League for Progress in Architecture records, 1937-1939.

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League for Progress in Architecture records, 1937-1939.

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This collection contains correspondence, newspaper articles, a scrapbook, government documents, and a report, 1937-39. Most of the material in this collection consists correspondence of the League for Progress in Architecture as members protested the design, location, and lack of design competition of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial. Most of the correspondence is from or to Julian E. Berla, a local architect, and Henry S. Hill, a New York architect. Other correspondents are prominent architects William Lescaze and Ernest Grunsfeld; academics Joseph Hudnut and Leopold Arnaud ; and politicians Charles Moore, Chairman of the Fine Arts Commission, Hon. Otha Wearin, Representative J. J. Boylan, and Frederic A. Delano.

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Grunsfeld, Ernest Alton, 1897-1970

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League for Progress in Architecture.

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Boylan, John Joseph, 1878-1938

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Hudnut, Joseph, 1886-1968

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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...

Berla, Julian E.

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Gutheim, Frederick Albert, 1908-1993

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Frederick Albert Gutheim (1908-1993) was a city planner, urban historian and architectural critic, and professor at The George Washington University from 1971-79, and director of the University's graduate program in historic preservation from 1976-79. Mr. Guthheim was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts on March 3, 1908. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1931 from the University of Wisconsin. He continued his studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Urbaines, the London School of Economics a...

Hill, Henry S.

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Pope, John Russell, 1874-1937

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Wearin, Otha Donner, 1903-

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Moore, Charles, 1855-1942

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Charles Henry Moore (b. 1859) was the son of William James Moore, who had emigrated from Copiah County, Mississippi, to Nacogdoches, Texas in 1844. Moore was raised in Anderson County. From the description of Moore, Charles H., Reminiscences, 1932-1933 (University of Texas Libraries). WorldCat record id: 755804035 Moore was chairman of the National Commission of Fine Arts (1915-1937), served as overseer at Harvard University, and was author of works about George Washington. ...

Arnaud, Leopold, 1895-1984

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Delano, Frederic Adrian, 1863-1953

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Army officer and railroad officer. From the description of Frederic Adrian Delano papers, 1917-1919. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70982936 Frederic Adrian Delano (1863-1953), uncle of Franklin D. Roosevelt, was born in Hong Kong, China. His father, Warren Delano, II, was at that time a partner in the shipping firm of Russell and Company based in that city. A few years later the Delano family returned to Algonac, the family home near Newburgh, New York, and Delano spent muc...