Charles N. Lowrie papers, 1892-19391857-1955
Collection Number: 6611
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Charles N. Lowrie papers, 1892-1939 1857-1955
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
6611
Abstract:
Charles Nassau Lowrie (April 8, 1869 – September 18, 1939) was an American landscape
architect and designer born in Warriors Mark, Pennsylvania. The Charles N. Lowrie
papers documents the architectural practice of Charles N. Lowrie (1869-1939), American
landscape architect and founding member of the American Society of Landscape Architects.
The collection contains architectural plans for residential, educational, recreational,
and public works projects; professional correspondence; transcripts of speeches and
radio talks; client and project files; organizational files; and committee reports.
Creator:
Lowrie, Charles N.
Quanitities:
18 cubic feet.
Charles Nassau Lowrie (April 8, 1869 – September 18, 1939) was an American landscape
architect and designer born in Warriors Mark, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Yale
University's Sheffield Scientific School as a Civil Engineer in 1891 and established
an architectural practice in New York City in 1896. Some of his earliest works include
plans for the Edgar Allen Poe Park, Claremont Park, and the South Bronx Park in New
York City and the proposed Fire Island State Park. In 1899, Lowrie was among a group
of eleven landscape architects who founded the American Society of Landscape Architects.
He served as Treasurer of the society from 1899 to 1909, as Vice President from 1909-1910,
and as President of the society from 1910 to 1912. He was also the founder and first
president of the New York Chapter of the Society. Throughout his career, Lowrie served
on numerous arts and public works committees and commissions, including the ASLA committee
on Parks, the City Committee on Plan and Survey, the Fine Arts Federation of New York
Committee on West Side Improvement, the Mayor's West Side Improvement Architects'
Committee, and the Park Association of New York City. He also held membership in the
Century Association and the Yale Engineering Association. Additionally, in 1938, under
the provision of the new Charter of New York City, Lowrie was appointed the first
landscape architect to sit as a member of the Arts Commission of the City of New York.
Lowrie's professional works included landscaping and general architectural plans for
county park, state park, and city planning commissions. He designed and executed the
Roosevelt Memorial Park at Oyster Bay, Long Island, and made preliminary plans for
Valley Stream Park, Hempstead Park, Hanse Park, and Jones Beach for the Long Island
State Park Commission. He served for 30 years as landscape architect for the Hudson
County Parks Commission of New Jersey, designing and executing several parks for the
county's park system, including West Side Park (now Lincoln Park) and Pershing Field
in Jersey City, Bayonne Park (now the Stephen R. Gregg Park) in Bayonne, Columbus
Park in Hoboken, and West Hudson Park in Harrison. During World War I, Lowrie served
as town planner for the United States Housing Corporation on its industrial housing
projects in New Brunswick (NJ), New London (CT), and Alton (Ill). He was also a member
of the Columbus (OH) Plan Commission from 1907 to 1908.
Lowrie worked in several capacities with schools and universities in the creation
and execution of campus improvement and extension initiatives and landscaping plans.
Under the New Jersey State Board of Education, he prepared plans for the New Jersey
School for the Deaf and the State Normal Schools at Glassboro and Montclair. He also
conducted work on the campuses of Cornell University, the Connecticut Agricultural
College (now the Ratcliffe-Hicks School of Agriculture at the University of Connecticut),
the New Britain Normal School (now Central Connecticut State University), and the
East Stroudsburg State Normal School in Pennsylvania. He also prepared plans for the
Peekskill Military Academy, the Mount Harmon School for Boys, and the Princeton Seminary.
Lowrie also drafted and executed landscaping plans and general plans for numerous
private residences, estates, and partitions of privately-owned land, including for
notable New York and New Jersey politicians and businessmen such as Fredrick Frelinghuysen,
Jr., Garret Hobart, Jr., Louis F. Rothschild, and George W. and Jacob Gould Schurman.
The estate of George W. Schurman would go on to be purchased by the Bouvier family
and named Lasata, later becoming the beloved summer home of former First Lady Jackie
Kennedy Onassis. In 1906, Lowrie was hired by William M. and Gertrude Divine Ritter
to prepare a planting plan and designs for a teahouse for their home in Columbus,
Ohio. In 1917, Lowrie was again hired by the Ritters to prepare a landscape plan for
the grounds of their new home in Manchester, Vermont. Known as Yester House, the Ritter's
Vermont property is now home to the Southern Vermont Arts Center.
Lowrie died in New York in 1939 while on the staff of the New York World's Fair and
was buried in Lawrenceville, New Jersey.
The Charles N. Lowrie papers (1892-1939) documents the architectural practice of Charles
N. Lowrie (1869-1939), American landscape architect and founding member of the American
Society of Landscape Architects. The collection contains architectural plans for residential,
educational, recreational, and public works projects; professional correspondence;
transcripts of speeches and radio talks; client and project files; organizational
files; and committee reports. Organizational and client files include materials from
American Society of Landscape Architects, the Mayor's Committee on West Side Improvement,
the Long Island State Park Commission, the Hudson County Park System, the 1939 World's
Fair, Cornell University, and parks and schools in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut.
The collection also includes a small amount of landscape photography of completed
projects, including Bayonne Park and Columbus Park, as well as photocopies of architectural
plans. The collection includes numerous plans, drafts, and blueprints from the United
States Housing Corporation's industrial housing projects in New Brunswick (NJ), New
London (CT), Alton (IL), and Columbus (OH). The collection does not include architectural
plans or drawings related to the 1939 New York World's Fair.
Custodial History
The papers, organizational records, correspondence, photography, and a number of architectural
plans in this collection were donated to Cornell University by Smith College in 2004
after the papers were discovered in the Alice Pecknagel Ireys papers. Alice Ireys
was a landscape architect and a student of Lowrie who inherited a number of his clients
after his death in 1939. The bulk of the architectural plans in this collection were
donated to Cornell University by the Hudson County Parks System in 2016.
The papers, organizational records, correspondence, photography, and a number of architectural
plans in this collection were donated to Cornell University by Smith College in 2004
after the papers were discovered in the Alice Pecknagel Ireys papers. Alice Ireys
was a landscape architect and a student of Lowrie who inherited a number of his clients
after his death in 1939. The bulk of the architectural plans in this collection were
donated to Cornell University by the Hudson County Parks System in 2016.
Maps rolled in tubes may be fragile, care is reccomended when handling. Maps wrapped
in paper tubes are very fragile and require care when being handled. Many maps are
hand-drawn originals and can stain hands and fingers, be aware of possible transfer
when moving between materials.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Charles N. Lowrie Papers, #6611. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
University Library.
The following records contain materials regarding the United States Housing Corporation,
for which Lowire served as Town Planner in Alton, Il; New Brunswick, NJ; and New London,
CT:
Architectural and Engineering Plans; Records of the Town Planning Division; Records
of USHS Divisions and Related Units; United States Housing Corporation, Record Group
3; National Archives, Washington, D.C.
Architectural and Engineering Plans; Cartographic Records (General); United States
Housing Corporation, Record Group 3; National Archives, Washington, D.C.
The following collection contains additional correspondence between Charles L. Beach
and Charles N. Lowrie regarding Lowrie's work with the Connecticut Agricultural College:
#1988-0014 University of Connecticut, President's Office Records [Charles L. Beach
1908-1928]. Archives and Special Collections, University of Connecticut Library.
Names:
American Society of Landscape Architects
New York (N.Y.). Committee on West Side Improvement
Long Island State Park Commission
New York World's Fair (Location of meeting: New York, N.Y.). Date of meeting or treaty
signing: (1939-1940 :.)
Places:
Schenectady, New York
New Brunswick, New Jersey
New London, Connecticut, USA
Columbus, Ohio
New York City, New York
Subjects:
Parks -- New York (State) -- Planning.
Parks -- New Jersey -- Planning.
Schools -- New York (State)
Landscape architects.
Landscape architects
Landscape architecture -- United States.
City planners.
City planning
Housing--Connecticut.
Housing--New Jersey.
Form and Genre Terms:
Architectural
drawings.
CONTAINER LIST
Container
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Description
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Date
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Series I. General Files
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Box 1 | Folder 1 |
"Articles of and by Charles N. Lowrie"
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1897-1933 |
Scope and Contents
Includes index of contents.
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Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Correspondence
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1901-1935 |
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence signed by Helen Keller from the American Foundation for the
Blind.
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Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Office, 101 Park Avenue, Room 412
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1931-1939 |
Scope and Contents
Contains correspondence and financial records relating to Lowrie's renting of an office
in New York Cit for his architectural practice.
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Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Reccomendations
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1902-1926 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence from former colleagues and clients reccomending Lowrie for projects
and committees.
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Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Speaking
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1923-1926 |
Scope and Contents
Transcripts of radio talks on landscape design given by Lworie, a talk given by Lworie
at the annual meeting of the American Society of Civil Engineers, and a summary of
a talk given before the New York chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects.
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Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Publications
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1904-04-29-1933 |
Scope and Contents
Includes pamphlets, articles, and bulletins published by the Regional Plan Association,
Inc. of New York City. Also includes a copy of "The Training of a Landscape Architect"
by F. L. Olmstead.
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Box 2 | Folder 2 |
Newspapers
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1914-1922 |
Series II. Organization and Committee Files
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Scope and Contents
Meeting minutes, committee reports, pamphlets, and correspondence from professional
organizaions and public works committees Lowrie was a part of.
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Box 1 | Folder 7 |
General
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0909-04-06-1930-06-23 |
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence, materials created by the Central Park Association, the Central
Park Protection Committee, and the Architectural League of New York, and a pamphlet
from the Metropolitan Conference of City and State Park Authorities, February 1926.
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Box 1 | Folder 8 |
American Society of Landscape Architects
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1921-06-18-1935-02-23 |
Scope and Contents
Includes constitutions and by-laws, membership lists, and committees.
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Box 1 | Folder 9 |
ASLA Committee on Parks, New York Chapter
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1921-1934 |
Scope and Contents
Includes several talks by Gilmore D. Clark on the planning and protection of state
and city parks and statements written by ASLA to be published in newspapers.
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Box 1 | Folder 10 |
The Century Association
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1935 |
Box 1 | Folder 11 |
City Committee on Plan and Survey
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1926-06-17-1926-11-01 |
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence regarding Lowrie's appointment to the sub-committee on Parks
and Recreational Facilities of the City Committee on Plan and Survey.
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Box 1 | Folder 12 |
Committee on West Side Improvement
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1917 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and committee reports from the Fine Arts Federation of New York's Committee
on West Side Improvement.
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Box 1 | Folder 13 |
Long Island State Park Commission
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1926-1928 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and financial records regarding Lowrie's involvement in the Commission.
For parks designed by Lowrie as part of the Commission, see Long Island State Park
Commission folder in Clients and Project Files.
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Box 1 | Folder 14 |
Mayor's West Side Improvement Architects' Committee
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1927 |
Box 1 | Folder 15 |
NY State Fine Arts Commission
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1924-1925 |
Scope and Contents
Includes a recommendation from Henry W. Sackett to Governor Alfred Smith regarding
Lowire's work as a landscape architect for Cornell University.
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Box 1 | Folder 16 |
Park Association of New York City
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1927-1935 |
Scope and Contents
Includes pamphlet of the seventh annual report of the Park Association of New York
City and a clipping detailing the proposed restoration of Bryant Park.
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Series III. Client and Project Files
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Box 1 | Folder 17 |
Various client files
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1896-1939 |
Scope and Contents
Corespondence, committee reports, and cost estimates for various proposed projects.
Includes correspondence from Garret A. Hobart, Jr., the Stony Brook Association, the
Park Avenue Association, W.M Lawson, Lewis H. Bronson, and F.H. Bennett regarding
the Wheatsworth Mill in Hamburg, NJ.
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Box 1 | Folder 18 |
American Legion Monument, Glens Falls, NY
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1926 |
Box 1 | Folder 19 |
Ball, T. Arthur
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1923 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence to T. Arthur Ball regarding treatment of a terrace garden. Includes
descriptions of preliminary sketches by Lowrie. These preliminary sketches are not
[included] in the collection.
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Box 1 | Folder 20 |
Bayonne Junior High, Bayonne, NJ
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1924-1925 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence between Lowrie and the Bayonne Board of Education, cost estimates for
landsape work for Bayonne Junior High School, and a Bayonne Board of Education resolution
apponting Lowrie as Landscape Architect for Bayonne Junior High School. Includes a
pamphlet, "The Method of Practice and Charges" of the New York Chapter of ASLA.
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Box 1 | Folder 21 |
Boulevard Gardens Housing Project
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1933-12-21-1934-11-24 |
Scope and Contents
Contracts between the Boulevard Gardens Housing Corporation and Charles Lowrie for
his work on the Boulevard Gardens Housing Project. Includes photocopies of originals
plans drawn by Lowrie.
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Box 1 | Folder 22 |
Columbus, OH
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1904-1912 |
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence regarding the Columbus Country Club and Franklin Park.
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Box 1 | Folder 23 |
Connecticut Agricultural College
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1909-1910, 1922, 1927, 1932 |
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence from Charles L. Beach, President of the Connecticut Agricultural
College regarding the securing of the advice of a landscape architect for the layout
of the campus. Also includes correspondence regarding the proposed establishment of
the Ratcliff Hicks School of Agriculture.
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Box 1 | Folder 24 |
Cornell University
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1904-1921 |
Scope and Contents
Includes a a pamphlet, "A Report on the Campus and Grounds of Cornell University,"
authored by Lowrie and which includes maps of the campus of Cornell Univeristy in
1904.
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Box 1 | Folder 25 |
Edison Memorial Park, NJ
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1932-08-1-1933-03-11 |
Scope and Contents
Includes a report on and cost estimates for the Edison Memorial Park at Menlo Park,
New Jersey, authored by Lowire.
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Box 1 | Folder 26 |
Forrest Realty Co.
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1927 |
Scope and Contents
Sketches of planting plans for street islands at Stanbery Place, Bexley, Ohio.
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Box 1 | Folder 27 |
Fort Lee Housing Project, NJ
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1938-1-19-1939-10-15 |
Box 1 | Folder 28 |
Glassboro State Normal School, NJ
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1922-09-7-1927-05-10 |
Box 1 | Folder 29 |
Hudson County Park System, NJ
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1916-1931-10-19 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence regarding work on North Hudson Park and property around Bayonne Park,
cost estimates for work in 1923-1924, and a memorandum on the acquisition and development
of a park system for Hudson County. Includes a copy of a bulletin released by the
Regional Plan Association regarding park progress in the New York-New Jersey region.
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Box 1 | Folder 30 |
Hyde, F.D.
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1917-08-17-1918-05-13 |
Box 1 | Folder 31 |
Jersey City Schools
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1931-12-15 |
Scope and Contents
Reports on Specifications for Landscape Work for A. Harry Moore School and Henry Snyder
Junior High School in Jersey City, New Jersey.
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Box 1 | Folder 32 |
Lawrenceville School, NJ
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1925 |
Box 1 | Folder 33 |
Long Island State Park Commission
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1926-1928 |
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence, cost estimates, and plans for Hanse Park, Hempstead Park,
Jones Beach State Park, and Valley Stream Pond Park as part of the Long Island State
Park Commission
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Box 1 | Folder 34 |
Mount St. Dominic Academy, Caldwell, NJ
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1922 |
Scope and Contents
Plans for Mount St. Dominic Academy, an all-girls Catholic high school in Caldwell,
NJ.
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Box 1 | Folder 35 |
Merck & Company
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1928-08-1-1938-08-02 |
Scope and Contents
Bills for services rendered by Lowrie to Merck & Company. Includes a photograph of
the exterior of the Merck & Co. headquarters.
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Box 1 | Folder 36 |
New Britain Normal School, CT
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1921-11-15-1922-04-3 |
Box 1 | Folder 37 |
New Jersey School for the Deaf
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1922-08-22-1926-12-31 |
Box 1 | Folder 38 |
New York Association for the Blind
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1926 |
Scope and Contents
Includes report by Lowire on property proposed by the New York Association for the
Blind for a summer camp site.
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Box 1 | Folder 39 |
New York State Capitol Grounds
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1927 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence regarding the extension of the New York Capital building grounds in
Albany, New York. Includes map of Albany and Rensselaer and a postcard of the State
Capitol building.
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Box 1 | Folder 40 |
New York World's Fair, 1939
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1937-10-26 |
Scope and Contents
Agreement between Charles N. Lowrie and New York World's Fair 1939 Incorporated, Landscape
- Section 2.
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Box 1 | Folder 41 |
Oyster Bay Grade and High School, NY
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1928-06-18-1928-07-24 |
Scope and Contents
Report and cost estimates for the development of the Grade and High School grounds
and an advertisement accepting propoals for landscape inprovement of the Grade and
High School grounds. Includes photocopies of original plans drawn by Lowrie.
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Box 1 | Folder 42 |
Poor, Edmund W.
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1939-04-10 |
Scope and Contents
Alternate sketches for the garden of Edmund W. Poor, Bayshore, Long Island, New York.
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Box 1 | Folder 43 |
Riverside Park, Manhattan, NY
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1933 |
Scope and Contents
A survey and report on Riverside Park, Manhattan, NY.
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Box 1 | Folder 44 |
Roosevelt Memorial Park, Oyster Bay, NY
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1927-05-05-1929-11 |
Scope and Contents
Several plans and contacts for work performed for the Roosevelt Memorial Park, Oyster
Bay. Includes plans regarding filling and grading, dredging, the construction of a
timber bulkhead and a seawall, and for the laying of electric and telephone lines.
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Box 1 | Folder 45 |
Sandy Hoot State Park
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1933-1936 |
Scope and Contents
Memos, reports on the commission and development of Sandy Hook State Park.
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Box 1 | Folder 46 |
Schurman, G.W. and Schurman, Jacob Gould
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1930-1933 |
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence regarding planned landscape work on the property of Jacob
Gould Schurman.
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Box 1 | Folder 47 |
State Normal School, East Stroundsburg, PA
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1926-08-20-1926-08-21 |
Box 1 | Folder 48 |
Yale University
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1929-05-13-1931-06-18 |
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence from Beatrix Farrand, consulting landscape architect at Yale
University from 1923-1945, regarding work being considered for the Yale athletic fields.
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Series IV. Photography
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Box 1 | Folder 49 |
Bayonne Park, Bayonne, NJ
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Undated |
Scope and Contents
Landscape photography of Bayonne Park (now the Stephen R. Gregg Park) in Bayonne,
Hudson County, New Jersey. Includes photography by Alfred Tennyson Beals and Samuel
H. Gottscho.
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Box 1 | Folder 50 |
Columbus Park, Hoboken, NJ
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1911 |
Scope and Contents
Prints and negatives of Columbus Park in Hoboken, Hudson County, New Jersey.
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Box 1 | Folder 51 |
United States Housing Corporation projects
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1918-1919 |
Scope and Contents
Photocopies of plans for United States Housing Corporation projects in Alton, Ill;
New Brunswick, NJ; and New London, CT. Includes two original photos taken during and
after completion of construction on the New London site.
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Box 1 | Folder 52 |
Various projects
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Undated |
Scope and Contents
Photocopies of plans for W.M. Ritter, Crown Point Reservation, NJ, and the New Jersey
Naval Training and Industrial School for Colored Youth, Bordentown, NJ.
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Box 1 | Folder 53 |
Landscape photography
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Undated |
Scope and Contents
Includes photographs North Hudson Park and Lincoln Park, Hudson County, NJ; the E.F.
Hutton esate, "Hillwood," Brookville, NY; a photo of the New York City Botanical Gardens,
and untitled photography by Sameul H. Gottscho.
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Box 2 |
Roosevelt Memorial Park, Oyster Bay, NY
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1928 | |
Scope and Contents
Three particle boards of landscape photography of Roosevelt Memorial Park in Oyster
Bay, New York.
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Series V. Architectural Plans
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Scope and Contents
Plans for projects on which Lowire was employed as landscape architect.
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Subseries Va. Land and Private Residences
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Tube 1 |
Bates, A.J.
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Undated | |
Tube 2 |
Beaton, G.A. - Frelinghuysen, F.
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1895-1926 | |
Scope and Contents
Plans for the estates of G.A. Beaton, W.E. Becker, L.H. Bronson, J.J. Chew, R. Colgate,
M.J. Condon, R.N. Depew, C.B. Eddy, H. Fisk, and F. Frelinghuysen.
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Tube 3 |
Denman, W.F.l Hamill, J.L. and Hamill, S.M.
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1913 | |
Scope and Contents
Date only applies to the Denman plans. Hamill plans are undated.
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Tube 4 |
Ewing, T.; Faulkner, F.
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1911-1916 | |
Tube 5 |
Hathaway, C.; Howe, S.H.
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1898 | |
Scope and Contents
Date only applies to the Hathaway plans. Howe plans are undated.
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Tube 6 |
Hobart Manor
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1909-07-1918 | |
Scope and Contents
Plans for Hobart Manor, known alternatively as Halendon Hall and Ailsa Farms, for
Garret A. Hobart, Jr. and Jennie Tuttle Hobart, the family of 24th Vice President
of the United States Garret Hobart. Includes plans from W.L. Whitmore and J.W. Higgins,
Civil Engineers.
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Tube 7 |
Hyde, L.K.
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1912 | |
Tube 8 |
Klepstein, E.C. - Mead, S.F.
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1907-1919 | |
Scope and Contents
Plans for the estates of E.C. Klepstein, G.W. Lattimer, S.J. Leonard, T. Lindenerg,
C. Lindenberg, O.E. Lohrke, M. Mead and S.F. Mead. Also includes plan for the Mead
Cemetery, Lake Waccabuc.
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Tube 9 |
Lawson, W.M. and Lawson, S.J.
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Undated | |
Tube 10 |
Miller, C.J.S. - Osborne, E.B.
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1912-1919 | |
Scope and Contents
Plans for the estates of C.J.S. Miller, F.A. Miller, F.A. Moody, the Morris & Winthrop
estates, G. Merck, and E.B. Osborne.
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Tube 11 |
Peabody, G.A. - Spingarn, J.E.
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1895-1922 | |
Scope and Contents
Plans for the estates of G.A. Peabody, T.S. Ralston, G.W. Schurman, G.M. Sidenburg,
E. Smith, H.A. Smith, H.K. Smith, and J.E. Springarn.
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Tube 12 |
Ritter, W.M. and Ritter, G.D.
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1906-1917 | |
Scope and Contents
Plans for the estates of William M. and Gertrude D. Ritter in Columbus, Ohio, and
Manchester, Vermont. Inlcudes plans for a tea house on the Columbus property.
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Tube 13 |
Rothschild, S.F.
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1905 | |
Scope and Contents
Plans for the Bayshore, NY estate of Simon F. Rothschild, American merchant and philanthropist.
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Tube 14 |
Sibley, E.N.; VanderBeek, F.I. - Warden, W.G.
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1897-1921 | |
Scope and Contents
Plans for the estates of E.N. Sibley, F.I. VanderBeek, H.W. Walker, and W.G. Warden.
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Tube 15 |
Weeks, J.A. - Woolverton, W.H.
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1909-1926-10 | |
Scope and Contents
Plans for the estates of J.A. Weeks, C.C. Whitcomb, R.T. Wolfe, W.H. Woolverton, J.T.
Williams, and C. Witbeck.
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Mapcase Folder 4 |
Various private works
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1909-1919 | |
Scope and Contents
Estate maps for Louis H. Bronson, H.D. Buell, Chester J. Hunt, and S.J. Leonard. Also
includes two blueprints of New Brunswick, New Jersey, a planting map for Franklin
Park, Colombus, Ohio, and a map of the Mount Hermon Boys School, Greenfield, Massachusetts.
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Subseries Vb. City Planning, Parks, Schools
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Tube 16 |
Connecticut
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1895-1923 | |
Scope and Contents
Plans for Pope Manufacturing, Hartford (1895); Beaver Hills Co, New Haven (1910);
and the New Britain Normal School (1922-1923).
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Tube 17 |
Connecticut - City planning
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1918-1920 | |
Scope and Contents
Plans for Groton (1918); New London industrial housing project (1918-1919); and Greenwich
Township (1920).
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Tube 18 |
Illinois - Alton
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1918-1919 | |
Scope and Contents
General and topographic maps of the area, street and site plans, grading and planting
plans, sewer and water supply plans, street profiles, property maps of the Alton industrial
housing development, a project of the United States Housing Corporation for which
Lowrie served as town planner.
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Tube 19 |
Massachusetts
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1895-1907 | |
Scope and Contents
Includes plans for Preston Pond, Winchester (1895); the Home for Aged Women, Worcester
(1896); Mount Hermon School (1907); Leister Commons, Worcester; and Worcester Polytechnic
Institute.
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Tube 20 |
New Jersey
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1911-1916 | |
Scope and Contents
Plans for Llewellyn Park, Orange (1911); Big Brother Farm, Stockton (1912); Newark
Bay (1914); and Bayonne Park (1917).
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Tube 21 |
New Jersey - New Brunswick, 1 of 5
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1918-1919 | |
Scope and Contents
General and topographic maps of the area, street and site plans, grading and planting
plans, sewer and water supply plans, street profiles, property maps of the New Brunswick
industrial housing development, a project of the United States Housing Corporation
for which Lowrie served as town planner. Predominantly contains blueprints.
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Tube 22 |
New Jersey - New Brunswick, 2 of 5
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1918-1919 | |
Scope and Contents
General and topographic maps of the area, street and site plans, grading and planting
plans, sewer and water supply plans, street profiles, property maps of the New Brunswick
industrial housing development, a project of the United States Housing Corporation
for which Lowrie served as town planner.
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Tube 23 |
New Jersey - New Brunswick, 3 of 5
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1918-1919 | |
Scope and Contents
General and topographic maps of the area, street and site plans, grading and planting
plans, sewer and water supply plans, street profiles, property maps of the New Brunswick
industrial housing development, a project of the United States Housing Corporation
for which Lowrie served as town planner.
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Tube 24 |
New Jersey - New Brunswick, 4 of 5
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1918-1919 | |
Scope and Contents
General and topographic maps of the area, street and site plans, grading and planting
plans, sewer and water supply plans, street profiles, property maps of the New Brunswick
industrial housing development, a project of the United States Housing Corporation
for which Lowrie served as town planner.
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Tube 25 |
New Jersey - New Brunswick, 5 of 5
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1918 | |
Scope and Contents
Plan for Riverside Park as part of the New Brunswick industrial housing project.
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Tube 26 |
New Jersey - New Brunswick - Buccleuch Park
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1912-1913 | |
Tube 27 |
New Jersey Normal Schools, 1 of 2
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1915-1916 | |
Scope and Contents
Plans for the State Normal Schools of Montclair and Glassboro. Predominantly contains
plans for the State Normal School at Montclair.
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Tube 28 |
New Jersey Normal Schools, 2 of 2
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1915-1916 | |
Scope and Contents
Plans for the State Normal Schools of Montclair and Glassboro.
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Tube 29 |
New Jersey School for the Deaf
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1923-1925 | |
Scope and Contents
Plans for the New Jersey School for the Deaf, Trenton, NJ.
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Tube 30 |
New York City, New York; Alton, Ill.
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1902-1922 | |
Scope and Contents
Plans for Edgar Allen Poe Park and Ft. Washington Park, NYC. Includes a plan for Alton
industrial housing project, Illinois.
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Tube 31 |
New York State Parks
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1908-1909 | |
Scope and Contents
Includes plans for Fire Island State Park and Stony Brook State Park.
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Tube 32 |
New York - Schenectady
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1906-1922 | |
Scope and Contents
Predominantly contains plans for Ellis Hospital (1906) and Schenectady Realty Co.
(1911); includes plans for Garrison, NY (1899) and Amenia, NY (1922).
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Tube 33 |
New York - Schenectady - Mohawk Golf Club
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1904-1911 | |
Tube 34 |
New York - Schenectady - Ravine Park
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Undated | |
Tube 35 |
New York - Upstate
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1906-1915 | |
Scope and Contents
Plans for Peekskill Military Academy (1906); Lake Waccabuc (1906, 1910); Briarcliff
Lodge (1910); and Falls Creek and Cascadillia Glen gorges in Ithaca (1915).
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Tube 36 |
Ohio
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1908-1919 | |
Scope and Contents
Plans for Massilon Cemetery, Massilon; Stanbery Place, Bexley, OH; water purification
plans for the Columbus Plan Commision and plans for Commonwealth Park, Columbus.
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Tube 37 |
Ohio - Columbus
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1909-1919 | |
Scope and Contents
Plans for the Columbus Plan Commission.
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Tube 38 |
Pennsylvania, 1 of 2
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1898-1911-02 | |
Scope and Contents
Plans for streets in Philadephia (1898), German Reform Cemetery, Easton (1901), and
Blair Memorial Hospital, Huntingdon (1911).
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Tube 39 |
Pennsylvania, 2 of 2
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1898-1906 | |
Scope and Contents
Plans for Franklin (1898); and The River Common, Wilkes-Barre (1096).
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Tube 40 |
Pennsylvania Masonic Home, 1 of 2
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1910-1912 | |
Scope and Contents
Plans for the Pennsylvania Masonic Home, a retirement community in Elizabethtown,
Lancaster County, PA.
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Tube 41 |
Pennsylvania Masonic Home, 2 of 2
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1910-1912 | |
Scope and Contents
Plans for the Pennsylvania Masonic Home, a retirement community in Elizabethtown,
Lancaster County, PA.
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Mapcase Folder 5 |
Various public works
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1895-1926 | |
Scope and Contents
Plans and blueprints for Bexley, Ohio; New Brunswick, New Jersey; the New Jersey School
for the Deaf, Trenton, New Jersey; Princeton Seminary, Princeton, New Jersey; Passaic
General Hospital, Passaic, New Jersey, and plans for the Mohwak Golf Club and Ellis
Hospital in Schenectady, New York.
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Box 2 | Folder 1 |
Various public and private works
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1857-1938 |
Scope and Contents
Includes plans, blueprints, planting lists, and design sketches for schools, industrial
housing developments, private estates, and parks in Connecticut, New York, New Jersey,
and Pennsylvania. Also inlcudes a page from The American Architect regarding the design
of Hudson County Park, Hoboken, NJ.
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Mapcase Folder 1 |
Various public and private works
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1899-1925 | |
Scope and Contents
Includes plans for Columbus, OH, and New York and New Jersey parks. Also includes
plans for the estate of G.W. Schurman.
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Mapcase Folder 2 |
Various public and private works
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1908-1925 | |
Scope and Contents
Includes mock-up of entrance to Massilon Cemetery, Massilon, OH; mock-up of pillars
for Resivoir Park, Jersey City, NJ.
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Mapcase Folder 3 |
Various public and private works
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1909-1933 | |
Scope and Contents
Includes plans for East Hampton, Long Island; North Hudson, NJ; Edison Memorial Park,
NJ; Lawrenceville School, NJ, and the estate of T. Arthur Ball.
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Tube 42 |
Unidentified works
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Undated | |
Scope and Contents
Plans and drawings that do not contain labels identifiying project, date, client,
or primary architect.
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Tube 43 |
Various works by others
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Undated | |
Scope and Contents
Plans and drawings that are verifiably not Lowrie's work or part of projects that
Lowrie was connected with. Inlcudes sketches of St. Bernard's Cemetery created by
landscape architect Daniel W. Langton, fellow founding member of ASLA.
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