COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Collection includes extensive correspondence, blueprints, sketches, drawings, financial records, and photographs from Holden's private practice around New York City; correspondence, articles, surveys and reports documenting his service on many boards, committees, and commissions including the Executive (1943-1947), Civic Design (1935-1942), and Housing (1947-1949) Committees of the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, the New York Urban League, Inc. (1922-1923), the A.I.A. Committee on Post-war Planning (1944-1946), the President's Commission on Home Building and Home Ownership (1928-1930), the National Construction Council (1931-1932), and the Mayor's Committee on City Planning, New York City (1934-1938); and personal correspondence (1920-1953). Also included are drafts and copies of articles and books including The Settlement Idea and Sonnets for My City; and a bound volume, "Are Bankers Credit Allocators?", of photocopies of a collection of commentaries, based on a New York Times article.
Dates
- 1920-1987.
Creator
- Holden, Arthur C., 1890-1993. (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
BIOGRAPHICAL DATA
Firms: Arthur C. Holden & Associates, 1920-1930, PrincipalHolden, McLaughlin & Associates, 1930-1953, PartnerHolden, Egan & Associates, 1953-1960Holden, Egan, Wilson & Corser, 1960-1967Holden, Yang, Raemsch & Corser, 1967-
Principal works: Madison Square Boys Club, New York City, 1924Sussex Garden Apartments, Rye, New York, 1942General Charles Berry Houses, New York, 1951Guggenheim Museum with Frank Lloyd Wright, 1959Queensborough Community College, with F.P. Wiedersum, 1968
Awards: Chairman, Conference on Planning Man's Environment, Princeton University Bi-Centennial, 1946-1947Medal of Honor, New York Chapter, American Institute of Architects, 1957
Education: Litt.B., Princeton (hons.), 1912B.Arch. & Am.Econ., Columbia Univ., 1915Lambda Alpha, 1967Lectured: Housing, Princeton, Mass. Institute of Tech., Pa. State Univ., Vassar, Bennington
Public service: President and Chairman of the Board of New York Urban League, Inc. 1922-1931President's Commission on Home Building and Home Ownership, 1928-1930National Construction Council, 1931-1932Mayor LaGuardia's Committee on City Planning, 1934-1938Trustee, Lenox Hill Hospital, New York City, 1951-1960
Government service: New York National Guard, chief plant secretary, hull division, drafting room, U.S. Navy Yard, Brooklyn, 1917-1919
Publications: Author and illustrator: Brick Architecture of the Colonial Period in Maryland and Virginia, 1919Author: The Settlement Idea: A Vision of Social Justice, 1922Author and illustrator: Money and Motion: The Social Function of Banking, 1940Author and illustrator: Sonnets for My City: An Essay on the Kinship of Art and Finance, 1965Author: Can We Deal Intelligently with Inflation?, n.d.
American Institute of Architects, New York Chapter: Chairman of civic design, 1935-1942Member of Executive Committee, 1943-1947Chairman of Housing Committee, 1947-1949Director, New York Region, 1949-1952Vice Chairman, Committee on Post-War Planning, 1944-1946
Extent
11.1 cubic feet. (11.1 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Collection includes extensive correspondence, blueprints, sketches, drawings, financial records, and photographs from Holden's private practice around New York City; correspondence, articles, surveys and reports documenting his service on many boards, committees, and commissions. Also included are drafts and copies of articles and books including The Settlement Idea and Sonnets for My City; and a bound volume, "Are Bankers Credit Allocators?", of photocopies of a collection of commentaries, based on a New York Times article.
SERIES LIST
- Series I. Office files, 1921-1937, firms of Arthur C. Holden & Associates, 1920-1930 and Holden, McLaughlin & Associates, 1930-1953
- Boxes 1-8
- Series II. Office files, 1935-1942, firm of Holden, McLaughlin & Associates, 1930-1953
- Boxes 9-20
- Series III. Miriam Holden, personal
- Box 19
- Series IV. Blueprints
- Boxes 21-51, 98
- Series V. A.C.H., personal, 1920-1942
- Boxes 52-56
- Series VI. Housing, 1930-1942
- Boxes 57-66
- Series VII. Housing, 1939-1945
- Boxes 67-72
- Series VIII. Miscellaneous
- Boxes 73-104
Physical Description
Correspondence, blueprints, financial records, photographs, articles, surveys, reports, drafts and copies of articles and books, and bound volumes.
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:
- S. Lee, N. Dean
- Date completed:
- August 1982
- EAD encoding:
- Martin Heggestad, May 2002 Julia Guarneri, June 2002
- Date modified:
- RMC Staff, May 2014
- American Institute of Architects. Committee on Post-war Planning
- American Institute of Architects. New York Chapter. Civic Design Committee
- American Institute of Architects. New York Chapter. Executive Committee
- American Institute of Architects. New York Chapter. Housing Committee
- Architects.
- Blueprints.
- City planners.
- City planning -- New York (State).
- City planning.
- Holden, Arthur Cort, 1890- (Title of work: Settlement idea..)
- Holden, Arthur Cort, 1890- (Title of work: Sonnets for my city..)
- Housing.
- Lambda Alpha International. New York Chapter
- National Construction Council
- New York (N.Y.) -- City planning.
- New York (N.Y.). Committee on City Planning
- New York Urban League
- President\'s Commission on Home Building and Home Ownership
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by S. Lee, N. Dean
- 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