Mellor, Meigs & Howe collection, 1915-1975, bulk 1915-1939.

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Mellor, Meigs & Howe collection, 1915-1975, bulk 1915-1939.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63578948

The Mellor, Meigs & Howe Collection comprises architectural records related to the practices of Mellor, Meigs & Howe and its predecessor and successor firms. The bulk of the collection documents architectural projects of the following firms: Mellor, Meigs & Howe (1916-1928); Mellor & Meigs (1906-1916 and 1928-1940); Howe and Lescaze (1929-1935); and George Howe, Architect (1935-1940). It also contains materials related to projects of the firms William Lescaze, Architect (1935-45) and Louis E. McAllister, Architect. It contains a small amount of personal material related to Walter Mellor and George Howe. The collection is rich in the domestic work of Mellor, Meigs & Howe and of Mellor & Meigs. Several projects include fine presentation drawings, for example the residence of William Curtis Bok in Villanova, Pennsylvania and the Estate of Edward C. Congdon in Duluth, Minnesota. There is a presentation drawing for Walter Mellor's own house in West Mount Airy, Philadelphia, as well as for two other houses in the same block. Mellor's farm in Massachusetts is also represented. Notable among George Howe's designs is an early presentation drawing (ca. 1926) for the P.S.F.S. Building, prepared while he was still a partner in Mellor, Meigs & Howe. For his final 1931 design, the collection contains 68 Howe and Lescaze construction prints, but no original drawings. Three delineators have been identified who later established independent practices in Philadelphia: John Thomas Grisdale, (1904-1985), Charles William Pollitt, (1894-1974) and Edward Henry Wigham, (ca. 1891 - 1951). Four projects include shop drawings for iron work by Samuel Yellin.

Architectural drawings 1003 sheets.Photographs 81 photoprints.Boxed files 1 cubic foot.

University of Pennsylvania, Architectural Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 7897540

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Philadelphia Saving Fund Society Building (Philadelphia, Pa.)

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McAllister, Louis E. (Louis Ehrhardt), 1897-

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Mellor & Meigs.

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Philadelphia saving fund society

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Howe, George, 1886-1955

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Architect, Chair of the Dept. of Architecture at Yale University. Partner in the architecture firm Howe & Lescaze. From the description of George Howe papers, 1926-1974, (bulk 1926-1955). (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 505720125 ...

Meigs, Arthur

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Pollitt, Charles William, 1894-1974,

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Yellin, Samuel, 1885-1940

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Samuel Yellin, one of the most important architectural metalworkers in the United States in the early twentieth century, was born in Galicia, Poland in 1885. He was trained in Europe and traveled there before he immigrated to the United States. Yellin settled in Philadelphia, where he remained for the rest of his life. He was appointed as instructor at the Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Art, and by 1909 he had established his own shop. Yellin designed and built ironwork for some of the...

Mellor, Meigs & Howe.

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Wigham, Edward Henry, ca. 1891-1951,

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Grisdale, John Thomas, 1904-1985.

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John Thomas Grisdale was born in Minneapolis, the son of Charles and Frances Ruth Orvis Grisdale. He graduated from Central High School there and entered the University of Minnesota. After attending several years of the architecture course at the University of Pennsylvania, he left in 1928 before completing his degree. In 1930 he won the Pencil Points competition and also received an Honorable Mention in the competition sponsored by the Pan American Union for the Christopher Columbus Memorial Li...

Mellor, Walter, 1880-1940.

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Howe and Lescaze

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Lescaze, William, 1896-1969

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Correspondence to Lewis Mumford from William Lescaze and his wife, Mary Lescaze. From the description of Letters, 1932-1962, to Lewis Mumford. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155871458 William Lescaze (1896-1969) was a Swiss-born American architect, known as one of the pioneers in modernism in American architecture. Born March 27, 1896 in Geneva, Switzerland, Lescaze studied architecture at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale i...