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Architecture, Domestic -- Georgia -- Atlanta

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 33 Collections and/or Records:

Midtown Historic District photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS265
Scope and Content This collection is comprised of images of the historic Midtown area in Atlanta, Georgia. The photographs were taken for draft nomination on the National Register of Historic Places for Midtown. Included are photos of churches, Henry Grady High School, stores and businesses, street scapes, apartments, and homes in the Midtown area. Types of homes photographed vary among bungalows, duplexes, row houses, carriage houses, alley dwellings, and cottages. Of special interest are photographs of the...
Dates: 1997

Norman C. Butts photographs and postcards

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS268
Scope and Content This collection contains photographs and postcards which provide details of the personal, military, and professional career of Norman Butts in New York, France, and Georgia. Included are images of his early family life, college years at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and landscaping projects in Atlanta, Georgia. Both Butts' work with Ashford Park Nurseries in Brookhaven and his own Atlanta landscaping business are represented. Of special interest are photographs of the gardens and...
Dates: 1880-1946, undated

Peter J. Rosendorf photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS334
Scope and Content

This collection contains images taken within Piedmont Park, and photographs displaying statues and architecture around Atlanta.

Dates: 1969-1970

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

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

Richard Dees Funderburke research papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1242
Scope and Contents This collection contains research materials produced by Richard Dees Funderburke throughout his academic and professional career. The majority of the collection includes newspaper articles that feature specific architects that were active during the victorian era in the southeastern United States, specifically Alabama, Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, and South Carolina. Also included are notes, photocopied images, article drafts, and book proposals authored by Funderburke throughout his...
Dates: 1975-2020, undated

Rosalie Howell photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS335
Scope and Content

This collection contains images of the residence of Judge Clark Howell (Rosalie Howell's grandfather) and the Howell family. Also included are photographs of the Episcopal Church of the Incarnation and the Evan Park Howell School in Atlanta, Georgia. Of special note are images of the graveside and floral designs from Clark Howell's funeral at Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta.

Dates: approximately 1868-1954

Sally A. Parker photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS143
Scope and Contents of the Records The photographs in this collection depict geographic locations and people in Atlanta and Decatur, Georgia. Buildings include the Catholic Shrine of the Immaculate Conception on Hunter Street, the Georgia State Capitol building, Marvin Cemetery (formerly Cold Springs Cemetery), and the residences of William Cobb, Frederick Koch, Edwin W. Marsh, and Augustus Pitt. The collection includes several images of the Margaret Mitchell burial plot at Oakland Cemetery. Images of people include Fred...
Dates: 1948-1949

Southeastern Elevator Company documents

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS779f
Scope and Content

This collection contains invoices and inter-office documents recording the company's work with installing elevators in Atlanta homes.

Dates: 1945-1946

Stevens & Wilkinson, Architects, Engineers documents

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS885f
Scope and Content

This collection contains corporate records from the architectural firm Stevens & Wilkinson. Materials include work orders, survey results, a terrain map, and articles written about the firm. Work orders include the Georgia Baptist Hospital, Rich's Store for Men, and the Georgia Center for Continuing Education.

Dates: 1946-1992, undated

Stevens & Wilkinson, Architects, Engineers visual arts materials

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS375
Scope and Content This collection contains images and architectural drawings of buildings designed or renovated by Stevens & Wilkinson, Architects, Engineers, and the earlier iteration of the firm, Burge and Stevens. Also included are drawings from other firms collected by Stevens & Wilkinson, most notably Abreu & Robeson, Inc. Of special note are photographs and drawings of the Piedmont Driving Club, Techwood Homes, Georgia Baptist Hospital and the William-Oliver building. Also included are...
Dates: approximately 1919-2005, undated

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

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