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Laird, Warren Powers, 1861-1948. Warren Powers Laird architectural records and papers, 1888-1945.

Title: Warren Powers Laird architectural records and papers, 1888-1945.

The Warren Powers Laird collection comprises records of his consulting practice and professional papers in 85 scrapbook volumes, together with two personal items (a photographic portrait and an award medallion). Of particular importance to researchers are Laird's detailed records from U.S. architectural competitions under his supervision between 1894 and 1932. The collection includes especially lengthy documentation of the competitions for the design of the Pennsylvania State Capitol and the Delaware River Bridge (Benjamin Franklin Bridge). Notable campus planning projects for universities and other institutional clients include: the University of Pennsylvania, Carnegie Institute of Technology, Brown University, Northwestern University, the University of Wisconsin and the Sesqui-Centennial International Exposition (Philadelphia, Pa.). Researchers may refer to the finding aid for this collection for a complete index of projects. Laird's documentation includes correspondence, manuscript notes and lists, printed competition programs, formal reports to clients, printed ephemera and newsclippings. Laird also preserved a variety of visual material, including his own sketches of his planning projects and of competition entries, clippings of architectural drawings and buildings from professional journals and newspapers, photographic images of architectural drawings, models, buildings and sites and a relatively small number of photomechanical reproductions of architectural drawings. Visual materials are found for more than sixty projects, many of them competitions. Of particular interest are visual materials related to the following architects: Paul Philippe Cret; Zantzinger, Borie? Raymond Hood, Godley and Fouilhoux; Thomas, Martin and Kirkpatrick; Cram, Goodhue? Palmer? Delano? Cass Gilbert; Edgar V. Seeler; Rankin, Kellog? Harry Sternfeld; William Van Alen. Researchers may refer to the finding aid for this collection for additional significant architects and firms. The volumes document only three orignal design projects by Laird himself: his own house in Merion Pennsylvania (with Edgar V. Seeler) and two projects in Laird's home town of Winona, Minnesota, Winona Public Library (with Edgar V. Seeler) and the Masonic Temple (with Charles F. Osborne).

ArchivalResource: 85 v. and 2 items.

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