Sylvan and Robert L. Bien architectural drawings, 1923-1996 (bulk 1930s-1980s).

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Sylvan and Robert L. Bien architectural drawings, 1923-1996 (bulk 1930s-1980s).

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This collection contains architectural drawings, and some supplementary archival materials, for buildings primarily designed or altered by Sylvan Bien alone or in partnership with his son, Robert L. Bien. Most of the projects represented in this collection are apartment buildings located in New York City, particularly on the Upper East Side, with some work in surrounding regions and states. In several cases, drawings by the original architect for buildings later altered or studied by Bien are also included in this collection. Lastly, a small group of drawings created by Robert Bien while with Eggers Group is also included.

approx. 1377 sheets.

Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 7172044

Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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Sylvan Bien & Robert Bien, Architects.

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Lowell, Guy, 1870-1927

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Gilbert, C. P. (Charles Philip)

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York & Sawyer

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At the time of this project the address of York & Sawyer was given as 100 E. 42nd St. (New York, N.Y.). From the description of The New York Academy of Medicine, Fifth Avenue and 103rd Street, New York, [N.Y.] [graphic] : [detail drawings] / York & Sawyer, architects. May 18, 1925-July 8, 1926. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 78334996 At the time of this project the address of York & Sawyer was given as 50 East 41st St. (New Yor...

Bien, Robert L.

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Robert Bien (1924-2002) was a New York City architect best-known for designing apartment buildings in Manhattan during the 1950s and 1960s. From the description of Robert L. Bien Church and Railroad study photographs, 1983-2002. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 303026861 ...

Office of Sylvan Bien.

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Bien & Prince.

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Bien, Sylvan.

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Sylvan Bien (1893-1959) was born in Austria and emigrated to San Francisco in the mid-1910s to assist in the design of the Panama-Pacific Exposition. He moved to New York City and from 1919 to 1923 he worked in the office of Warren & Wetmore. By the 1930s, Bien had his own practice in New York City, largely designing apartment buildings and hotels. Among his prominent early designs were the Hotel Carlyle, the Beverly Hotel, and the Grolier Building. After World War II, Bien was also noted fo...

Eggers Group

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