Housing Study Guild records, 1929-19571929-1941
Collection Number: 3333
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Housing Study Guild records, 1929-1957 1929-1941
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
3333
Abstract:
Publications, reports, and correspondence by or concerning the Housing Study Guild.
Also, correspondence of Benjamin Macson Gruzen, council member of the Housing Study
Guild, and publications of the National Association of Housing Officials, New York
City Housing Authority and the United States Resettlement Administration.
Creator:
Housing Study Guild
Quanitities:
1.4 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
The Housing Study Guild was founded in the summer of 1933 by Henry Wright, Lewis Mumford
and Albert Mayer to serve as a center for study and research in the technical, economic
and social problems of housing and community planning. It also served as a coordinating
agency and clearing house for activities in these fields; as a library and reading
room for published and unpublished material, the editing of current critical technical
bulletins, abstract-translations of significant foreign technical material, and the
publication of special reports on foreign housing policy, legislation, and financing
methods; and as a laboratory for the training of young men in the technique of housing,
research and critical formulation. The Guild, located at 101 Park Avenue, New York
City, was financed through contributions of the Lavanburg Foundation, the Housing
Association of New York, and individual and corporate memberships.
Publications, reports, and correspondence by or concerning the Housing Study Guild.
Also, correspondence of Benjamin Macson Gruzen, council member of the Housing Study
Guild, and publications of the National Association of Housing Officials, New York
City Housing Authority and the United States Resettlement Administration.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Housing Study Guild Records, #3333. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
University Library.
Names:
Gruzen, Benjamin M.
Mayer, Albert, 1897-1981
Mumford, Lewis, 1895-1990.
Wright, Henry.
National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials
New York City Housing Authority
United States. Resettlement Administration
Subjects:
City planners.
Housing research.
Community development.
City planning libraries.
City planning.
Sociology, Urban.
CONTAINER LIST
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Container
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Description
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Date
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Series I. Housing Study Guild Records, 1929-1957
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
National Association of Housing Officials, Chicago, Illinois
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1935-1938 |
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Scope and Contents
Printed materials including bulletins and the association's constitution.
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| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Citizen's Housing Council of New York, Inc.
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1937-1939, 1939 |
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Scope and Contents
Printed materials including the 1939 annual report.
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| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Citizen's Housing Council of New York, Committee on City Planning and Zoning.
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1937-1938 |
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Scope and Contents
Printed materials of the Committee; proposed revisions of the 1937 building zone resolution
prepared by the New York City Planning Commission
Printed materials of the CHC Subcommittee on Laws and Administration.
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| Box 1 | Folder 4-9 |
New York City Housing Authority. U.S. Work Projects Administration of the City of
New York. Division of Foreign Housing Studies.
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1938-1940 |
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Scope and Contents
Bibliographies and Indices of Special Subjects. Publications dealing primarily with
European housing.
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| Box 1 | Folder 10 |
New York City Housing Authority.
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1935-1937 |
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Scope and Contents
Publications deal primarily with public housing.
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| Box 1 | Folder 11-12 |
National Resources Committee.
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1936 |
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Scope and Contents
Printed publications dealing with urban development.
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| Box 1 | Folder 13 |
New York State Board of Housing.
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1929-1932 |
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Scope and Contents
Published reports.
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| Box 1 | Folder 14 |
New York State Building Congress, Inc.
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| Box 1 | Folder 15 |
Resettlement Administration. Division of Suburban Resettlement.
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1935-1936 |
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Scope and Contents
Includes a 1936 interim report, printed accessions lists of the library.
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| Box 1 | Folder 16 |
United States Housing Act of 1936.
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1935-1936 |
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Scope and Contents
U.S. Senate and House publications dealing primarily with the housing act of 1936.
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| Box 1 | Folder 17 |
Wagner-Steagall Housing Bill
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| Box 1 | Folder 18 |
Regional Housing Studies.
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1932-1941 |
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Scope and Contents
Miscellaneous publications dealing with housing and housing developments including
reports on the Lavanburg Homes (NY) and the Michigan Blvd. Garden Apartments. (Chicago).
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| Box 1 | Folder 19 |
Miscellaneous publications and journals on housing management, low cost housing.
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1933-1957 |
| Box 1 | Folder 20 |
Miscellaneous publications and journals on housing management, low cost housing.
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1933-1957 |
| Box 1 | Folder 21 |
U.S. Central Housing Committee, Subcommittee on Research and Statistics.
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1936 |
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Scope and Contents
Housing index digests and a catalog of government documents related to housing.
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| Box 1 | Folder 22 |
U.S. Central Housing Committee. Housing Division.
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1937 |
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Scope and Contents
PWA published reports on European housing; includes a confidential report to the Housing
Division.
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| Box 1 | Folder 23 |
U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Housing Authority.
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Scope and Contents
Printed materials of the H.A. including a speech by Nathan Strauss.
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| Box 1 | Folder 24 |
U.S. Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works. Housing Division.
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1936 |
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Scope and Contents
Report on the relationship between housing and delinquency; includes map of Washington,
D.C., showing locations of delinquent children.
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| Box 1 | Folder 25 |
U.S. Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works, Housing Division.
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1935-1937 |
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Scope and Contents
Printed materials including a report on slums in the U.S.
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| Box 1 | Folder 26 |
Housing Study Guild Bulletins
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| Box 1 | Folder 27 |
Housing Study Guild.
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Scope and Contents
Cost differential study of 2 floor vs. multi-floor apartments, part 2 (part 1 in mapcase.)
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| Box 1 | Folder 28 |
Housing Study Guild.
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1933-1934 |
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Scope and Contents
Report on the Queens Bridge Dwellings (New York).
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| Box 1 | Folder 29 |
Housing Study Guild.
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Scope and Contents
Maintenance report.
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| Box 1 | Folder 30 |
Housing Study Guild.
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1934 |
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Scope and Contents
Drafts of reports on housing in the Netherlands and Belgium by Cornelis J.V. Devischer.
Series F, no.4-5.
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| Box 1 | Folder 31 |
Housing Study Guild.
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Scope and Contents
Draft of a report on housing in Austria by Paul Sechy, 1934. Series F, no.7; includes
handwritten notes.
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| Box 2 | Folder 1 |
Housing Study Guild.
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1934 |
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Scope and Contents
Draft of a report on housing in Spain by Charlotte H. Knapp. Series F, no. 9; includes
finished illustrations.
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| Box 2 | Folder 2 |
Notes for the Spanish report.
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| Box 2 | Folder 3 |
Housing Study Guild.
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1935 |
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Scope and Contents
Draft of a report on French housing by Charlotte H. Knapp.
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| Box 2 | Folder 4 |
Housing Study Guild.
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Scope and Contents
Drafts of reports on housing in Sweden and Norway, by O.A. Madsen and C.J.V. Deuisscher.
Series F, no.2 and 3
Also includes an untitled draft of a second study of Sweden.
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| Box 2 | Folder 5 |
Housing Study Guild.
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1934 |
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Scope and Contents
Untitled draft of study on housing in the USSR.
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| Box 2 | Folder 6 |
Report on Housing in Soviet Russia.
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| Box 2 | Folder 7 |
English Housing report by Charlotte H. Knapp.
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1934 |
| Box 2 | Folder 8 |
Report on Housing in Hungary, Paul S. Sechy.
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1934 |
| Box 2 | Folder 9 |
Housing Study indexes.
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| Box 2 | Folder 10 |
Housing Study Guild
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Scope and Contents
Memos, budgets, agenda, etc.
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| Box 2 | Folder 11 |
Housing Study Guild Library.
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| Box 2 | Folder 12 |
Resettlement Administration Library.
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| Box 2 | Folder 13 |
Resettlement Administration Library.
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| Box 2 | Folder 14 |
Miscellaneous correspondence.
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1932-1935 |
| Box 2 | Folder 15 |
Benjamin Gruzen correspondence.
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1936 |
| Box 2 | Folder 16 |
Benjamin Gruzen correspondence.
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1937 |
| Box 2 | Folder 17 |
F.A.E.C.T. School.
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1937 |
| Box 2 | Folder 18 |
Henry Wright Library.
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1937 |
| Box 2 | Folder 19 |
Plan and Notes.
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1931-1941 |
| Mapcase Folder 1 |
"Analytic Study of Cost Differentials for the 2 Story Flat and 2-3-4-6--8-10-12 Story
Apartments.
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Scope and Contents
(See Box 1, Folder 27 for Part 2)
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