Eggers & Higgins architectural records, 1903-1963

Summary Information

At a Glance

Arrangement

• Series I: Photographs
• Sub-series 1: Residences
• Sub-series 2: Memorials and Mausoleums
• Sub-series 3: Museums
• Sub-series 4: Civic Buildings
• Sub-series 5: Office Buildings
• Sub-series 6: Ships
• Sub-series 7: Group Housing and Industrial
• Sub-series 8: Churches
• Sub-series 9: Medical Buildings
• Sub-series 10: Colleges and Universities
• Sub-series 11: Elementary and High Schools
• Sub-series 12: Unrealized Projects
• Series II: Drawings, Renderings, and Site Plans
• Sub-series 1: Inventory
• Sub-series 2: Residences
• Sub-series 3: Religious Buildings
• Sub-series 4: Elementary and High Schools
• Sub-series 5: Colleges and Universities
• Sub-series 6: Office Buildings
• Sub-series 7: Medical Buildings
• Sub-series 8: Memorials and Mausoleums
• Sub-series 9: Group Housing and Industrial
• Sub-series 10: Civic Buildings
• Sub-series 11: United States Naval Training School and Ships

Description

Scope and Contents

The collection consists of 2,924 photographs and 1,327 drawing reproductions of architectural projects by the firm of John Russell Pope, and later Eggers & Higgins.

• Series I: Photographs

• Series II: Drawings, Renderings, and Site Plans

Using the Collection

Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library

Conditions Governing 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.

Related Materials

Removed from the collection and now housed in Avery Classics are albums assembled by John Russell Pope during European travels as source material and retained by the architectural firm of Eggers & Higgins as visual resources.

Custodial History

The collection was transferred from University of Wisconsin-Green Bay's David A. Cofrin Library to Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library at Columbia University in 2017.

About the Finding Aid / Processing Information

Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library

Processing Information

This collection was processed by Amanda Morrow (Graduate Intern) in 2018-2019 under the supervision of Shelley Hayreh, Avery Archivist.

Subject Headings

The subject headings listed below are found in this collection. Links below allow searches at Columbia University through the Archival Collections Portal and through CLIO, the catalog for Columbia University Libraries, as well as ArchiveGRID, a catalog that allows users to search the holdings of multiple research libraries and archives.

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Subject

History / Biographical Note

Biographical / Historical

Eggers & Higgins was a New York architectural firm partnered by Otto Reinhold Eggers (1882–1964) and Daniel Paul Higgins (1886–1953). The pair were longtime associates of Pope in the firm he founded in 1903 as the Office of John Russell Pope, Architect. They changed the name of the firm to Eggers & Higgins in 1937, soon after Pope's death.