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.
This collection included primarily original and reprographic architectural drawings by Roth, circa 1907-circa 1949, largely of apartment buildings located in Manhattan and designed during the 1920s and 1930s. Represented are the San Remo Towers, The Beresford, The Oliver Cromwell, the Normandy, and numerous other apartment buildings. There are also drawings for several hotel and private residences. A two-volume typescript autobiography is also included.
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.
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Emery Roth architectural drawings and autobiography. Located in the Dept. of Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University.
Emery Roth Architectural Print Collection, 1926-1947. Department of Prints, Photographs, and Architectural Collections, New-York Historical Society.
Gift to Avery Library, 1976.001
Source of acquisition--Gift. Accession number--1976.001.
Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
2009-06-25 File created.
2019-05-20 EAD was imported spring 2019 as part of the ArchivesSpace Phase II migration.
Architect. In 1938, Roth's office was renamed Emery Roth & Sons.
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