Chester H. Aldrich correspondence, 1897-1963.

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Chester H. Aldrich correspondence, 1897-1963.

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This collection primarily contains original correspondence--including letters, telegrams, and postcards-- to California architect Robert D. Farquhar from Chester A. Aldrich. Also included is a small group of letters from Amey Owen Aldrich to Farquhar. Most letters are accompanied by envelopes; a very few contain photographs, clippings and other ephemera. Matters discussed in the correspondence vary widely from intimate personal subjects to observations and reports on the work of Carrère & Hastings and Delano & Aldrich, the American Red Cross and its work with soldiers in Italy during World War I, the rise of Fasicsm in Italy, economic hardships during the Depression, and the state of American and European architecture.

approx. 260 items.1 linear foot (2 boxes)

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

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SNAC Resource ID: 7279637

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

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Carrère & Hastings.

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Originally built by Alexander Jackson Davis for Charles A. Davis (no relation) 1846. cf. Garmey, Stephen. Grammercy Park, an illustrated history of a New York neighborhood / by Stephen Garmey ; foreword by Paul Goldberger; contemporary photographs by Philip Howard. [New York] : Balsam Press: distributed by Kampmann & Co., c1984. From the description of [Episcopal residence] No. 7 Granacy [i.e. Gramercy] Park, N.Y. [graphic] : [Alterations] / [Carrère and Hastings]. [circa 1904]....

École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts (France)

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American Red Cross

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On December 2, 1905, Mrs. Tunis G. Bergen brought together a group of Brooklyn residents at the Barnard Club House on Remsen Street to form New York City's first borough-based Red Cross organization. With an initial membership roster of 300, the Brooklyn Chapter of the American Red Cross embarked on its first major campaign to aid victims of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, collecting over $100,000 and thousands of articles of clothing to contribute to the relief effort. From this point on, th...

Aldrich, Chester Holmes, 1871-1940

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Born in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1871, Chester H. Aldrich received his degree in architecture from Columbia University in 1893. Between 1895 and 1900, Aldrich studied architecture at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, recieving his diploma in 1900. Upon his return to New York, Aldrich reentered the firm of Carrère & Hastings, for whom he had worked briefly between 1898 and 1900. In 1903, Aldrich opened a private practice with William Delano, a colleague from the Carrère & Hastings ...

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...

Aldrich, Amey Owen.

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American Academy in Rome

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Art school; Rome, Italy. Organized in 1894 as the American School of Architecture in Rome. In 1897, it was dissolved and its assets turned over to the newly established American Adademy in Rome, not a traditional school, but a place where architects, painters, and sculptors could work in close association. After merging with the American School of Classical Studies (f. 1895) on the last day of 1912, the American Academy in Rome consisted of the School of Fine Arts and th...

Delano, William Adams, 1874-1960

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Architect and president of the Art Commission of the City of New York. From the description of William Adams Delano papers, 1947-1954. (New York University). WorldCat record id: 476977441 American architect. From the description of Reminiscences : and other papers, 1909-1960. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 14402669 Architect. From the description of Reminiscences of William Adams Delano : oral history, 1950. (Columbia University In t...

Farquhar, Robert D.

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Biographical Note Robert D. Farquhar (1872-1967) was one of the foremost California architects of the early 20th century. He was born in Brooklyn, NY to David Webber Farquhar (1844-1905) and Sarah Malvia Joslyn in 1872. He was educated at Phillips Exter Academy and Harvard University before studying architecture at MIT and at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. In 1903, he married tennis championMarion Jones. The couple had three children; Dav...