Daniel Edward McAvoy Papers,1921-1953.
Collection Number: 2834
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University
Library
Title:
Daniel Edward McAvoy papers,
1921-1953.
Collection Number:
2834
Creator:
McAvoy, Daniel Edward,
Quantity:
.3 cubic ft.
Forms of Material:
Printed materials, scrapbooks, and photographs.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
University Library
Abstract:
Scrapbooks of printed brochures, plans, and photographs of
McAvoy projects, and similar loose items.
Language:
Collection material in English
Architect, housing consultant, and builder.
During the 1930s Daniel McAvoy was a consultant for the Federal government on
refinancing home mortgages. He served as secretary of the Home Mortgage Advisory
Board and the national Smaller Business Council. He and his brother, Charles F.
McAvoy, built homes in Forest Hills, Queens, and the Five Towns area of Nassau
County, New York in the first decade of the 1900s. In 1948 he opened his own office
in New York City as a broker, appraiser, and housing consultant, and was a pioneer
in the development of prefabricated housing units.
Scrapbooks of printed brochures, plans, and photographs of McAvoy projects, and
similar loose items.
Names:
McAvoy, Daniel Edward, 1887-1968.
McAvoy, Charles F.
Subjects:
Architecture.
Buildings, Prefabricated.
Housing.
Prefabricated houses.
Architects.
Places:
Forest Hills (N.Y.)
Queens (N.Y.)
Nassau County (N.Y.)
Five Towns (N.Y.)
Form and Genre Terms:
Photographs.
Scrapbooks.
Cite As:
Daniel Edward McAvoy. Papers, #2834. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections,
Cornell University Library.
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Collection consists of a single box. Online guide unavailable.
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