Gilmore D. Clarke papers
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COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Collection consists primarily of correspondence documenting Clarke's unsuccessful campaign to prevent the demolition of Cornell University's Boardman Hall and its replacement by Olin Library. Also included are addresses, published Christmas sonnets by Clarke, 1968-1980, 1982, clippings, articles, letters to the editor (Ithaca Journal and the New York Times), photographs, campus maps, and photocopies of letters, including two from Harry S. Truman concerning Clarke's opinion on remodelling part of the White House (1947). Represented in the collection are Bernhard Louis Clynes, John Lyon Collyer, George Bain Cummings, Edmund Ezra Day, Arthur Hobson Dean, C.W. DeKiewiet, Douglass Boardman Lee, Thomas W. Mackesey, Deane W. Malott, Floyd Roy Newman, Jerome O'Connor, Nathaniel Alexander Owings, Gustav Jaeger Requardt, and Allen Hosie Treman.
Approximately 150 mounted gelatin silver print photographs of projects Clarke designed as landscape architect for the New York City Park Commission, ca. 1930- 1937. Approximately 400 photographs of projects Clarke designed as landscape architect for the Westchester County (N.Y.) Parks Commission, especially the Bronx River Parkway, ca. 1925-ca. 1937, including one photograph of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, ca. 1925.
Dates
- 1927-1982,-1937-1974 (bulk)
Creator
- Clarke, Gilmore D., 1892-1982. (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Landscape architect, civil engineer, professor of city and regional planning.
Gilmore D. Clarke graduated from Cornell University in 1913, and joined the faculty there in 1935. He was a partner in the New York firm of Clarke and Rapuano, Inc., chairman of the National Commission of Fine Arts from 1937-1950, the head of a White House remodelling project, a member of the board of design of the 1939 World's Fair, and an architectural consultant on the United Nations headquarters and other projects in New York and Washington.
Extent
4 cubic feet. (4 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Collection consists primarily of correspondence documenting Clarke's unsuccessful campaign to prevent the demolition of Cornell University's Boardman Hall and its replacement by Olin Library. Also included are addresses, published Christmas sonnets by Clarke, 1968-1980, 1982, clippings, articles, letters to the editor (Ithaca Journal and the New York Times), photographs, campus maps, and photocopies of letters, including two from Harry S. Truman concerning Clarke's opinion on remodelling part of the White House (1947). Represented in the collection are Bernhard Louis Clynes, John Lyon Collyer, George Bain Cummings, Edmund Ezra Day, Arthur Hobson Dean, C.W. DeKiewiet, Douglass Boardman Lee, Thomas W. Mackesey, Deane W. Malott, Floyd Roy Newman, Jerome O'Connor, Nathaniel Alexander Owings, Gustav Jaeger Requardt, and Allen Hosie Treman.
Physical Description
Photographs, correspondence, clippings
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:
- September 2001
- EAD encoding:
- Kavitha Reddy, April 2009
- Date modified:
- Jude Corina, July 2017
- Campus planning.
- Christmas -- Poetry.
- Clynes, Bernhard Louis.
- College teachers.
- Collyer, John Lyon, 1893-
- Cornell University. Libraries
- Cummings, George Bain, 1890-
- Day, Edmund Ezra, 1883-1951.
- De Kiewiet, C. W. (Cornelius William), 1902-1986.
- Dean, Arthur H.
- Express highways -- New York (State) -- Westchester County.
- Historic buildings -- Conservation and restoration.
- Landscape architecture -- New York (State) -- New York.
- Landscape architecture -- New York (State) -- Westchester County.
- Landscape architecture -- United States -- Designs and plans.
- Lee, Douglass B.
- Mackesey, Thomas W. (Thomas William), 1908-1976.
- Malott, Deane W. (Deane Waldo), 1898-1996.
- Newman, Floyd R. (Floyd Roy), 1890-1990.
- O\'Connor, E. Jerome, 1891-1977.
- Owings, Nathaniel Alexander, 1903-1984.
- Parks -- New York (State) -- Westchester County.
- Photographs.
- Planners.
- Requardt, Gustav J. (Gustav Jaeger), 1886-1978.
- Treman, Allan H., 1899-1975.
- Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972.
- Urban parks.
- White House (Washington, D.C.)
- Zoos.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by RMC Staff
- Date
- April 2009
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
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