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 collection includes reprographic architectural presentation and working drawings for six projects for which Polish-American architect Henry G. Proskauer was draftsman, associated architect, or architect. Buildings represented include a student project for a proposed hotel on the Limmat River in Zurich (7 sheets, 1938); the Virgin Isle Hotel in St. Thomas, V.I., in collaboration with Harold Sterner, architect, Joseph Prisant, associate architect, and Jac Lessman, interior designer (19 sheets, 1949); the Hoffman residence in Stamford, Conn., for Hart, Jerman & Associates, architects (5 sheets, 1950); an unidentified radio station for Hart, Jerman & Associates, architects (2 sheets, 1951); the Liberty Life Insurance Home Office building in Greenville, S.C., for Carson & Lundin, architects (12 sheets, 1952-1953); and the Banco Nacional de Fomento/Banco Central de Honduras for Carson & Lundin, architects (5 sheets, undated).
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.
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Henry G. Proskauer architectural drawings. Located in the Dept. of Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University.
Source of acquisition--Gift of Paul F. Proskauer. Accession number--2008.014.
Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
Drawings Processed AvR 09/12/08.
Hans G. Proskauer was born in Breslau, now Wrocław, Poland, on October 15, 1915 and died in New York City on December 6, 2006. After moving to the United States, he changed his first name to Henry. A trained architect, Proskauer practiced in several firms in New York City, including Carson & Lundin and Hart, Jerman & Associates, and was also in partnership with Joseph A. Prisant.
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