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.

Biographical / Historical

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.

Scope and content

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.
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.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

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

Preferred Citation

Charles N. Lowrie Papers, #6611. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

Related Materials

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.

SUBJECTS

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
Description
Date
Series I. General Files
Box 1 Folder 1
"Articles of and by Charles N. Lowrie"
1897-1933
Scope and Contents
Includes index of contents.
Box 1 Folder 2
Correspondence
1901-1935
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence signed by Helen Keller from the American Foundation for the Blind.
Box 1 Folder 3
Office, 101 Park Avenue, Room 412
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.
Box 1 Folder 4
Reccomendations
1902-1926
Scope and Contents
Correspondence from former colleagues and clients reccomending Lowrie for projects and committees.
Box 1 Folder 5
Speaking
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.
Box 1 Folder 6
Publications
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.
Box 2 Folder 2
Newspapers
1914-1922
Series II. Organization and Committee Files
Scope and Contents
Meeting minutes, committee reports, pamphlets, and correspondence from professional organizaions and public works committees Lowrie was a part of.
Box 1 Folder 7
General
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.
Box 1 Folder 8
American Society of Landscape Architects
1921-06-18-1935-02-23
Scope and Contents
Includes constitutions and by-laws, membership lists, and committees.
Box 1 Folder 9
ASLA Committee on Parks, New York Chapter
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.
Box 1 Folder 10
The Century Association
1935
Box 1 Folder 11
City Committee on Plan and Survey
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.
Box 1 Folder 12
Committee on West Side Improvement
1917
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and committee reports from the Fine Arts Federation of New York's Committee on West Side Improvement.
Box 1 Folder 13
Long Island State Park Commission
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.
Box 1 Folder 14
Mayor's West Side Improvement Architects' Committee
1927
Box 1 Folder 15
NY State Fine Arts Commission
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.
Box 1 Folder 16
Park Association of New York City
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.
Series III. Client and Project Files
Box 1 Folder 17
Various client files
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.
Box 1 Folder 18
American Legion Monument, Glens Falls, NY
1926
Box 1 Folder 19
Ball, T. Arthur
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.
Box 1 Folder 20
Bayonne Junior High, Bayonne, NJ
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.
Box 1 Folder 21
Boulevard Gardens Housing Project
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.
Box 1 Folder 22
Columbus, OH
1904-1912
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence regarding the Columbus Country Club and Franklin Park.
Box 1 Folder 23
Connecticut Agricultural College
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.
Box 1 Folder 24
Cornell University
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.
Box 1 Folder 25
Edison Memorial Park, NJ
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.
Box 1 Folder 26
Forrest Realty Co.
1927
Scope and Contents
Sketches of planting plans for street islands at Stanbery Place, Bexley, Ohio.
Box 1 Folder 27
Fort Lee Housing Project, NJ
1938-1-19-1939-10-15
Box 1 Folder 28
Glassboro State Normal School, NJ
1922-09-7-1927-05-10
Box 1 Folder 29
Hudson County Park System, NJ
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.
Box 1 Folder 30
Hyde, F.D.
1917-08-17-1918-05-13
Box 1 Folder 31
Jersey City Schools
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.
Box 1 Folder 32
Lawrenceville School, NJ
1925
Box 1 Folder 33
Long Island State Park Commission
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
Box 1 Folder 34
Mount St. Dominic Academy, Caldwell, NJ
1922
Scope and Contents
Plans for Mount St. Dominic Academy, an all-girls Catholic high school in Caldwell, NJ.
Box 1 Folder 35
Merck & Company
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.
Box 1 Folder 36
New Britain Normal School, CT
1921-11-15-1922-04-3
Box 1 Folder 37
New Jersey School for the Deaf
1922-08-22-1926-12-31
Box 1 Folder 38
New York Association for the Blind
1926
Scope and Contents
Includes report by Lowire on property proposed by the New York Association for the Blind for a summer camp site.
Box 1 Folder 39
New York State Capitol Grounds
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.
Box 1 Folder 40
New York World's Fair, 1939
1937-10-26
Scope and Contents
Agreement between Charles N. Lowrie and New York World's Fair 1939 Incorporated, Landscape - Section 2.
Box 1 Folder 41
Oyster Bay Grade and High School, NY
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.
Box 1 Folder 42
Poor, Edmund W.
1939-04-10
Scope and Contents
Alternate sketches for the garden of Edmund W. Poor, Bayshore, Long Island, New York.
Box 1 Folder 43
Riverside Park, Manhattan, NY
1933
Scope and Contents
A survey and report on Riverside Park, Manhattan, NY.
Box 1 Folder 44
Roosevelt Memorial Park, Oyster Bay, NY
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.
Box 1 Folder 45
Sandy Hoot State Park
1933-1936
Scope and Contents
Memos, reports on the commission and development of Sandy Hook State Park.
Box 1 Folder 46
Schurman, G.W. and Schurman, Jacob Gould
1930-1933
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence regarding planned landscape work on the property of Jacob Gould Schurman.
Box 1 Folder 47
State Normal School, East Stroundsburg, PA
1926-08-20-1926-08-21
Box 1 Folder 48
Yale University
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.
Series IV. Photography
Box 1 Folder 49
Bayonne Park, Bayonne, NJ
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.
Box 1 Folder 50
Columbus Park, Hoboken, NJ
1911
Scope and Contents
Prints and negatives of Columbus Park in Hoboken, Hudson County, New Jersey.
Box 1 Folder 51
United States Housing Corporation projects
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.
Box 1 Folder 52
Various projects
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.
Box 1 Folder 53
Landscape photography
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.
Box 2
Roosevelt Memorial Park, Oyster Bay, NY
1928
Scope and Contents
Three particle boards of landscape photography of Roosevelt Memorial Park in Oyster Bay, New York.
Series V. Architectural Plans
Scope and Contents
Plans for projects on which Lowire was employed as landscape architect.
Subseries Va. Land and Private Residences
Tube 1
Bates, A.J.
Undated
Tube 2
Beaton, G.A. - Frelinghuysen, F.
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.
Tube 3
Denman, W.F.l Hamill, J.L. and Hamill, S.M.
1913
Scope and Contents
Date only applies to the Denman plans. Hamill plans are undated.
Tube 4
Ewing, T.; Faulkner, F.
1911-1916
Tube 5
Hathaway, C.; Howe, S.H.
1898
Scope and Contents
Date only applies to the Hathaway plans. Howe plans are undated.
Tube 6
Hobart Manor
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.
Tube 7
Hyde, L.K.
1912
Tube 8
Klepstein, E.C. - Mead, S.F.
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.
Tube 9
Lawson, W.M. and Lawson, S.J.
Undated
Tube 10
Miller, C.J.S. - Osborne, E.B.
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.
Tube 11
Peabody, G.A. - Spingarn, J.E.
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.
Tube 12
Ritter, W.M. and Ritter, G.D.
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.
Tube 13
Rothschild, S.F.
1905
Scope and Contents
Plans for the Bayshore, NY estate of Simon F. Rothschild, American merchant and philanthropist.
Tube 14
Sibley, E.N.; VanderBeek, F.I. - Warden, W.G.
1897-1921
Scope and Contents
Plans for the estates of E.N. Sibley, F.I. VanderBeek, H.W. Walker, and W.G. Warden.
Tube 15
Weeks, J.A. - Woolverton, W.H.
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.
Mapcase Folder 4
Various private works
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.
Subseries Vb. City Planning, Parks, Schools
Tube 16
Connecticut
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).
Tube 17
Connecticut - City planning
1918-1920
Scope and Contents
Plans for Groton (1918); New London industrial housing project (1918-1919); and Greenwich Township (1920).
Tube 18
Illinois - Alton
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.
Tube 19
Massachusetts
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.
Tube 20
New Jersey
1911-1916
Scope and Contents
Plans for Llewellyn Park, Orange (1911); Big Brother Farm, Stockton (1912); Newark Bay (1914); and Bayonne Park (1917).
Tube 21
New Jersey - New Brunswick, 1 of 5
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.
Tube 22
New Jersey - New Brunswick, 2 of 5
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.
Tube 23
New Jersey - New Brunswick, 3 of 5
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.
Tube 24
New Jersey - New Brunswick, 4 of 5
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.
Tube 25
New Jersey - New Brunswick, 5 of 5
1918
Scope and Contents
Plan for Riverside Park as part of the New Brunswick industrial housing project.
Tube 26
New Jersey - New Brunswick - Buccleuch Park
1912-1913
Tube 27
New Jersey Normal Schools, 1 of 2
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.
Tube 28
New Jersey Normal Schools, 2 of 2
1915-1916
Scope and Contents
Plans for the State Normal Schools of Montclair and Glassboro.
Tube 29
New Jersey School for the Deaf
1923-1925
Scope and Contents
Plans for the New Jersey School for the Deaf, Trenton, NJ.
Tube 30
New York City, New York; Alton, Ill.
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.
Tube 31
New York State Parks
1908-1909
Scope and Contents
Includes plans for Fire Island State Park and Stony Brook State Park.
Tube 32
New York - Schenectady
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).
Tube 33
New York - Schenectady - Mohawk Golf Club
1904-1911
Tube 34
New York - Schenectady - Ravine Park
Undated
Tube 35
New York - Upstate
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).
Tube 36
Ohio
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.
Tube 37
Ohio - Columbus
1909-1919
Scope and Contents
Plans for the Columbus Plan Commission.
Tube 38
Pennsylvania, 1 of 2
1898-1911-02
Scope and Contents
Plans for streets in Philadephia (1898), German Reform Cemetery, Easton (1901), and Blair Memorial Hospital, Huntingdon (1911).
Tube 39
Pennsylvania, 2 of 2
1898-1906
Scope and Contents
Plans for Franklin (1898); and The River Common, Wilkes-Barre (1096).
Tube 40
Pennsylvania Masonic Home, 1 of 2
1910-1912
Scope and Contents
Plans for the Pennsylvania Masonic Home, a retirement community in Elizabethtown, Lancaster County, PA.
Tube 41
Pennsylvania Masonic Home, 2 of 2
1910-1912
Scope and Contents
Plans for the Pennsylvania Masonic Home, a retirement community in Elizabethtown, Lancaster County, PA.
Mapcase Folder 5
Various public works
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.
Box 2 Folder 1
Various public and private works
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.
Mapcase Folder 1
Various public and private works
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.
Mapcase Folder 2
Various public and private works
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.
Mapcase Folder 3
Various public and private works
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.
Tube 42
Unidentified works
Undated
Scope and Contents
Plans and drawings that do not contain labels identifiying project, date, client, or primary architect.
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Various works by others
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.