Jefferson Cleveland Grinnalds papers, 1908-1966, 1920-1960 (bulk).

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Jefferson Cleveland Grinnalds papers, 1908-1966, 1920-1960 (bulk).

Collection includes correspondence (1920-1966) with planners, clients, and professional groups; zoning ordinances and plans for Baltimore, Frederick, Salisbury, Annapolis, and Bel Air, Maryland; Raleigh and Burlington, North Carolina; and Martinsburg, West Virginia; monographs and reports by Grinnalds and other planners including Edward M. Bassett and Robert Whitten; selected magazine articles on zoning (1922-1934); plans and maps for towns and cities particularly in Maryland; and newspaper clippings on zoning. Major correspondents are Edward M. Bassett, Thomas Eldridge, P. C. Painter, and Gustav Jaeger Requardt. Also, occasional letters from Harland Bartholomew, Alfred Bettman, Russell Van Nest Black, Arthur Comey, and mayors of cities retaining Grinnalds as a consultant; and one letter from Herbert Hoover concerning Grinnalds' zoning ordinance for Baltimore.

10 cubic ft.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7910372

Cornell University Library

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Requardt, Gustav J. (Gustav Jaeger)

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Bettman, Alfred, 1873-1945

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City planner. From the description of Alfred Bettman papers, 1910-1945. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64074394 Alfred Bettman was a city planner. From the guide to the Alfred Bettman Papers, 1910-1945, (Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library) Alfred Bettman, prominent lawyer and city planner, was born in 1873 in Cincinnati, Ohio to Louis and Rebecca (Bloom) Bettman. He attended Harvard Uni...

Painter, P. C.

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Black, Russell Van Nest, 1893-1969

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Planner, landscape architect, civil engineer, author, teacher. Russell Van Nest Black graduated from Cornell University in 1916, and later served as director of Bay Counties (San Francisco) Regional Plan, 1923; director of plans and surveys, Philadelphia Regional Plan, 1925-1929; vice president and president of the American Institute of Planners, 1933-1937; consultant to the New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia state planning boards; and consultant director to the New Jer...

Bartholomew, Harland, 1889-

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Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964

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Herbert Clark Hoover (b. August 10, 1874, Iowa-d. October 20, 1964), thirty-first president of the United States, was born in Iowa, and was orphaned as a child. A Quaker known from his childhood as "Bert" to his friends, he began a career as a mining engineer soon after graduating from Stanford University in 1895. Within twenty years he had used his engineering knowledge and business acumen to make a fortune as an independent mining consultant. In 1914 Hoover administered the American Relief Com...

Bassett, Edward M. (Edward Murray), 1863-1948

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Bassett was a United States congressman, 1902-1905, and served on the Public Service Commission of New York, during which time he aided in the development of the dual subway plan in New York City. He was vice-chairman of the Brooklyn Committee on City Plan, whose report was published in 1914; chairman of the Heights of Buildings Commission in New York City, whose final report, 1916, presented the first Zoning Resolution of the City of New York, also the first comprehensive zoning ordinance in th...

Comey, Arthur.

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Eldridge, Tho. (Thomas)

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Grinnalds, Jefferson C. (Jefferson Cleveland), 1884-1966

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City planner, zoning expert. From the description of Jefferson Cleveland Grinnalds papers, 1908-1966, 1920-1960 (bulk). (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64074389 City planner and zoning consultant, University of Virginia alumnus, class of 1907. From the description of Papers of Jefferson C. Grinnalds [manuscript] 1921-58. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647966019 City planner and zoning consultant, of Ruxton, Md. ...

Whitten, Robert H.

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