Drawings & Archives Collections
Collections in Drawings & Archives are arranged by creator, usually an architect or firm -- see the alphabetical list below. Click on the creator name to access finding aids or catalog records. Collections can also be searched in Columbia University Libraries’ online catalog (CLIO):
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Aalto, Alvar, 1898-1976. / Institute of International Education, Kaufmann Conference Room
Adams and Prentice.
Adams & Woodbridge.
AIA National Housing Committee, David F.M. Todd papers on.
Aldrich, Chester Holmes, 1871-1940.
Allen & Collens.
Alpern, Andrew / Collection of Drawing Instruments.
Alpern, Andrew / HOLDOUTS! Reference Files.
Amemya, Yosei.
American, English, and European architecture study prints.
Architects' Emergency Committee, Great Georgian Houses.
Arnold, C. D. (Charles Dudley)
Atterbury, Grosvenor, 1869-1956.
Atterbury, Grosvenor, 1869-1956. Keyser House Correspondence.
Jeanne Kleinfield Welcher collection of the Avery Family.
Avery, Henry Ogden, 1852-1890.
Avery Library. Centennial Drawings Archive.
Avery Library. Miscellaneous collection.
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Bach, Richard Franz, 1887-1968.
Bayley, John Barrington, 1914-1981.
Behrendt, Walter Curt, 1884-1945.
Benco Company Collection.
Bien, Robert L. Study photographs.
Bloch & Hesse.
Bloodgood & Bloodgood.
Annice Alt research papers on Boak & Paris / Boak & Raad.
Boring, William Alciphron, 1859-1937.
Bottomley, William L., 1883-1951.
Buell Center (The Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture).
Byrne, Francis Barry, 1883-1967.
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Cady, Josiah Cleveland, 1837-1919.
Carrère & Hastings. (John M. Carrère and Thomas Hastings)
Casey, Edward Pearce, 1864-1940.
Catherwood, Frederick.
Cautley, Marjorie Sewell, 1891-1954.
Cavaglieri, Giorgio, 1911-2007.
Chambers, William, Sir, 1723-1796.
Chandler, Charles Frederick, 1836-1920.
China Study Group on Environmental Issues.
Church of St. Vincent Ferrer. (Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue)
Coalition for a Livable West Side (NYC).
Coalition to Save City & Suburban Housing (NYC).
Collins, George Rosenborough, 1917-1993.
Columbia University, Architectural Drawings.
Columbia University, Dept. of Facilities.
Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation. General Records.
Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation. Student Drawings.
Committee for the Preservation of the National Capitol.
Comper, John Ninian, Sir, 1864-1960.
Conklin & Rossant.
Convent of the Sacred Heart / C. P. H. Gilbert ; Warren & Wetmore
Corbett, Harvey Wiley, 1873-1949.
Cornelius, Charles Over, 1890-1937.
Cret, Paul Philippe, 1876-1945.
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Dana, Richard H. (Henry), 1879-1933.
David, Ismar.
Davis, Alexander Jackson, 1803-1892.
Delano, William Adams, 1874-1960.
Detwiller, C. H. (C. H. Detwiller Columbia 1885 Collection)
Dewey (F.H.) & Co.
Dieterlen, Charles.
Dinsmoor, William Bell, b. 1886.
Doman, James R., Jr., 1937-2012.
Drawings for Womens Hospital.
Caroline King research papers on Henry C. Dudley.
Duncan, John H. (John Hemingway), 1855-1929.
Dunham, Daniel C., (1929-2000).
Seymour B. Durst Old York Library. / Photograph and Lithograph Collection
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Firestein, Cecily Barth.
Fisher, Ernest M. / Institute for Urban Land Use and Housing Studies.
Flanagan, Albert E., 1884-1969.
Foster, Willliam.
Fowler, Edward.
Adriana Kleiman research papers on Frank Freeman.
Frost, Frederick G., 1876-1966
Frederick G. Frost, Jr., 1907-1991
Frost & Associates.
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Geller, Abraham W., 1912-1995.
Gilbert, Cass, 1859-1934.
Gilbert, C. P. H. (Charles Pierrepont H.), 1861-1952.
Goodhue, Bertram Grosvenor, 1869-1924.
Goodman, Percival, 1904?-1989.
Goodman, Percival, 1904?-1989. / Rothschild Residence
Gottscho, Samuel H., (Samuel Herman), 1875-1971.
Grierson, Peter C., 1864-1949.
Griffin, Walter Burley, 1876-1937.
Griffin, Marion Mahony, 1871-1962.
Gugler, Eric, 1889-1974.
Gurdjieff, Georges Ivanovich, d. 1949.
Gutheim, Frederick, 1908-1993.
Gvosdeff, Nicholas.
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Haight, Charles Coolidge, 1841-1917.
HLW International LLP.
Haines Lundberg Waehle.
Halpern, John, b. 1918.
Hamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster), 1855-1926.
Hand, Charles.
Harriman, Charles Alonzo, d. 1930.
Harrison, Wallace K. (Wallace Kirkman), 1895-1981.
Haskell, Douglas Putnam, 1899-1979.
Haus Cramer. (Muthesius, Hermann, 1861-1927)
High Lawn Estate (Delano & Aldrich / John C. Greenleaf)
Hindley, William J., 1899-1979.
Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940.
Hitchcock, Henry Russell, 1903-1987.
Hood, Raymond Mathewson, 1881-1934.
Hornbostel, Henry, 1867-1961.
Howard & Frenaye.
Howells, William W.
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Index of American Design.
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Kaufmann, Edgar J. 1885-1955. / Fallingwater
Kimball, Francis H. (Kimball & Wisedell)
Klaber, Eugene H. (Klaber & Grunsfeld)
Kley, Maurice.
Kobbe, Herman, b. 1884.
Konopka, Joseph.
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Lafever, Minard.
Lafreri’s Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae.
Lahey, George.
Lamb, Charles Rollinson, 1860-1942.
Lamb, Thos W. (Thomas White), 1871-1942.
Langmann, Otto.
Lefrak.
Legacies of a Radical Era Exhibition.
Lenygon, Francis Henry, 1877-1943.
Lenygon, Jeannette Becker, 1878-1977.
Lescaze, William, 1896-1969.
Levi, Julian Clarence, 1874-1971.
Lincoln Square Community Council.
Lincoln Square Urban Renewal Project photographs.
Lippmann, Herbert.
Litchfield, Electus D. (Electus Darwin), 1872-1952.
Love, Paul.
Lowell, Guy, 1870-1927. / Natirar Estate
Luetke, Oscar, 1852-1937.
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MacKenzie, James C. (James Cameron), 1887-1963.
Magonigle, Harold Van Buren, 1867-1935.
Mako, Laura.
Masbach Hardware Store (New York, NY).
Matthews, Brander, 1852-1929 / Brander Matthews Dramatic Museum.
Meigs, Montogmery C., 1816-1892.
Merrill, Leslie O. (Collection of Greek Revival in Syracuse)
Metropolitan Square Development.
Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, 1886-1969.
Miller, William B.
Molitor, Joseph W., 1907-1996.
Morgan Family.
Morris, Alletta Nathalie Lorillard Bailey, 1887-1935.
Morris, Benjamin W. (Benjamin Wistar), 1870-1944.
Moskovitz, Benjamin.
Muller, Theodor
Murphy, Mortimer J.
Murray, J. M.
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Nauheim, Melville.
Nazeing Park. (William Palmer, d. 1821)
Neutra, Richard Joseph, 1892-1970.
Neutra, Richard Joseph. (Jan de Graaff Residence)
Neutra, Richard Joseph. (Edgar J. Kaufmann Desert House)
New York Architectural Terra-Cotta Company. (NYATCC)
New York Chamber of Commerce Building, 65 Liberty Street, NYC.
New York Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends.
New York State Capitol at Albany.
Nielsen, W. C.
Nineteenth-Century International Photographs, circa 1870-1900.
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Office of the Avery Librarian, Elmslie and Purcell Correspondence.
Olanoff, Gerald B., d. 1995.
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Page, William E.
Pagnamenti-Torriani.
Paris, William Franklin.
Paris & Wiley.
Parks Council (New York, N.Y.)
Pedersen, William F., 1908-1990.
Pippin, Paul W. T.
Placzek, Adolf K.
Platt, Charles Adams, 1861-1933.
Platt, Charles Adams, 1861-1933. / Gwinn Estate
Platt, William, 1897-1984.
Platt, Geoffrey, 1905-1985.
Platt, Wyckoff & Coles
Pope, John Russell, 1874-1937.
Potter, Edward Tuckerman, 1831-1904.
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Saarinen, Eero. Student drawings, Yale University.
Sandlass, Henry L.
Schindler, Rudolph M., 1887-1953.
Schladermundt, Hermann T.
Schmidt-Doppel.
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill / Lever House
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill / Ezra Stoller
Skidmore, S. T.
Smith, G. E. Kidder (George Everard Kidder), 1913-1997.
Sole, George.
Snow, Richard.
Spanish Children's Drawings of the Civil War.
Steese, Edward, 1902-1981.
Stern, Robert A. M., b. 1939.
Stevens, John Calvin, 1856-1940.
Stickley, Gustav, 1858-1942. (The Craftsman Architects, NYC)
Stokes, Isaac Newton Phelps, 1867-1944. (Howells and Stokes)
Stoller, Ezra, 1915-2004 / SOM
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Tachau, William Gabriel.
Taliesin Associated Architects.
Taliesin Associated Architects. / Iran Projects
Teall, Gardner C. / Whistleriana
Thomson, T. Kennard, 1864-1952.
Thompson, Martin E., 1789-1877.
Todd, David Fenton Michie, 1915-2008.
Katherine C. Moore research papers on Trowbridge & Livingston.
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Wadley & Smythe.
Walker & Gillette.
Ware, Arthur.
Ware, William R. (William Robert), 1832-1915.
Webster.
Welch, Alexander McMillan. 1869-1943.
White, Stanford, 1853-1906. / Albums of correspondence from Stanford White to his family.
David Lowe Publication Papers on Stanford White's New York.
Williams, Edgar I., 1884-1974.
Willis, Frank.
Windram, John.
Withers, Frederick Clarke, 1828-1901.
Woodbridge, Frederick James Eugene, 1867-1940.
Woodbridge, Frederick J. (Frederick James), 1900-1974.
Woodward, George E. (George Evertson), 1829-1905.
Woolf, S. J. (Samuel Johnson), 1880-1948.
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1967-1959. / The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives
Wright, Henry N., 1878-1936. / Photographic Collection of 20th-Century Housing
Wright, Henry N., Jr., 1910-. / Solar House Project
Wright, Olgivanna Lloyd, 1898-1985.
Wylie, Matthew.
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Zerbe, Jerome, b. 1904.