covers J. Max Bond, Jr.'s architectural career spanning from his work in Ghana during the 1960s to his work with Davis Brody Bond Aedas in the 2000s. Documentation for each project is very incomplete and rarely include original architectural drawings. When there are original drawings for a project, they tend to be floor plan sketches in ink on yellow trace paper. Overall, project records usually contain some of the following: correspondence, floor and site plans, publicity materials, project proposals, reports, studies, photographs and slides. Projects represented in the collection include, among others, Apollo Performing Arts Center, Bolgatagna Library (Bolgatanga, Ghana), East St. Louis Housing, Frederick Douglass Circle, Harvard Club of New York City, Kentucky Center for African American Heritage, Langston Hughes Branch Library, Lionel and Gladys Hampton Houses, Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Social Change, New York University Dormitory, Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and The Studio Museum in Harlem.
Box 16 Folder 16
"Pfizer Site," Broadway Triangle Redevelopment (Williamsburg, Brooklyn), 2005-2008
Correspondence, Request for Proposals, and Assessment Report.
Box 16 Folder 17A
"Shymkent Plaza" Project (Almaty City, Kazakhstan), 2006
Correspondence and Competition contracts.
Box 16 Folder 17B
18th & Vine Redevelopment Project (Kansas City, MO), 1992-1993
Concept Plan and Memorandums.
Box 31 Folder 01
96th Street Apartments (New York, NY), 1998
Box 31 Folder 02
138th Street and 5th Avenune (New York, NY)
Site plans and floor plans (some original ink on trace drawings.)
Box 31 Folder 03
492 Street Nicholas Avenue (New York, NY), 2002
Site plans and floor plans.
Box 16 Folder 18
Apollo Performing Arts Center (New York, NY), 2002
Agreement for Consulting Services.
Box 16 Folder 19
Apollo Performing Arts Center (New York, NY), 2001
Agreement for Interim Architectural Services between Apollo Theater Foundation, Inc. and Davis Brody Bond, LLP.
Box 16 Folder 20
Apollo Performing Arts Center (New York, NY), 2002
Box 16 Folder 21
Apollo Performing Arts Center (New York, NY), 2002
Box 16 Folder 22
Apollo Performing Arts Center (New York, NY), 2002
Box 16 Folder 23
Apollo Performing Arts Center (New York, NY), 2002
Box 16 Folder 24
Atlantic Terminal Urban Renewal Area Housing (Brooklyn, NY), 1968-1973
Reports, Master plan, and 1 newspaper clipping.
Box 16 Folder 25
Atlantic Terminal Urban Renewal Area Housing (Brooklyn, NY), 1968-1973
Box 22 Folder 04A
Audubon Biomedical Research Building, Columbia University Medical Center (New York, NY), 2007
Box 22 Folder 04B
Audubon Biomedical Research Building, Columbia University Medical Center (New York, NY), undated
Box 16 Folder 26 to 27
Battery Park Place (New York, NY), 1988
Plans, Correspondence, Photographs, and Clippings (2 folders).
Roll A84.03
Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (Birmingham, AL), ca. 1986
Architectural drawings : 8 items
Box 17 Folder 01
Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (Birmingham, AL), 1986 Nov 06, 1 audiocassettes
Box 17 Folder 01
Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (Birmingham, AL), 1986, 1 audiocassettes
Box 17 Folder 01
Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (Birmingham, AL), 1986 Nov 05, 1 audiocassettes
Rev. John Porter and Dr. John Nixon
Box 17 Folder 01
Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (Birmingham, AL), 1986 Nov 07, 1 audiocassettes
Recordings of Task Force Meetings
Box 17 Folder 01
Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (Birmingham, AL), 1987 Mar 11, 1 audiocassettes
Recordings of Task Force Meetings
Box 17 Folder 02
Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (Birmingham, AL), 1986
Box 17 Folder 03
Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (Birmingham, AL), 1986
Box 17 Folder 04
Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (Birmingham, AL), ca. 1993
Photographs and Negatives; includes an image of J. Max Bond, Jr.
Box 26 Folder 16
Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (Birmingham, AL), 1986 Nov 06, 1 audiocassettes
Rev. Edward Gardner and Arthur Shores.
Box 26 Folder 16
Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (Birmingham, AL), undated, 1 audiocassettes
Mike Robbins and Bob Corley.
Box 26 Folder 17
Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (Birmingham, AL), 1986 Nov 07, 2 videocassettes (VHS)
Box 17 Folder 05
Bolgatanga Library (Bolgatanga, Ghana), undated
Article written by Max Bond.
Box 17 Folder 06
Bolgatanga Library (Bolgatanga, Ghana), 1965
Architectural Drawings; 18 items.
Box 17 Folder 07
Bolgatanga Library (Bolgatanga, Ghana), 2008
"Bolgatanga Library: Adaptive Modernism in Ghana 40 Years On," by Ola Uduku (School of Architecture, Edinburgh College of Art).
Box 17 Folder 08
Bolgatanga Library (Bolgatanga, Ghana), 1968
Article written by Max Bond forForum.
Box 17 Folder 09
Bolgatanga Library (Bolgatanga, Ghana), ca. 1968
Box 17 Folder 10
Bolgatanga Library (Bolgatanga, Ghana), ca. 1968
Box 17 Folder 12
Bolgatanga Library (Bolgatanga, Ghana), undated
Box 22 Folder 05
Bolgatanga Library (Bolgatanga, Ghana), 1967
Photographs and contact sheets.
Box 17 Folder 11
Bolgatanga Library (Bolgatanga, Ghana), ca. 1968
Project Binder; includes images for Bolgatanga Library as well as other library designed by Bond such as the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
Box 31 Folder 04
Bolgatanga Library (Bolgatanga, Ghana), ca. 1968
Contact sheets and negatives.
Box 17 Folder 13
Bushwick BP-60 (Brooklyn, NY), 1974
Proposal for housing development.
Box 31 Folder 05
Bushwick BP-60 (Brooklyn, NY), 1974
Box 17 Folder 14
Columbia University, Health Sciences Division (New York, NY), 1994
Box 31 Folder 06
Common Ground (Brooklyn, NY), 2008
Site plans and floor plans.
Box 17 Folder 15
Common Ground (Brooklyn, NY), 2008
Includes Site Plan Studies.
Box 17 Folder 16 to 17
Coney Island Strategic Redevelopment (Brooklyn, NY), 2004-2005
Project Binder. (2 folders)
Box 31 Folder 07
Coney Island Strategic Redevelopment (Brooklyn, NY), 2004-2005
Box 17 Folder 18 to 20
Constitutional Court Building of South Africa Competition (Johannesburg, South Africa), 1997
Correspondence, Plans, Clippings, and Reference material. (3 folders)
Box 17 Folder 21
Convent Avenue Baptist Church (New York, NY), undated
Box 31 Folder 08
Dillard University (New Orleans, LA), 2000-2001
Site plans and Presentation Proposals for International Center for Economic Freedom Building and Powerhouse Theatre.
Box 22 Folder 06
Dillard University, International Center for Economic Freedom (New Orleans, LA), 2004
Box 17 Folder 22
Dostyk Center Architectural Concept Competition (Kazakhstan), 2006
Competition Guidelines and DBB Presentation on CD-ROM.
Box 17 Folder 23 to 24
Dostyk Center Architectural Concept Competition (Kazakhstan), 2006
Correspondence. (2 folders)
Box 22 Folder 07
Dowdy Residence (New York, NY), 1982
Box 17 Folder 25
East Harlem Triangle Housing (New York, NY), undated
Box 31 Folder 09
East Harlem Triangle Housing (New York, NY), 1968 Aug
Box 17 Folder 26
East St. Louis Housing (St. Louis, MO), 1970
Plans and Images of models.
Roll 02
East St. Louis Housing (St. Louis, MO), ca. 1970
Site Plans, Floor Plans, Elevation Studies.
Box 31 Folder 10
East St. Louis Housing (St. Louis, MO), ca. 1970
Site Plans, Floor Plans, Elevation Studies.
Box 17 Folder 27 to 28
Equitable Life Assurance Society Office Buildings, 1983-1991
Box 17 Folder 29
First United Methodist Church of Corona (Queens, NY), 1979
Design and Feasibility Report.
Box 18 Folder 01
Frederick Douglass Circle (New York, NY), 1972
Site plans, Photographs of models, and newspaper clipping.
Box 18 Folder 02
Frederick Douglass Circle (New York, NY)
12 Slides of Project Staff; includes many images of J. Max Bond, Jr.
Box 22 Folder 08
Frederick Douglass Circle (New York, NY), 1986
Construction photographs.
Box 31 Folder 11
Frederick Douglass Circle (New York, NY), 1970 Mar
Density, Massing and Programming Study/Final Report.
Box 18 Folder 03 to 06
Frederick E. Samuels Houses (New York, NY), 1988-1990
Floor plans, NY Department of Buildings Applications, Amendments and Forms. (4 folders)
Box 22 Folder 09
Greenwich Street South (New York, NY), 2003
Urban Design Plan Presentation Slide Print Out.
Box 31 Folder 12
Hands Exhibit, 2007
Concept Layouts and Memorandums.
Box 18 Folder 07
Harare Development, 1994
Outline of proposed development procedures.
Box 31 Folder 13
Harlem Children's Zone (New York, NY), undated
Conceptual Elevation Rendering (computer generated image in color.)
Box 18 Folder 08
Harlem Community Center (New York, NY), 1969
Preliminary Program Analysis.
Box 31 Folder 14
Harlem Home Ownership Project (New York, NY), undated
Box 22 Folder 10
Harlem Hospital Center, The (New York, NY), 1986
North General Hospital Residential Developments Proposal, clippings, and photocopies of sketches.
Box 22 Folder 11
Harlem Park (New York, NY), 2005
Architectural Drawings and correspondence.
Box 18 Folder 09
Harlem Pier Project (New York, NY), 2001
Presentation Proposal Report.
Box 32 Folder 01
Harvard Club of New York City (New York, NY), 2000
Presentation, Plans, Conceptual Renderings.
Box 32 Folder 02
Hunters Point Shipyard Charrette, 2006
Presentation Reports, Correspondence, Meeting notes, and Site plans.
Box 16 Folder 17C
Kentucky Center for African American Heritage, 2005 Jun 20
Box 18 Folder 10
Kentucky Center for African American Heritage, 2002-2004
Box 18 Folder 16
Kentucky Center for African American Heritage
Project Binder #4, "Wondercabinet Exhibition Layout."
Box 18 Folder 17
Kentucky Center for African American Heritage
Project Binder #5, "Wondercabinet Exhibition Layout."
Box 32 Folder 03
Kentucky Center for African American Heritage, 2001
Box 18 Folder 14
Kentucky Center for African American Heritage [1 of 2], 2002-2004
Box 18 Folder 11
Kentucky Center for African American Heritage [1 of 3], 2002-2004
Box 18 Folder 15
Kentucky Center for African American Heritage [2 of 2], 2002-2004
Box 18 Folder 12
Kentucky Center for African American Heritage [2 of 3], 2002-2004
Box 18 Folder 13
Kentucky Center for African American Heritage [3 of 3], 2002-2004
Box 32 Folder 04
Langston Hughes Branch Library (Queens, NY), 1995
Box 19 Folder 01
Lionel & Gladys Hampton Houses (New York, NY), undated
Box 19 Folder 02
Lionel & Gladys Hampton Houses (New York, NY), undated
Box 19 Folder 03
Lionel & Gladys Hampton Houses (New York, NY), undated
Box 19 Folder 04
Logan Gardens, undated
Box 19 Folder 05
Malcolm X Cultural and Memorial Center (New York, NY), 2002-2004
NYC Economic Development Corp. Contract.
Box 32 Folder 05
Malcolm X Cultural and Memorial Center (New York, NY), undated
Box 32 Folder 06
Manhattanville Housing (New York, NY), undated
Site analysis and images of site models.
Box 22 Folder 12
Manhattanville, Columbia University (New York, NY), 2004
Development Proposal Presentation to Community Board.
Box 19 Folder 06
Marcus Garvey Park Village (Brooklyn, NY), 1971
Photographs of models and 1 newspaper clipping.
Box 32 Folder 07
Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Social Change (Atlanta, GA)
4 oversize images and Atlanta Urban Design Commission Award of Excellence Certificate.
Box 19 Folder 07 to 08
Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Social Change (Atlanta, GA), undated
Box 19 Folder 09
Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Social Change (Atlanta, GA), ca. 1974-1975
Floor plans, Site plans, and Sections.
Box 19 Folder 10
Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Social Change (Atlanta, GA), ca. 1974-1975
Photographs and images of models.
Box 19 Folder 11
Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Social Change (Atlanta, GA), ca. 1974-1975
Photographs of exterior and interior.
Box 19 Folder 12
Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Social Change (Atlanta, GA), ca. 1974-1975
Photographs of exterior and interior.
Box 19 Folder 13
Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Social Change (Atlanta, GA), ca. 1974-1975
Box 19 Folder 14
Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Social Change (Atlanta, GA), ca. 1974-1975
Box 19 Folder 15
Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Social Change (Atlanta, GA), ca. 1974-1975
Center brochure and souvenirs.
Box 19 Folder 16
Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Social Change (Atlanta, GA), 1973, 1993-1994
Correspondence, reports, other project related papers.
Box 19 Folder 17
Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Social Change (Atlanta, GA), 1991
Box 19 Folder 18
Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Social Change (Atlanta, GA), 1991
Box 19 Folder 19
Mary Holmes College (West Point, MS), 1968
Dormitories, proposal plan.
Box 19 Folder 20
Mary Holmes College (West Point, MS), ca. 1968
Dormitories, floor plans and site plans.
Box 19 Folder 21
Mary Holmes College (West Point, MS), ca. 1968
Dormitories, photographs.
Box 19 Folder 22
Mary Holmes College (West Point, MS), undated
Box 19 Folder 23
Mary Holmes College (West Point, MS), ca. 1968
Science Building, plans and elevations.
Box 32 Folder 08
Mary Holmes College (West Point, MS), ca. 1968
2 images of the model for the Science Building.
Box 26 Folder 18
Maryland Museum of African American History and Culture (Baltimore, MD), 2000 Feb 22
Presentation Images on Zip Disk and CD-ROM.
Box 19 Folder 24 to 26
Midtown-West Development (New York, NY), 2002-2003
Correspondence, Reports, and Conference programs and manuals. (3 folders)
Box 22 Folder 13
Morningside Park (New York, NY), 1985
Box 22 Folder 14
Morningside Park (New York, NY), 1989-1990
Box 22 Folder 15 to 16
Morningside Park (New York, NY), 1989
Blueline prints; includes plans by Londino Stone Co., INC.
Box 22 Folder 17
Morningside Park (New York, NY), ca. 1987
Box 19 Folder 27
Morningside Park, Field House Reconstruction (New York, NY), 1987 Dec. 15
Box 19 Folder 28
Morningside Park, Field House Reconstruction (New York, NY), ca. 1987
Box 19 Folder 29
Morningside Park, Field House Reconstruction (New York, NY), 1987 Mar. 13
Box 19 Folder 30
Morningside Park, Field House Reconstruction (New York, NY), 1988
Box 20 Folder 01 to 03
Morningside Park, Field House Reconstruction (New York, NY), 1988
Box 20 Folder 04 to 05
Morningside Park, Landscape Specifications (New York, NY), 1987
Box 22 Folder 18
Motown Project, The (New York, NY), 1996
Correspondence and Feasibility Study (original between Studio museum and Trenton).
Box 20 Folder 06
Multi-Service Center for the Department of Public Works (Bronx, NY), undated
Box 32 Folder 09
NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund Office (New York, NY), undated
Box 22 Folder 19
National Underground Railroad Freedom Center (Cincinnati, OH), 1998
Presentation and Workshop.
Box 20 Folder 07
National University for Science and Technology (Bulawayo, Zimbabwe), 1994
Box 20 Folder 08 to 09
National University for Science and Technology (Bulawayo, Zimbabwe), 1993-1994
Correspondence and reports. (2 folders)
Box 20 Folder 10
National University for Science and Technology (Bulawayo, Zimbabwe), 1971, 1992, undated
Box 22 Folder 20
National University of Science and Technology (Bulawayo, Zimbabwe), 1992
Memorandums, sketches, and other papers.
Box 22 Folder 21
National University of Science and Technology (Bulawayo, Zimbabwe), 1992-1993
Memorandums and other papers.
Box 22 Folder 22
National University of Science and Technology (Bulawayo, Zimbabwe), 1994-1996
Memorandums and other papers.
Box 32 Folder 10
National University of Science and Technology (Bulawayo, Zimbabwe)
Schematic Design Plans for Student Services Center.
Box 32 Folder 11
New Homes Program (New York, NY), 1991
Site Proposal for West 116-117 Street.
Box 20 Folder 11
New York University Dormitory (New York, NY), 2001
Box 20 Folder 12
New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, Performing Arts Center (New York, NY), 1995
Feasibility Study for the Fillmore East Site.
Box 32 Folder 12
P.A.L. Phipps Center (New York, NY), 1990
Box 26 Folder 19
Pennock Gardens Development (Puerto Rico), 1963
Box 20 Folder 01 to 05
Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations, The (New York, NY), 1988-1995
1 Photograph of exterior building, Project summary, Agreements, Forms, Correspondence, Finances. (4 folders)
Box 21 Folder 1
Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations, The (New York, NY), 1988-1995
Box 23 Folder 37 to 43
Photographs, Various Projects, 1960s-1990s
Box 33 Folder 01
Poppleton Master plan (Baltimore, MD), 2005
Notes, Preschematic Site and Floor Plans.
Box 21 Folder 02 to 03
Rheedlan Center for Children and Families (New York, NY), 2001-2002
Correspondence, Budget estimate, and Plans. (2 folders)
Box 21 Folder 04
Riverbank (New York, NY), 1972 Jul, 1973 Jan
"Riverbank and the Community: A Proposal for Community Review," and Phase II Interim Reports. (3 items)
Box 33 Folder 02
Roosevelt Island Southtown (Roosevelt Island, NY), 1999
Master plan, memorandum, Newspaper clippings.
Box 21 Folder 05
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (New York, NY), undated
Box 21 Folder 06
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (New York, NY), ca. 1978
Box 21 Folder 07
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (New York, NY), ca. 1978
Box 21 Folder 08
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (New York, NY), 1973-1990
Box 21 Folder 09
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (New York, NY), 1980-1986
Box 21 Folder 10
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (New York, NY), 2000
Expansion study and Memorandums.
Box 21 Folder 11
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (New York, NY), 1970
NYPL "Program of Requirements and Scope of Operation" for Schomburg Collection.
Box 21 Folder 12
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (New York, NY), 1989
Box 33 Folder 03
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (New York, NY), 1989, 2000
Lobby Renovation Preschematic Proposal, and 2000 Expansion Study.
Box 23 Folder 01 to 36
Slides, Various Projects, 1960s-1990s
Box 21 Folder 13
Springfield Gardens United Methodist Church, 1986
Roll 03
Site 35 WS/URA (New York, NY), 1969, 1977
Site plans and floor plans (includes the 1969 site plan for AT/URA in Brooklyn, NY)
Box 21 Folder 14 to 16
State University College at Old Westbury, Natural Science Building (Glen Head, NY), 1984-1985
Correspondence, Plans, Photographs, and Newspaper clippings. (3 folders)
Box 21 Folder 17 to 18
Studio Museum in Harlem, The (New York, NY), 1993-2003
Correspondence. (2 folders)
Box 21 Folder 19
Studio Museum in Harlem, The (New York, NY), 1980
Box 21 Folder 20
Studio Museum in Harlem, The (New York, NY), 1980-1982
Box 21 Folder 21
Studio Museum in Harlem, The (New York, NY), undated
Box 21 Folder 22
Studio Museum in Harlem, The (New York, NY), undated
Roll 04
Trenton North 25 Housing (Trenton, NJ), undated
Box 21 Folder 23
Trenton North 25 Housing (Trenton, NJ), undated
Box 33 Folder 04
Tirisano Village: An Urban Village at Newton (Bulawayo, Zimbabwe), 1994
Proposal and Site and Floor plans (pencil on paper).
Box 23 Folder 01
Tulane University, Zemurray Residence Hall (New Orleans, LA), 2002-2003
Pre-Schematic/Schematic Design Review and Design Development Progress Report.
Box 23 Folder 02
Tulane University, Zemurray Residence Hall (New Orleans, LA), ca. 2002
Site Analysis and Pre-Schematic Study and Report.
Box 23 Folder 03
Tulane University, Zemurray Residence Hall (New Orleans, LA), 2002-2003
Pre-Schematic Schemes and Dorm Module Tests and Design Development Review Presentation.
Box 21 Folder 24
Tuskegee Airmen National Center (Tuskegee, AL), 2000-2002
Background information, Proposals, and Correspondence.
Box 21 Folder 25
Union City Air Rights / School Renaissance Zone (Union City, NJ), 2003 Jun 5
Box 21 Folder 26
Uptown Chamber Residence District (New York, NY), 2003
Floor plans and site plans.
Box 21 Folder 27 to 29
Valeo Brazil (Campinas, Brazil), 1995-2004
Plans, Correspondence, Facility design guidelines, and Notes. (3 folders)
Box 22 Folder 01
Victoria Theatre (New York, NY), 2004-2005
Box 22 Folder 02
Victoria Theatre (New York, NY), 2004-2005
Box 33 Folder 05
Watha T. Daniel/Shaw Library (Washington, D.C.), 2008
Site Plans, Floor Plans, Elevation Studies.
Box 22 Folder 03
Yonkers Fair Housing (Yonkers, NY), 1989
City of Yonkers' "Affordable Housing Ordinance," Site plans, and Preliminary report on 4 sites: Tibbetts Rumsey Road Site, Grassy Sprain Site, Sprain Brook Parkway, and Untermeyer Site.
Roll 05
Unidentified Floor Plans for an apartment [?], 2004
Roll 06
Unidentified Project, 2007
Elevation studies, ink on trace.
Box 33 Folder 06
Unidentified Project, undated
Conceptual sketches; ink on trace paper.
Box 33 Folder 07
Unidentified Housing Project, 1988
Site plans and floor plans.
Box 33 Folder 08
Unidentified Housing Project, 1991-1993
Site plans and floor plans.
Box 33 Folder 09
Unidentified Queens Project, 1988
Site plans and floor plans.