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Samuel Gottscho American architecture photographs and negatives, 1925-1939
30,000 itemsApproximately 30,000 negatives and prints of buildings primarily on the East Coast, designed by various architects, including the Baltimore Museum of Art, Constitution Hall and the National Archives Building in Washington, D.C., and several churches and houses, all designed by John Pope Russell; four houses by Electus D. Litchfield; houses and other projects by Grosvenor Atterbury; houses by Peabody, Wilson & Brown; the John Ringling mansion in Sarasota, Florida, among other houses, churches, and office buildings designed by Dwight James Baum; numerous houses and apartment buildings in Miami Beach, Florida, especially those by Russell T. Pancoast and Robert Law Weed; many other houses throughout Florida by architects such as John L. Volk and Treanor and Fatio; and many houses and estates located in suburbs of New York City, particulary Greenwich, Conn., Montclair, N.J., and Mt. Kisco, Locust Valley, Oyster Bay, and South Hampton, N.Y.
Richard H. Dana photograph collection, 1920-1931
342 photographsWilliam B. Osgood Field Estate records : [High Lawn Estate], 1908-1929
2 manuscript boxesThis collection of drawings, photographs and papers documents the architectural history of the William B. Osgood Field family in Lenox, Massachusetts, and New York City from the period 1908 through the 1920s. The bulk of the collection focuses on High Lawn, the private house and working farm located in Lee, MA. Several architects were commissioned to design buildings at High Lawn, including Delano & Aldrich, Alfred Hopkins, and John C. Greenleaf. The collection contains more than 450 drawings, 334 photographs (mostly construction photos of High Lawn Farm), specifications, general project files, and project correspondence between 1908-1914. In addition to the farm in Lee, MA, the collection also contains drawings for several buildings in New York City. There are alteration drawings by Stuart & Stuart (1903) and Hunt and Hunt (1911) for the Field's family home at 645 Fifth Avenue in New York. There are also drawings for a commercial building by John C. Greenleaf for 8 and 10 West 37th Street.
Greene & Greene architectural drawings and records, 1896-1931
4,800 drawingsWilliam L. Bottomley architectural drawings, 1913-1946
384 drawingsThis collection contains original drawings for thirty-nine architectural commissions, dated from 1913 to 1946. The majority of projects were located in New York City; other locations include the District of Columbia, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Virginia. Projects with the greatest number of extant drawings include River House in New York City (1930-1931); the Ernest P. Davies residence in Roslyn, New York (1916); the William Goadby Loew residence in Old Westbury, New York (1931-1932); and the Robert Goelet residence in Georgetown, South Carolina (1935). Drawings are primarily done in graphite on tracing paper, with some in ink on drafting linen.
Ford Butler & Oliver architectural drawings and album, undated
4 rollsIncludes drawings for Long Island, N.Y. residential projects.
Carl Pfeiffer drawings, circa 1870s-1880s
300 drawingsThe bulk of the collection (292 drawings) features original drawings for the 1889 publication of Carl Pfeiffer's designs for American mansions and cottages. These are a mix of ink on paper, linen and tracing paper, as well as pencil on trace. Also included are a set of 7 drawings for a private home on Madison at 25th Street -- these are in ink and watercolor on paper, with a great level of detail -- and an illuminated monogram in a fantasy landscape.
Mott B. Schmidt architectural records and papers collection, 1920-1972
755 drawingsCollection consists chiefly of drawings and photographs. It contains over 755 drawings of private residences and other projects, such as an addition to Gracie Mansion (New York, N.Y.) and alterations to Columbia University's School of Journalism. Also included are 266 project photographs.
Casa Baldwin (Sarasota, Florida) / Luis Barragan, May 1982
5 items5 panels with reproductions of architectural drawings for Casa Baldwin, an unbuilt residential project by Luis Barragan and Raul Ferrara for Benjamin Baldwin in Sarasota, Florida. Includes site plans, floor plans, elevations, and sections.
Alexander Jackson Davis architectural drawings and papers, 1804-1900
3,000 itemsAlso, biographical manuscripts, illustrations of coats of arms, pedigree, and lists of his drawings and his library, to circa 1900, much of it done by Joseph B. Davis.