Collection on Claude Bragdon, 1931-1988/

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Collection on Claude Bragdon, 1931-1988/

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The Collection on Claude Bragdon contains clippings and articles regarding Bragdon and his work. Most concern buildings he designed in Rochester, New York, and include: residential homes, First Universalist Church, west garden of the George Eastman House, New York Central Railroad Station, Security Trust Bank mosaics, Central YMCA, and gravestone monuments. Articles also cover the donation of Bragdon plans and drawings to the University of Rochester, poet Adelaide Crapsey, and biographical sketches of Bragdon. Last is a copy of the Register of the Architectural Drawings of Claude Fayette Bragdon, 1891-1923. Clippings, articles, and register of architectural drawings by architect Claude Bragdon. Bragdon taught at the Rochester Athenaeum and Mechanics Institute, a precursor to Rochester Institute of Technology, from 1894-1897.

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RIT Library, Wallace Library

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Rochester Athenaeum and Mechanics Institute

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Bragdon, Claude Fayette, 1866-1946

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Claude Fayette Bragdon, architect, stage designer, author, and poet, was born in Oberlin, Ohio, on August 1, 1866. In 1891 he moved to Rochester, N.Y., and in 1923 he settled in New York City until his death in 1946. His architectural designs include Rochester's New York Central Railroad Station and the Rochester First Universalist Church. His books include THE GOLDEN PERSON IN THE HEART (poems, 1898), ARCHITECTURE AND DEMOCRACY (1918), MERELEY PLAYERS (1929), and MORE LOVES THAN ONE (autobiogra...