Greene & Greene virtual archives, 1885-1957

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Greene & Greene virtual archives, 1885-1957

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The Greene & Greene Virtual Archives (GGVA) contains images of drawings, sketches, photographs, correspondence, and other historical documents related to the work of the architects Greene & Greene.

Total 3,823 images available for viewing on the Internet; Avery Fine Arts Library, Columbia University (1822 images); Environmental Design Archives, University of California, Berkeley (941 images); The Gamble House/Greene & Greene Archives, University of Southern California (1060 images)

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Avery Library Environmental Design Archives. College of Environmental Design. Gamble House (Pasadena, Calif.) Greene and Greene Archives

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Environmental Design Archives

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William W. Wurster founded the Environmental Design Archives (then the Architectural Archives) in 1953 as a teaching collection, following the recommendation of eminent architectural historian Henry Russell Hitchcock. The personal papers and project records of Bernard Maybeck comprised the inaugural donation. In 1973 the Department of Landscape Architecture combined its collections with the Architectural Archives prompting the College of Environmental Design to adopt the name "Documents Collecti...

Greene & Greene.

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By 1917 "the Culbertson sisters...could no longer afford..the property. It was purchased by Mrs. Dudley P. (Elisabeth S.) Allen...who shortly remarried and became Mrs. Francis Fleury Prentiss."--Edward R. Bosley / Greene & Greene. London : Phaidon, 2000, p.160. Bosley dates the house to 1911-13. Bosley lists the job number as 273. From the description of Floor plan [and] part plan of basement [graphic] / [Greene & Greene, architects]. [not...

Greene and Greene Archives

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The Gamble House

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Avery Architecture and Fine Arts Library

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Greene & Greene Virtual Archives

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Biographical Note Charles Sumner and Henry Mather Greene Biography Charles Sumner Greene was born on October 12, 1868, to Lelia Ariana Mather Greene and Thomas Sumner Greene in Cincinnati, Ohio. Fifteen months later, on January 23, 1870, Henry Mather Greene was born. The family later moved to St. Louis where, as teenagers, Charles and Henry attended Calvin Woodward's Manual Training School of Washingto...

Greene, Charles Sumner, 1868-1957

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Charles Sumner Greene was an Arts and Crafts style architect whose design practice included large residences throughout California as well as furniture and other decorative arts. He practiced with his brother, Henry Mather Greene, for part of his career under the firm name Greene & Greene. From the description of Charles Sumner Greene collection, 1862-1956. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 77707396 Biography Charles Sum...

Greene, Henry Mather, 1870-1954

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"The Reeve house has been moved twice in its long history of changing ownership. In 1917 Dr. V. Ray Townsend found the house on blocks ready to be carted away from its original site. He bought it and moved it several blocks inland to its second site in Long Beach. Shortly thereafter he moved to the Claremont area but, unwilling to give it up, rented it out for the next ten years. Meanwhile , in Claremont, the Townsends located the Darling house (1903) in which they resided until 1927 when Henry ...