Ogden Codman architectural drawings and papers, 1893-1936

Summary Information

Description

Scope and Content

Architectural drawings and specifications for Codman's projects, circa 1890s-1930s, including the Martha Codman house in Washington, D.C.; alterations for Edith Wharton and her husband at their three residences, the Mount in Lenox, Mass., Land's End in Newport, R.I., and their Park Avenue home in New York City; work for the Thayer family of Boston, Mass., specifically Nathaniel Thayer's three homes in Boston, Lancaster, Mass., and Newport, R.I. ("Edgemere"), Bernard Thayer's Beacon Hill houyse in Boston, and Eugene Van Rensselaer Thayer's two houses in Boston and Lancaster, Mass.; the Lucy Dahlgren house in New York City; the Archer M. Huntington house on Fifth Avenue in New York City; interior design for John D. Rockefeller in his house "Kykuit" at Pocantico Hills, N.Y.; interior design work for the Vanderbilt family including Cornelius Vanderbilt's "Breakers" at Newport, R.I. and Frederick William Vanderbilt's mansion in Hyde Park, N.Y. and his house on Fifth Avenue in New York City; Oliver Ames' mansion at Pride's Crossing, Beverly, Mass., and his house in Boston; and interior decoration and alterations for Codman's own homes in Newport, R.I. and Roslyn, N.Y. and his villa in France, "La Leopolda", at Villefranche-sur-Mer. Also, lists, descriptions, and postcards of French chateaux, with related correspondence, circa 1900s-1930s, relating to Codman's bibliography on the chateaux of France; and miscellaneous lists of houses in England and France, correspondence, and printed material.

• Series I: Architectural Drawings

Arrangement

This collection contains one series: Series I: Architectural Drawings

• Series I: Architectural Drawings

Using the Collection

Restrictions on 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, please email avery-drawings@library.columbia.edu.

Terms Governing Use and Reproduction

Permission to publish must be obtained in writing from the Director, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University, 1172 Amsterdam Ave., MC 0301, New York, NY 10027.

Preferred Citation

Ogden Codman architectural drawings and papers, circa 1893-1936, Department of Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Source of acquisition--Gift. Accession number--1000.009.

About the Finding Aid / Processing Information

Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library

Revision Description

2009-06-25 File created.

2019-05-20 EAD was imported spring 2019 as part of the ArchivesSpace Phase II migration.

Biographical / Historical

Architect, author.

Subject Headings

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

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Genre/Form
Account books	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Architects	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Drawings (visual works)	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Postcards	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
architectural drawings (visual works)	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Name
Archer M. Huntington house (New York, N.Y.)	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Bayard Thayer house (Boston, Mass.)	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Breakers (Newport, R.I.)	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Edgemere (Newport, R.I.)	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Edward R. Wharton house (New York, N.Y.)	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Eugene Van Rensselaer Thayer house (Boston, Mass.)	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Eugene Van Rensselaer Thayer house (Lancaster, Mass.)	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Frederick William Vanderbilt house (New York, N.Y.)	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
John D. Rockefeller House (Pocantico Hills, N.Y.)	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
La Léopolda (Villefranche-sur-Mer, France)	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Land's End (Newport, R.I.)	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Lucy D. Dahlgren house (New York, N.Y.)	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Martha Codman house (Washington, D.C.)	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Nathaniel Thayer house (Boston, Mass.)	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Nathaniel Thayer mansion (Lancaster, Mass.)	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Ogden Codman house (Newport, R.I.)	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Ogden Codman house (Roslyn, N.Y.)	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Oliver Ames house (Boston, Mass.)	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Oliver Ames mansion (Pride's Crossing, Beverly, Mass.)	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Place
France -- Pictorial works	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Mount (Lenox, Mass.)	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site (Hyde Park, Dutchess County, N.Y.)	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Subject
Architecture -- France -- Villefranche-sur-Mer	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Architecture -- Massachusetts -- Boston	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Architecture -- New York (State) -- New York	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Architecture -- Rhode Island -- Newport	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Architecture -- United States -- Designs and plans	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Authors	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Castles -- France -- Bibliography	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Dwellings -- England	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Dwellings -- France	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Dwellings -- France -- Paris	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Dwellings -- France -- Villefranche-sur-Mer	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Interior architecture -- France -- Paris	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Interior decoration -- France -- Paris	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Interior decoration -- United States	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID