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Architectural drawings and specifications, 1890-1930.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Archival Collections PEW/RHS/1
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- Format:
- Archive
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Radnor Historical Society (Wayne, Pa.)
- Subjects (All):
- Houses--Pennsylvania--Montgomery County.
- Houses--Pennsylvania--Delaware County.
- Houses--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- housing developments--Pennsylvania.
- garages.
- Stables.
- barns.
- Apartment houses.
- Architecture, American--History--20th century--Designs and plans.
- Architecture, American.
- Overbrook Farms (Overbrook, Philadelphia, Pa.).
- Local Subjects:
- Overbrook Farms (Overbrook, Philadelphia, Pa.).
- Genre:
- Architectural drawings -- American.
- Site plans.
- Landscaping plans.
- Ink drawings.
- Pencil drawings.
- Blueprints.
- Physical Description:
- 872 items
- Arrangement:
- Organized in three series: I. Architectural drawings & prints. II. Maps, survey drawings and ground plans. III. Specifications and other manuscript project file materials. Series I, which comprises the bulk of the collection, is arranged by architectural project sets, most of which are represented by individual RLIN VIM records. See RLIN record nos. PAPV92-F844, F1893-F1901, F1949-F1957, F1998-F2015, F2029-F2039, F2061-F2071, F2116-F2127, F2146-F2165, F2193-F2205, F2245-F2254, F2280-F2293, F2321-2325, F2476-2479. Manuscript items, which relate to project records cataloged as visual materials, have been added to these records as accompanying material.
- Place of Publication:
- 1890-1930.
- Summary:
- Contains the records of a number of Delaware and Montgomery County (Pa.) and West Philadelphia residential developers, architects, and builders, much of which reflects the rapid suburban development of this area circa 1890-1930. Prominent among the materials is that of the developer Walter B. Smith, for which manuscript items are available giving names of architects, clients, and communities of Smith's work. Builders J.D. Lengel and Alan G. Smith, have drawings and specifications for several projects, as do the architects Heacock and Hokanson, D. Knickerbacker Boyd, D. Judge DeNean, Horace Trumbauer, Boyd, Abel and Gugert, Thomas W. Sears, Karcher & Smith, Robert W. Pollock, Louis H. Rush, Alexander Mackie Adams, Willing, Sims & Talbutt, Zantzinger, Borie & Medary, Walter F. Price, Frank L. and William L. Price, as well as others. The New York firm of Delano & Aldrich is named on a landscape drawing for a Bryn Mawr property.
- Prominent among the clients is Isaac H. Clothier, Jr.
- Finding Aid/Index:
- Radnor Historical Society (Wayne, Pa.) Architectural drawings collection [inventory] [1992] folder level control.
- Cited as:
- Athenaeum copy: Radnor Historical Society architectural drawings collection on loan to the Athenaeum of Philadelphia, with the support of the Pew Charitable Trusts through its Museum Loan Program.
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