H. Kimball and the Early New York Skyscraper, Skyscraper Lecture at Barnes & Noble, Toward the Skyscraper: Architectural and Technical Achievement in New York Before 1870, Inventing the New York Skyscraper, The New York Stock Exchange: George B. Post's Monument to Money (talk given at the Skyscraper Museum), George B. Post and the RIse of the New York Skyscraper



Box 18 Folder 2 New York City Architecture

includes Brooklyn Historical Society Talk (May 12, 1999), Lower Manhattan, West Side Row Houses: Swan Song of the New York "Brownstone," From East to West: Development of the Upper West Side, From Victorian Gothic to Beaux-Arts Classicism: American Architecture and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Barnes and Noble Panel on Union Square, Design Before the Zoning Law of 1916, Cass Gilbert's New York City Architecture



Box 18 Folder 3 The Potter Brothers

includes The House that Edward Built: The Mark Twain House, The Curious House That Mark Built, Art for Nature's Sake: Edward Potter and the Colts, Potter Lecture at the Fourth Universalist Society, Panel on the Restoration of the Nott Memorial



Box 18 Folder 4 George B. Post

includes Bard Lecture (April 1, 1988), George B. Post & Sons, Architects



Box 18 Folder 5 Richard Morris Hunt

includes Hunt's Griswold: A "Villa Normandie" in Newport, Richard Morris Hunt and the Development of Two Building Types: Artist's Studios and Apartment Houses, and The Stick Style Revisited: Richard Morris Hunt and the Newport Villa



Box 18 Folder 6 Miscellaneous Lectures & Speeches I

includes Colonial to Modern, American Architecture from the Victorian Gothic to Queen Anne, Church Architecture, Excavating Hidden Treasures, Brazer & Gilbert, Cesar Pelli, Wight on Root: An Architecture "Without Style"



Box 18 Folder 7 Miscellaneous Lectures & Speeches II

includes Landmarks Conservancy Award Acceptance Speech, Society of Architectural Historians Lecture, Channel 12 TV Interview, The Townsend and St. James Buildings Centennial Celebration Speech, Brown Lecture Data, and IFA Lecture