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.
Organized and re-housed following Dr. Landau's own organizational system, these files are divided as Dr. Landau divided them, named as Dr. Landau named them, and have been organized internally by material type (namely research notes, correspondence, source materials, ect.) for ease of use by the researcher.
This series includes all materials within Dr. Landau's files labeled "lectures" and materials range from fully articulated transcripts of Dr. Landau's lectures to hand-written notecards outlining speeches, lectures, and talks given at a variety cultural institutions and institutions of higher learning.
Series III: Grant Proposals and Research Travel
This series includes all extant copies of research proposals, grant applications, and sundry papers from research travel that Dr. Landau kept within her records.
This series includes files, organized as Dr. Landau organized them, corresponding directly to the publication of scholarship, namely correspondence with publishers, drafts and materials for revised editions, and remittance records.
This series includes Dr. Landau's personal correspondence, portraits, and ephemera.
Series VI: Architectural Drawing
Included is one original architectural drawing by Edward T. Potter for John Crosby Brown summer home in West Orange, NJ, dated 1874.
This collection is made up of six series: Series I: Research Files; Series II: Lectures and Talks; Series III: Grant Proposals and Research Travel; Series IV: Publishing Files; Series V: Personal Papers; Series VI: Architectural Drawing
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Sarah Landau papers, 1874-1990, Dept. of Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University.
Source of acquisition--Sarah Landau. Method of acquisition--Donated;; Date of acquisition--2016. Accession number--2016.014.
Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
This collection was processed by Travis Brock Kennedy (Graduate Intern), under the supervision of Shelley Hayreh, Avery Archivist, in 2017.
2017-11-21 File created.
2019-05-20 EAD was imported spring 2019 as part of the ArchivesSpace Phase II migration.
Dr. Sarah Bradford Landau (1935-) is an architectural historian. Her research focus includes American and English art and architecture of the nineteenth century and the influence of the nineteenth century on the development of architecture in the early twentieth century, primarily in New York City, and particularly as it relates to the emergence of the skyscraper as a building type in New York City.
Landau completed her Ph.D. in Art History at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University in 1978. The subject of her dissertation was the architecture of William Appleton Potter and Edward Tuckerman Potter.
She served as commissioner of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission from 1987-1996. Later she served as Vice Chairman of the Commission from 1993-1996. Additionally, she is a founding member of Landmark West!: The Committee to Preserve the Upper West Side, where she has served on the Board of Directors for three decades.
Her published works include George B. Post, Architect: Picturesque Designer and Determined Realist (New York: Monacelli Press. 1998), Rise of the New York Skyscraper, 1865-1913, with C.W. Condit. (New Haven: Yale University Press. 1996), The Grand American Avenue, 1850 to 1920, eds. with J. Cigliano (Washington, D.C.: American Architectural Foundation. 1994), "Greek and Gothic Side by Side: Architecture in the Village," eds. L.C. Berlowitz and R. Beard. In Greenwich Village: Culture and Counter-Culture (Rutgers University Press with Museum of the City of New York. 1993), P.B. Wight: Architect, Contractor, and Critic 1838-1925 (Art Institute of Chicago. 1981), and Edward T. and William A. Potter, American Victorian Architects (New York & London: Garland Publishing, Inc. 1979).
Box 1 Folder 1
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).
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Research Notes and Source Materials
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Research Notes and Source Materials
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Research Notes, Correspondence, Photographs, and Source Materials
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Research Notes, Correspondence, Photographs, and Source Materials
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Research Notes, Correspondence, and Source Materials
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Research Notes, Correspondence, and Source Materials
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Correspondence
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Research Notes, Correspondence, and Source Materials
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Research Notes, Correspondence, and Source Materials
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Research Notes
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Correspondence
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Source Materials
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Research Notes, Correspondence, and Source Materials
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Research Notes, Correspondence, and Source Materials
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Christ Church, Reading PA, 1826-1926 Centennial Souvenir
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Research Notes, Correspondence, and Source Materials
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Source Materials
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Research Notes, Correspondence, and Source Materials
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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
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Research Notes, Correspondence, and Source Materials
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Brochures and Saint John's Church at Brooklyn: 1976 150th Anniversary Year by Edward P. Dyer, Jr. et al
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Research Notes, Correspondence, and Source Materials
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Research Notes, Correspondence, and Source Materials
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Research Notes, Correspondence, and Source Materials
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Correspondence
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Research Notes and Source Materials
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Research Notes, Correspondence, and Source Materials
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Research Notes and Source Materials
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Research Notes and Source Materials
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Research Notes and Correspondence
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Source Materials
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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)
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Research Notes, Correspondence, and Source Materials
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Research Notes and Source Materials
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Research Notes, Correspondence, and Source Materials
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Research Notes, Correspondence, and Source Materials
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Research Notes and Source Materials
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"A 'Villa Normandie' in Connecticut: The Mark Twain House" by Sarah Bradford Landau, research notes, and correspondence
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pamphlets and brochures
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Source Material - Archival and Source Material - Published
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Research Notes and Source Materials
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Research Notes, Correspondence, and Source Materials
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Research Notes, Correspondence, and Source Materials
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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
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Research Notes and Source Materials
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Research Notes and Source Materials
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Research Notes and Source Materials (Archival, Published, and Photographic)
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Research Notes and Correspondence
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Source Materials
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Research Notes and Source Materials
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Research Notes
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Research Notes and Source Materials
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Research Notes, Correspondence, and Source Materials
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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)
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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
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Research Notes and Source Materials
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Research Notes, Correspondence, and Source Materials
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Research Notes and Correspondence
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Source Materials
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Research Notes and Source Materials
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Research Notes, Correspondence, and Source Materials
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Research Notes, Correspondence, and Source Materials
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Research Notes and Source Materials
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Research Notes and Source Materials
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Research Notes and Source Materials
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Research Notes, Correspondence, and Source Materials
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Research Notes, Correspondence, Completed Work, and Source Materials
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Large Format Prints and Contact Sheets
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Small Format Prints
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Speech, Drafts and Notes, Correspondence, and Source Materials (includes Photographs)
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Research Notes, Correspondence, and Source Materials
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Research Notes, Correspondence, and Source Materials
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Research Notes (includes Thesis/Dissertation Notes) and Source Materials
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Research Notes
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Research Notes, Correspondence, and Source Materials
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Research Notes amd Correspondence
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Source Materials
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Research Notes, Photographs, and Source Materials
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Research Notes, Correspondence, and Source Materials
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Downtown Providence Statewide Historical Preservation Report - Rhode Island Historical Preservation Commission
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Includes one original nineteenth century photograph of Brighthurst, West Orange NJ, summer home of John Crosby Brown by William A. Potter in 2016.
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Correspondence and Source Materials
Box 17 Folder 2
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
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
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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
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
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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
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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
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includes Bard Lecture (April 1, 1988), George B. Post & Sons, Architects
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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
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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"
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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
Box 15 Folder 1
Grant Proposal, Research Notes, Correspondence, and Source Materials
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American Architectural Archive, American Association of University Women, The American Architectural Foundation, The American Institute of Architects College of Fellows, The American Council of Learned Societies
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John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, The National Endowment for the Humanities, New York University, Yale University
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Yale University Press
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Research Notes and Correspondence
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Research Notes and Correspondence
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Source Materials
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Research Notes, Remittance, and Source Materials - Periodicals
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Correspondence
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includes Lori Zabar, Freya Zabitsky, Mosette Broderick, Chris Gray, Committee for the Preservation of Architectural Records, Margot Gayle,
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Prints and Contact Sheets. Includes one unidentified 19th-century portrait of a young man. Possibly William A. Potter or Edward T. Potter, possibly a relative of Landau
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Event Programs and Posters
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Clippings
Shelf C280ft
1 item : watercolor rendering, framed