Charles Coolidge Haight architectural drawings and papers, circa 1874-1914.

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Charles Coolidge Haight architectural drawings and papers, circa 1874-1914.

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This collection contains architectural drawings by various delineators and photographs of built and unbuilt buildings designed by Haight, often in collaboration with his partner Alfred Morton Githens. These projects include General Theological Seminary; the School of Mines at Columbia University; Christ Church; St. Ignatius of Antioch Church; a Parish House for the Church of the Holy Communion; and Trinity School--all in New York City. Also included are the Chapel of Saint Cornelius the Centurion on Governors Island, New York; buildings at Yale University; Keney Memorial Tower in Hartford, Conn.; a residence in Lenox, Mass.; and miscellaneous and unidentified projects. Additionally found in the collection are a contract and specifications from 1881 for a hospital for contagious diseases to be built for the New York City Health Department on North Brother Island in New York City, as well as reproductions of architectural drawings for this hospital.

62 sheets.65 photographs.15 pp. of papers.

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

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SNAC Resource ID: 7627412

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

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General Theological Seminary (New York, N.Y.)

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Trinity School is an independent, preparatory, and co-educational day school for grades K–12 located in the Upper West Side neighborhood in New York City, New York. Founded in 1709 in the old Trinity Church at Broadway and Wall Street, the school is the fifth oldest in the United States and the oldest continually operational school in New York City....

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Haight, Charles Coolidge, 1841-1917

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Born in New York City in 1841, Haight received his bachelor's degree from Columbia College in 1861 and enlisted in the Union Army in the following year. After his discharge, Haight returned to New York to work for Emlyn Little, a fellow soldier. Haight opened his private practice in New York in 1867 and was later joined in partnership by Alfred Morton Githens. Haight received numerous commissions for residential and institutional work, and was the principal architect of the Midtown New York City...