Columbia University School of Architecture student drawings, circa 1879-1956, (bulk circa 1884-1912).

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Columbia University School of Architecture student drawings, circa 1879-1956, (bulk circa 1884-1912).

Included are drawings--from preliminary sketches to finished renderings--done by students in the architecture program at the School of Mines at Columbia and, later, at the School of Architecture at Columbia. The bulk of these were done circa 1884-1912, during the tenures of Deans William Robert Ware (1881-1903) and A.D.F. Hamlin (1903-1912). Included in collection are student drawings by William A. Boring, Harry Allan Jacobs, Benjamin Wistar Morris, Jr., Julian Clarence Levi, Arthur Ware, Talbot Faulkner Hamlin, Leopold F. Arnaud, Perry Coke Smith, Theodor Karl Rohdenburg, and Aladar Olgyay. Also, drawings done by architecture students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, circa 1880s; a photograph, undated, of William Robert Ware; and one drawing, 1879, by architect Cass Gilbert.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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The Department of General Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) did not officially exist until 1882. Courses in general studies were offered as early as 1865, when the MIT Catalog offered a curriculum option called the Course in Science and Literature. At that time, all regular MIT students were required to take “general studies” classes from the Course in Science and Literature, in addition to English, history, and modern languages. In 1882 the Course in Scienc...

Glushak, E.

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Madland, Per.

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Dimick, D. L.

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Burley, Robert A.

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Ware, Arthur G.

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De Ris, Joan.

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Jacobs, Harry Allan, 1872-1932

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Architect. Jacobs was active in New York City. From the description of Harry Allan Jacobs photographs, circa 1910-1930. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 505720134 ...

White, E. D., Jr.

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Ware, William R. (William Robert), 1832-1915

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Architect. Ware was the founder of the School of Architecture at Columbia University, which began as the Department of Architecture in the School of Mines at Columbia College, New York, N.Y. From the description of William Robert Ware papers and photographs, circa 1834-1920. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 505720026 ...

Kempa, E.

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Rapp, W.

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Gifford, R.

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Petchler, W. J.

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Arnaud, Leopold, 1895-1984

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Camlet, George L.

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Gilbert, Cass, 1859-1934

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Cass Gilbert was born on November 24, 1859, in Zanesville, Ohio, the son of General and Mrs. Samuel Augustus Gilbert. He received his education at MacAlester College, St. Paul, Minnesota and attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge after working in a St. Paul architect's office. Following graduation, he traveled throughout Europe and upon his return, entered the office of McKim, Mead, and White, Architects in New York City. A year later, in 1882, he established his own off...

Hamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster), 1855-1926

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Architect, Professor of Architecture. Hamlin was affiliated with the architectural firm of McKim, Mead & White, 1881-1883, and taught at Columbia's School of Architecture from 1883 to 1926. From the description of A. D. F. Hamlin architectural drawings and papers, circa 1835-1926. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 505720092 ...

Swan, P. W.

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Khaupt, R.

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Schwartz, R. E.

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Scherer, R. R.

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MacDonald, D.

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Kagawa, Shoso.

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Herz, Henry.

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Gordo, J.

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Schwarz, R. E.

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Columbia University. School of Architecture

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The architecture program at the School of Mines at Columbia was begun by William Robert Ware in 1881. In 1897 the department became a separate school of architecture. Ware had begun the first professional school of architecture in the United States at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From the description of Columbia University School of Architecture student drawings, circa 1879-1956, (bulk circa 1884-1912). (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: ...

Hamlin, Talbot, 1889-1956

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Talbot Faulkner Hamlin was born on June 16, 1889 in New York City. He was the second of the four children of Alfred Dwight Foster Hamlin (1855-1926), professor of architecture at Columbia University, and Minnie Florence Marston Hamlin (1859-?). Hamlin's formal education began in the Trinity School in New York in 1898. His parents transferred him to the Horace Mann School in New York in 1900, from which he graduated in 1906. Hamlin went on to Amherst College and received his Bachelor...

Olgyay, Aladar, 1910-

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Smith, Perry Coke.

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Lutz, P.

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Camlet, William J.

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Morris, Benjamin W. (Benjamin Wistar), 1870-1944

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Architect in New York City. Morris worked both independently, and with Carrère & Hastings; Morris, Butler & Morgan; and LaFarge & Morris. From the description of Benjamin W. Morris architectural drawings, circa 1893-1936. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 505720156 ...

Leefe, James.

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Wolf, J.

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Levi, Julian, 1874-1971

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Architect, watercolorist, philanthropist. From the description of Julian Levi papers, 1862-1971. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 606938072 ...

Columbia University. School of Mines

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Based on the plan submitted by Thomas Egleston, Jr., to the Trustees of Columbia College in 1863, the School of Mines was founded in 1864 at the 49th Street location of the College. With only three professors in the School, supplemented by adjunct professors from the College, the School of Mines opened November 15, 1864, offering a three-year plan of study to its 24 entering students. The "Big Three" founding professors of the School were Egleston, as professor of Mineralogy and Met...

Boring, William A. (William Alciphron), 1859-1937

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Architect. Boring was Director, 1920-1930, and Dean, 1931-1933, of the School of Architecture at Columbia University. He is best known for designing the Immigration Station at Ellis Island, New York, in 1899 while in partnership with Edward L. Tilton. From the description of William A. Boring architectural drawings and papers, circa 1859-1937. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 505720023 ...

Rohdenburg, Theodor Karl

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Atwood, Norman R.

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