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New York Architectural Terra-Cotta Company (Long Island City, New York, N.Y.). New York Architectural Terra-Cotta Company records, 1892-1921 (bulk, circa 1911-1920).

Title: New York Architectural Terra-Cotta Company records, 1892-1921 (bulk, circa 1911-1920).

Files of the company, 1911-1920, much of which consists of unsucessful architectural bid documents, each noting the architect, building, and location, as well as estimated costs, sketches, and related correspondents. These bid documents represent commissions not awarded to NYATCC, and do, in some cases, indicate the outcome of the bid. Architects represented include McKim, Mead & White; Cass Gilbert; George Post; D.H. Burnham & Company; Warren & Wetmore, Schwartz & Gross, and many others. Also includes correspondence and office memoranda, including some describing the formative years, 1911-1914, of the National Terra Cotta Society, trade catalogs, and job photographs. Also, two albums containing photographs of sample pieces of terra cotta, and month by month construction records for three buildings, including the American Theater (42nd Street, New York, 1892) by Charles Coolidge Haight; the Renaissance Apartments (Brooklyn, N.Y., 1889) and the Imperial Apartments (Brooklyn, N.Y., 1890) both by Montrose Morris.

ArchivalResource: ca. 6,000 files.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/505719900 View

Woodlawn Cemetery (New York, N.Y.). Woodlawn Cemetery records, 1863-1999.

Title: Woodlawn Cemetery records, 1863-1999.

This collection includes records created and collected by the Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, New York, during the course of their operations between 1863 and circa 1990.

ArchivalResource: approximately 800 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/271455774 View

Guastavino Fireproof Construction Company/George Collins. Architectural records. Series II: Project Records. Subseries 30: Files, Manhattan (New York, N.Y.), 1880-1949 (bulk 1900-1925).

Title: Architectural records. Series II: Project Records. Subseries 30: Files, Manhattan (New York, N.Y.), 1880-1949 (bulk 1900-1925).

This subseries contains notes, photographs, clippings, correspondence, brochures, bids, contracts, financial statements, bills of lading, order forms, invoices, specifications, memos, advertisements, estimates, requisitions, insurance certificates, work orders, and receipts pertaining to R. Guastavino Co.'s projects in Manhattan, New York. Projects are numerous, from private residences to public buildings, and from educational institutions to synagogues and churches.

ArchivalResource: 6 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/309718226 View

Convent of the Sacred Heart (New York, N.Y.). Convent of the Sacred Heart architectural records, 1902-1918.

Title: Convent of the Sacred Heart architectural records, 1902-1918.

This collection contains original and reprographic architectural drawings for two properties occupied by the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Manhattan. These include the former James A. Burden, Jr., residence at 7 E. 91st St., designed by the New York architectural firm of Warren, Wetmore & Morgan in 1902-1903; and the Otto H. Kahn residence at 1 E. 91st St., designed by New York architect C. P. H. Gilbert in 1916-1918.

ArchivalResource: 154 drawings : (20 rolls)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/299031284 View