Jac Lessman architectural records and papers, 1925-1975.

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Jac Lessman architectural records and papers, 1925-1975.

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This collection includes a significant number of original and reprographic interior design and architectural drawings for interiors designed by Jac Lessman throughout the United States and the Caribbean. Records are primarily for hotel, restaurant, club, and resort commissions. Also included are office files and scrapbooks related to his projects and business practices. Noted projects include Wilbur Clark's Desert Inn and the Stardust Hotel and Casino, both in Las Vegas, Nev.; the Hotel Delmonico, Essex House, the Hotel Manhattan, the Hotel St. Moritz, the Hotel St. Regis, and the Hotel New Yorker, all in Manhattan; the Barclay Hotel in Philadelphia; the Virgin Isle Hotel in St. Thomas; the Casino Internacional at the Hotel Nacional de Cuba in Havana; the Beverly Hills Country Club in Newport, Kentucky; the Hotel Duluth in Duluth, Minn.; the Roosevelt Hotel in New Orleans, La.; and several projects for Henry J. Kaiser.

50 folders of drawings.9 scrapbooks..5 linear feet of papers.

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

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SNAC Resource ID: 7172302

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

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Kaiser, Henry J., 1882-1967

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Biographical Chronology 1882 Henry John Kaiser born in Sprout Brook (near Canajoharie), New York, on May 9, son of Francis J. and Mary Yops Kaiser, German immigrants. 1895 Left school at age 13, to help support his parents and three sisters, by working in a dry goods store in ...

Clark, Wilbur, 1908-1965.

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Wilbur and Toni Clark, two of Las Vegas' modern era founders, helped the city earn its reputation as a glamorous resort town and the entertainment capital of the world. Wilbur Clark owned and operated other hotel properties in San Diego and Las Vegas, including the El Rancho Vegas which Clark bought in 1944 only to sell it two years later. But perhaps no hotel in Las Vegas in the 1950s was more important or influential than the Desert Inn. Construction began on the Desert Inn in 1947. After it o...

Desert Inn Hotel and Casino.

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Dalitz, Morris

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Cohn, Roy M.

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Lessman, Jac, 1904-1990.

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Jac Lessman was born in 1904 in Chicago and studied at Crane Technical High School and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, receiving training in architecture and engineering. He began working, while still in high school, for his father, who ran a small furnishings and interior decorations shop. In 1922, Lessman was hired as a designer in the interior design department of Albert Pick & Co. in Chicago, where he began specializing in interiors for hotels, theatres, clubs, and cabarets. ...