Delano & Aldrich architectural records and papers, circa 1900-1949.

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Delano & Aldrich architectural records and papers, circa 1900-1949.

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Included are approx. 7,000 architectural drawings, circa 1910s-1940s, for projects designed by Delano & Aldrich, including La Guardia Airport in New York; several buildings at Yale University; Willard Straight Hall at Cornell University; various buildings at United States Military Academy at West Point; the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.; alterations to the White House; numerous residences throughout the New York City metropolitan area, particulary the Dwight W. Morrow house in Englewood, N.J., the J.A. Burden house in Syosset, N.Y., and the Willard D. Straight house on East 92nd Street in New York City; and various schools, churches, and residential structures throughout the United States. Rendered competition drawings are included. Drawings made by William Adams Delano while a student at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, circa 1900. Also, 6 boxes of photographs of Delano & Aldrich completed projects, chiefly residential structures.

approx. 7,000 drawings.2.4 cubic ft. of photographs.

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

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

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École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts (France)

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White House (Washington, D.C.)

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J. A. Burden house (Syosset, N.Y.)

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La Guardia Airport.

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National Gallery of Art (U.S.)

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Art museum; Washington, D.C. From the description of National Gallery of Art exhibition catalog, 1910. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122553233 ...

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...

Dwight W. Morrow house (Englewood, N.J.)

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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...

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 ...

Yale University.

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United States Military Academy

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Willard D. Straight House (New York, N.Y.)

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The Willard D. Straight House was the New York City residence of Willard Dickerman Straight. The house was designed by the firm of Delano & Aldrich in the neo-Georgian style and was completed in 1915. Straight died during the influenza epidemic of 1918 and his widow Dorothy Whitney Straight continued to live in the house for several years with her children. She remarried and moved to England but continued to own the house until 1927....

Cornell University. Willard Straight Hall.

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