Guide to the Arthur Bohnen Papers,
1918-1977, 1962-1972 (bulk)

Collection Number: 3195

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
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Compiled by:

Martin Heggestad

Date completed:

August 2004

EAD encoding:

Martin Heggestad, August 2004

© 2004 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:

Arthur Bohnen papers, 1918-1977, 1962-1972 (bulk)

Collection Number:

3195

Creator:

Arthur Bohnen, 1901-1978.

Quantity:

9.2 cubic ft.

Forms of Material:

Reports, speeches, job files, articles, publications, and a transcript of an interview.

Repository:

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

Abstract:

Reports, speeches, job files, articles, and publications of Arthur Bohnen, concerning city and regional planning, housing, and urban renewal. Also, transcript of interview of Otar Aamodt, by Bohnen, 1977.

Language:

Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Member, International Fraternity of Lambda Alpha, Ely Chapter.

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

SUBJECTS

Names:

Bohnen, Arthur, 1901-1978.

Aamodt, Otar.

Lambda Alpha International. Ely Chapter.

INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:

Arthur Bohnen papers, #3195. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

SERIES LIST

Series I. Reports (including feasability, rental market, and land demand studies)
Boxes 1-2

Series II. Volunteer work for the International Executive Service Corps
Box 3

Series III. Publications by Bohnen and relating to his work
Boxes 3-4, 8

Series IV. Subject files (speeches, clippings, notes)
Boxes 4-5

Series V. Job files
Boxes 5-7

Series VI. Lambda Alpha International
Boxes 7-8

Series VII. Blueprints
Boxes 9-10

CONTAINER LIST

Date	Description	Container
1960s-1970s	Series I. Reports (including feasability, rental market, and land demand studies)	Box 1-2
ca. 1967-1974	Series II. Volunteer work for the International Executive Service Corps
	I.E.S.C.	Box 3	Folder 1-2
	Bogota, Colombia	Box 3	Folder 3
	A Proposed Housing Development Organization, Thessaloniki, Greece	Box 3	Folder 4
	Nicaragua	Box 3	Folder 5
	Colombia	Box 3	Folder 6-7
	C.I.T. Work Papers	Box 3	Folder 8
	Colombia	Box 3	Folder 9-10
	Greece	Box 3	Folder 11
	Greece - Katsaros	Box 3	Folder 12
1972	Greece	Box 3	Folder 13
	Greece	Box 3	Folder 14-15
	Series III. Publications by Bohnen and relating to his work	Box 3-4,8
	Series IV. Subject files (speeches, clippings, notes)
	Ira Bach - Industrialized Housing	Box 4	Folder 1
	Rheem	Box 4	Folder 2
	Printed material	Box 4	Folder 3-4
	Systems	Box 4	Folder 5
	Building records	Box 4	Folder 6-7
	Cliff-May data	Box 4	Folder 8
	Erection details - Modular walls & ext. walls	Box 4	Folder 9
	Cliff-May - Correction Manual	Box 4	Folder 10
	Materials furnished in basic package - Cliff-May Homes	Box 4	Folder 11
	Cliff-May house - Parts list	Box 4	Folder 12
	Cliff-May - Carport/garage parts list	Box 4	Folder 13
	Homeowner's book	Box 4	Folder 14
	Purchasing - YMCA	Box 4	Folder 15
	Urban renewal - Municipal Investment Trust	Box 4	Folder 16
	Housing organization - Accounting	Box 4	Folder 17
	Road show seminar	Box 4	Folder 18
	Peace Corps	Box 4	Folder 19
	The Builder as Hero	Box 4	Folder 20
	From the Ground Up	Box 4	Folder 21
	Retirement promotion	Box 4	Folder 22
	Explanation of acct. system	Box 4	Folder 23
	Civil riots, etc.	Box 4	Folder 24
	What About Federal Housing?	Box 4	Folder 25
	Sen. Bill 2246 Maybank Amendment - AB comment	Box 4	Folder 26
	Speeches - Management	Box 4	Folder 27
	Speeches - Housing general	Box 4	Folder 28
	Platform app.	Box 4	Folder 29
	Speech material	Box 4	Folder 30
	Books/publicatons	Box 4	Folder 31
	West Virginia U. papers	Box 4	Folder 32
	Am. cities	Box 4	Folder 33
	Unplanned Obsolescence	Box 4	Folder 34
	No. Car. Sav. & Loan speech	Box 4	Folder 35
	Speeches	Box 4	Folder 36
	A Concept of a Home Building Organization ...	Box 5	Folder 1
	Water Conditioner speech	Box 5	Folder 2
	Some Comments on Housing for Chicago	Box 5	Folder 3
	Module Your Own Plan	Box 5	Folder 4
	Advanced Housing	Box 5	Folder 5
	Woman's City Club - Housing Institute	Box 5	Folder 6
	KEM-Weber	Box 5	Folder 7
	Lottery	Box 5	Folder 8
	T.U. ideas	Box 5	Folder 9
	Industrial buildings	Box 5	Folder 10
	Industrialized building	Box 5	Folder 11
	Art Bohnen - Miscellaneous writings - Notes CBS	Box 5	Folder 12
	AB notes - CBS	Box 5	Folder 13
	AB paper - Centennial of Engineering	Box 5	Folder 14
	AB paper - Function of Acct. in Housing	Box 5	Folder 15
	Tax-exempt housing	Box 5	Folder 16
	International cooperation - CBS	Box 5	Folder 17
	AB - Writings	Box 5	Folder 18
	Misc. AB writings	Box 5	Folder 19
	General Motors of Housing	Box 5	Folder 20
	Another Chicago Building First	Box 5	Folder 21
	Chicago housing	Box 5	Folder 22
	American Standards Association	Box 5	Folder 23
1971	Industrialized Building - Talk	Box 5	Folder 23A
	Component Building Systems (CBS)
	CBS	Box 5	Folder 24
	CBS technical items	Box 5	Folder 25
	CBS photos	Box 5	Folder 26
	CBS	Box 5	Folder 27-28
	Misc.	Box 5	Folder 29
	SAGEAI-TEC	Box 5	Folder 30
	About CBS	Box 5	Folder 31
	Chicago - Development	Box 5	Folder 32
	CIP	Box 5	Folder 33
	CBS notes	Box 5	Folder 34
	CBS - Promotional memos	Box 5	Folder 35
	House & Home article - boxes	Box 5	Folder 36
	Lake Grove Village management	Box 5	Folder 37
	Brockport	Box 5	Folder 38
	Lake Grove	Box 5	Folder 39
	Kroll	Box 5	Folder 40
	CBS resumé	Box 5	Folder 41-42
	Component Building Systems Ltd. by Arthur Bohnen	Box 5	Folder 43
	History of Prefabrication	Box 5	Folder 44
	Building Research Station	Box 5	Folder 45
	Series V. Job files
	9276 - Coops	Box 5	Folder 46
	5275 - Kansas City Continental Hotel	Box 5	Folder 47
	Louisville	Box 5	Folder 48
	Kraft Cheese	Box 5	Folder 49
	8455 - Cent. Nat. Bank	Box 5	Folder 50
	Melrose Park	Box 5	Folder 51
	Scholz	Box 5	Folder 52
	Castelwood Terrace	Box 6	Folder 1
	Medinah	Box 6	Folder 2
	4325 - American Library Association	Box 6	Folder 3
1962-1963	782H	Box 6	Folder 4
	Sanitary District RERC #214X	Box 6	Folder 5
1961	Redevelopment areas	Box 6	Folder 6
	Curr. Real Estate	Box 6	Folder 7
	640R - MWA Building	Box 6	Folder 8
	Misc. RERC	Box 6	Folder 9
	Decatur	Box 6	Folder 10
	Shagbark	Box 6	Folder 11
	Elizabeth NJ	Box 6	Folder 12
	3240 N. Lake Shore Drive	Box 6	Folder 13
	1112 Plans & sketches	Box 6	Folder 14-15
	1112 brochure	Box 6	Folder 16
	Johnson Wurm	Box 6	Folder 17
	Washington National RERC #1801	Box 6	Folder 18
	307 Michigan Blvd.	Box 6	Folder 19
1968	RERC Reports	Box 6	Folder 20
	HUD - Disaster proposal	Box 6	Folder 21
	CDA	Box 6	Folder 22
	Coral Ridge	Box 6	Folder 23
	Meade - Dayton, Ohio	Box 6	Folder 24
	Colorado Springs	Box 6	Folder 25
	9385 - Cleveland	Box 6	Folder 26
1974	Urban renewal - Shopping center study - Ira Bach	Box 6	Folder 27
	Kankakee Eldorado Terrace	Box 6	Folder 28
	Marion, Indiana	Box 6	Folder 29
	Rockford	Box 6	Folder 30-31
	Rockford - Abegg	Box 6	Folder 32
	Kurkjian	Box 6	Folder 33
	U of C - 52nd & Dorchester	Box 6	Folder 34
	57th & Dorchester	Box 6	Folder 35
	Wayne - Bernard - U of C	Box 6	Folder 36
	537/39 Sheridan Rd.	Box 6	Folder 37
	Four Seasons - Fort Lauderdale	Box 6	Folder 38
	RLN jobs	Box 6	Folder 39
	Richard Lawrence Nelson	Box 6	Folder 40
	Nelson Kauman - Wheaton	Box 7	Folder 1
	Melaniphy - Cook Co. Sheriff bid	Box 7	Folder 2
	Melaniphy - Schaumburg	Box 7	Folder 3
	Melaniphy - Pittsburgh	Box 7	Folder 4
	Chicago Dwelling Assoc.	Box 7	Folder 5-6
	McHenry - Ira Bach	Box 7	Folder 7
	Round Lake	Box 7	Folder 8
	Bach - New towns	Box 7	Folder 9
	Nordic Hills air rights	Box 7	Folder 10
Nov. 25, 1981	Summary acc.	Box 7	Folder 11
	Series VI. Lambda Alpha International files
	Minneapolis	Box 7	Folder 12
	LA Archives	Box 7	Folder 13
	LA correspondence - General	Box 7	Folder 14
	LA historian	Box 7	Folder 15
	Oliver Jones	Box 7	Folder 16
	LA - 1975 Congress	Box 7	Folder 17
	Keystone Letter	Box 7	Folder 18
	Rebedeau	Box 7	Folder 19
	Hugo-Brunt	Box 7	Folder 20
	Bob Filley	Box 7	Folder 21
	Keir Brooks	Box 7	Folder 22
	LA - Finch - Cornell	Box 7	Folder 23
	LA history	Box 7	Folder 24
1976	LA Board of Governors Meeting	Box 7	Folder 25
1976	LA Congress	Box 7	Folder 26
1961	LA Congress	Box 7	Folder 26A
	Membership - Washington	Box 7	Folder 27
	LA Ritual	Box 7	Folder 28
	LA Board of Governors	Box 7	Folder 29
1971	LA Congress	Box 7	Folder 30
	LA past officers	Box 7	Folder 31
	Memphis - Mid-American Chapter	Box 7	Folder 32
	NY membership	Box 7	Folder 33
	Chapter historians	Box 7	Folder 34
	LA membership list	Box 7	Folder 35
	LA Philadelphia membership	Box 7	Folder 36
	Simcoe membership	Box 7	Folder 37
	LA Foundation	Box 7	Folder 38
	Clippings on LA members	Box 7	Folder 39
	LA Ely Chapter	Box 7	Folder 40
	Thomas Klutznik	Box 7	Folder 41
	Misc. Lambda Alpha documents	Box 7-8
	Series VII. Blueprints	Box 9-10

Guide to the Arthur Bohnen Papers,1918-1977, 1962-1972 (bulk)

Collection Number: 3195

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Cornell University Library

© 2004 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

Guide to the Arthur Bohnen Papers,
1918-1977, 1962-1972 (bulk)

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library