Henry S. Churchill papers, 1929-1962.
Collection Number: 2347
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Henry S. Churchill papers, 1929-1962.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
2347
Abstract:
Includes correspondence, speeches, course material, and other papers relating to Henry
S. Churchill's career as an architect and city planner.
Creator:
Churchill, Henry S. (Henry Stern)
Quanitities:
4.2 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Henry S. Churchill was an architect and city planner.
Correspondence pertains to the National Competitions Committee for Architecture and
Allied Arts, the Federación Panamericana de Asociaciones de Arquitectos, competitions
of the Union Internationale des Architectes, the 1958 U.I.A. Congress at Moscow, the
establishment of a closer relationship between the U.I.A. and United Nations groups
concerned with housing and urban development, especially UNESCO, other U.I.A. business
and the teaching and practice of city planning; the Eastwick (Philadelphia) Redevelopment
Project; and Churchill's proposed book on the architect Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc.
Correspondents include Samuel Inman Cooper, Frederick H. Dechant, William Gehron,
Jane Jacobs, Marc Peter, Jr., Lorimer Rich, Walter A. Taylor, Pierre Vago, Wolf von
Eckhardt, Ralph Walker, Ernest Weissman, the American Institute of Architects, the
American Institute of Planners, and the Redevelopment Authority of Philadelphia. Manuscript
notes for "A Study of Architecture"; manuscript copies of speeches; a manuscript inventory
(1 vol.) of Churchill's architectural library; and reports (typescript carbon copies,
1942-1944) made by Churchill and Albert Mayer to the Director of Defense Housing on
housing projects in North and South Carolina, Connecticut, Maryland, New Jersey, New
York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.
Also, notes and printed material pertaining to courses taught by Churchill at Columbia
University, redevelopment in the Germantown, East Falls, Eastwick, and Roxborough
sections of Philadelphia; and printed reports and related items concerning planning
projects in San Francisco, California; New Haven, Connecticut; Gainesville and Orlando,
Florida; the Greenbelt towns; Forest Park, Illinois; Hoboken, Jersey City, and Radburn,
New Jersey; Garden City and Long Island City, New York; Sewickley Borough, Pennsylvania;
Talara, Peru; and at the University of Florida and George Washington University. In
addition, reports, minutes, agenda, newsletters, releases, notices, and printed matter
pertaining to the activities of the U.I.A., A.I.A., A.I.P., housing committees of
the U.N., and the Philadelphia Citizens' Council on City Planning.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Henry S. Churchill Papers, #2347. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
University Library.
Names:
Cooper, Samuel Inman.
Dechant, Frederick.
Jacobs, Jane, 1916-
Mayer, Albert, 1897-1981
Peter, Marc, Jr.
Rich, Lorimer.
Taylor, Walter A.
Vago, Pierre, 1910-2002.
Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel, 1814-1879.
Von Eckhardt, Wolf.
Walker, Ralph, 1889-1973.
Weissman, Ernest.
American Institute of Architects
American Institute of Planners
Columbia University -- : Planning.
Federación Panamericana de Asociaciones de Arquitectos
George Washington University -- : Planning.
International Union of Architects
National Competitions Committee for Architecture and Allied Arts
Philadelphia Citizens\' Council on City Planning
Philadelphia (Pa.). Redevelopment Authority
Unesco
United Nations
University of Florida
Places:
City planning -- Peru -- Talara.
City planning -- Pennsylvania -- Sewickley.
City planning -- California -- San Francisco.
City planning -- New Jersey -- Radburn.
City planning -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
City planning -- Florida -- Orlando.
City planning -- Connecticut -- New Haven.
City planning -- New York (State) -- Long Island City.
City planning -- New Jersey -- Jersey City.
City planning -- New Jersey -- Hoboken.
City planning -- New York (State) -- Garden City.
City planning -- Florida -- Gainesville.
City planning -- Illinois -- Forest Park.
Subjects:
City planners.
Housing -- Virginia.
Housing -- South Carolina.
Housing -- Pennsylvania.
Housing -- North Carolina.
Housing -- New York.
Housing -- New Jersey.
Housing -- Maryland.
Housing -- Connecticut.
Housing -- Effect of wars on.
City planning.
Architecture.
CONTAINER LIST
Container
|
Description
|
Date
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Box 1 | Folder 1 |
File: 24
|
1935-1936 |
Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Union Internationales des Architectes (UIA)
|
1943-1955 |
Box 1 | Folder 3 |
UIA
|
1955-1957 |
Box 1 | Folder 4 | 1958 | |
Box 1 | Folder 5 | 1958-1959 | |
Box 1 | Folder 6 | 1960 | |
Box 1 | Folder 7-9 | 1961 | |
Box 1 | Folder 10-13 | 1962 | |
Box 1 | Folder 14 | n.d. | |
Box 1 | Folder 15 | 1939-1940 | |
Box 1 | Folder 16 | 1958-1961 | |
Box 1 | Folder 17 |
Lectures ("File 24")
|
1938-1944 |
Box 1 | Folder 18 |
Lectures, talks, etc.
|
1945-1947 |
Box 1 | Folder 19 |
Lectures, talks, etc.
|
1948-1950 |
Box 1 | Folder 20 |
Lectures, talks, etc.
|
1951-1952 |
Box 1 | Folder 21 |
Lectures, talks, etc.
|
1953-1954 |
Box 1 | Folder 22 |
Lectures, talks, etc.
|
1962, n.d. |
Box 1 | Folder 23-26 |
Notes for A Study of Architecture: Symbols of Abstractions which Man, ...
|
|
Box 1 | Folder 27 |
Aspects of City Design - rough notes
|
|
Box 1 | Folder 28 |
Symposium: Urban renewal: Cleveland
|
1961 |
Box 1 | Folder 29 |
Architectural library of Henry S. Churchill
|
1929 |
Box 1 | Folder 30 |
Engagement books
|
1949-1960 |
Box 1 | Folder 31 |
Address book
|
|
Box 1 | Folder 32 |
Housing and urban planning
|
1949 |
Box 1 | Folder 33 |
Study of dwelling shelter and congestion
|
1952 |
Box 1 | Folder 34 |
Study of patterns of urban congestion
|
1952 |
Box 1 | Folder 35 |
Patterns of congestion
|
1953 |
Box 1 | Folder 36 |
Conference with U.S.I.A. regarding Moscow Exhibit
|
1958 |
Box 1 | Folder 37 |
Planning draft
|
1961 |
Box 1 | Folder 38 |
Historical research - A.I.A. Committee on Housing
|
|
Box 1 | Folder 39-40 |
The dwelling in Greater Manhattan, 1850-1950 - Part II: The Apartment, 1850-1890
|
1953 |
Box 1 | Folder 41 |
A.I.A. NEWS
|
1959 |
Box 1 | Folder 42 |
Planning the home for occupancy
|
1950 |
Box 1 | Folder 43 |
Construction and Equipment of the Home
|
1951 |
Box 2 | Folder 1 |
A Planning Study of the Tarrytowns, Colombia University
|
1948 |
Box 2 | Folder 2 |
A Planning Study of the Village of Dobbs Ferry, Colombia
|
1949 |
Box 2 | Folder 3 |
A development program for the Fourth Ward Area of Passaic (NJ), Colombia
|
1949 |
Box 2 | Folder 4-5 |
Projects visited
|
1942 |
Box 2 | Folder 6 |
Greenbelt Towns manuscript
|
|
Box 2 | Folder 7-8 |
Greenbelt Towns manuscript - appendices
|
|
Box 2 | Folder 9 |
Greenbrook, NJ - Greendale, Wis.
|
|
Box 2 | Folder 10 |
Greenbrook, NJ
|
1936 |
Box 2 | Folder 11-24 |
Greenbrook, NJ project book
|
|
Box 2 | Folder 25 |
National Association of Housing & Redevelopment Officials - International Committee
|
1958-1962 |
Box 2 | Folder 26 |
National Competitions Committee for Architecture and the Allies Arts
|
1940 |
Box 2 | Folder 27 |
Report: "Densities in New York City"
|
1944 |
Box 2 | Folder 28 |
Report: "Excerpts from the Comprehensive Plan - The Physical Development Plan for
the City of Philadelphia"
|
1960 |
Box 2 | Folder 29 |
Reports - Citizen's Council on City Planning
|
1950-1962 |
Box 2 | Folder 30 |
"Housing for the Aged"
|
1954 |
Box 2 | Folder 31 |
"The Philadelphia Housing Association"
|
1961 |
Box 2 | Folder 32 |
"The Attack on Town Planning: A Reply to Opponents of the Suburban Resettlement Towns"
|
|
Box 2 | Folder 33-34 |
Union Internationales des Architectes (UIA)
|
1950-1961 |
Box 2 | Folder 35 |
UIA
|
1958-1961 |
Box 2 | Folder 36 |
UIA
|
1960-1962 |
Box 2 | Folder 37-38 |
UIA
|
1958-1962 |
Box 2 | Folder 39 |
Talara, Peru - International Petroleum Co., Ltd.
|
1946 |
Box 2 | Folder 40 |
Architectural Advisory Panel - Evaluation Report
|
1960 |
Box 2 | Folder 41 |
Elm Haven Housing Project, New Haven Ct. (file #32)
|
|
Box 2 | Folder 42 |
Report on the Development Plan for the George Washington University
|
1957 |
Box 2 | Folder 43 |
District of Colombia Redevelopment Land Agency contract
|
1961 |
Box 2 | Folder 44 |
Gainesville, Florida, Planning Board of
|
1950 |
Box 2 | Folder 45 |
Report of a Study of Traffic and Parking at the University of Florida
|
1955 |
Box 2 | Folder 46 |
University of Florida, Gainesville
|
1956 |
Box 2 | Folder 47 |
Master Guide Plan for Gainesville, Florida
|
1950 |
Box 2 | Folder 48 |
Comprehensive City Planning Report - Orlando
|
1941 |
Box 3 | Folder 1 |
Economic and Housing Survey of the Orlando Metro-Region
|
1946 |
Box 3 | Folder 2 |
Report on the Community Facilities of Park Forest, Illinois
|
1954 |
Box 3 | Folder 3 |
City of Hoboken, New Jersey - Major Streets and regulation of traffic
|
1948 |
Box 3 | Folder 4 |
Jersey City, New Jersey Preliminary Planning Survey
|
1947 |
Box 3 | Folder 5 |
A summary of the finances of Jersey City
|
1947 |
Box 3 | Folder 6 |
Jersey City, New Jersey - Report to the Planning Board, Vol 1
|
1949 |
Box 3 | Folder 7 |
Jersey City, New Jersey - Report to the Planning Board, Vol 2
|
1949 |
Box 3 | Folder 8 |
A development program for the Fourth Ward Area of Passaic, New Jersey
|
1949 |
Box 3 | Folder 9 |
Radburn Protective Restrictions and Community Administration
|
1929 |
Box 3 | Folder 10 |
Garden City, New York Board of Zoning appeals
|
|
Box 3 | Folder 11 |
Queensbridge Housing Project (NY)
|
1933 |
Box 3 | Folder 12 |
Queensbridge Housing Project (NY) summary report
|
1933 |
Box 3 | Folder 13 |
Queensbridge Housing Project (NY) supplementary report
|
1934 |
Box 3 | Folder 14 |
Queensbridge Housing Project (NY) plans and studies
|
|
Box 3 | Folder 15 |
Sewickly (Pa.) District Plan
|
1946 |
Box 3 | Folder 16 |
Housing and Social Structure: A preliminary survey (Philadelphia Housing Authority)
|
1952 |
Box 3 | Folder 17-18 |
Summary report on the Central Urban Renewal Area (CURA), Philadelphia
|
1956 |
Box 3 | Folder 19 |
Norwalk, Ct. - subdivision regulations
|
1952 |
Box 3 | Folder 20-21 |
Industrial Land and Facilities for Philadelphia
|
1956 |
Box 3 | Folder 22 |
Center City, Philadelphia
|
1960 |
Box 3 | Folder 23-24 |
Philadelphia - East Falls
|
1958-1960 |
Box 3 | Folder 25 |
Philadelphia - Lower Eastwick Area
|
1948 |
Box 3 | Folder 26 |
Philadelphia - Upper Eastwick
|
1950 |
Box 3 | Folder 27 |
Philadelphia - Eastwick District
|
1952 |
Box 3 | Folder 28 |
Philadelphia - Eastwick Area
|
1950 |
Box 3 | Folder 29 |
Philadelphia - Eastwick Area
|
1952 |
Box 3 | Folder 30-31 |
Philadelphia - Eastwick Area
|
1953 |
Box 3 | Folder 32 |
Report on the Redevelopment of Eastwick
|
1952 |
Box 3 | Folder 33 |
Eastwick: part of agreement - planning and engineering
|
1955 |
Box 3 | Folder 34 |
Eastwick - Mingo Creek, Lagoon, and Pumping Station
|
1955 |
Box 3 | Folder 35 |
Eastwick - Phase I Report
|
1955 |
Box 3 | Folder 36 |
Eastwick Project minutes
|
1955-1956 |
Box 4 | Folder 1 |
Study of a Portion of Germantown, Pa
|
1955 |
Box 4 | Folder 2 |
Germantown Leadership Area
|
1955 |
Box 4 | Folder 3 |
Germantown - A Planning Study
|
1956 |
Box 4 | Folder 4 |
Germantown note cards
|
|
Box 4 | Folder 5 |
Concern for Germantown
|
|
Box 4 | Folder 6 |
Germantown
|
|
Box 4 | Folder 7 |
Germantown, First Presbyterian Church Study
|
1957 |
Box 4 | Folder 8 |
Germantown School District
|
1959 |
Box 4 | Folder 9 |
Germantown (?) industry and employment
|
|
Box 4 | Folder 10 |
Germantown zoning map changes
|
1959 |
Box 4 | Folder 11 |
Germantown Commission on Human Relations
|
|
Box 4 | Folder 12 |
Germantown
|
|
Box 4 | Folder 13 |
Philadelphia City Planning Commission and Philadelphia Housing Authority
|
|
Box 4 | Folder 14 |
Philadelphia City Planning Commission redevelopment areas
|
|
Box 4 | Folder 15 |
Preliminary Study of Germantown
|
1960 |
Box 4 | Folder 16 |
Concern for Germantown
|
1960 |
Box 4 | Folder 17 |
A Proposal for the Revitalization of the Heart of Germantown
|
|
Box 4 | Folder 18 |
Germantown Settlement - minutes
|
1960 |
Box 4 | Folder 19 |
Germantown
|
|
Box 4 | Folder 20 |
Report on Roxborough Area
|
1953 |
Box 4 | Folder 21 |
Mount Vernon (file#32) (NY?)
|
1943 |
Box 4 | Folder 22 |
Densities in New York City
|
1944 |
Box 4 | Folder 23 |
Eastwick Renewal Area
|
1959 |
Box 4 | Folder 24 |
Easwick Job #302
|
1952 |
Box 4 | Folder 25 |
Zoning Study
|
|
Box 4 | Folder 26 |
For Columbia University Seminar "The Social Implications..."
|
1961 |
Box 4 | Folder 27 |
Specifications for North Country Day School
|
1938 |
Box 4 | Folder 28 |
Haskell Diary
|
|
Box 4 | Folder 29 |
Stein Analysis Whittlesey - application to Bound Brook
|
|
Box 4 | Folder 30 |
"Notes on a French Horn" and other notes (not used)
|
|
Box 4 | Folder 31 |
"Notes on a French Horn" prime copy
|
|
Box 4 | Folder 32 |
Articles by Churchill
|
|
Box 4 | Folder 33 |
Mexican Delegation of Architects and City Planners proposal
|
1960 |
Box 4 | Folder 34 |
New York Chapter, AIA - "Patrons of Congestion"
|
1952 |
Box 4 | Folder 35 |
Atlantic City
|
1956-1957 |
Box 4 | Folder 36 |
Sale of Harrison House
|
|
Box 4 | Folder 37 |
Report of the Committee on Honorary Fellows - AIA
|
1962 |
Box 4 | Folder 38 |
Churchill House - backed up specs for printing
|
1952 |
Box 4 | Folder 39 |
House - contract, change orders
|
1952-1954 |
Box 4 | Folder 40 |
Weissman House, Job no. 300, outline specs - "Heating"
|
1952 |
Box 4 | Folder 41 |
Weissman House
|
1952 |
Box 4 | Folder 42 |
Committee on Committees
|
1962 |
Box 4 | Folder 43 |
Dwelling unit figures
|
|
Box 4 | Folder 44-45 |
Riverside - A study of Housing on the West Side of Manhattan - AIA
|
1954 |
Box 4 | Folder 46 |
Articles, reprints, various papers
|
|
Multiple folders of oversized items
|