Elizabeth Mills Brown files on New Haven architecture Circa 1919-2001 1967-1976

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Elizabeth Mills Brown files on New Haven architecture Circa 1919-2001 1967-1976

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.1946

Elizabeth Mills Brown was an architectural historian whose life work focused on the architecture of New Haven, Connecticut, and surrounding areas. This collection consists of writings, maps, photographs, reports, and notes that she created and amassed in the course of her extensive research on the architecture and built environment of New Haven and Connecticut. It includes her Yale master's thesis on Center Church on the Green in New Haven; early, annotated drafts, "itineraries," and notes on her book, ; and reports that she wrote on Wooster Square in cooperation with the New Haven Trust for Historic Preservation. The collection also includes a number of research files for unrealized articles, as well as drafts of several unpublished manuscripts. New Haven: A Guide to Architecture and Urban Design

4 linear feet (4 boxes)

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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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Brown, Elizabeth Mills

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Elizabeth Mills Brown was born on November 28, 1916. She received a bachelor of fine arts degree from Bennington College in 1939, and a master's degree in art history, specializing in architectural history, from Yale University in 1963 (advised by Carroll L. V. Meeks). Her major work, New Haven: A Guide to Architecture and Urban Design (Yale University Press, 1976), is the authoritative manual on significant New Haven buildings. Brown also researched and wrote several historic surve...