Marjorie Sewell Cautley architectural records, 1925-1935.

Format:

Other

Author/Creator:

Cautley, Marjorie Sewell, 1891-1954.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Landscape architects--Archives.

Landscape architects.

Landscape architecture--History--20th century--Sources.

Landscape architecture.

City planning--History--20th century--Sources.

City planning.

New towns--History--20th century--Sources.

New towns.

Planned communities--History--20th century--Sources.

Planned communities.

Genre:

Photographs.

Physical Description:

14 folders.

Other Title:

Marjorie Sewell Cautley collection.

Place of Publication:

1925-1935.

Biography/History:

Marjorie Sewell Cautley attended the Pratt Institute and graduated from the Packer Collegiate Institute. She studied landscape architecture at Cornell University (B.S. 1917). After working for Warren Manning and then for Julia Morgan, she opened her own practice in New Jersey. She was married to Randolph Cautley in 1922, and gave birth to a daughter, Patricia. In 1925 she was elected a member of the American Society of Landscape Architects.

Marjorie Sewell Cautley made a substantial contribution to the developing planning profession as well as to landscape architecture. Her landscape projects show her characteristic focus on planning for people as well as on esthetics and plant materials. In particular, her work with Clarence Stein and Henry Wright engaged her deep concern for the needs of residents and the relationship between the project and the larger community. She gave many lectures and published articles and a book (Garden Design, 1935). She taught site planning and landscape design at MIT (1934-1937) and Columbia (1935-1937).

At the height of her productivity in 1937, she suffered a nervous breakdown and spent several years in a mental hospital. She obtained release in 1942, earned the Master of Fine Arts degree in City Planning from the University of Pennsylvania in 1943 and divorced Randolph Cautley in 1944. However, she was institutionalized again by 1946 and remained until her death in 1954.

Summary:

The collection comprises photographs and printed material (dated 1925-1935) documenting a number of Marjorie Sewell Cautley's projects, including Oak Croft, Ridgewood, NJ; Roosevelt Common, Tenafly, NJ; Town Plan and Development, Radburn, NJ; Phipps Garden Apartments, Queens, NY; Hillside Housing, Bronx, NY; and Recreational Development Projects for the State of New Hampshire. A few smaller projects are also represented. Construction photographs are included for several of the projects.

This collection contains no business records and very few personal items. The primary archive for Cautley's life and work is at the Cornell University Library, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections: Marjorie Sewell Cautley Papers, 1847-1995 (Collection Number: 4908).

Finding Aid/Index:

Printed finding aid available at the Architectural Archives. Electronic finding aid available in PDF (free Acrobat Reader required).

This collection is indexed in Philadelphia Architects and Buildings, a searchable database of architectural research materials.

Cited as:

Marjorie Sewell Cautley Collection, The Architectural Archives, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

235955524

Access Restriction:

Collection available for research by appointment only.

Online:

Finding aid (PDF)

Philadelphia Architects and Buildings

Architectural Archives