Henry Bond Raymore architectural drawings, [ca. 1920-1980]
Collection Number: 4443

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library


DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Henry Bond Raymore architectural drawings, [ca. 1920-1980]
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
4443
Abstract:
Architectural drawings.
Creator:
Raymore, Henry Bond, 1895-
Quanitities:
3 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Architect and author, 1895-1984.
Raymore worked on Long Island and southern Connecticut. Cornell University Class of 1916.

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Architectural drawings.

INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:

Henry Bond Raymore architectural drawings, #4443. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

SUBJECTS

Subjects:
Architects.
Architecture -- New York (State) -- Long Island.
Architecture -- Connecticut.
Form and Genre Terms:
Architectural drawings.

CONTAINER LIST
Container
Description
Date
Scope and Contents
All the material in the collection may not be covered by this guide.
Box 1
Mr and Mrs Samuel Wunsch, Westland Drive, East Island, Glen Cove, New York
1947
Scope and Contents
Ortloff and Raymore were contacted by Mrs Wunsch after she purchased Color and Succession of Bloom in the Flower Border (1935) at Macy's and wanted them to advise her on the new house she and her husband proposed to build. They'd previously commissioned architectural plans from Percival Goodman, an architect known for ecclesiastical buildings. Raymore submitted preliminary plans for an explicitly Colonial Revival house with a columned portico and rear porch, and a hexagonal chapel. Seven pencil on trace paper drawings of the project are in the manuscript collection at Cornell. A final version dated April 1947 is also in the collection and consists of eleven sheets, pencil on white trace paper. The house footprint is 70'-10" by 58'-4" and drawings depict a two-story stone-faced house with a maid's room on the first floor. There is no second floor plan in the Cornell collection. Detail sheets include elevations of the hall closet cabinetry. The house was faced with White Chelmsford granite. Raymore described the style as "early Fran Lloyd Wright" in Mrs. Wunsch's words. She claims there was never a disagreement over the design and she designed the house kitchen. Mrs Wunsch was interviewed on October 11, 2007 and is still living in the house at age 96. She stated that she and her husband never had a written contract with Ortloff and Raymore, and they became close friends. She and her husband visited them frequently at Apple Green and in Arlington, Vermont, where she said Ortloff was involved with the Manchester museum and the Arlington Library. She stated the library designed by Raymore for Apple Green reminded her of the room with little doors in Der Rosenkavalier, and they had a shared interest in music. She recalls Ortloff and Raymore as great Anglophiles and travelers. Mrs Wunsch said the Ortloff-designed garden was "typically English," with herbaceous borders and an open hexagional exedra that was later covered. The garden was constructed by a local landscape contractor, Barnie Tessone, who died quite suddenly of leukemia, and built several projects for Ortloff and Raymore. The house is situated on a dramatic waterfront site facing Long Island Sound, with views to the Bronx and Westchester County.
Box 1
Myers Park Methodist Church, Providence Road, Charlotte, North Carolina
1953-01
Scope and Contents
Two sheets, pencil on trace, attributed to Ortloff and Raymore. The drawings show a site plan with no planting indicated, and pavement and stone pier details.
Box 1
Dr. H.B. Baruch, Huntington, New York
1929-02-1931-03
Scope and Contents
Alterations to the house at Marobar Kennels. Six sheets, pencil on trace. The Colonial Revival house of two stories contains two bedrooms, two "Man's Rooms" downstairs, a front portico and basement. Removals and additions are indicated. The roll also contains a set of seven
Box 3
???
date unknown
Scope and Contents
….....to the beach, bounded by "native trees and shrubs." There was a "cook out place" and a covered seat, and a hedge along the road frontage.
Box 3
Mr and Mrs T. J. Norman, Queens Road, Charlotte, North Carolina
1963-11
Scope and Contents
Entrance Court Plan and Pier Details, pencil on vellum by Ortloff and Raymore. Arlington, Vermont. The garden plan was numbered, but not labeled and featured a circular paved area in a lawn, with a curved border backed by shrubs. The large house was designed by M. E. Boyer, Architect, Charlott, N. C.
Box 3
Mr and Mrs Walter Gordon, 22 Chestnut Park Road, Toronto, Ontario
1967-01
Scope and Contents
Three sheets, pencil on vellum, numbered, but not labeled. The drawings included a site plan, a plan for the rear garden, and various garden structures - walls, fence, and gate.
Box 3
Unidentified Study for Landscape Development
1964-05-25
Scope and Contents
Architectural plans by Hugh Hardy, dated April 17, 1964, revised April 24, 1967 are also unidentified. An enclosed survey is labeled "Dobell" on the edge. Another survey by McRostie, Maclean and Fairhall Surveyors. Ottawa identifies parcel 4175, part of Lots 65 and 66, registered plan M-92, land Titles Office, Ottawa. dated February 5, 1967
Box 3
Fairview Hospital, West Avenue and South Street, Great Barrington, Massachusetts
1966-01
Scope and Contents
Three sheets (Planting and Landscape Construction) and a planting list by Ortloff and Raymore, Arlington Vermont.
Box 3
Residence for Mr and Mrs Corinno DeLaura, Port Washington, New York
1947-08
Scope and Contents
Eight sheets, pencil on trace by Henry B. Raymore, architect. The two story home with a stone veneer featured three bedrooms upstairs and one bedroom downstairs, with a dormer on the front façade and two dormers on the rear façade and a clapboard garage wing. No site plan.
Box 3
Mr and Mrs Richard C. Cotter, Little Neck, Centerport, New York, revisions 2/27/46; 3/7/46 and 7/3/46
1946-02
Scope and Contents
Six sheets pencil on vellum by Henry B. Raymore, Architect, and one sheet pencil on trace showing the columned entry portico. Other views feature the east elevation, with a loggia to the south, and a north elevation with a bay window. The west elevation showed a columned portico over the front door with a Palladian window above. No site plan.
Box 3
Mr and Mrs E. P. Snyder, Jr., Bellport, New York
1946-03
Scope and Contents
Six sheets pencil on vellum by Henry B. Raymore, Architect. No site plan.
Box 3
Arlington Elementary School, Arlington, Vermont
1958-08-21
Scope and Contents
Two sheets, pencil on vellum. "Henry J. Teas" cut out of the title box and Ortloff and Raymore, Huntington, New York taped in. Planting list taped to the back of the planting plan. Numbered 58-15. A general Landscape Plan is dated 5/26/58
Box 3
Mr. Lynn A. Williams, Evanston, Illinois
1936-05
Scope and Contents
Landscape Development Near House, pencil on trace by Ortloff and Raymore.
Box 3
Mr and Mrs John W. Field, Jr. Fairfield, Connecticut
1961-10-30-1961-12-28
Scope and Contents
Pool House, Henry B. Raymore. Garden Plan - Copy of Original (author unknown), dated 4/12/60. Garden Plan - Revised by Henry B. Raymour for Howard J. Teas, Engineers, dated 11/1/61. The plan showed a pool on axis with the house and a pool house on a cross axis, a spring walk, and a rose garden. The plan sounds similar to the garden design by Ortloff and Raymour for Mr and Mrs Mather Whitehead, also in Fairfield, from a few years earlier. The earlier plan dated 4/18/61 had a pool on axis with the house and a decorative rectangular pool at a cross axis.
Box 3
Unidentified Garden Planting Plan (Ortloff and Raymour)
1956-02
Box 3
Preparatory drawings for "The Book of Landscape Design"
date unknown
Scope and Contents
All drawings are pencil on vellum labeled "Howard J. Teas" - with orange crayon editor's notes. Poor composition. Good Composition; Two corner planting plans and perspective with notes. Private Area plan with notes. Two catch basin elevations with notes. Garden termination (Traditional) with notes. Garden House Used As a Focal Point in an Informal Scheme. Garden House Used As a Focal point in a Formal Scheme. Two Paving details. Informal Garden Pool. Pierced Brick Wall, Concrete Block Screen Wall (ink on heavy bond paper). Traditional Fenced Dooryard - perspective drawing. Plan and Elevation of Pool. Foreground Area. Three vignettes - Development of a Landscape Plan. Foundation Plantings - four vignettes - Modern, Traditional, Ranch, Split Level. Swimming Pool as a Focal Point in a Garden Scheme (Whitehead residence)
Box 4
Mr and Mrs Noel Sargent, Chatham Center, New York
1942-01
Scope and Contents
Alterations to Residence, Henry B. Raymore, Architect. Four sheets, pencil on trace.
Box 4
Three unidentified drawings of a kennel, hatchery, garage, and fowl barn.
date unknown
Scope and Contents
(Baruch?) South Court Elevation, Plan, and East Elevation.
Box 4
Mr and Mrs P. A. Janosick, Deer Park Road, Huntington, New York
1954-05
Scope and Contents
A simple colonial revival house by Henry B. Raymour, Architect. Revised 6/11/54
Box 5
???
1954-04
Scope and Contents
Pool House - almost the same as the preceding drawing
Box 6
A house on Burr's Lane
date unknown
Scope and Contents
Unidentified pink diazo prints of the Whitehead residence, renovated by Fairfield.
Box 6
Miss Julia Lois Muirhead, Coram , Long Island
1929-07
Scope and Contents
One story Cape Cod cottage with an attached one-car garage and a covered side porch. Pencil on trace by Henry B. Raymore, Architect.
Box 6
Life Camps, Inc. Mashipacong, New Jersey
1929-03-1929-04
Scope and Contents
Dining Hall - Eight sheets of a rustic log and stone structure by Henry B. Raymore, Architect
Box 6
Mr and Mrs Bernard Pollen, Glen Head, New York
1955-10
Scope and Contents
Preliminary Landscape Plan by Ortloff and Raymore. Pencil on vellum.
Box 6
Mrs Ralph Peters, Glen Head, New York
1940-07
Scope and Contents
Base for a Lead Statue by Ortloff and Raymore. Pencil on trace. Roll of drawings. # 4443 - Garden Benches for Mrs Ralph Peters. Three undated drawings, pencil on trace.
Box 6
Mr and Mrs Vitis Miklik, Huntington Station, New York
1954-08
Scope and Contents
A small one-story ranch house by Henry B. Raymore, Architect.
Box 6
First Church of Christ Scientist, 55 Laurel Avenue, Northport, New York
1947-08
Scope and Contents
General Landscape Plan by Ortloff and Raymore.
Box 6
Clinton H. Wolcott, 64 West Islip Road, Babylon, New York
1948-09
Scope and Contents
General Planting Plan by Ortloff and Raymore, pencil on trace. Detail Planting Plan. General Landscape Plan.
Box 6
O. E. McIntyre, Inc., Hicksville, New York
1946-07-1954-03
Scope and Contents
Private Office for Mr. McIntyre by Henry B. Raymore. Architect. Two sheets. Elevations of paneling, revised July 1954. Roll of drawings # 4443 - Alterations to Cottage, Huntington, New York by Henry B. Raymore, Architect dated July 1945, pencil on trace. Landscape Plan for Swimming Pool Area by Ortloff and Raymore. dated July 1946. 1/4" = 1". Steps to swimming pool, dated July 1946, 1" = 1'.
Box 6
Mr and Mrs James M. Herrmann, Half Hollow Road, Huntington, New York
1953-03
Scope and Contents
Henry B. Raymore, Architect. The Herrmanns may have been neighbors of Ortloff and Raymore on Half Hollow Road, though a street number isn't given.
Box 6
???
1966-04-1969-10
Scope and Contents
Construction Plan for Utility Building and Terraces, 1, 2 of 2, dated April 1966 by Ortloff and Raymore, Henry B. Raymore, Architect. Details for Garden Pool and Entrance Gates, pencil on trace dated December 1966. Details for Garden Pool and Entrance gates, diazo print dated December 1966. Planting Plan for Flower Garden, pencil on trace dated October 1969 1/4" = 1'. Planting Plan for Flower Garden, diazo print dated October 1969.
Box 6
Mr and Mrs M. F. Tiernan, Asharoken Beach, New York
1937-08-1937-09
Scope and Contents
A House for Mr and Mrs Tierman, Dwg. 4 by Henry B. Raymore, Architect. Dated August 1937. revised August 26, 1937 and September 6, 1937. Second Floor Plan, Dwg. 3 dated August 1937, revised August 26, 1937 and September 6, 1937. Elevations and Sections, Dwg. 7, dated August 1937, revised August 26, 1937 and September 6, 1937.
Box 6
Mr and Mrs Thomas M. Belk, Lemon Tree Lane, Charlotte, North Carolina
1970-04
Scope and Contents
General Landscape Plan, dated August 1968, revised February 11, 1969 and February 21, 1969. General Landscape Plan for Rear Portion of Property, as revised April 19, 1970 by Ortloff and Raymore, Arlington, Vermont Pencil on vellum. The drawing was dated shortly after Ortloff's death. William Ray Wallace, Winston-Salem, N.C. was the architect. A survey plan was also included, with notes by Mrs Belk, written in green ink. "Mr Ortloff this is a tentative plan - I want friends to use front door - maintenance free or green garden - azaleas, etc. in wooded area - cutting and vegetable garden in field behind service court - screening on far side and probably wall on side that is already built. I do like "to garden"
Box 6
Mr and Mrs Robert Kinzel, Wilton, Connecticut
1946-09-1948-03
Scope and Contents
General Landscape Plan by Ortloff and Raymore, pencil on trace, 1/8" = 1'. Dated September 1948. Planting Plan, 1/8" = 1', dated March 1948.
Box 6
Mr and Mrs Joseph Johnson, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
1953-02-1953-05
Scope and Contents
General Landscape Plan, pencil on trace, 1/8" = 1', dated February 1953. Planting Plan, 1/8" = 1', dated May 1953
Box 6
Two unidentified and undated drawings for an arched Peacock Gate and a Double Drive Gate
date unknown
Scope and Contents
Street elevation, pencil on trace.
Box 6
The President's Garden, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut
1928-10
Scope and Contents
Garden Gate, pencil on trace, 1" = 1' by Ortloff and Raymore, 51 East 42nd Street, New York, N.Y. The firm had offices in the Grand Central area from 1924 until the late 1920's when the office moved to Huntington, possibly a response to the economic climate.
Box 6
Horn-in-the-West, Boone, North Carolina
1955-08
Scope and Contents
Museum Garden by Ortloff and Raymore, pencil on vellum, 1" = 20'. Museum Garden, 1" = 10'
Box 6
Mrs Frank Howe, Pinehurst, North Carolina
1956-04
Scope and Contents
Flower Garden by Ortloff and Raymore, pencil on trace, 1/4" = 1'.
Box 6
Mr and Mrs Nelson M. Davis, 141 Riverview Drive, Toronto, Ontario
1965-07-1967-09
Scope and Contents
General Landscape Plan by Ortloff and Raymore, Arlington, Vermont, dated July 1965, revised August 1965 September, 1965, April 1967. Pencil on vellum, cut in two pieces, 1/8" = 1'. Garden Walls and steps, dated September 1965, 1/4" - 1' and 1" = 1'. Garden Pool and Wall Fountain, dated September 1965, 1" - 1'. Design for Garden gates, dated April 1967, 3" = 1'. Design for Rose Garden, dated April 1967, pencil on trace, 1/8" = 1'. Garden Planting Plans, dated September 1967, 1/4" = 1'.
Box 6
Robert Baruch, Huntington, New York
1929-12-1930-01
Scope and Contents
Details - Vestibule by Henry B. Raymore, Architect, dated December 1929, pencil on trace. 1/2" = 1'. Fence for Robert Baruch House, dated January 1930.
Box 6
Mr Raymond E. Hartz, Bernardsville, New Jersey
1940-09-1940-12
Scope and Contents
Details for Drawing Room by Henry B. Raymore, Architect, dated September 1940, 1" = 1'. Working Details for Drawing Room, dated November 1940, revised December 17, 1940, 1/4" = 1' full size.
Box 6
Mr David Rosengarten, Hewlett, New York
1946-03
Scope and Contents
Wall and Step details by Ortloff and Raymore, Associated Landscape Architects with Mrs Seymour Ripin. Landscape Architect, Hewlett, N.Y.
Box 6
Trinity Presbyterian Church, Charlotte, North Carolina
1954-01
Scope and Contents
Three diazo prints by J. N. Pease and Co., Architects and Engineers. Charlotte, N.C. This may have been a project by Ortloff and Raymore, but no landscape plan is included in the archive.
Box 6
Mr. R. E. Lee, Scarsdale, New York
1937-09
Scope and Contents
Details of Garden Walls by Ortloff and Raymore.
Box 6
William T. Haskell, Esq., Port Washington, New York
1926-06
Scope and Contents
Garden Benches by Ortloff and Raymore, 30 East 42nd Street, New York, N.Y., pencil on buff trace. Garden Accessories.
Box 6
Howard Cook and J. Wm. Poole, Norwalk, Connecticut
1931-03-1936-07
Scope and Contents
Fireplace Details by Henry B. Raymore, Architect, dated March 1931, 1" - 1'. Garden Bench by Ortloff and Raymore, dated July 1936
Box 6
C. Wm. Hansen, Freeport, New York
1921-03
Scope and Contents
Full Size Detail for Lamp Post Cap, No. 2-M-21 by Raymore and Sammis, Freeport, N.Y.
Box 6
Unidentified site plan by Henry B. Raymore for Howard J. Teas
date unknown
Scope and Contents
Raymore worked for the Teas engineering firm in Hauppague, N.Y. from 1955 until the early 1960's. The plan is for a commercial or institutional building, but no location is included.