documents Leopold Arnaud's involvement as the Professional Advisor in the Architectural Competition for Permanent Building Construction at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, 1944-1945. As Advisor, Arnaud's duties included examining the designs by the various competitors (which included firms such as Cram and Ferguson; Delano and Aldrich; Shreve, Lamb and Harmon; Skimore, Ownings and Merrilll and Voorhees, Walker, Foley and Smith) to ascertain whether they complied with the requirements of the program and to report to the jury any instance of failure to comply with those requirements. The series also contains 11 drawings (dated from 1925 to 1934) of various buildings at United States Military Academy at West Point, NY.
Roll A80.5 United States Military Academy (West Point, NY), 1925-1934
Primary Creator: Arnold W. Brunner Associates; Secondary Creator: R.M. Hunt.
West Academic Building, Washington Hall, Cadet Mess Store and Drawing Academy, Riding Hall;
11 drawings : Elevations, Details, Floor Plans.
Box 01 Folder 01 Drafts of Competition, Program, 1944
Hand written and typed versions.
Box 01 Folder 02 Drafts of Competition, Costs and Calculations, ca. 1944
Box 01 Folder 03 Drafts of Competition, Addendums, 1944
Hand written draft.
Box 01 Folder 04 Drafts of Competition, General Correspondence, 1944
Box 01 Folder 05 Competitors and Jurors, Contract for Expert Services, ca. 1944
Box 01 Folder 06 Competitors and Jurors, Recommended Participants, 1944
Box 01 Folder 07 Competitors and Jurors, Correspondence with Competitors, 1944
Box 01 Folder 08 Competitors and Jurors, Correspondence with Jurors, 1944-1945
Box 01 Folder 09 Competitors and Jurors, Visits to West Point, 1944
Box 01 Folder 10 Competitors and Jurors, Questions from Competitors, 1944
Box 01 Folder 11 Competitors and Jurors, Jury Decision, 1945
Box 01 Folder 12 Competition Exhibit, 1944
Includes four black and white photographs of exhibition and one blue print easel design.
Box 01 Folder 13 General Correspondence, 1944-1945
is made up of renderings and drawing exercises done by Arnaud while studying at the École des Beaux-Arts and Columbia School of Architecture.
Box 01 Folder 17 Photos on Board, undated
Photographs of site plans and elevations.
Box 03 Problems in Design, 1914-1919
Photographs of site plans and elevations bound in a book with loose photos in the back.
Box 01 Folder 18 Sketchbooks, 1914-1915
Three Quadrille Notebooks of sketches (Shades and Shadows, Book I; Shades and Shadows, Book II; Course in Perspective by Professor Frank D. Sherman, Book III); also includes three sepia photographs.
Drawer 228 Folder 01 Drawing for Book Plate, Blanchette A. Sterns, 1926
1 drawing : Tree with birds and hills.
Drawer 228 Folder 02 Charcoal Drawing of Plaster Cast of a Statue of Apollo, undated
1 drawing : Charcoal on Paper, Matted.
Drawer 228 Folder 03 A Private Museum of Art, Construction Problem, undated
7 drawings : Details, Detail of Truss, Floor Plans, Elevations.
Drawer 228 Folder 04 Various Design Problems including, Doorway of the Temple of Vesta at Tivoli, A Country Post Office, Colonial Church, an Unidentified Building and Details of Columns and geometric shapes, 1915-1917
5 drawings : Details, Elevations, and Floor Plans.
Drawer 228 Folder 05 Various Design Problems including Le Football Stadium, a Gate, and a Floor Plan with Salle de Spectacle and Café, undated
3 drawings : Details, Floor Plans.
Drawer 228 Folder 06 Various Design Problems including a Superintendent's Cottage, an Ancient Bath, a College Dining Hall, and a Poster of Caliston & son Arcas muez en astres., undated
5 drawings : Details, Elevations, Floor Plans and a Poster.
Drawer 228 Folder 07 Various Design Problems including a Garage, a Dining Hall, an Unidentified Building, Une Piscine, and Coupe Projet de Pierre, undated
5 drawings : Details, Elevations and Floor Plans.
Drawer 228 Folder 08 Various Design Problems including Columns, Gymnase Municipal, a Trolley Shelter, a Pavilion Boat Landing, a Garden Wall, and Truss, 1915
8 drawings : Details, Elevations and Floor Plans.
Drawer 235 Folder 01 Various Design Problems including a Circus, a Salle de Lecture, a Library, a Dairy Pavilion, an Observatory, undated
7 drawings : Details, Elevations and Floor Plans.
Drawer 235 Folder 02 Various Design Problems including a Superintendent's Cottage, a Fountain from Versailles, a Lighthouse, a School, undated
6 drawings : Details, Elevations and Floor Plans.
Drawer 235 Folder 03 Various Design Problems including Details of Decorative Ornaments and Monuments, Charcoal Drawings of a Vase and a Statue, 1914-1917
35 drawings : Details, Elevations and Figures.
Drawer 235 Folder 04 Various Design Problems including Details of the Orders, Shade and Shadows, Perspective Drawings, and Charcoal Drawings of Statues and Architectural Elements, 1914-1916
41 drawings : Details, Elevations and Figures.
Drawer 235 Folder 05 Various Design Problems including Domes, a Building with an Arcade, a Gymnasium, Perspective Drawings, 1920
7 drawings : Details, Elevations and Floor Plans.
Drawer 235 Folder 06 Various Design Problems including an Auxiliary Hospital for Saint Luke's, a Photographic Club, a Superintendent's Cottage, undated
6 drawings : Details, Elevations and Floor Plans.
Drawer 235 Folder 07 Various Design Problems including a House in California, an Arcade, an Auditorium, Elements, Column for the Heidelberg, Tower Converse Memorial Library, and Posters, 1916-1917
12 drawings : Details, Elevations, Floor Plans and Posters.
Oversizebin OSV04 Charcoal Study Drawings
[Drawing 1]: urn; [Drawing 2]: vase; [Drawing 3]: capital; [Drawing 4]: frieze
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Box 01 Folder 14 Commencement Address, "Character Conduct Confidence and Credit", 1933
Commencement Address by Nicholas Murray Butler for the 179th Commencement of Columbia University.
Box 01 Folder 15 Correspondence, Congratulatory letters, 1944-1960
Letters from Columbia University Presidents.
Box 01 Folder 16 Correspondence, Tape Transcription, 1980
19 page transcription of a cassette tape sent by Leopold Arnaud to Dean James Stewart Polshek describing the history of the School of Architecture for the School's Centenary Anniversary.