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Bryant Fleming plans

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1380

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

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
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)