Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Rare Books
Charles Sumner
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
3 letters to James Seymour Severance, 1842-1936.
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Manuscripts
1 letter to Theodoric Cordenio Severance.
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Manuscripts
2 letters to Caroline M. Seymour (Caroline Maria Seymour) Severance, 1820-1914.
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Visual Materials
The Greene and Greene Collection contains a wide variety of materials, from Greene and Greene ancestor, architect/engineer James Sumner's "Memo of the Timber wanted for the Steeple in Providence," dated 1775, and a diary of a European grand tour from 1829 to 1931 by an English ancestor of Charles Greene's wife, Alice, to drawings and photographs of Greene and Greene works from the time of construction through the close of the 20th century. The bulk of the collection dates from 1889 to 1975. Photographs comprise most of the records documenting their architecture. There is a small number of architectural drawings; most of the firm's drawings are housed at the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library at Columbia University, New York City, with a smaller collection of drawings from the estate of Charles Greene at the Environmental Design Archives, University of California, Berkeley. The collection is organized into four series: I. Personal papers, II. Office records, III. Job (project) records (including furniture), and IV. Related research materials. In general, the papers and records of both brothers have been kept together for the periods in which they were living together as students and young men, and for the period when they were partners in the firm of Greene and Greene. Within each series, the organization follows the separate lives and works of each brother from the dates at which they diverge. Although the collection has been assembled from many different sources, most items have a unique accession number identifying the donor, so that the researcher can easily identify the source of most documents.
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Visual Materials
Records and correspondence regarding library addition to James house, 1938-1944, also photography for House Beautiful magazine, 1956, 1957. Gift of Barbara James, 2008.
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Box 75 contains records for jobs conducted independently by Charles and Henry after the dissolution of the firm. Folders 1-22 document Charles Greene's work for clients after his move to Carmel in 1916, most notably four years of design and construction of the D. L. James house in Carmel Highlands, See Box 75a for records of the second phase of James house design and construction, the library addition.
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