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Avery Drawings & Archives Collections |
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DescriptionScope and ContentsThe collection includes architectural drawings for approximately 240 projects located primarily in Southern California, particularly Pasadena, including the Earle C. Anthony house, Los Angeles, 1909, and additions, 1913, 1917; the R. R. Blacker house, Oak Knoll, California, 1907-1909, and additions; work for the Culbertson family of Pasadena, specifically additions to the grounds of the Cordelia A. Culbertson house, 1914-1915, and additions for her to the William T. Bolton house, 1918, 1926, and the James A. Culbertson house, 1902, and garage, 1906, and later additions, 1907, 1910; the Herbert Fleishhacker house in San Francisco, outbuildings, 1911, and alterations, 1915; the Freeman A. Ford house, Pasadena, 1907-1909; the David B. Gamble house, Pasadena, California, 1913; the Sidney D. Gamble house, Escondido, California; and the Robert Pitcairn, Jr. house, Pasadena, 1906. Photographs and specifications for some projects are also included in this collection.
Using the CollectionAvery Architectural and Fine Arts Library Other Finding AidsDigitized images from Avery's Greene & Greene Collection Restrictions on AccessThis 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. Preferred CitationGreene & Greene architectural drawings and records, Drawings and Archives, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University. Related MaterialsGreene & Greene Virtual Archives: The GGVA provides a searchable database of over 4,000 images selected from the four major Greene & Greene collections: the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library at Columbia University in the City of New York; the Environmental Design Archives at the University of California, Berkeley (UCB); The Gamble House, University of Southern California (USC), in Pasadena, California; and the Greene and Greene Archives, USC at The Huntington Library in San Marino, California. Charles Sumner Greene collection (1959-1): Environmental Design Archives, College of Environmental Design. University of California, Berkeley. Berkeley, California. Gamble House, Pasadena, California): The Gamble House, designed and built by Charles and Henry Greene in 1908-9, is now an historic museum. It is owned by the City of Pasadena and operated by the University of Southern California. Greene and Greene Archives: University of Southern California, housed at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California. Harwell Hamilton Harris papers, 1906-1990: Alexander Architectural Library, University of Texas at Austin. Immediate Source of AcquisitionThe Greene & Greene Collection at Avery is comprised of two accessions. The first, accession number 1960.001, was made possible by Jean Murray Bangs (1894-1985), while the second accession, 1987.003, was received from her husband, the architect Harwell Hamilton Harris (1903-1990). About the Finding Aid / Processing InformationColumbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library Processing InformationThe collection was processed by Roberta Blitz and drawings were catalogued by Project AVIADOR staff with grant funding from the Getty Foundation. Shelley Hayreh, Avery Archivist, edited and published the ArchivesSpace finding aid in 2020. Subject HeadingsThe 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. All links open new windows. Genre/Form
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History / Biographical NoteBiographical / HistoricalBiographical Timeline: 1868: Charles Sumner Greene born, Brighton, Ohio 1870: Henry Mather Greene born, Brighton, Ohio 1874: Greene family moves to St. Louis, Missouri 1884: Charles enrolls in Calvin Milton Woodward's Manual Training School of Washington University, St. Louis 1885: Henry enrolls in MTS 1888: Greene brothers enroll in the architectural curriculum at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston 1890-1893: Charles and Henry serve apprenticeships with Boston architectural firms 1891: The brothers receive Certificates of Partial Course in Architecture from MIT 1892: Charles' and Henry's parents, Lelia Ariana and Thomas Sumner Greene, move to Pasadena, Calif. 1893: Greene brothers travel to Pasadena, visiting the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago enroute 1894: Greenes open an architectural office in Pasadena 1899: Henry marries Emeline Augusta Dart 1901: Charles marries Alice Gordon White 1902: James A. Culbertson house designed 1903: Bandini and first Van Rossem house designed 1904: Camp, Garfield and Tichenor houses designed 1906: Major article on the Greenes appears in Oct. issue of Architectural Record 1907-1909: Greene & Greene create some of their most renowned residences, including the Blacker, Gamble, Pratt, and Thorsen houses 1911: Cordelia A. Culbertson and Fleishhacker houses designed 1912: Number of commissions begins to decrease 1916: Charles Greene family moves to Carmel 1918: D.L. James commissions Charles to build a house in Carmel 1921: Henry designs a house for Kate A. Kelly 1922: Official dissolution of the firm; Henry reorganizes under his own name, Charles continues to practice out of his Carmel studio 1923: Charles designs a game room addition for the Fleishhackers 1925: Henry designs the William Thum house 1927: Charles designs a water garden for the Fleishhacker estate 1929: Henry designs the Strasburg and Richardson houses 1933: Henry closes his office and moves the practice to his home 1935: Emeline Greene, Henry's wife, dies 1944: Charles ceases work on his last architectural commission, the D.L. James library addition 1948: Southern California Chapter, American Institute of Architects, awards the Greenes a Certificate of Merit 1951: Henry designs a concrete block residence for the McElwains, his daughter and son-in-law 1952: American Institute of Architects honors the Greenes with a special citation 1954: Henry dies in Pasadena 1957: Charles dies in Carmel |