COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Business and personal papers consisting mainly of correspondence, records, and files, including sketches and photographs dealing with architectural work and with professional associations and councils in which Sleeper was active, but also including personal correspondence, minutes, reports, and published material dealing with the American Institute of Architects (national, New York, and other chapters), Architectural League of New York, Downtown - Lower Manhattan Association, Inc., New York State Association of Architects, New York Building Congress, National Institute for Architectural Education, New York City Mayor's panel of architects, and other groups; correspondence, data, and publications related to the Presbyterian Church, including the Fifth Avenue and Madison Avenue parishes; lecture notes and other papers relevant to lectures given at New York School of Interior Decoration, Columbia University, and Princeton University; drawings, blueprints, photographs, and financial and business records for architectural work completed, including churches, banks, schools, other public buildings, and private homes; business, project files, ledgers and notebooks from the practice of Frederick L. Ackerman in which Sleeper was employed; research notes and/or published copies of books and articles by Sleeper or to which he contributed, including ARCHITECTURAL GRAPHIC STANDARDS (1932, 4th ed. 1951) a
Dates
- 1911-1960.
Creator
- Sleeper, Harold Reeve, 1893-1960. (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Architect.
Extent
29.1 cubic feet. (29.1 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Business and personal papers consisting mainly of correspondence, records, and files, including sketches and photographs dealing with architectural work and with professional associations and councils in which Sleeper was active, but also including personal correspondence, minutes, reports, and published material.
Physical Description
Correspondence, photographs, printed materials, architectural plans, and organizational records.
General
- Contact Information:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524rareref@cornell.eduhttp://rmc.library.cornell.edu
- Compiled by:
- RMC Staff
- Date completed:
- February 2016
- EAD encoding:
- Marcie Farwell, February 2016
- Date modified:
- RMC Staff, February 2016
- Ackerman, Frederick Lee, 1878-1
- American Institute of Planners
- Architects.
- Architectural League of New York
- Architectural drawings.
- Architecture.
- Bank buildings.
- Blueprints.
- Church architecture.
- Columbia University -- : Addresses, essays, lectures.
- Downtown - Lower Manhattan Association, Inc
- Lectures.
- National Institute of Architectural Education
- New York (N.Y.) -- Buildings.
- New York Building Congress
- New York School of Interior Decoration -- : Addresses, essays, lectures.
- New York State Association of Architects
- Presbyterian Church in the U.S. (General)
- Princeton University -- : Addresses, essays, lectures.
- School architecture.
- Scrapbooks.
- Sleeper, Harold Reeve. (Title of work: Architectural graphic standards..)
- Sleeper, Harold Reeve. (Title of work: Building planning and design standards..)
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by RMC Staff
- Date
- February 2016
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
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Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu