William Alex research papers on Calvert Vaux, 1970s-1980s

William Alex research papers on Calvert Vaux, 1970s-1980s

Summary Information

At a Glance

Bib ID:
10306522 View CLIO record
Creator(s):
Alex, William; Vaux, Calvert, 1824-1895
Repository:
Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
Physical Description:
2 linear feet
Language(s):
English .
Access:

This collection is available for use by appointment in the Department of Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University. For further information and to make an appointment, please email avery-drawings@library.columbia.edu.

Description

Scope and Content

The collection is made up of clippings, photographs, notes, and other research material gather on various architectural projects by Calvert Vaux in support of the writing of the publication Calvert Vaux: Architect & Planner (1994).

Publication Date

ca. 1970s-1980s

Arrangement

This collection contains one series: Series I: Research Files

Using the Collection

Restrictions on Access

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Restrictions on Use

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Preferred Citation

Willaim Alex Research Papers on Calvert Vaux, ca. 1970s-1980s, Department of Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Source of acquisition--William Alex. Method of acquisition--Donated;; Date of acquisition--1996. Accession number--1996.012.

About the Finding Aid / Processing Information

Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library

Processing Information

This collection was processed by Allison Carafa (Bibliographic Assistant) in 2013.

Revision Description

2013-07-09 File created.

2019-05-20 EAD was imported spring 2019 as part of the ArchivesSpace Phase II migration.

Biographical / Historical

Calvert Vaux (1824-1895) was a British-American architect and landscape designer. He is best remembered as the co-designer (with Frederick Law Olmsted), of New York's Central Park.

William Alex served as president of the Frederick Law Olmsted Association for over 30 years and curated an exhibit on Calvert Vaux in 1989 for the Museum of the City of New York.

Subject Headings

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Name
Sheppard Asylum
Place
Central Park (New York, N.Y.)
Morningside Park (New York, N.Y.)
Prospect Park (New York, N.Y.)
Subject
Architects -- New York (State) -- New York
Architecture -- United States
History -- Research
Parks -- New York (State) -- New York

Research Files

Box 1 Folder 1

A.J. Downing Memorial (Washington D.C.)

3 photos and negatives

Box 1 Folder 2

Adelbert Hall (Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH) [1881], 1975-1988

1 photo

Box 1 Folder 3

Algonac (Newburgh, NY) [1851], 1985-1989

4 photos, 1 negative

Box 1 Folder 4

American Museum of Natural History (New York, NY) [1874-1878], 1985

16 photos, 1 negative

Box 1 Folder 5

Ammadelle (Oxford, Mississippi) [1859], 1984-1988

3 photos, 16 negative

Box 1 Folder 6

Arnot - Ogden Hospital (Elmira, NY) [1888], 1988

3 photos, 1 info booklet

Box 1 Folder 7a-b

Arthur C. Downs Vaux Chapters

Box 1 Folder 8

Ashcroft (Geneva, NY) [1861], 1986-1988

See Oversize. 17 photos

Box 1 Folder 9

Bank of New York (New York, NY) [1857], 1986-1988

2 photo

Drawer 202

Bank of New York (New York, NY) [1857]

2 photo

Box 1 Folder 10

Bible House (New York, NY) [1852-53], 1984-1985

1 photo

Box 1 Folder 11

Blodgett - Barreda - Beaulieu (Newport, R.I) [1859], 1987

5 photos, 1 negative

Drawer 202

Blodgett - Barreda - Beaulieu (Newport, R.I) [1859]

1 photo (map)

Box 1 Folder 12

Bowne House (Flushing, Queens, NY) [1885]

1 photo

Box 1 Folder 13

Bryn Mawr Grounds (Bryn Mawr, PA) [1884], 1988

Drawer 202

Bryn Mawr Grounds (Bryn Mawr, PA) [1884]

1 photo (map)

Box 1 Folder 14

Buffalo Parks (Buffalo, NY) [1871]

6 photos, 5 negatives, 1 slide

Box 1 Folder 15

Calvert Vaux: 1824-1895 AA Thesis (London, England) [1977]

Box 1 Folder 16

Calvert Vaux: An American Architect U of V Thesis (Charlottesville VA [1967]

Box 1 Folder 17

Calvert Vaux Portraits

5 photos

Box 1 Folder 18

Central Park 1858

22 photos, 4 negatives

Drawer 202

Central Park 1858

1 photo

Box 1 Folder 19

Chamberlain House (Worcester, MA) [1861], 1988

4 photos

Box 1 Folder 20

Charles Brace Portrait

1 photo

Box 1 Folder 21

Children's Aid Society (New York, NY) [1853], 1985-1988

20+ photos, 2 negatives, 3 booklets

Drawer 202

Children's Aid Society (New York, NY) [1853]

4 photos (maps)

Box 1 Folder 22

Children's Aid Society Brooklyn (Brooklyn, NY), 1988

Box 1 Folder 23

Commercial Block (Boston, MA) [1854], 1985-1989

5 photos, negatives

Box 1 Folder 24

Congress Spring Pavilion (Saratoga Springs, NY) [1876], 1989-1991

4 photos

Box 1 Folder 25

Cottingham (Cottingham, England), 1982-1990

1 photo

Box 1 Folder 26

Culbert House (Newburgh, NY ) [1851]

1 photo

Box 1 Folder 27

Downing's Dome (New York, NY) [1852]

1 photo

Box 1 Folder 28

Downing's Mall Plan (Washington, DC) [1851]

5 photos, 1 negative

Box 1 Folder 29

Downing Park (Newburgh, NY) [1897], 1987-1988

2 photos

Box 1 Folder 30

Downing Portrait [1852], 1984-1988

1 photo, 1 negative

Box 1 Folder 31

Downing Vase, 1986

Box 1 Folder 32

Dr. George Bull House (Worchester, MA) [1876], 1985-1986

11 photos

Drawer 202

Dr. George Bull House (Worchester, MA) [1876]

1 plan

Box 1 Folder 33

Montrose - F.B. Godwin House (Roslyn, NY) [1869], 1983

Box 1 Folder 34

Findlay House (Newburgh, NY) [1851], 1988

13 photos

Box 1 Folder 35

First Proposed Vaux Book

Box 1 Folder 36

Fordham House - Boscobel (Highbridge, NY) [1862]

1 photo

Box 1 Folder 37

Fort Green Park (Brooklyn, NY) [1867], 1982-1988

2 photos

Box 1 Folder 38

Fowler House (Newburgh, NY) [1854]

4 photos, 1 negative, 4 slide

Box 1 Folder 39

Fraternity Papers (New York, NY) [1869-1877]

Box 1 Folder 40

Gallaudet College Grounds (Washington, D.C.) [1866]

9 photos

Box 1 Folder 41

Grace Church Grounds (New York, NY) [1886]

1 photo, 1 negative

Box 1 Folder 42

Hall-Rice Building (Troy, NY) [1871], 1985

1 photo

Box 1 Folder 43

Hasley-Stevens House (Newburgh, NY) [1852]

Box 1 Folder 44

Harlem River Bridge (New York, NY) [1886]

1 photo

Box 1 Folder 45

Hartford Retreat (Hartford, CT) [1868], 1985

3 photos

Box 1 Folder 46

Henry B. Hyde House (Babylon, NY) [1877]

13 photos, 1 postcard

Box 1 Folder 47

Highland Gardens - A.J. Downing House (Newburgh, NY)

3 photos

Box 1 Folder 48

Hillside Cemetery (Middletown, NY) [1860], 1986-1988

Box 1 Folder 49

House of Reception (New York, NY) [1889]

Box 1 Folder 50

Hudson River State Hospital for the Insane (Poughkeepsie, NY) [1867-1872], 1985

1 photo

Box 1 Folder 51

Improved Dwellings Association (New York, NY) [1880], 1988

3 photos, 1 negative, 1 postcard

Drawer 202

Improved Dwellings Association (New York, NY) [1880]

1 photo (plan)

Box 1 Folder 52

J.A.C. Gray House (New York, NY) [1853-1856]

1 photo

Box 1 Folder 53

Jefferson Market Courthouse (New York, NY) [1874]

4 photos

Drawer 202

Jefferson Market Courthouse (New York, NY) [1874]

1 photo

Box 1 Folder 54

Kimball House (Brooklyn, NY) [1866], 1986-1986

Box 2 Folder 1

Leeds Type Pix - Patent Drawings, 1985

Box 2 Folder 2

Levi P. Stone House - Llewelyn Park (West Orange, NJ) [1858]

Box 2 Folder 3

Llewellyn Park (West Orange, NJ)

Box 2 Folder 4

London

5 photos, 1 negative

Box 2 Folder 5

McCormick House Project (Chicago, IL) [1874]

Box 2 Folder 6

McEntee, Jervis, 1985-1987

Box 2 Folder 7

Merchant Taylors School (London, UK)

5 photos, 2 negatives

Box 2 Folder 8

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY) [1879], 1986-1989

9 photos, 3 negatives

Box 2 Folder 9

Middletown Park (Middletown, NY) [1861], 1988

3 pamphlets

Box 2 Folder 10

Miscellaneous

12 negatives

Box 2 Folder 11

Morningside Park (New York, NY) [1873]

2 photos, 1 negative

Drawer 202

Morningside Park (New York, NY) [1873]

2 photo (map)

Box 2 Folder 12

Morse, Bloor Diaries

Box 2 Folder 13

Niagara Reservation (Niagara, NY) [1887-1895]

4 photos, 1 postcard

Box 2 Folder 14

Olana (Hudson, NY) [1870], 1984-1988

8 photos, 1 negative

Box 2 Folder 15

Parade Ground (Brooklyn, NY) [1867]

1 negative

Box 2 Folder 16

Parisian Buildings [1857]

2 photos, 2 negatives

Box 2 Folder 17

The Parkway (Brooklyn, NY) [1868]

4 photos, 1 negative

Box 2 Folder 18

Parliament Buildings (Ottawa, Canada) [1873], 1988

7 photos

Box 2 Folder 19

Parrish House - Beechwood (Newport, RI) [1852], 1988

3 photos, 1 slide, 1 pamphlet

Box 2 Folder 20

Peter G. Brooks Jr. House (West Medford, MA) [1858], 1986-1993

15 photos, 6 negatives. 6 slides

Box 2 Folder 21

Philadelphia Centennial (Philadelphia, PA) [1873-1876]

12 photos, 5 negatives

Drawer 202

Philadelphia Centennial (Philadelphia, PA) [1873-1876]

1 photo, 1 plan

Box 2 Folder 22

Pilat-Baumann Portraits - Mould - Waring, 1986

3 photos

Box 2 Folder 23

Pilat - Viele - Others

Box 2 Folder 24

The Point - Hoyt House - Sabine House (Hyde Park, NY) [1853-1855], 1984-1990

2 photos, 10 negatives

Box 2 Folder 25

Prospect Park (Brooklyn, NY) [1866]

13 photos, 6 negatives

Drawer 202

Prospect Park (Brooklyn, NY) [1866]

2 Photo

Box 2 Folder 26

Raphael Pumpelly House (Newport, R.I.) [1881], 1987

2 photos, 1 negative

Box 2 Folder 27

Related Biographies - Genealogies

Box 2 Folder 28

Related Correspondence, 1988-1990

Box 2 Folder 29

Rennie - Architecture of Birds

Box 2 Folder 30

Research Materials

Box 2 Folder 31

Riverside, Illinois [1868]

3 photos, 3 negatives

Box 2 Folder 32

Riverside Park (New York, NY) [1877]

6 photos

Drawer 202

Riverside Park (New York, NY) [1877]

2 photo (map)

Box 2 Folder 33

Riverview Cemetery (Trenton, NJ) [1888], 1988

1 pamphlet

Box 2 Folder 34

Robert Dodge House (Washington D.C.) [1952], 1988

1 photo

Box 2 Folder 35

Robins & Co. Warehouse [1853-1856]

1 photo

Box 2 Folder 36

Roswell Graves Jr., 1985

Box 2 Folder 37

Sheppard Asylum (Baltimore, MD) [1862], 1985-1987

16 photos, 4 negatives, 2 pamphlet

Drawer 202

Sheppard Asylum (Baltimore, MD) [1862], 1985-1988

10 photos

Box 2 Folder 38

Snelston Hall (Cottingham, England) [1852]

10 photos

Box 2 Folder 39

Snuff Box

1 photo, 3 negative

Box 2 Folder 40

South Park (Chicago, Il) [1871]

1 photo, 1 negative

Drawer 202

South Park (Chicago, Il) [1871]

4 photo, 3 maps

Box 2 Folder 41

South Park (Fall River, MA) [1871-1873]

Box 2 Folder 42

Springside (Poughkeepsie, NY) [1850-1854], 1987

12 photos, 2 negative

Drawer 202

Springside (Poughkeepsie, NY) [1850-1854]

2 photos

Box 2 Folder 43

Tiferet Israel Chapel [1885]

3 photos, 15 negatives

Box 2 Folder 44

Tilden House (New York, NY) [1881], 1984-1986

20 photos, 1 negative

Box 2 Folder 45

Tomes-Higgins House (Greenwich, CT) [1861], 1988

Box 2 Folder 46

Tompkins Park (Brooklyn, NY) [1871]

1 photo

Box 2 Folder 47

Trinity (New York, NY) [1871], 1985

3 photos

Box 2 Folder 48

Truefitt, George

1 photo

Drawer 202

Unknown

2 photos (buildings), 1 paper

Box 2 Folder 49

Vaux Bibliographies

Box 2 Folder 50

Vaux Biographical Material

Box 2 Folder 51

Vaux Correspondence, 1983-1987

Box 2 Folder 52

Vaux Correspondence - Cook, 1985

Box 2 Folder 53

Vaux Drawings - Palisades

4 photos, 1 negative

Box 2 Folder 54

Vaux Exhibition - Installation Photos (New York, NY) [1989]

18 photos

Box 2 Folder 55

Vaux Field Drafting Set

Box 2 Folder 56

Vaux Letters - Library of Congress Olmstead Papers (Washington D.C.)

Box 2 Folder 57

Vaux Obit

Box 2 Folder 58

Vaux Papers - New York Public Library, 1985

Box 2 Folder 59

Vaux Writings and Speeches

Box 2 Folder 60

Warren House (Newburgh, NY) [1852], 1987

4 photos

Box 2 Folder 61

Wilderstein (Rhinebeck, NY) [1890], 1988-1989

5 photos, 1 slide

Box 2 Folder 62

Willis House - Idyllwild (Newburgh, NY) [1853], 1853

3 photos

Box 2 Folder 63

Wisner Estate (Summit, NJ) [1889], 1888

1 postcards, 4 pamphlets

Box 2 Folder 64

Withers (Newburghs, NY) [1859], 1986