Henry-Russell Hitchcock papers, 1500-1970, bulk 1800-1970

Summary Information

At a Glance

Description

Summary

Architectural drawings, specifications, manuscripts, printed materials, photographs, ephemera, collected by Hitchcock, and relating to the work of architects Henry Hobson Richardson and Frank Lloyd Wright, including a letter, 1940, from Wright to Hitchcock suggesting the writing of IN THE NATURE OF MATERIALS; the architectural firm Shepley, Rutan, and Coolidge; furniture designer Charles Rennie Macintosh; and miscellaneous and unidentified architects dating from the sixteenth century to the twentieth century, with the bulk dating from the nineteenth century.

Using the Collection

Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library

Preferred Citation

Henry-Russell Hitchcock papers. Dept. of Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Source of acquisition--Gift.

About the Finding Aid / Processing Information

Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library

Subject Headings

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Subject

History / Biographical Note

Biographical / Historical

Hitchcock (1903-1987) was an architectural historian.