Abbott Lowell Cummings papers 1956-1991

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Abbott Lowell Cummings papers 1956-1991

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The papers consist primarily of student research papers, photocopies of public records, and reports on historic homes of Connecticut. Files on seventeenth century domestic architecture and on one home in Massachusettes are also included. Many of the papers and reports were completed by students in Cummings's architecture history classes at Yale University, but several reports were written by Cummings.

7 linear feet (5 boxes and 1 audiocassette)

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Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives

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Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives

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Cummings, Abbott Lowell, 1923-

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Abbott Lowell Cummings, noted authority on American architecture, received his B.A. from Oberlin College in 1945, and his Ph.D. from Ohio State University in 1950. In 1955 he became assistant director of the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities. He remained with the Society until December 1983, eventually becoming executive director. In 1984 he became the Charles F. Montgomery Professor of American Decorative Arts at Yale University. He retired and achieved emeritus status in ...