Guide to the Clarke and Rapuano Records,
1940-1993

Collection Number: 3047

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

Contact Information:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
(607) 255-3530
Fax: (607) 255-9524
rareref@cornell.edu
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Date completed:
May 1998
EAD encoding:
Martin Heggestad, April 2002

© 2002 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Clarke and Rapuano records, 1940-1993
Collection Number:
3047
Creator:
Clarke & Rapuano
Quantity:
94.1 cubic ft.
Forms of Material:
Reports, plans, blueprints, photographs, publications, contracts, and drawings.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Reports and studies, including plans, blueprints, photographs, publications, contracts, and drawings pertaining to transportation, parkways, and city planning projects in Queens, Westchester County, Long Island, Buffalo, and New York, New York; Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; and other places. Also, includes planning material pertaining to the 1964 World's Fair in New York City and a report prepared for Cornell University on Cornell Heights, 1987.
Language:
Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Gilmore D. Clarke (Cornell University Class of 1913), 1892-1982, was Professor of Architecture at Cornell, 1935-1950, and Dean of the College of Architecture, 1939-1950. Michael Rapuano, 1904-1975, received an M.L.A. from Cornell in 1927.
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Reports and studies, including plans, blueprints, photographs, publications, contracts, and drawings pertaining to transportation, parkways, and city planning projects in Queens, Westchester County, Long Island, Buffalo, and New York, New York; Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; and other places. Also, includes planning material pertaining to the 1964 World's Fair in New York City and a report prepared for Cornell University on Cornell Heights, 1987.
SUBJECTS

Names:
Clarke & Rapuano.
Clarke, Gilmore D., 1892-
Rapuano, Michael.
New York World's Fair (1964-1965)
Cornell University--Planning.

Subjects:
City planning.
Highway planning.
Landscape architecture.
Transportation.
Parkways--New York (State)
Parkways--Pennsylvania.
City planning--Pennsylvania--Bethlehem.
City planning--New York (N.Y.)--Flushing.
City planning--New York (N.Y.)
City planning--New York (N.Y.)--Queens.
Landscape architects.
Planners.

Places:
Bethlehem (Pa.)
Flushing (New York, N.Y.)
New York (N.Y.)
Queens (New York, N.Y.)
Cornell Heights (N.Y.)--Description and travel.

Form and Genre Terms:
Blueprints.
Photographs.
INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:
Clarke and Rapuano Records, #3047. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
CONTAINER LIST

Description
Container
Records
Original accession of 1984
Box 1-2
Lee Avenue (#1 - original box number)
Box 3
Flatland Avenue (#22) (also, 2 folders of Contract)
Box 4
Contract Files (#14) Non-current P-Z
Box 5
Contracts
Box 6
Rushmore (also, 2 folders of contracts) "C"
Box 7
Rushmore
Box 8
LaSalle Arterial (also, 4 folders Rushmore)
Box 9
Connecticut
Box 10
Hutchinson River Parkway (#1)
Box 11
PDIs Paulding Avenue Milford Street
Box 12
Hutchinson River Parkway
Box 13
Contract Files, Non-current M-P
Box 14
Miscellaneous projects
Box 15-16
Structures
Box 17
LaSalle
Box 18
Johnson Property, Chester, LaSalle
Box 19
Bucks County, LaSalle
Box 20
Lehigh University, Unisphere, LaSalle
Box 21
Structures Miscellaneous
Box 22
LaSalle Arterial
Box 23
Hutchinson River Parkway
Box 24-25
Silver Sands
Box 26
Middletown PC
Box 27
Middletown FHWA Pres. & WBD
Box 28
Pres. & WBD
Box 29
Photographs
Album and loose photos
Nashville, Tenn.
 Box 30
Rock Creek Park, D.C.
 Box 30
West Side Highway, N.Y.C.
 Box 30
Bethlehem, PA
 Box 30
Cleveland, OH
 Box 30
Middletown, Conn. (Wesleyan Univ. dormitories)
 Box 30
Palisades Parkway, NJ
 Box 30
Park Cliester Houses, Stuyvesant Town, NY
 Box 30
Pittsburgh, PA
 Box 30
Pedestrian Bridge, Queens Zoo, NY
 Box 30
Album of bridge designs
St. Regis Paper Co.
 Box 30
West Nyock, NY
 Box 30
Corning, NY
 Box 30
others
 Box 30
Album of designs and planning for:
SUNY Albany
 Box 30
Cleveland, OH
 Box 30
Bethlehem, PA
 Box 30
Scranton, PA
 Box 30
Projects Miscellaneous
Box 31
Miscellaneous drawings, printed material
Box 32
Miscellaneous Project files
Air Products Chemicals
 Box 33-37
Calverton National Cemetery
 Box 33-37
Silver Sands through Staten Island Botanical Garden; also USPS through West Basin Drive
Box 38-39
Original Reports A-E
Box 40
Original Reports H-H
Box 41
Stirling Forest through Stony Brook
Box 42
Stirling Forest; Calverton Reports
Box 43
Original Reports H-O
Box 44
Products: A through Insecticide; project drawings
Box 45
Calverton; project files and drawings
Box 46
Project Drawings
Box 47
Original Specs: M
Box 48
Project Drawings
Box 49
Project Files: Irrigation systems
Box 50
Original Specs: N through P
Nashville UC-4 796.33 three
 Box 51
New York City Dept. of Parks
 Box 51
Parsonage Farm, jPA material
 Box 51
Briley
Box 52
Project Drawings: Calverton
Box 53
Project Drawings
Box 54
Project Drawings; bound reports A-B
Box 55
Original Specs: A-C
Box 56
Bound Reports: B-H
Box 57
Original Specs: C
Box 58
Bound Reports: I
Box 59
Original Specs: C-F
Box 60
Bound Reports: P-Z; Ford Motor Company
N.Y.C. Dept. of Parks, con't.
 Box 61
Norwalk, Darien Conn.
 Box 61
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
 Box 61
Staten Island Museum, High Rock Park
 Box 61
Sun Inn, Bethlehem, PA
 Box 61
Tocks Island Region, NJ
 Box 61
Union Carbide
 Box 61
Sevises for Coast Guard Shore Facility, NJ, NY, N. England
 Box 61
Palisades Interstate Park Comm.; Sewage
 Box 61
Disposal Facilities, 1971
Box 61
Ford Motor Co.
 Box 61
Original Specs: G-J
Box 62
Ford; other projects
Box 63
Original Specs: J-L
Box 64
Projects; Original Specs P-R
Great Neck, L.I. Railroad
 Box 65
Prudential Ins. Co.
 Box 65
Monmouth State Park
 Box 65
Kresge Bldgs, Bethlehem, PA, Urban Renewal (incl. photos, 1977 )
Box 65
Port Richmond
 Box 65
Purchase Park
 Box 65
River Park, Norwalk, Conn.
 Box 65
Rockland Cable Systems
 Box 65
Original Specs: P
NYC Dept. of Parks and Recreation, 1980s , incl. Wellowbrook
Box 66
Perkins, Elmer
 Box 66
Pocono Mt. Joint Schools
 Box 66
Port Authority, NYC
 Box 66
Port Richmond, NYC
 Box 66
Original Specs: J-L; various projects (Cornell, Palisades Parkway, etc.)
Box 67
Original Specs: R; Calverton; various projects
Box 68
Various Projects; Cornell; Calverton
Box 69
Various Projects
Box 70
Various Projects; Original Specs: S
Box 71
Original Specs: S
Box 72
Original Specs: S; Merck; various projects
Box 73
Various Projects
Box 74-75
Merck
Box 76
Various Projects
Box 77-80
Air Products; Calverton
Box 81
Calverton
Box 82
Calverton; Central Park; Copley Square
Box 83
Cornell (Central Avenue); D.C. Transportation; Flushing High School; Fordham; Glen Island Park; Morris; Neelytown; NYS Thruway; Northern State Parkway
Box 84
Printed Specs Calverton; Fort Wadsworth; Gracie Mansion; Hutchinson Parkway
Box 85
Printed Specs Hutchinson River; IBM; Iona Island; Kean College; Lehigh University; Linden Place; Newark State College; Lee Avenue
Box 86
VA Cemetery, Washington; Calverton; Copley Square
Box 87
Copley Square; Alfred Smith High School
Box 88
Calverton; Merck;Mamaroneck; Mokattam; Neptune Ave; NJ College of Medicine
Box 89
Calverton; NJ College of Dentistry; River Park; Short Hills; Prudential
Box 90
Original Specs T-W
Box 91
Northern State Parkway; Palisades Parkway; Park Ave; Parker Residence; Pentaquit; President's Park; Prudential, Short Hills
Box 92
Prudential, Short Hills; Queensboro Bridge; RDSA
Box 93
RDSA; Roosevelt Memorial; Route 139; Rushmore Associates
Box 94
Rushmore Associates; Merck
Box 95
Plans
Purchase Park-Harrison, New York
 Box 96
Purchase Park-Harrison, New York
 Box 97
Copley Square-Boston, Massachusetts
 Box 98
Macombs Dam
 Box 99
Rockaway Freeway-Almeda Avenue
 Box 100
Hitachi
 Box 101
Hutchinson River Parkway
 Box 102
Flushing High School
 Box 103
Flushing High School
 Box 104
Rushmore-Orange County
 Box 104
Calverton National Cemetery
 Box 105
Calverton National Cemetery
 Box 106
Calverton National Cemetery
 Box 107
Calverton National Cemetery
 Box 108
Arneytown Veteran's Cemetery
 Box 109
Arneytown Veteran's Cemetery
 Box 110
Fort Wadsworth Naval Station
 Box 111
Fort Wadsworth Naval Station
 Box 112
Fort Wadsworth Naval Station
 Box 113
Fort Wadsworth Naval Station
 Box 114
Battleship Surface Action Group
 Box 114
Fieldbrook-Putnam County
 Box 115
Fieldbrook-Putnam County
 Box 116
Nassau and Bruckner Expressway
 Box 117
Nassau and Bruckner Expressway
 Box 118
Tidal Basin-Ohio Drive
 Box 119
Tidal Basin-Ohio Drive
 Box 120
Tidal Basin-Ohio Drive
 Box 121
Tidal Basin-Ohio Drive
 Box 122
Tidal Basin-Ohio Drive
 Box 123
Tidal Basin-Ohio Drive
 Box 124
Track and Playfields-Vanderbilt University
 Box 124
Tidal Basin-West Potomac Parks Road
 Box 125
Berry Houses
 Box 125
Harriman Toll Plaza
 Box 126
Port Richmond Avenue
 Box 127
Port Richmond Avenue
 Box 128
Martin Tower-Bethlehem Steel
 Box 129
Martin Tower-Bethlehem Steel
 Box 130
New Jersey College of Medicine and Dentistry
 Box 131
New Jersey College of Medicine and Dentistry
 Box 132
New Jersey College of Medicine and Dentistry
 Box 133
Lee Avenue, New York City
 Box 134
Lee Avenue, New York City
 Box 135
Citicorp
 Box 136
Residence of J. Seward Johnson
 Box 137
Residence of J. Seward Johnson
 Box 138
Residence of J. Seward Johnson
 Box 139
Residence of J. Seward Johnson
 Box 140
Van De Bovenkamp sculptures
 Box 140
President's Park
 Box 141
President's Park
 Box 142
Corona Park
 Box 143
Gracie Mansion
 Box 144
New York School for the Deaf
 Box 145
Alfred E. Smith High School
 Box 146
Langone Residence
 Box 147
Immaculate Conception Housing
 Box 148
Bronx Court House
 Box 149
Breeze Hill-Central Park
 Box 150
Syosset River Park
 Box 151
Central Park Mall-Reconstruction of Concert Ground
 Box 152
Coney Island
 Box 153
Broad Street Mall-Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
 Box 154
Joyce Kilmer Park
 Box 154
South Street Sea Port Deck Work
 Box 154
Parking Studies
 Box 154
Hunter Tier Parking
 Box 155
Stratford Marina
 Box 155
Pennsylvania Bridges
 Box 155
Miscellaneous
 Box 155
Unisphere
 Box 156
Hudson Hills
 Box 157
Atlantic Creosoting-Savannah, Georgia
 Box 157
Clove Park
 Box 158
Rockville, Maryland
 Box 159
Coney Island
 Box 160
Alley Pond
 Box 161
Olmsted Center
 Box 161
Tudor City Place
 Box 162
Silver Lake Park- Burkes County Pennsylvania
 Box 162
James Madison Memorial Library- (Library of Congress)
 Box 163
Robert Moses State Park
 Box 164
Flushing Avenue
 Box 165
Cornell Campus
 Box 166
Cornell Campus
 Box 167
Cornell Campus
 Box 168
Beebe Lake- Cornell University
 Box 169
United Nations Plaza Court
 Box 170
Palisades Interstate Parkway
 Box 170
Middletown Psychiatric
 Box 170
Putnam Fields
 Box 171
Naples Playground on Staten Island
 Box 171
Fordham University
 Box 172
Mary Harriman Rumsey Playground
 Box 172
North General Hospital
 Box 172
Bronx Zoo
 Box 173
New York Botanical Gardens
 Box 173
Lehigh Canal Park- Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
 Box 174
Central Park
 Box 174
Sterling Forest
 Box 174
Central Business District of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
 Box 174
Monocacy Creek Urban Renewal
 Box 174
Seaport Plaza
 Box 175
New Jersey Educational Testing
 Box 175
Neelytown Center
 Box 176
Willowbrook Tennis
 Box 176
Fordham University
 Box 177
Port Authority
 Box 177
High Rise- Saudi Arabia
 Box 178
Eastchester and Tucahoe
 Box 178
Eagle Chase
 Box 178
Belmont Race Tarck
 Box 178
Short Hills Office Center- Essex County, New Jersey
 Box 179
Short Hills Office Center- Essex County, New Jersey
 Box 180
Staten Island Botanical Gardens
 Box 181
Morris Gardens
 Box 181
Snug Harbor
 Box 181
Rockefeller Gardens
 Box 181
Pepsi-Cola
 Box 182
IBM Office Building- Somers, New York
 Box 182
Miscellaneous Project #8708
 Box 183
Miscellaneous Project #8708
 Box 184
Beebe Lake- Cornell University
 Box 185
Westchester Avenue
 Box 185
Middletown Psychiatric Center
 Box 185
Miscellaneous Bridges
 Box 185
Erie Basin Port Authority
 Box 185
Montgomery County design location study
 Box 185
Hutchinson River Parkway
 Box 185
Lee Avenue
 Box 185
Fort Wadsworth Naval Station
 Box 186
Bronx River Parkway
 Box 186
Hitachi
 Box 186
Flushing High School
 Box 186
IBM-Somers, New York
 Folder 1
Presentation Boards: Bethlehem Urban Renewal, Gracie Mansion, Montgomery County, State Line Lookout Park
 Folder 1
Mammoth Battlefield State Park; Miscellaneous Oversize Photos
 Folder 2