Cornell University College of Architecture, Art and Planning student projects, 1898-1967.

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Cornell University College of Architecture, Art and Planning student projects, 1898-1967.

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Volumes containing honors designs and theses; an interscholastic competition; and merit solutions for landscape design, 1912-1922. Also, student projects and drawings, and photographs of projects, 1903-1967; three banners and one plaque for the Inter College Athletic Championships, 1910-1916; approximately 300 student pen and ink sketches, primarily copied from published works; and student projects for the Dept. of City and Regional Planning. Includes drawings of Cornell University and Ithaca buildings, such as Sage College, Boardman and Cascadilla Halls, Llenroc, the Grant Mansion, Giles House and student apartments, as well as proposed residential halls and academic buildings. Also, drawings of historic European and classical structures, and architectural elements. Among the students and architects whose work is represented are Carrère & Hastings, Richard C. Murdock (Cornell University Class of 1927), John Wellborn Root (Cornell University Class of 1909), and Robert J. Eidlitz (Cornell University Class of 1885). Includes design problems, 1922-1954. Includes Baird Prize competition "Place Plate" artwork from Design 112, February 1932. The winning design (not included) was used by the Wedgwood Company for a set of twelve plates depicting Cornell scenes. Drawing on canvas by Richard Andrews Tissington (written RA Tissington), who graduated from the Collegel of Architecture in 1900. According to a 1901 publication of Cornell Alumni News, the drawing, entitled "Design for a Ceiling," was the First Prize Drawing in the Cornell Traveling Fellowship Competition. It was also featured in a exhibit for the Convention of the Architectural League of America May 23-25, 1901. The drawing itself is approximately 48"x60"and is extremely fragile.

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Carrère & Hastings.

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Originally built by Alexander Jackson Davis for Charles A. Davis (no relation) 1846. cf. Garmey, Stephen. Grammercy Park, an illustrated history of a New York neighborhood / by Stephen Garmey ; foreword by Paul Goldberger; contemporary photographs by Philip Howard. [New York] : Balsam Press: distributed by Kampmann & Co., c1984. From the description of [Episcopal residence] No. 7 Granacy [i.e. Gramercy] Park, N.Y. [graphic] : [Alterations] / [Carrère and Hastings]. [circa 1904]....

Cornell University. Dept. of City and Regional Planning.

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Eidlitz, Robert James, 1864-1935

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Architect. Cornell University Class of 1885. From the description of Robert J. Eidlitz papers, [ca. 1881-1887]. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64073219 ...

Cornell University

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Murdock, Richard C.

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Cornell University. College of Architecture, Art, and Planning

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The firm UKZ is made up of former Cornell students. From the description of Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning broadsides, 1952-1986. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64073787 The Preston H. Thomas Memorial Lectures in the Department of Architecture have been given annually since 1976 with funds provided by Leonard and Ruth Thomas of Aurora, N.Y., in memory of their son, Preston, who was a third-year student of architecture at Corn...

Root, John Wellborn, 1887-1963

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