Anthony N.B. Garvan collection, 1827-1980 (bulk, 1827-1889).

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Anthony N.B. Garvan collection, 1827-1980 (bulk, 1827-1889).

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Materials related to Alexander Jackson Davis include two letterbooks, original rendered prints for Rural Residences, architectural drawings and sketches, financial records and 20th century photographs. Garvan also donated a small amount of material related to his other interests, including one published architectural drawing by Frank Lloyd Wright. The collection contains correspondence of Anthony Garvan related to the acquisition of materials in the collection, but no materials related to Garvan's teaching, publications or personal life. The two Davis letterbooks contain original correspondence received and a small number of copies of correspondence sent. Notable correspondents include: Andrew Jackson Downing, Ball Hughes, Richard Lathers, Louise Davezac Livingston, J.M. Morehead, Samuel F.B. Morse, John Cox Stevens, David L. Swain and Thomas U. Walter. Other notable correspondents are represented by brief or institutional correspondence, including: Asher Benjamin, James H. Dakin, Richard Morris Hunt, Minard Lafever, Ithiel Town and Richard Upjohn. Projects represented by significant correspondence and/or drawings include several residences as well as institutional projects such as: North Carolina State Hospital for the Insane, Pauper Lunatic Asylum (Blackwell's Island, New York City), University of North Carolina, Virginia Military Institute and Yale College Alumni Hall. Correspondence in the collection indicates the existence of at least ten projects not identified in the job list by Jane B. Davies, published in 1992 as a chapter, "Works and Projects," in Peck, Amelia, ed. Alexander Jackson Davis, American Architect 1803-1892. Additional projects (from the period of his partnership with Town and Dakin) may be newly identified from financial records in this collection. Some of Davis's built works are documented with 20th century 8" x 10" black and white photographs by Wayne Andrews. The collection includes a small number of project-related architectural drawings, including original drawings for the Thomas Hunt Residence and lithographs of plans for the Pauper Lunatic Asylum. The collection contains substantial materials related to Davis's 1837 publication Rural Residences. Davis continued to revise and enlarge this publication later in his life, altering and painting the prints, adding others not published in the 1837 book and assembling enlarged sets, perhaps in hope of publishing a new edition. In addition to forty-four such prints, thirty-three of them rendered, the collection contains paper folders inscribed with lists, presumably used by Davis to store prints to be assembled into sets. Other materials include a draft of a preface and model specifications. Personal materials of Alexander Jackson Davis include travel sketches, engravings unrelated to his architectural projects, notes and a small number of letters from family members. There is no material related to Davis's wife or children.

A.J. Davis correspondence 251 items.A.J. Davis architectural drawings (original) 19 items.A.J. Davis architectural drawings (rendered lithographs and engravings) 35 items.A.J. Davis architectural drawings (plain lithographs and engravings) 28 items.A.J. Davis architectural drawings (photostats) 9 items.Photographs 71 photoprints.Additional materials 14 folders.

University of Pennsylvania, Architectural Archives

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Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959

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Garvan, Anthony N. B.

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Anthony Nicholas Brady Garvan was born on October 4, 1917 in Kamp Kill Kare, his family home at Raquette Lake, New York, to Francis Patrick Garvan and Mabel Brady Garvan. Garvan was a graduate of Hotchkiss School in 1935. He received his B.A. in 1939 and M.A. in 1942 from Yale University. A Ph.D. was awarded from Yale in 1948 after service with the Office of Strategic Services during World War II. Garvan's academic career included an assistant professorship a...

Town, Ithiel, 1784-1844

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Ithiel Town was an architect and bridge builder. He studied with Asher Benjamin in Boston and was a partner with Alexander J. Davis for a few years. Town was a leader in the Greek and Gothic Revival styles in American architecture. But it was his profits from bridge building that enabled him to amass the largest library of art, architecture, and engineering books and prints in the United States. He began to sell off his library before his death in 1844. From the description of Auctio...

Town & Davis.

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Andrews, Wayne D

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Andrews (1913-1987) was a professor of art history at Wayne State University, and a friend of assemblage artist Joseph Cornell. From the description of Letters from Joseph Cornell and related printed material, 1946-1967. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78067410 Wayne Andrews (1913-1987) was born in Kenilworth, Illinois and educated in the Winnetka public schools, Lawrenceville School, and Harvard. He received his doctorate in American history at Columbia Universi...

Davis, Alexander Jackson, 1803-1892

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Alexander Jackson Davis (1803-1892), the American architect, started working as a draftsman for Josiah C. Brady and Ithiel Town in New York City. He became Town's partner in 1829 and they collaborated on public structures, including the New York Customs House (1832) and various state capitols. When Davis went into business on his own, he continued to design public buildings but concentrated on designs for large country and suburban houses. Collection consists of the papers of Alexander Jackson D...

Dakin, James H.

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James H. Dakin (1806-1852), an architect, was born in Massachusetts, was a student of A. J. Davis, and was a member of the architectural firm Town and Davis. This firm designed the Capitol of North Carolina, New York University, and the Marine Pavilion Hotel at Rockaway, New York. In the 1830s, Dakin moved to New Orleans, Louisiana, and worked in partnership with his brother, Charles Bingley Dakin, and the architect James Gallier. Dakin designed the state capitol in Baton Rouge. In New Orleans, ...