Cutter & Malmgren Records 1889-1923

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Cutter & Malmgren Records, 1889-1923

Title

Cutter & Malmgren Records 1889-1923

Resource Link

http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv10277

Abstract

Architectural firm, headquartered in Spokane, Wash.; founded ca. 1889 by Kirtland Kelsey Cutter and John Poetz as Cutter & Poetz; with retirement of Poetz, reorganized as Cutter & Malmgren with addition of new partner, Karl Gunnar Malmgren; partnership ended in 1917 and Cutter continued practice in Spokane until 1923 when he moved to Long Beach, Calif. Correspondence, contracts, and bids, chiefly with suppliers of materials for the following Spokane, Wash., structures: W.H. Cowles Building (1910), Davenport Hotel (1911-1913), residence of L.M. Davenport (1904-1911), J.P. Graves residence, "Waikiki" (1910-1911), C.P. Lindsley residence (1911), Spokane Club (1910-1911), and Washington Water Power office building (1910-1919); check registers for personal and office expenses; and other papers; together with architectural drawings and sketches (290 sets of plans in various mediums, including ink or pencil drawings on linen, vellum, or tissue, watercolors, and blueprints) of residences and commercial buildings, designed by the firm, chiefly in the Pacifc Northwest, especially in Seattle, Spokane, and other cities in Washington State, but also in Montana, California, New York, and Colorado.

Extent

3 linear ft.; 4 boxes; 4000 architectural drawings

Languages

eng,

Holding Repository

Eastern Washington State Historical Society/Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture Joel E. Ferris Research Library and Archives

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 6365686

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