Zantzinger, Borie and Medary architectural records, 1897-1966.

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Zantzinger, Borie and Medary architectural records, 1897-1966.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63661371

The bulk of the collection documents institutional and church designs of Zantzinger, Borie and Medary spanning the years 1897-1957, including predecessor and successor firms Field and Medary, Zantzinger & Borie, and Borie & Smith. St. John's Church (Lower Merion, PA), the Washington Memorial Chapel (Valley Forge, PA), and the Philadelphia Divinity School, are especially well represented through drawings. The collection also contains an extraordinary painted plaster site model of the Philadelphia Divinity School, showing the project's intended ultimate design, including buildings which were never built. The collection does not contain any materials related to the firm's many residential works, their collaboration with Paul P. Cret for the Detroit Institute of the Arts, or their well known Bok Tower, Mountain Lake, Florida. Materials for these projects at the Architectural Archives of the University of Pennsylvania are found in the Paul Philippe Cret Collection and the Lee Lawrie Collection. Other firms represented in the Zantzinger, Borie and Medary Collection are Samuel Yellin, Metalworker, Thomas W. Sears, Landscape Architect and Carroll, Grisdale & van Alen, Architects (Philadelphia Divinity School, 1966 Master Plan).

Architectural drawings 437 sheets : various media.Photographs 2 photoprints.Architectural models 1 item.

University of Pennsylvania, Architectural Archives

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Smith, Arthur T.

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Carroll, Grisdale & Van Alen

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Carroll, Grisdale & Van Alen was formed in 1946, when William L. Van Alen (1907-2003) joined J. Roy Carroll, Jr. (1904-1990) and John T. Grisdale (1904-1985), who had formed a partnership the previous year. All were graduates of the University of Pennsylvania's School of Architecture. The reputation of the firm was quickly established with important commissions for the City of Philadelphia, including the Youth Study Center and the International Airport. The firm continued until 1973, when J....

Field, Richard L. 1868-1906.

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Philadelphia Divinity School

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Philadelphia Divinity School (also known as Divinity School of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Philadelphia) incorporated in 1862, graduating its first class in 1863; had several different locations in Philadelphia, settling in its last campus at 42nd and Spruce streets in the 1920s and merged with St. Andrews Church at the same time; in the 1930s nearly closed but implemented extensive changes in both its academic and governing programs; existed until 1974 when it moved to Cambridge, Mass., ...

Field and Medary.

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Sears, Thomas W. 1880-1966.

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Zantzinger, Borie, and Medary (Firm)

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The architectural firm of Zantzinger, Borie and Medary was founded in 1910 by Clarence Clark Zantzinger, Charles Louis Borie, Jr., and Milton Bennett Medary. Predecessor firms were Field and Medary (1895-1906, Medary's partnership with Richard Littell Field, 1868-1906), and Zantzinger & Borie (1905-10). Zantzinger, Borie and Medary, following the fellow Philadelphia firms of Cope & Stewardson and Day & Klauder, successfully designed residences, churches, governmental, institutional a...

Borie, Charles Louis, 1870-1943.

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Zantzinger & Borie.

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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...

Washington Memorial Chapel (Valley Forge, Pa.)

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Medary, Milton Bennett, 1874-1929

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Zantzinger, Clarence Clark, 1872-1954.

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Borie & Smith.

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