Arthur C. Holden & Associates, 1920-1930, Principal
Holden, McLaughlin
& Associates, 1930-1953, Partner
Holden, Egan & Associates,
1953-1960
Holden, Egan, Wilson & Corser, 1960-1967
Holden, Yang, Raemsch
& Corser, 1967-
Madison Square Boys Club, New York City, 1924
Sussex Garden Apartments, Rye,
New York, 1942
General Charles Berry Houses, New York, 1951
Guggenheim Museum
with Frank Lloyd Wright, 1959
Queensborough Community College, with F.P. Wiedersum,
1968
Chairman, Conference on Planning Man's Environment, Princeton University
Bi-Centennial, 1946-1947
Medal of Honor, New York Chapter, American Institute of
Architects, 1957
Litt.B., Princeton (hons.), 1912
B.Arch. & Am.Econ., Columbia Univ.,
1915
Lambda Alpha, 1967
Lectured: Housing, Princeton, Mass. Institute of Tech.,
Pa. State Univ., Vassar, Bennington
President and Chairman of the Board of New York Urban League, Inc.
1922-1931
President's Commission on Home Building and Home Ownership,
1928-1930
National Construction Council, 1931-1932
Mayor LaGuardia's Committee
on City Planning, 1934-1938
Trustee, Lenox Hill Hospital, New York City,
1951-1960
New York National Guard, chief plant secretary, hull division, drafting room, U.S.
Navy Yard, Brooklyn, 1917-1919
Author and illustrator:
Chairman of civic design, 1935-1942
Member of Executive Committee,
1943-1947
Chairman of Housing Committee, 1947-1949
Director, New York Region,
1949-1952
Vice Chairman, Committee on Post-War Planning, 1944-1946
Collection includes extensive correspondence, blueprints, sketches, drawings, financial records, and photographs from Holden's private practice around New York City; correspondence, articles, surveys and reports documenting his service on many boards, committees, and commissions including the Executive (1943-1947), Civic Design (1935-1942), and Housing (1947-1949) Committees of the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, the New York Urban League, Inc. (1922-1923), the A.I.A. Committee on Post-war Planning (1944-1946), the President's Commission on Home Building and Home Ownership (1928-1930), the National Construction Council (1931-1932), and the Mayor's Committee on City Planning, New York City (1934-1938); and personal correspondence (1920-1953). Also included are drafts and copies of articles and books including
Arthur Cort Holden Papers, #3748. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
Boxes 1-5 may have originally consisted of a separate series for Housing, Leonard Cox and John T. Boyd, Jr., papers. However, it was impossible to reconstruct those series. Wherever possible the original heading is indicated on the folder, and it is filed under that heading, except for place names which are alphabetically filed. The office files include correspondence, articles, book drafts, published material and notes.
Financial records (Boxes 5-7) contain income tax information, bills rendered and paid, certificates rendered and paid, cost sheets and unidentified material.
Some items from the 1921-1937 office files including administration, 1926-1930, were carried over into this series. Here financial records such as bills rendered are interfiled with the correspondence which forms the bulk of the series. Some printed material.
Contains personal and non-office-related business correspondence, memorandums, and some published material including papers related to the Emergency Relief Association, Inc. (Holden was a Director), 1932-1933; the N.Y. Urban League; the N.Y. Society of Architects; Princeton University; Quogue, N.Y. organizations; the Madison Square Boys Club Committee of Management; insurance, income tax, family members, finance, and the Holdens' home.
Includes correspondence related to housing and organizations interested in housing including the N.Y. Chapter of American Institute of Architects, Committee on Urban Land Use, Committee on Building, Housing Committee, Committee on Multiple Unit Housing, Civic Design Committee; the American Institute of Architects Committee on Industrial Relations, Committee on Professional Practice, Committee on Meetings and Public Information, the Architects Emergency Committee, the Architectural League of N.Y., the National Construction Council, and the Citizen's Housing Council.
Includes correspondence related to housing and housing organizations including Snag Club, the Real Estate Board of New York, the New York Society of Architects, the New York Building Congress, and the American Institute of Architects, Post-war Construction Committee.
Oversized photos and drawings from the Architectural League of New York Annual Exhibitions