George Ashdown Audsley architectural drawings, 1893-1935 (bulk 1893-1898).

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George Ashdown Audsley architectural drawings, 1893-1935 (bulk 1893-1898).

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The collection is arranged in two series. Series I comprises ten drawings documenting works by George Ashdown Audsley and his brother William J. Audsley (1893-1898). Projects include competition designs for the New York City Hall, 1893 and for the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart, Newark, New Jersey, 1897, a detail elevation for an office building (possibly the Bowling Green Building), an elevation of an unidentified Gothic style building, and two renderings illustrating schemes for a bank, dated 1898. Series II comprises five drawings made by Berthold Audsley illustrating construction techniques for scale models in laminated cardboard, 1935.

15 items.

University of Pennsylvania, Architectural Archives

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Audsley, Berthold

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Audsley, W. (William), 1833-1907

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Audsley, George Ashdown, 1838-1925

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George Ashdown Audsley was born in Scotland, and practiced architecture in Liverpool in partnership with John Cunningham, and later with his brother, William J. Audsley (1833-1907). Although they were successful in their Liverpool practice, the Audsley brothers emigrated to New York in 1892. In America they designed many public buildings, most notably the Layton Art Gallery in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (1888), and the Church of Edward the Confessor in Philadelphia. An authority on organ construction,...