Brooks family papers 1866-2010

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Brooks family papers 1866-2010

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.1784

The Brooks Family Papers contain materials relating to Harold Allen Brooks, Sr., Mildred McNeill-Brooks, and their son, Harold Allen Brooks, Jr. The materials consist of correspondence, writings, financial documents, photographs, and research files. The latter contains materials regarding Frank Lloyd Wright, other Prairie School architects, and Charles-Edouard Jeanneret. The research files on Jeanneret bring together documents and photographs collected from around the world and provide comprehensive documentation of Jeanneret's personal life, influences, and architectural career. There is a presentation drawing by Euston made after the architect's first visit to the site in the spring of 1939 and a writing by H. Allen Brooks as to why he became an architectural historian as it relates to the presentation drawing.

48 linear feet (114 boxes)

eng,

Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 6351658

Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives

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Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959

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Architect, designer; Illinois, Wisconsin and Arizona. From the description of Frank Lloyd Wright textile design studies, [ca. 1955]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86122971 BIOGHIST REQUIRED Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) was an American Architect internationally recognized for his distinctive Prairie Style houses, innovative building design, Taliesin school and fellowships, and philosophy of "organic architecture." From the guide to the Frank Lloyd Wright Miscel...

Brooks family.

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Harold Allen Brooks, Sr. was born in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1886. He served in the army during World War I and afterwards became a banker. In June 1923, he married Mildred McNeill. McNeill was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1895. She attended Vassar College and was a nurse with the YWCA before marrying Brooks. Both died in the early 1950s. Harold Allen Brooks, Jr. was born in 1925. Brooks, Jr., received degrees from Dartmouth College (B.A., 1950), Yale University (M....

Brooks, H. Allen (Harold Allen), 1925-2010

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Le Corbusier, 1887-1965

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