Contains correspondence, clippings, photographs, negatives, slides, organizational newsletters, notes, and publications regarding professional organizations Burnham participated in or extensive research projects Burnham conducted for a professional organization as well as original articles and talks written by Burnham. He maintained a series of files for organizations like the American Institute of Architects, the Municipal Arts Society, and the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. This series contains files from Burnham's architectural history class that he taught at the New School in 1965 under file folders named Architecture US as well as research he undertook for the Friends of Cast Iron Architecture regarding James Bogardus and Niels Poulson. It also contains a draft of Burnham's manuscript for New York Landmarks as well as correspondence regarding its publication. There is an oversided folder containing some of Burnham's larger pencil drawings and architectural renderings.
Box 29 Folder 57
AIA - American Institute of Architects, 1948 - 1978
Box 29 Folder 58
AIA - Architectural Criticism & Aesthetics, 1948, 1962
Includes notes on Conference on Aesthetic Responsibility (1962)
Box 29 Folder 59
AIA - Awards, 1940 - 1979
Box 39 Folder 24
AIA - Centennial Material, 1957
Box 29 Folder 60
AIA - Committee on Civic Design, 1955 - 1956
Box 30 Folder 1
AIA - Constitution, 1857, 1897
Box 30 Folder 2
AIA - Fellows, 1961 - 1973
Box 30 Folder 3
AIA - Historic Buildings Committee, 1957 - 1967
Box 30 Folder 4
American Architectural Archive (Forms), undated
Box 30 Folder 5
American Scenic & Historic Preservation Society, 1970 - 1979
Box 30 Folder 6
Architectural League of New York City, 1951 - 1956
Box 30 Folder 7
Architectural Societies, 1945 - 1955
Box 30 Folder 8
Architecture Definitions, undated
Box 30 Folder 9
Architecture US - Age of Indecision, undated
Includes notes for course on American Architecture that Burnham taught in 1965 at the New School for Social Research
Box 30 Folder 10
Architecture US - Colonial America, c. 1980s
Includes photographs (2 photos)
Box 30 Folder 11
Architecture US - Contemporary I, c. 1960s
Box 30 Folder 12
Architecture US - Contemporary II Residential, 1965
Box 30 Folder 13
Architecture US - Eclecticism I, 1909 - 1965
Includes photographs (13 photos)
Box 30 Folder 14
Architecture US - Eclecticism II, c. 1960s
Includes photographs (2 photos)
Box 30 Folder 15
Architecture US - Examination, c. 1965
Box 30 Folder 16
Architecture US - French Influence, c. 1960s
Includes photographs (5 photos)
Box 30 Folder 17
Architecture US - Georgian, 1964
Box 30 Folder 18
Architecture US - Gothic Revival, 1949 - 1965
Box 30 Folder 19
Architecture US - Italianate, 1950 - 1965
Includes photographs (21 photos)
Box 30 Folder 20
Architecture US - New Forces at Work, 1965
Box 30 Folder 21
Architecture US - Outline, undated
Box 30 Folder 22
Architecture US - Romanesque Revival, 1965
Box 30 Folder 23
Architecture US - Use Categories, 1964
Box 30 Folder 24
Articles (Published & For Publication), 1952 - 1978
Includes photograph of Alan Burnham and negative (1 photo) (1 negative)
Box 30 Folder 25
Book Reviews (Burnham), 1952 - 1974
Box 30 Folder 26
Cast Iron, 1892 - 1956
Box 30 Folder 27
Cast Iron - Bogardus, James, 1876 - 1967
Box 30 Folder 28
Cast Iron - Bogardus, James (Specific Buildings), 1948 - 1976
Includes photographs and negatives ((2 photos)
Box 30 Folder 29
Cast Iron - Correspondence, 1948 - 1976
Box 30 Folder 30
Cast Iron - Exhibit, 1954 - 1975
Box 31 Folder 1
Cast Iron - Miscellaneous I, 1953 - 1970
Includes photographs (7 photos)
Box 31 Folder 2
Cast Iron - Miscellaneous II, 1912 - 1979
Box 31 Folder 3
Cast Iron - Notes, 1956 - 1971
Box 31 Folder 4
Cast Iron - Phoenix Column (1 of 2), 1949 - 1968
Box 31 Folder 5
Cast Iron - Phoenix Column (2 of 2), 1900s - 1960s
Includes photographs (14 photos) (15 negatives)
Box 39 Folder 25
Cast Iron - Poulson, Niels (1 of 2), 1958 - 1962
Box 31 Folder 6
Cast Iron - Poulson, Niels (2 of 2), c. 1960s
Includes images with annotations from a Poulson exhibit, negatives of the "Copper House" (18 negatives)
Box 31 Folder 7
Cast Iron - Reference to Specific Buildings:, 1950 - 1978
Includes photographs (9 photos)
Box 31 Folder 8
Classical America, 1957 - 1980
Includes "The Annigoni Frescoes at Wethersfield House" (1973)
Box 31 Folder 9
Committee for the Preservation of Architectural Records, 1977 - 1980
Box 31 Folder 10
Connecticut Historical Commission, 1980 - 1982
Box 31 Folder 11
Connecticut Historical Commission (Answers for Owners), 1977 - 1981
Box 31 Folder 12
Connecticut Historical Commission (Driving Tours), 1981 - 1983
Box 31 Folder 13
Connecticut Office of the State Historic Preservation Officer, 1979 - 1983
Box 31 Folder 14
Connecticut Trust for Historic Preservation, 1979 - 1983
Box 39 Folder 26
Cos Ceb Railway Station, 1967
Contains correspondence directed to President Lyndon B. Johnson
Box 32 Folder 1
Criteria - Architectural & Preservation, 1956 - 1980
Box 32 Folder 2
Davis, A.J. - Lyndhurst, 1963 - 1970
Includes correspondence regarding the Landmarks on the Hudson Conference and the Lyndhurst Council
Box 32 Folder 3
Eyre, Wilson, Jr., 1944 - 1981
Includes notes and correspondence for lecture delivered by Burnham at Philadelphia Art Alliance (May 1953) and exhibition on Eyre (1 photo)
Box 32 Folder 5
Eyre, Wilson, Jr. - Office Lists, 1903 - 1962
Includes photographs, negatives, list of buildings (9 photos) (1 negative)
Box 32 Folder 4
Eyre, Wilson, Jr. - Correspondence Louisa Eyre, c. 1950s
Includes correspondence with Louisa Eyre regarding the life and work of her brother, Wilson Eyre Jr.
Box 32 Folder 6
F.D.R. Memorial, 1962 - 1978
Includes FDR Memorial Competition Burnham scheme for 65 Fairfield Road
Box 32 Folder 7
FAIA - Applications, 1963 - 1966
Box 32 Folder 8
FAIA - Applications & Letters, 1966 - 1968
Box 32 Folder 9
Fellowship Applications, 1941 - 1968
Includes Burnham's application for the McKim Fellowship, Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship
Box 32 Folder 10
Flagg, Ernest, c. 1970s
Includes correspondence with Margaret Flagg, Flagg's wife, Burnham authored biography, and photographs (8 photos) (18 negatives)
Box 32 Folder 11
Foundations (Grants, Scholarships), c. 1970s
Box 32 Folder 12
Frick Mansion, 1969 - 1998
Includes correspondence, copy of article published in Apollo Magazine (1971), photographs and negative (6 photos) (1 negative)
Box 32 Folder 13
Friends of Cast Iron, c. 1970s
Box 32 Folder 14
Greenwich Historic District Commission, 1963 - 1983
Box 32 Folder 15
Greenwich Historical Society, 1980
Box 32 Folder 16
Greenwich Neighborhood & Building Survey, 1984
Box 32 Folder 17
Greenwich, Architectural Conservancy of, 1975 - 1981
Includes photographs (3 photos)
Box 32 Folder 18
Historical Societies, 1931 - 1977
Box 32 Folder 19
History & Theory Review Counsel, 1982, 1996
Contains notes from an Architectural Review Board course
Drawer 202 Folder 1
Miscellaneous - Drawings, undated
Includes drawings by Burnham of miscellaneous structures
Box 32 Folder 20
Municipal Arts Society (1 of 3), 1953 - 1980
Box 32 Folder 21
Municipal Arts Society (2 of 3), 1953 - 1980
Includes minutes from monthly meetings
Box 33 Folder 1
Municipal Arts Society (3 of 3), 1953 - 1980
Includes minutes from monthly meetings
Box 33 Folder 2
Municipal Arts Society -Landmark Additions, c. 1960s
Includes photographs (3 photos)
Box 33 Folder 3
National Endowment for the Arts (Washington D.C.), 1978
Box 33 Folder 4
National Register of Historic Places, c. 1970s
Contains Nomination form for Duke Ellington Residence
Box 33 Folder 5
National Trust for Historic Preservation, 1948 - 1980
Box 33 Folder 6
New York City: Walking Tours, 1952 - 1983
Includes notes prepared by Henry Hope Reed
Box 33 Folder 7
New York Landmarks - Bibliography of the Greater New York, 1962
Contains bibliography for Landmarks of New York City (second draft)
Box 33 Folder 8
New York Landmarks - Letters (1 of 2), c. 1960s - c. 1970s
Box 33 Folder 9
New York Landmarks - Letters (2 of 2), c. 1960s - c. 1970s
Box 33 Folder 10
New York Landmarks - Manuscript (1 of 3), 1963
Contains sections general index through sculpture
Box 33 Folder 11
New York Landmarks - Manuscript (2 of 3), 1963
Contains sections styles through bibliography
Box 33 Folder 12
New York Landmarks - Manuscript (3 of 3), 1963
Contains sections index through text for illustrations
Box 33 Folder 13
New York Landmarks - Manuscript Bibliography, 1951 - 1981
Box 33 Folder 14
New York Landmarks - Manuscript Galley (1 of 2), 1963
Box 33 Folder 15
New York Landmarks - Manuscript Galley (2 of 2), 1963
Box 33 Folder 16
New York Landmarks - Master Copies, 1960
Contains two master copies of Burnham's New York Landmarks
Box 33 Folder 17
New York Landmarks - Photographs, c. 1960s
Includes original and printed photographs for New York Landmarks
Box 33 Folder 18
New York Landmarks - Publicity (1 of 2), 1962 - 1983
Box 33 Folder 19
New York Landmarks - Publicity (2 of 2), 1962 - 1983
Box 34 Folder 1
New York Landmarks - Notes, c. 1960s - c. 1970s
Box 34 Folder 2
New York Landmarks Conservancy, 1978, 1979
Box 34 Folder 3
New York Landmarks Preservation Commission, 1961 - 1983
Box 34 Folder 4
New York Landmarks Preservation Commission - History & Data (1 of 3), c. 1960s - c. 1970s
Includes photograph (1 photo)
Box 34 Folder 5
New York Landmarks Preservation Commission - History & Data (2 of 3), c. 1960s - c. 1980s
Includes photograph (1 photo)
Box 34 Folder 6
New York Landmarks Preservation Commission - History & Data (3 of 3), c. 1960s - c. 1970s
Includes negatives (6 negatives)
Box 34 Folder 7
New York Landmarks Preservation Commission - Newspaper Clippings & Publications, c. 1960s - c. 1970s
Box 34 Folder 8
New York Landmarks Preservation Commission - Vandam Historic District, 1999
Box 34 Folder 9
New York Society of Architects Bulletin, c. 1950s
Box 34 Folder 10
New York Society of Architects Bulletin, c. 1950s
Box 34 Folder 11
New York Society of Architects Bulletin, c. 1960s
Box 34 Folder 12
New York State Association of Architects, 1950 - 1956
Box 34 Folder 13
New York State Council on the Arts, 1972
Contains New York State Award brochure
Box 34 Folder 14
Oculus - A.I.A. Bulletin, c. 1960s - c. 1970s
Box 34 Folder 15
Office of Metropolitan History, 1975 - 1980
Box 34 Folder 16
Our Urban Architecture, 1960
Box 34 Folder 17
Preservation - Correspondence, 1952 - 1977
Includes correspondence that Burnham filed under the general heading of preservation
Box 34 Folder 18
Preservation - New York City, 1961 - 1978
Box 34 Folder 19
Priced Books, 1892 - 1960
Includes notes on costs of books
Box 34 Folder 20
Recommendations, 1978 - 1982
Includes letters of recommendations
Box 34 Folder 21
Renderings, undated
Box 34 Folder 22
Society of Architectural Historians, 1941 - 1959
Box 34 Folder 23
S.A.H. - Committee on Local Chapters, 1957 - 1966
Box 34 Folder 24
S.A.H. - New York Chapter, 1943 - 1968
Box 34 Folder 25
S.A.H. - Newsletters, 1958 - 1979
Box 34 Folder 26
Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, 1972 - 1980
Box 35 Folder 1
Special Libraries Association, 1969
Box 35 Folder 2
Squares of New York City - Correspondence, 1979
Contains Burnham article for Architectural Record
Box 35 Folder 3
Stamford Historical Society - Newsletters, 1977 - 1980
Box 39 Folder 27
Student Papers, 1963
Contains Ronald Freyberger's paper on Luxury Apartment Houses in Manhattan
Box 35 Folder 4
Talks - Schedule, 1951 - 1978
Includes talks delivered like "The Treatment of Streets," "New York Architecture 1850 to Present"
Box 35 Folder 5
Talks - Landmark Preservation Commission (1 of 4), 1964 - 1972
Includes copies of speeches delivered
Box 35 Folder 6
Talks - Landmark Preservation Commission (2 of 4), 1964 - 1972
Includes copies of speeches delivered
Box 35 Folder 7
Talks - Landmark Preservation Commission (3 of 4), 1964 - 1972
Includes correspondence regarding LPC talks
Box 35 Folder 8
Talks - Landmark Preservation Commission (4 of 4), 1964 - 1972
Box 35 Folder 9
Tenth Street Building, 1956
Includes photographs and negative (1 negative) (7 photos)
Box 39 Folder 28
Theory of Architecture: Hamlin, undated
Contains Burnham's notes and drawings on Hamlin (1938-1939)
Box 35 Folder 11
Victorian Society in America (1 of 2), c. 1960s - c. 1970s
Includes newsletters and member publications
Box 35 Folder 12
Victorian Society in America (2 of 2), c. 1960s - c. 1970s
Box 35 Folder 13
Wanamakers Architectural Record Article, 1956
Contains Burnham article for Architectural Record (4 photos)
Box 35 Folder 14
Westside Urban Renewal Institute, 1957
Contains Burnham talk on Riverside
Box 35 Folder 15
Withers, Frederick C - Correspondence, 1956 - 1976
Contains correspondence with Margaret Withers