Clyde Dorsett papers, 1940-1991, bulk 1952-1982

Subseries 1: Drawings

A complete inventory of these drawings may be found in thisdownloadable Excel spreadsheet.

Subseries 2: Files

A complete inventory of these drawings may be found in thisdownloadable Excel spreadsheet.

Subseries 3: Photographs

A complete inventory of these photographs may be found in thisdownloadable Excel spreadsheet.

Lecture by Dorsett to Mississippi chapter (Feb. 3, 1967); AIA letter of appointment to Architecture for Criminal Justice Comm. (Dec. 21, 1973)

Dorsett, "Broader Goals for the Architect and Government in Community Planning,"70:10, November 1970

Clyde H. Dorsett and James Falick, "Designs link Mental Health Facilities with Community Activities": Journal of the AHA, 1964)

Dorsett, "New Directions in Mental Health Facilities,", November 1964 (Includes two unattributed loose photos kept by Dorsett in original file)

Dorsett,

Dorsett, "The Suicidal Patient and their Treatment Environment" (Journal?)

Articles on Dorsett

Dorsett, Design for Psychiatric Emergency Facilities (Draft document); includes loose notebook pages on history of mental health services in America

"Handbook/ Changing Places & Settings,"

Dorsett, Review: "Handbook: Changing Places and Settings,"27 (8): 590-1

Dorsett's letter on CMHC regulations; published guide to ammended Act; Recognition of Dorsett's contribution to (cash award recommendation)

Brice Hospital (formally Alabama Insane Hospital, 1852-1861). Includes history of the hospital (2 copies) and plan

Folder entitled: "NIMH: Community Program History;" Excerpts from journals

Folder entitled: "Fort Logan: A Community-Oriented Program" (history of); includes Dorsett's notes on history of Fort Logan

Clyde H. Dorsett and Constance M. Callahan, "Design for Psychiatric Emergency Facilities;" includes "Attachment 'C' Environmental Patterns"

Dorsett, "Request for a Sabbatical Position" submitted 28 Sept. 1972. 2 copies

Dorsett, LaRue Jones, Wittman, "Draft Guidelines … for CMHC: Environmental Support (Architecture)," Dec. 1969

Country House Project (unlabeled, by Dorsett)

Matrix sheet. Dorsett writes: "Jake, this is a list of those environmental design objectives which I used in cosidering the children's well-being"

Environ. Design Research Project, Care and Treatment Facilities for Mentally Ill, University of Washington, Ontario, Canada

Annotated and expanded version of, by Christopher Alexander et al.

Elements of Mental Health Facilities Design & ephemera

Dorsett,

Miscellaneous study of various facility spaces (Inpatient, Outpatient, Community Education, Emergency and Admitting); includes diagram transparencies

Dorsett,(Guidelines). Includes Christopher Alexander's Pattern Language components

Dorsett,; (For an unindentified or generic project)

Karalis, Dorsett,Rhode Island School of Design Grant No. 1 R12 MH 27596-01 (for New England States)

History of Psychiatric Architecture

From folder entitled: "Mr. Dorsett's European Trip"; includes unidentified photo contact sheet, various itineraries, brochures, plans

Community Support Program: Request for Advice (Vanessa M. Dazio, Occupational Therapist, Oct. 7, 1977)

Dorsett-Ozarin,. Response to Davis Glick Rosow's

Dorsett's letterheads and stationery for his private consultancy practice

Dorsett's letters of employment (application and recommendation) with various architects in North and South Carolina

Dorsett: Design of his private consultancy letterhead logo

1 reel : Proceedings of Training Program on Juvenile D.[delinquency], Jan. 17-19, 1961

6 reels : AIA conference Oct. 2, 1967 p.m. Reels 3 & 4; Oct. 3, 1967 a.m. Reels 5 & 6; p.m. Reels 6 & 8 (Reels 1 & 2 missing)

1 reel : entitled: "5. A Mental Health Program in Hawaii - Dr. Kendall Wallis"

Dorsett, Matrix for Planning & Design of Therapeutic Recreation Facilities; includes five slides of parts of the matrix

Buker's paper, revision of current CMHC legislation; includes NIMH organization structure chart. (From folder entitled: "Adv. ADHOC Committee. Environ. for M.H.")

Hospital visit reports (various), CMHCs for children (e.g. Fernhook, Delaware), maximum security psychiatric hospitals (Butner, N. Carolina)

City map of Norman, Oklahoma, Photo of unidentified hospital, project file card, Vehicle Emissions Inspection Program leaflet

Dorsett's early office projects (1950s)

Miscellaneous from folder entitled "Metropolitan" (lecture notes, journal project notes, photographs)

From album entitled "Clyde Dorsett 'Superstar'", 2 Buckminster Fuller; 3 of conference c. 1967; 3 copies of Dorsett's portrait; 2 small color photos of Dorsett in 1970s

IV: 4, March 1978. Sent to Dorsett by Steven Sharfstein, MD, Acting Director, DMHSP, NIMH

Dorsett,(handwritten note);(typed)

Historical research on the evolution of the psychiatric hospital; includes index cards on "architectural goals"

Dorsett, environment statement on location and provisions for children/adolescents at MH facilities - to appear in "Fundamental Principles" chapter [book?]

Slide Show for APA Conference, May 12-15, 1970, San Francisco

Dorsett,(Handwritten notes)

Folder entitled: "Kirkbride: Hospitals for the Insane" (history of); includes handwritten (lecture?) notes and copy extract (unidentified book), historic souvenir

Matrix of Past Projects (Aborted attempt at organizing past project files. First page only filled in)

Dorsett,

Dorsett, "A Responsive Environment: Two Designs in Better Care for the Mentally Impaired." (Originally labeled: Paper - A responsive Environ. NIMH/HSQB Contract)

Dorsett, "CMHC and Architecture: The CMHC and its Total Environment" (Prepared for the Workshop on Primary Prevention, Nat. Council of CMHCs, Inc., 1977)

Dorsett, Proposals (various)

Folder entitled: "Eastern State Hospital, Knoxville, Tennessee" (history of); Letter enclosing photo of façade

Study Trip to London (and Scotland?); Includes sketch

Photos of the partners of Dorsett & Smyre (Dorsett's short-lived practice); includes small unidentified photograph of a project - presumably by the practice

Photos entitled "Photos - Centers: Boston & Fla. [Florida?]"

Dorsett, "Patterns of Abuse and Change in Facilities for Mental Health Services" (PIA Design and Planning of Psychiatric Facilities, 1978)

History of Asylums, hospitals, institutions - 1855-1965

Copy Edit: Ludwig and LaRue Jones (eds), Proceedings from two AIA/NIMH workshops entitled "Programming the Community Mental Health Center"

Inpatient Regulations PHS Act - psychiatric inpatient unit

, Submitted to President's Commission on Mental Health, Feb. 15, 1978

Preliminary Report to the President from The President's Commission on Mental Health

Dorsett as panel moderator at seminar conference: "Humanizing Ambulatory Care in the Hospital Setting" Massachusetts (June 7-8, 1973)

Clyde Dorsett's (student?) sketch book

Program and Architectural Relationship to Services ("Ohio" handwritten on top right hand corner of document)

(Dorsett's original bound sketch sheets). Includes space planning notes of AMI Gonzales Psy. Hospital, Louisiana

PHS Act - Subpart of 42CFR, sect. 1602. Review of proposed regulations 8/5/77

Dorsett's study of Moravian 18th C. hooded entrace to house, Salem, North Carolina

Saint Mary's Hospital, McAuley Institute, San Francisco 17, California; includes Sister Mary de Paul's introductory notes

Dorsett,(Symposium Paper, 1991)

Dorsett's methodological theory - State mental health program as a looped "cybernetic information system"

Einstein Medical Center, Bronx, New York; includes Dorsett's diagrammatic studies in report

Alcoholism Grants: Treatment and Rehabilitaion Grants; Comprehensive Community Services for Alcoholics (The Williamsburg Papers); 1963 Acts, etc.

Albert Sabatini, M.D.,(Paper concerning Emergency Services)

Miscellaneous international academic research into psychiatric facilities / mental disorders: Europe/US (Bartlett, 1968), Beijing (Chinese Medical Journal, 1981), etc.

(Chicago: Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals, 1974)

(Chicago: Accreditation Council for Psychiatric Facilities, 1976)

Adult Day Treatment

Adolescent Inpatient

Space planning guidelines from Wittenberg, Delony & Davidson, Architect/Engineering, Planning/Interior Design

Acute Care Inpatient Unit, Crisis Stabilization Unit

Kahi Mohala Psychiatric Hospital, Honolulu (Originally filed adjacent to Hawaii State Hospital project)

Article filed under "Forensic Psychology" by Dorsett: Robert Hughes, "Pictures at an Institution,", January 23, 1978

C.R. Shelton, "Designing Hospitals: Consumers Drive Architectural Trends,", May-June 1989

Lucy D. Ozarin, "Notes on the Development of Collaboration Between Architects and Clinicians,"31 (4): 276-7

"History, Mental Health" general file by Dorsett: Focuses upon history of various treatment environments (e.g. Bloomingdale Asylum)

History of Mental Hospitals. Includes articles on "The Kirkbride Plan," "Dorethea Lynde Dix," and Mental Hospitals, Centennial Issue, 1955

(vol. 1 of 3?), Western Inst. for Research in MH, Calif. (Sponsored by NIMH)

(vol. 2 of 3), Rice Design Fete III, School of Architecture, Rice University, TX (Sponsored by NIMH)

Wallace McHarg Roberts and Todd,(1967)

Public Hospital in Williamsburg, Virginia, 1773-1885 (history of); Book and associated articles

John Zeisel, "Sociology and Architectural Design,", 6 (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1975)

Ridgeway Institute (Private Psychiatric Hospital - Brochure)

Work of Charles Schorre (Rice U.), Dubose Gallery, Houston, Texas. Schorre possibly an acquantance of Dorsett viz. the Rice Fete of 1965

(Canadian Building Standards and Guide Material for Hospitals and Health Facilities)

Forensic Building, Institut Philippe Pinel de Montreal; Copy of plan with address

Two articles from Abitare (Italian Design Magazine), dates uncertain

Humphry Osmond, "Some Psychiatric Aspects of Design," from: Laurence B. Holland, Who Designs America? (Doubleday Anchor, 1966) booklet

Student paper, U. of Munich, for a community residential model "Transitional Settings for Psychiatric Patients in a Town Sector" (history of, in German)

Folder entitled: "Saskatchewan Plan" (history of)

Arkansas State Hospital, history of (article)

Photocopy of(Oct. 1970), article on question of enlisting ex-cons to re-design prisons. (Originally in folder entitled: "Corrections")

R. Bartholemew, "Mental Retardation: Educational Environments,"6: 183-184, 1976

(Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1976)

Carpentry details of John James Croft Jr., Architect, Asheboro, N.C.

Folder entitled: "1946-1954: Gutterson-Ozarin, Hillburton Prog. 1950 pub" (history of)

CEH, "Mentally Handicapped People Living in Ordinary Houses and Flats: Some Useful Information for Architects," July 1973

"Architecture and Design of Treatment Environments,", November 1976 (American Psychiatric Association)

Article by Lawrence R. Good,(name singled out by Dorsett in his filing) on the Wisconsin State Hospital

George Means, Raymond Ackerman,; Article on "South Carolina's Village System" (Dorsett's filing note)

Community Mental Health Centers Act of 1963, Title II, Public Law 88-164, Regulations (Dorsett highlights Appdx. A: General Standards of Construction and Equip.)

New Technology Disclosure - management system by Boeing for NASA Saturn V project. From folder labeled "R.M. Jones" (Includes proposal for environ. quality center)

Historical architecture, villages, furniture - articles and sketches

Mahoning County Highway Map with catchment areas (I & II) delineated

, Continental Hotel, Kansai City, Missouri, 15-17 March 1965

, NIMH (U.S. Dept. of Health, Education and Welfare)

, NIMH (US Dept. of Health, Education and Welfare)

(Reprinted for the Session on Environmental Architecture and Psychiatry, 123rd Annual Meeting, SF, May 12, 1970)

- Small program for film show/conference on mental health, Rice University, 6 June 1965 to 18 June 1965

4-sheet bibliography entitled: "Papers and Articles Available Through Architectural Consultation Section"

Articles on converted isolation suites, physical therapy dept., and mental hospitals. Includes one photo of State Hospital, Illinois

Lawrence R. Good, et al,(Illinois: Charles C. Thomas, 1965)

Raymond Glasscote, et al,(NAMH: Washington D.C., 1964)

Matthew Dumont,(New York: Science House, 1968)

(New York: Science Editions, 1961)

Charles F. Read Zone Center, Chicago, Illinois ; includes John P. Ready's earlier concepts of "Zone Mental Health Centers" (1964)

"CMHC Project Kit" (as stated on original folder). OR IS IT "Ket" (Kentucky?)

Public Health Service Regulations - Part 53: Pertaining to the Constructin and Modernization of Hospital and Medical Facilities

Regulations for P.L. 88-164 Mental Health Center Construction Projects (various)

1972(Chicago: Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals, 1972)

NASMHPD (National Assoc. State Mental Health Program Directors) Studies - various.

I. Jakab,(Toronto: APA, 982). Contains note: "Clyde, from Lucy O. At APA meeting Toronto"

Various articles by others on suicide in mental health facilities

(Chicago: Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals, 1972)

Karl Joachim Habermann,(Technischen Universitat Munchen, 1977)

Report of Visit to Hudson River State Hospital, Poughkeepsie, New York, January 31, 1964

Includes visits to Menninger Foundation; Agnews State Hospital, CA; Fort Logan, CO; Topeka State Hospital

Dorsett's early working career charted through referral letters - as preserved by Dorsett

Biographical Sketches of Dorsett; Profile of his "experience in residential environments for the mentally handicapped"

Miscellaneous ephemera ; includes citation certificate and special achievement award (1977) in honor of Dorsett

Dorsett. Class notes on hospital design modules. 'Hospitals and Public Health Facilities Planning and Design' program, Columbia University

Dorsett as a student draftsman: Referral letter from Louis E. Jallade, Architects and Engineers, Dec. 31, 1952

Dorsett,. (Bound, handwritten and illustrated school history essay, May 1, 1942)

Dorsett: 2 student papers from the "Hospital and Public Health Facilities Planning and Design" program, Columbia University

Miscellaneous photographs of student work: catenary models/studies, construction projects, etc.; newspaper article on Raleigh catenary arch. of early 50s

Fuller Research Project: Experimental Greenhouse (School of Design, North Carolina State College, Raleigh, N.C., January - March 1953)

Dorsett "A Low Cost Housing Redevelopment", Student Project at North Carolina State College (Panel 6 of 8 missing)

Dorsett,(4th Year student design study?).

Dorsett: Catenary Studies (as student with Buckminster Fuller?)

Dorsett et al., "A Study for the development of Kings County Medical Center," 'Hospitals and Public Health Facilities Planning and Design' program, Columbia University.

Dorsett, "The Investigation of a Nursing Unit" (presumably for) 'Hospitals and Public Health Facilities Planning and Design' program, Columbia University

Dorsett, "Marriage of Sculpture to Architecture." (Student essay)

Requests for training, certification and accreditation issues. (Includes plan scheme of hospital by Dorsett while a student at Columbia, 1963)