Corporation for Community Development Act, Pennsylvania, 1969: correspondence; City Chronicle, November 1969; notes; draft of act; slide presentation for AIA testimony before the Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Urban Growth, House Banking and Currency Committee. S.2368, A Bill to Establish a National Institute of Building Sciences: testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking and Currency Subcommittee on Housing and Urban Affairs, July 21, 1969; memorandum. H.R. 13217, Balanced Urbanization Policy and Planning Act, 1969: published hearings; correspondence;"Towards a National Policy on Balanced Communities," by Orville Freeman, article in Minnesota Law Review, May 1969; "Official Map;" "Planned Unit Development;" Mandatory Dedication of Park and School Sites; "By Year 200 U.S. Will Need 272 New Towns," by Hugh Morris, article in Boston Sunday Globe, August 3, 1969., 1969
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Papers include family and business correspondence, reports, published material, speeches, financial records, minutes and studies, primarily concerning various consulting jobs (largely in the South). Also, material concerning Feiss' participation in various national and international commissions and committees, including the American Institute of Planners; the American Institute of Architects; the Union of International Architects; the Society of Architectural Historians; the National Trust for Historic Preservation; the Historic American Buildings Survey; and the International Conference on Monuments and Sites; and his work for regional commissions such as the Tennessee Valley Authority; the Missouri Valley Authority; the Connecticut Development Commission; Historic Savannah Foundation; Historic Annapolis; the Central Florida Regional Planning Council: the Louisville, Kentucky Historic Homes Foundation; the Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council; the Mid-Cumberland Council of Governments; and the Society for the Preservation of Landmarks in Western New York, Inc. Also, family and personal correspondence of Carl, Paul and Julian Feiss; correspondence of Sir Raymond Unwin; and microfilm of Feiss' papers, 1946-1952, from the now defunct School of Architecture, University of Denver, Denver, Colorado.
Job files include material concerning Anheuser-Busch, Inc.'s Busch Gardens; Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council's Rookery Bay Project; Naples and Collier City; East Central Florida project; Vieux Carré, New Orleans; and the Rye-Oyster Bay Bridge Project.
Also, oral history interviews with Charles B. Hosmer, Jr. and Kermit C. Parsons (RESTRICTED).
Dates
- 1969
Creator
- From the Collection: Feiss, Carl. (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Access Restrictions:
Access to oral Histories with Parsons and Hosmer in Box 66 restricted to permission of curator.
Extent
64.1 cubic feet. (64.1 cubic feet.)
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
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