Roosevelt Memorial Association competition photographs, 1925.

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Roosevelt Memorial Association competition photographs, 1925.

Photographs of proposals for the memorial. Architects represented include John Russell Pope (winning design), McKim, Mead and White, Albert Randolph Ross (with MacNeil as sculptor and Charles N. Lowrie as landscape designer), Charles Platt, Howells and Jennewein, Delano and Aldrich (with John Gregory as sculptor), C. Grant La Farge (with Ferruccio Vitale as landscape designer and McCartan as sculptor), and Swarthwout and Fraser.

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Cornell University Library

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McKim, Mead & White

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At the time of this project the address of McKim, Mead & White was given as 160 Fifth Ave. (New York, N.Y.). From the description of Prospect Park, entrance shelters at Plaza entrance, [Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.] [graphic] : [detail drawing of dome in section and plan] / McKim, Mead & White, architects. Aug.24, 1895. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 78960919 Architectural company. From the description of Photographs, [ca. ...

Ross, Albert Randolph, 1869-1948

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Vitale, Ferruccio, 1875-1933

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Delano & Aldrich

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At the time of this project the address of Delano & Aldrich was given as 9 East 41st Street (New York, N.Y.) and 4 East 39th Street (New York, N.Y.). From the description of Art Gallery for Henry Walters, Esq., Baltimore, Md. [graphic] : [detail drawings] / Delano & Aldrich, Architects. Feb., 1905-June 21, 1906. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 78165781 Architectural firm of New York, N.Y. From the description of Architec...

Roosevelt Memorial Association

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The Roosevelt Memorial Association conducted a competition to create a memorial to Theodore Roosevelt in Washington, DC. From the description of Roosevelt Memorial Association competition photographs, 1925. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 706653421 ...

MacNeil, Hermon Atkins, 1866-1947

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Sculptor. From the description of Hermon Atkins MacNeil papers, 1888-1966. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63934471 Sculptor, art instructor; Queens, N.Y. Born in Everett, Mass., Feb. 27, 1866. Taught at Cornell University, Art Institute of Chicago, Pratt Institute and American Academy of Rome. Work includes statues, memorials, monuments, friezes. Established the American Indian as a legitimate artistic theme; d. 1947; husband of sc...

Gregory, John Clements, 1879-1958

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Sculptor, lecturer; New York, N.Y. Born in London, England; studied at the American Academy in Rome, and Ecole des Beaux-Arts. From the description of John Gregory papers, 1924-1966. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122333463 ...

McCartan, Edward F. 1879-1947.

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Howells, John Mead, 1868-1959

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Architect and collector of autographs. From the description of John Mead Howells collection of correspondence, 1894-1926. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79456141 John Mead Howells was a New York-based architect, best-known for his design for the Chicago Tribune Tower (1923), done with partner Raymond Hood. Howells studied architecture at Harvard and at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and was in practice with architect I. M. Phelps Stokes before joining Hood. During the 192...

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

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Roosevelt, 26th U.S. president, served 1901-1909. From the description of DS, 1904 March 1. : Washington, D.C. Homestead Certificate. (Copley Press, J S Copley Library). WorldCat record id: 15210791 26th president of the United States, 1901-1909. From the description of Theodore Roosevelt letters, 1917, 1918. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 213408920 Roosevelt was then Governor of New York. Chapman was one of the founders of the New York St...

Pope, John Russell, 1874-1937

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Lowrie, Charles

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Landscape architect. From the description of Charles N. Lowrie papers, [ca.1909-1937]. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64057159 ...

Swartwout, Egerton, 1870-1943

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Jennewein, Carl Paul, 1890-1978

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Sculptor; Bronx, N.Y.; d. 1978. From the description of Carl Paul Jennewein papers, 1910-1977. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81543309 ...

Fraser, James Earl, 1876-1953.

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Platt, Charles C. (Charles Carsten), 1880-1967

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Charles Carsten Platt (Cornell University Class of 1901) and his brother, Frederick P. Platt, headed F.P. Platt & Brother, an architecture firm which designed the Consolidated Edison Company, Horn and Hardart Automat restaurants, and the New York Athletic Club (of which Charles Platt was a member). Other clients included New York University and Pace College. Charles Platt was a member of the Architectural League of New York and the State Association of Architects; a governor of the Real Esta...

LaFarge, C. Grant 1862-1938.

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