Skip to main content

Gilmore D. Clarke papers

 Collection
Identifier: 15-1-808

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

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.

RELATED MATERIALS

Related collection:Clarke and Rapuano records, #3047.

Related collection:Cornell University Architectural Advisory Council records, #43-3-496.

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
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

Contact:
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)