Warren Powers Laird architectural records and papers, 1888-1945.

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Warren Powers Laird architectural records and papers, 1888-1945.

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The Warren Powers Laird collection comprises records of his consulting practice and professional papers in 85 scrapbook volumes, together with two personal items (a photographic portrait and an award medallion). Of particular importance to researchers are Laird's detailed records from U.S. architectural competitions under his supervision between 1894 and 1932. The collection includes especially lengthy documentation of the competitions for the design of the Pennsylvania State Capitol and the Delaware River Bridge (Benjamin Franklin Bridge). Notable campus planning projects for universities and other institutional clients include: the University of Pennsylvania, Carnegie Institute of Technology, Brown University, Northwestern University, the University of Wisconsin and the Sesqui-Centennial International Exposition (Philadelphia, Pa.). Researchers may refer to the finding aid for this collection for a complete index of projects. Laird's documentation includes correspondence, manuscript notes and lists, printed competition programs, formal reports to clients, printed ephemera and newsclippings. Laird also preserved a variety of visual material, including his own sketches of his planning projects and of competition entries, clippings of architectural drawings and buildings from professional journals and newspapers, photographic images of architectural drawings, models, buildings and sites and a relatively small number of photomechanical reproductions of architectural drawings. Visual materials are found for more than sixty projects, many of them competitions. Of particular interest are visual materials related to the following architects: Paul Philippe Cret; Zantzinger, Borie? Raymond Hood, Godley and Fouilhoux; Thomas, Martin and Kirkpatrick; Cram, Goodhue? Palmer? Delano? Cass Gilbert; Edgar V. Seeler; Rankin, Kellog? Harry Sternfeld; William Van Alen. Researchers may refer to the finding aid for this collection for additional significant architects and firms. The volumes document only three orignal design projects by Laird himself: his own house in Merion Pennsylvania (with Edgar V. Seeler) and two projects in Laird's home town of Winona, Minnesota, Winona Public Library (with Edgar V. Seeler) and the Masonic Temple (with Charles F. Osborne).

85 v. and 2 items.

University of Pennsylvania, Architectural Archives

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University of Pennsylvania. Dept. of Architecture

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University of Pennsylvania.

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The Department of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania was part of the Towne Scientific School until 1920, when a separate School of Fine Arts was established, teaching architecture and other fine arts. Teaching staff and courses of instruction of the Towne Scientific School, Department of Architecture were listed in the Catalogue of the University of Pennsylvania. The School of Fine Arts published its teaching staff, regulations, courses of study, competitons and, in some years, curre...

Sesqui-Centennial International Exposition (1926 : Philadelphia, Pa.)

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University of Pennsylvania. Graduate School of Fine Arts

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Osborne, Charles Francis, -1913

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Rankin, Kellogg & Crane (Philadelphia, Pa.)

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Seeler, Edgar Viguers, 1867-1929

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Van Alen, William, 1883-1954

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Laird, Warren Powers, 1861-1948

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Great-great-nephew of Abigail Powers Fillmore. From the description of A forgotten president : typescript, 1940 Jan. 15. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 38289400 Although Warren P. Laird did comparatively little in the way of conventional architectural design, his career as an "advisor" on architectural competitions and projects greatly influenced many important commissions in the United States before the Depression. Laird also played a crucial rol...

Raymond Hood, Godley & Fouilhoux

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Northwestern university

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During World War II, Northwestern offered its facilities for use by the War Department. The Army, Navy, and Civil Aeronautics Administration operated eleven training programs at Northwestern in addition to the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps (N.R.O.T.C.) established in 1926: the Navy V-7, Naval Reserve Midshipmen's School; the Navy V-5, Naval Aviation Prepatory Program; the Navy V-1, Accredited College Program; the Naval Training School (Radio); the Army Signal Corps Officers Training Scho...

Gilbert, Cass, 1859-1934

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Cass Gilbert was born on November 24, 1859, in Zanesville, Ohio, the son of General and Mrs. Samuel Augustus Gilbert. He received his education at MacAlester College, St. Paul, Minnesota and attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge after working in a St. Paul architect's office. Following graduation, he traveled throughout Europe and upon his return, entered the office of McKim, Mead, and White, Architects in New York City. A year later, in 1882, he established his own off...

Carnegie Institute of Technology

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Founded in 1905, by steel industrialist Andrew Carnegie; well-known for its engineering and science programs. Merged with Mellon Institute of Industrial Research in 1967, changing the name to Carnegie-Mellon University. From the description of Official guide: Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1915. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 154305814 ...

Thomas, Martin & Kirkpatrick.

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Zantzinger, Borie, and Medary (Firm)

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The architectural firm of Zantzinger, Borie and Medary was founded in 1910 by Clarence Clark Zantzinger, Charles Louis Borie, Jr., and Milton Bennett Medary. Predecessor firms were Field and Medary (1895-1906, Medary's partnership with Richard Littell Field, 1868-1906), and Zantzinger & Borie (1905-10). Zantzinger, Borie and Medary, following the fellow Philadelphia firms of Cope & Stewardson and Day & Klauder, successfully designed residences, churches, governmental, institutional a...

Cram, Goodhue, and Ferguson

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In 1887 Cram joined with Charles Wentworth to open an architectural office (Cram and Wentworth) in Boston. In 1891 Bertram G. Goodhue joined them. Shortly thereafter Wentworth died and the firm became Cram, Goodhue & Ferguson, which it remained until 1910 when Goodhue left to form his own firm in New York. Cram & Ferguson kept that name even when younger partners joined in 1925 and after Ferguson died in 1926. From the description of Men's dormitory, Richmond College[Richard,...

Delano & Aldrich

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At the time of this project the address of Delano & Aldrich was given as 9 East 41st Street (New York, N.Y.) and 4 East 39th Street (New York, N.Y.). From the description of Art Gallery for Henry Walters, Esq., Baltimore, Md. [graphic] : [detail drawings] / Delano & Aldrich, Architects. Feb., 1905-June 21, 1906. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 78165781 Architectural firm of New York, N.Y. From the description of Architec...

University of Wisconsin--Madison

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Pennsylvania State Capitol (Harrisburg, Pa.)

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Cret, Paul Philippe, 1876-1945

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Paul Philippe Cret (1876-1945) was born in Lyon, France. EĢcole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1903. Professor, University of Pennsylvania, and architect in Philadelphia, 1903-1937. Major works include Indianapolis Public Library, 1914-1917; Delaware River Bridge, Philadelphia, 1920-1926; Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, 1928-1932; Federal Reserve Board Building, Washington, 1935-1937. From the description of Pan American Union Building, Washington, D.C. : presentation, development an...

Sternfeld, Harry

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Palmer and Hornbostel

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Brown University.

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In 1917 the university established the Brown War Records Bureau, whose intention was to "collect and preserve a record of all Brown men who are serving in the present war". Brown faculty, students and alumni who were in the military were asked to fill out a small card called "Are you in the war?" and to send original letters, clippings or photographs which "have any bearing on the service of Brown men in the war." This collection is partly a result of that effort. From the guide to t...