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Architectural drawings in the library of Elton Hall
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Architectural Drawings
Visual Materials
Contains drawings donated by the families of Charles and Henry Greene, by the families of the clients and by the families of later owners. About 137 architectural drawings can be viewed online along with a smaller number of design drawings. A group of post-1966 landscape drawings(unprocessed) for the Gamble House by landscape architect Emmet Wemple was added to the Gamble House drawings in 2011. Large format items other than architectural drawings are housed in the last few folders of the subseries. These include photographs and certificates related to the AIA awards to the Greenes in 1948 and 1952; an oversize tinted photograph of the James Culbertson garden; and wallpaper and paint samples from the Lucy Wheeler house. See also an oversize tinted photograph of the Camp house and presentation drawings for Darling, Robinson, and Tichenor houses in Boxes 121 and 121a, Subseries D. below.
Subseries A.
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Architectural drawings
Manuscripts
Contains 50 sheets of blueprints for the Pasadena Playhouse by R. F. McCann & Co., Architects including site plan, exterior and interior photographs with design annotations, structural drawings, floor plans, elevations, and more, many with annotations.
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Photographs of Architectural Drawings
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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