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Architect-designed houses

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:

Bruce & Morgan architectural specifications

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS877f
Scope and Content

This collection contains architectural specifications for the rebuilding of the Confederate Soldier's Home of Georgia in Atlanta. The plan was produced by the Bruce and Morgan Architectural Firm and sent to a building committee for approval.

Dates: 1902
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Bruce & Morgan architectural specifications

Knollwood estate contract

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS849f
Scope and Content

This collection contains two copies (the original and a photocopy) of the 1929 contract for Knollwood between William H. Kiser and Hentz, Adler & Shutze. The contract contains general conditions for a uniform contract of the American Institute of Architects as well as general specifications for the house, electrical, and plumbing.

Dates: 1929, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Knollwood estate contract

Leila Ross Wilburn visual arts materials

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS72
Scope and Contents This collection documents the prolific work of one of Atlanta’s pioneer women architects and businesswomen. It is comprised primarily of architectural plans, photographs, negatives, and slides of private residences, multi-family homes, and apartment buildings Wilburn designed during her career. Her portfolio of architectural plans in Series I includes designs of homes in Atlanta and its surrounding suburbs; in several cities and towns in Georgia, including Forsyth, McDonough, and Thomaston;...
Dates: 1920-1979
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Leila Ross Wilburn visual arts materials

Philip T. Shutze papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS498
Scope and Content This collection documents Philip T. Shutze's work in architecture and design. The personal papers consist of topical subject files; correspondence regarding jobs and antiques; financial documents; and certificates and diplomas. The design sources include architectural periodicals; architectural fixtures catalogs; and magazine clippings. Additionally, there are job files from the architectural firm, office indices and lists, and correspondence, newspaper clippings, and brochures related to...
Dates: 1889-1983, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Philip T. Shutze papers

Philip T. Shutze visual arts materials

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS351
Scope and Content This collection contains architectural drawings, sketches, artwork, and photos of Shutze's professional work, his travels, his personal life, and his antiques. The architectural drawings are from the firms of Norrman, Hentz & Reid; Hentz & Reid; Hentz, Reid & Adler; Hentz, Adler & Shutze; and Shutze & Armistead, as well as drawings representing historic buildings designed by other architects and firms. Among his most well known buildings are Swan House owned by Edward and...
Dates: 1820-1993, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Philip T. Shutze visual arts materials

Phillip “P.” Thornton Marye visual arts material

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS349
Scope and Content This collection contains images and architectural designs of Marye as well as the firms Marye, Alger, and Alger, and Marye, Alger, and Vinour. Included are photographs of the Fox Theatre, the Southern Bell Telephone Building, Terminal Station, and public, commercial, and residential buildings in Atlanta and other cities. Also included are photographs of the interior of the buildings. The architectural drawings consist of Marye's plans for St. Luke's Episcopal Church. Of special note are 1970...
Dates: 1905-1970, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Phillip “P.” Thornton Marye visual arts material

Samuel Inman Cooper Papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS361
Scope and Content The collection is primarily comprised of three sets of scrapbooks, exhibiting architectural and design elements, and a corresponding index composed by Samuel Inman Cooper. One set is titled “English Domestic Architecture”, which are portfolios of architectural illustrations published by Academy Architecture. The second is a set of six binders that contain clippings of architectural design features, diagrams, furnishing examples. The final set, titled “American Domestic Architecture”, is two...
Dates: 1936-1972
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Samuel Inman Cooper Papers

William R. Mitchell Jr. photograph collection

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS222
Scope and Content

This collection consists of photographs documented and collected by William R. Mitchell, Jr that appeared in his books, lectures, and architectural studies. The photographs were taken in various Georgia cities including Atlanta, Savannah, Thomasville, Roswell, and Albany. The images are of residential homes and apartments, furnished interiors, historic buildings, parks, streetscapes, churches, and Edward Vason Jones's 19th Century America exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Dates: 1889-1986, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / William R. Mitchell Jr. photograph collection

William T. Baker architectural drawings

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS363
Scope and Content This collection contains architectural drawings from residential designer William T. Baker. Items within the collection feature designs for residential properties; architectural details; artist renderings; marketing schematics; and model home plans. Projects are predominantly within Atlanta and its surrounding areas, a small number in Nashville, Tennessee; Florence and Greenville, South Carolina; Highlands, North Carolina, and the United States Virgin Islands. Within the collection are...
Dates: 1986-2004, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / William T. Baker architectural drawings

W.T. Downing, Architect documents

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS889f
Scope and Content

This collection contains documents pertaining to the cost of construction for a house designed by W. T. Downing for J. F. Beck located at 531 North Boulevard in the Old Fourth Ward neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia. Also included in the collection are the taxes paid on the house through 1902, when the house was sold.

Dates: 1893-1902
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / W.T. Downing, Architect documents