COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Sketches, plans, details, and blueprints of landscaping projects for parks, private estates, and housing projects from Fleming's landscape architecture firms. Includes working papers of buildings by various architects, including the Avery Coonley Estate in Illinois by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Dates
- [ca. 1904-1937]
Creator
- Fleming, Bryant, 1877-1946. (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Landscape architect.
Bryant Fleming received a B.S. from Cornell University in 1901. He formed Townsend & Fleming in Buffalo, New York (1905), and dissolved the partnership in 1915 when he established an independent practice in Wyoming, New York. He moved his office to Ithaca in 1927, where he continued his practice until retirement in the late 1930s. Fleming taught as a visiting professor at Cornell, and he helped develop the Department of Landscape Architecture. He was also involved in campus planning at Cornell and was an active member of the American Society of Landscape Architects' Committee on Education.
Extent
27 cubic feet.
54 mapcase folders.
Abstract
Sketches, plans, details, and blueprints of landscaping projects for parks, private estates, and housing projects from Fleming's landscape architecture firms.
Physical Description
Building plans
General
- Contact Information:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, New York 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524rareref@cornell.eduhttp://rmc.library.cornell.edu
- Compiled by:
- RMC Staff
- Date completed:
- May 2013
- EAD encoding:
- RMC Staff, May 2013
- Date modified:
- RMC Staff, August 2018
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by RMC Staff
- Date
- May 2013
- 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