Buildings and Properties records, 1897-1951.

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Buildings and Properties records, 1897-1951.

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Typescript and mimeographed copies of planning and development reports by Bryant Fleming, Assistant Professor of Rural Art, concerning the location of buildings for the College of Agriculture (Nov. 1910), the westerly unit of Cornell (April 1930), University and Cascadilla Avenues, Fall Creek, and interrelated areas (June 1930), and the library slope unit and outlying town and regional conditions which pertained (Nov. 1930); also an incomplete mimeographed draft and the final printed copy of the Report of the Plan Commission (Nov. 1925), which was charged with studying and preparing a plan for the architectural, engineering, and landscape development of the University, and which recommended the creation of an Architectural Advisory Board, of which F. H. Bosworth, Jr. was Chairman and to which Fleming was landscape advisor; four letters or copies of letters (1924-1925) from Bosworth and others to Trustee J. DuPratt White, Chairman of the Buildings and Grounds Committee, relating to the Plan Commission's report; and blueprints, maps, and tracings, some original, pertaining to the above reports or depicting the campus and campus areas in various years.

ca. 75 items.

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Fleming, Bryant, 1877-1946.

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Landscape architect. Bryant Fleming received a B.S. from Cornell University in 1901. He formed Townsend & Fleming in Buffalo, New York (1905), and dissolved the partnership in 1915 when he established an independent practice in Wyoming, New York. He moved his office to Ithaca in 1927, where he continued his practice until retirement in the late 1930s. Fleming taught as a visiting professor at Cornell, and helped develope the Department of Landscape Architecture. He w...