Kermit Carlyle Parsons papers, circa 1945-1999.

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Kermit Carlyle Parsons papers, circa 1945-1999.

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The first 13 boxes of the collection are described at the box level. These materials include manuscript and related papers for The History of Campus Planning at Cornell; "The Quad on the Hill-An Account of the First Buildings at Cornell," offprint from Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vol. 22, No. 4, December 1963; and The Cornell Campus: A History of its Planning and Development, including typescripts, printer's proofs, and index cards; material on the University and Urban Change project at Cornell, 1960s; papers on planning in Utica, New York, Cleveland, Ohio, and Irvine, California; publications on Gary, Indiana, Irvine, California, and Tompkins and Broome County, New York; student papers from planning courses at Cornell; and files on fellow faculty members. The material on the Nathaniel Owings Archive Project has been fully processed and consists of materials gathered by Parsons to create a research collection documenting Nathaniel Owings' contributions to urban development. The project was funded in part by the SOM Foundation. Parsons was to write a book titled, Nathaniel Owings and the Freeways: The Baltimore Wars, on Owings' work in Baltimore on designing a new freeway system. Owings was involved with the project and helped to secure materials. He also had been interested in writing books on his projects in Washington, D.C., Chicago, San Francisco, and elsewhere. Owings died on June 13, 1984. The archives project was completed in 1983 but the book projects appear to have not been finished.

121 cubic feet, plus oversize material.

Cornell University Library

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