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.
This small collection consists of 3 letters between Herbert Jacobs and Frank Lloyd Wright concerning Jacobs' upcoming book We Chose the Country. The letters document a strained relationship between the architect and his former client, with the architect expressing disastifaction with how he is portrayed in Jacobs' publication.
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.
There is a significant holding of letters between Jacobs and Wright in the Avery Drawings & Archives' Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives as well as drawings and photographs for the two homes designed by Wright for the Jacobs family.
Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
Herbert A. Jacobs (1903-1987) was a journalist and educator. Jacobs and his wife Katherine commissioned American architect Frank Lloyd Wright to design two houses in Wisconsin, including Wright's first Usonian design in 1936, and a second, semicircular home in 1944.
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| Architects -- United States -- Correspondence | CLIO Catalog | ArchiveGRID |
| Architects and patrons -- United States | CLIO Catalog | ArchiveGRID |