Architects
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 26 Collections and/or Records:
Henry Austin papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1034
Overview:
The papers consist of architectural drawings and specifications for domestic, religious, and public buildings in New Haven, Connecticut, surrounding environs, and elsewhere. Included also are the architect's watercolor sketches of proposed buildings and two licenses to practice architecture (1864-1865.)
Dates:
1851-1865
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Henry Austin papers
Bunnell family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1149
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence, diaries, legal and financial records, writings, memorabilia, and pictorial material which document the activities of four generations of Bunnell and Sterling family members living primarily in Connecticut and New York. Correspondence, diaries, writings, and memorabilia document the Yale academic careers of Sterling Haight and Frank Scott Bunnell and John W. Sterling, the Civil War service of Rufus W. Bunnell and Henry T. Plant, and the travels of family...
Dates:
1772-1958
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Bunnell family papers
Carroll L.V. Meeks Collection of Ephemera on Various Architects
Collection
Call Number: VRC 320
Overview:
Collection of ephemera, including articles, newspaper clippings, brochures, pamphlets, and photographs started by Yale Professor Carroll L.V. Meeks. Upon his death, the collection was given by his daughters to the Yale University Arts Library and maintained in the Visual Resources Collection where department staff added material on occasion.
Dates:
1950’s-1990’s
Centerbrook Architects and Planners records
Collection
Call Number: MS 1844
Overview:
The records consist of architectural and working/detail drawings of institutional, public, and private projects undertaken by Centerbrook Architects and Planners, LLC, as well as documentation of projects by pre-Centerbrook firms M/L/T/W Moore-Turnbull, Charles W. Moore Associates, and Moore Grover Harper. Relevant photographs, slides, correspondence, and newspaper clippings are included.
Dates:
1963-2004
Serge Chermayeff papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1240
Overview:
Chiefly printed copies of Serge Chermayeff's writings and research files on architecture. About half the papers consist of teaching materials from master class seminars in architecture conducted by Chermayeff at Yale University in 1966-1967.
Dates:
1957-1968
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Serge Chermayeff papers
Roy and Clara Creighton Papers
Collection
Call Number: RG 177
Overview:
Consisting primarily of correspondence between the Creightons and family members in the U.S., this collection provides valuable detailed information about Roy Creighton's work, the life of a typical missionary wife, and the complications of raising a family on the mission field. Roy Creighton was an American architect who supervised the construction of buildings on the mission field. He served under the YMCA and Presbyterian Board in China, at the American University of Beirut in Lebanon, and...
Dates:
1908-1972
Found in:
Yale Divinity Library
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Roy and Clara Creighton Papers
H. Page Cross papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 776
Overview:
Photographs of architectural designs and finished work executed by H. Page Cross. Included are photographs of commercial, institutional and residential buildings with both interior and exterior views. A small amount of funiture design is also shown. Among the projects are floor plans for the Museum of Modern Art, the Foxcroft School, Trinity Episcopal Church of Upperville, Virginia, and designs for Paul Mellon residences in Virginia, Massachusetts, and the British West Indies.
Dates:
1930-1975
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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H. Page Cross papers
William Adams Delano papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 178
Overview:
The papers consist almost entirely of social and professional correspondence. They also include an unpublished autobiography, The Reminiscences of William Adams Delano; printed matter; and a drawing made for the 46th anniversary of The Record. Much of the personal correspondence concerns Delano's membership in various New York clubs and his classmates in the Yale College class of 1895. His professional correspondence relates in part to important commissions, among them his work on the White...
Dates:
1902-1960, bulk 1939-1960
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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William Adams Delano papers
Michael Meredith Hare papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 6
Overview:
Correspondence, writings, notes, diaries, research materials, and other papers of Michael Meredith Hare, architect, philosopher, and author. The papers relate primarily to Hare's interest in the philosophical, theological, and mystical implications of the creative process and to his attempts to reconcile the laws of physics and parapsychological phenomena. In connection with this work, Hare corresponded with a number of psychologists, mathematicians, physicists, and philosophers. Correspondents...
Dates:
1935-1968
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Michael Meredith Hare papers
Norman Morrison Isham papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1156
Overview:
Correspondence, writings, architectural drawings, blueprints, photographs, and miscellanea relating to Isham's career as an architect, particularly in the restoration of old houses.
Dates:
1848-1937
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Norman Morrison Isham papers
Louis Isadore Kahn collection
Collection
Call Number: MS 1345
Overview:
The collection consists of publications on or by Louis Kahn and photographs of structures designed by Kahn.
Dates:
1951-1978, bulk 1962-1977
Anthony John Monk collection on Paul Rudolph
Collection
Call Number: MS 1928
Overview:
The collection consists of research notes and publicity materials for the book,The Art and Architecture of Paul Rudolph, by Anthony John Monk. The collection also includes photographs and slides of several Rudolph buildings, as well as presentation boards for the Paisley Civic Center project in Scotland by the architectural firm Hutchinson Locke and Monk.
Dates:
circa 1960-2003
Henry Killam Murphy papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 231
Overview:
The papers consist of architectural drawings, project files, photographs, correspondence, and ephemera documenting Henry Killam Murphy, particularly in his roles as a founding partner in the New Haven firm Murphy & Dana, and the New York City firm Murphy, McGill & Hamlin.
Dates:
1899-1938
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Henry Killam Murphy papers
William E. and Myra L. Parsons papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1033
Overview:
Correspondence, receipts, and memorabilia connected with a trip to Manila taken by William E. Parsons with his wife, Myra, while working as consulting architect to the Philippine government. Included in the correspondence are accounts by Myra Parson of the trip across the Pacific, descriptions of life in Manila, and comments on the political situation in the Far East.
Dates:
1939
Charles Mason Remey papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 413
Overview:
The papers consist of his travel journals in Europe and Latin America as a teacher of the Bahá'i faith (1945-1948) and typescripts of family biographies and other aspects of the Remey family history. Included are compilations of the life and letters of Charles Mason, chief justice of Iowa, of George Collier Remey, rear admiral in the United States Navy, and of Mary Josephine Remey. Remey's architectural career is represented in an "Architectural design for a Bahá'i temple to be built upon Mt....
Dates:
1891-1957, bulk 1939-1957
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Charles Mason Remey papers
James Gamble Rogers papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 396
Overview:
The papers consist of photographs, plans, drawings, specifications, job files, correspondence, contracts, and printed material, which relate to architectural projects, particularly residences and government, church, hospital, and school buildings, designed by James Gamble Rogers, or the firms of Hale and Rogers, James Gamble Rogers, Inc., and Rogers and Butler. The most extensive files are for buildings on the Yale University campus, but there are also substantial files on the Aetna Life...
Dates:
circa 1890s-1984
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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James Gamble Rogers papers
Paul Marvin Rudolph papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1411
Overview:
The papers consist of a scrapbook of clippings, pamphlets, and printed material relating to Paul Rudolph, architect and educator at Yale.
Dates:
1947-1974
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Paul Marvin Rudolph papers
Eero Saarinen collection
Collection
Call Number: MS 593
Overview:
The Eero Saarinen collection includes drawings, photographs, correspondence, writings, clippings, and audio-visual material relating to Saarinen's professional work as an architect, as well as a small amount of personal material created by himself and his wife, Aline Saarinen. A small amount of material in this collection documents the work of his father, architect Eliel Saarinen.
Dates:
1880-2004, bulk 1938-1962
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Eero Saarinen collection
School of Architecture, Yale University, lectures and presentations
Collection
Call Number: RU 880
Overview:
The materials consist of audio and video recordings of lectures and presentations at the Yale School of Architecture (formerly the School of Art and Architecture).
Dates:
1958-2013