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 includes original and reprographic architectural and engineering drawings, specifications, correspondence, and photographs documenting the design and construction of High Lawn, William B. Osgood Field's estate in Lenox, Massachusetts. The main house and related outbuildings were designed by the prominent New York architecture firm Delano & Aldrich between 1908 and 1914. The farm buildings and several other estate structures were primarily designed by New York architect John C. Greenleaf. The collection also includes copy photographs of the Field family and guests at High Lawn during the 1910s. Also included is a small group of drawings and other papers related to neighboring properties in Lenox; as well as drawings for Field's townhouse at 645 Fifth Avenue in New York City, designed by Hunt & Hunt, with interior work by Stuart & Stuart, dating from 1903-1911; and drawings for a building at 8-10 W. 37th St., in New York City, designed by John C. Greenleaf in 1923.
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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High Lawn architectural records and papers. Located in the Dept. of Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University.
Gift of the Field family, 2007.004.
Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
Drawings Processed AvR 02/01/08.
William Bradhurst Osgood Field was a socially prominent philanthropist, gentleman farmer, and book collector, who maintained homes in Lenox, Massachusetts, New York City, and Mohegan Lake, New York.
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| High Lawn (Lenox, Mass.) | CLIO Catalog | ArchiveGRID |
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| Architecture -- United States -- Designs and plans | CLIO Catalog | ArchiveGRID |