COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Publications, reports, and correspondence by or concerning the Housing Study Guild. Also, correspondence of Benjamin Macson Gruzen, council member of the Housing Study Guild, and publications of the National Association of Housing Officials, New York City Housing Authority and the United States Resettlement Administration.
Dates
- 1929 - 1957
- Majority of material found within 1929 - 1941
Creator
- Housing Study Guild (Organization)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
ORGANIZATIONAL HISTORY
The Housing Study Guild was founded in the summer of 1933 by Henry Wright, Lewis Mumford and Albert Mayer to serve as a center for study and research in the technical, economic and social problems of housing and community planning. It also served as a coordinating agency and clearing house for activities in these fields; as a library and reading room for published and unpublished material, the editing of current critical technical bulletins, abstract-translations of significant foreign technical material, and the publication of special reports on foreign housing policy, legislation, and financing methods; and as a laboratory for the training of young men in the technique of housing, research and critical formulation. The Guild, located at 101 Park Avenue, New York City, was financed through contributions of the Lavanburg Foundation, the Housing Association of New York, and individual and corporate memberships.
Extent
1.4 cubic feet. (1.4 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Publications, reports, and correspondence by or concerning the Housing Study Guild. Also, correspondence of Benjamin Macson Gruzen, council member of the Housing Study Guild, and publications of the National Association of Housing Officials, New York City Housing Authority and the United States Resettlement Administration.
Physical Description
Publications, reports, and correspondence.
General
- Contact Information:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
- Compiled by:
- J. Ingram
- Date completed:
- June 1985
- EAD encoding:
- Martin Heggestad, May 2002Julia Guarneri, June 2002
- Date modified:
- Marcie Farwell, July 2015
- City planners.
- City planning libraries.
- City planning.
- Community development.
- Gruzen, Benjamin M.
- Housing research.
- Mayer, Albert, 1897-1981
- Mumford, Lewis, 1895-1990.
- National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials
- New York City Housing Authority
- Sociology, Urban.
- United States. Resettlement Administration
- Wright, Henry.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by J. Ingram
- Date
- May 2002
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- ENG
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