Collection inventory

Overview of the Collection
Creator:	Lescaze, William, 1896-1969.
Title:	William Lescaze Papers
Inclusive Dates:	1915-1969
Quantity:	65.25 linear ft. (ca.)
Abstract:	Papers of the American international style architect. Correspondence, and architectural drawings, designs, and specifications related to Lescaze's clients, which included the Philadelphia Saving Fund Society and Columbia Broadcasting System. Also included are biographical materials, lectures, photographs, writings, and material related to Lescaze's one-time partner, George Howe.
Language:	English
Repository:	Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries 222 Waverly Avenue Syracuse, NY 13244-2010 https://library.syracuse.edu/special-collections-research-center

Biographical History

William Lescaze (1896-1969) was a Swiss-born American architect, known as one of the pioneers in modernism in American architecture.

Born March 27, 1896 in Geneva, Switzerland, Lescaze studied architecture at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale in Zurich. He received his Master of Architecture in 1919, went to Paris, and worked briefly in the war-devastated areas of France before coming to the United States in 1920. He became a US citizen in 1929.

Lescaze worked initially for Hubbell & Benes in Cleveland, Ohio, but in 1923 moved to New York City and opened his own firm. In 1929 he entered into partnership with George Howe and established offices in New York and Philadelphia. In 1933 Lescaze married Mary Connick Hughes, with whom he had one son, Lee Adrien. In 1934 he re-established the firm under his own name and directed it until his death in 1969.

Among his earliest workds were a country house/hunting lodge for Comte Jean de Sieyes (Job #220), the nursery for Oak Lane Country Day School (Job #258), and soon afterwards the 33-story Philadelphia Savings Fund Society building (Job #284). In 1933 he designed his own town house and office in East 48th Street (Job #602), and in 1938 the California headquarters of the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBC) in Hollywood (Job #515). His work with low-cost housing led to his appointment as senior architect for the Williamsburg (Ten Eyck) houses in Brooklyn (Job #388).

From 1949 to 1959 Lescaze served on the New York State Building Code Commission, and in 1951 he was named a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects.

His later work included the City and Municipal Courts Building in Manhattan (Job #1000), the Swiss Chancellery in Washington, DC (Job #1057), the Brotherhood House at 7th Avenue and 40th Street (Job #1108), the Church Peace Center at the United Nations Plaza (Job #1183), the 777 3rd Avenue building (Job #1194), the Chatham Plaza Center in Pittsburgh (Job #1284), the 1 New York Plaza Building (Job #1306), and One Oliver Plaze (Oliver Tyrone Building) in Pittsburgh (Job #1330).

An essay by Christian Hubert written to preface a 1982 exhibition catalog, and which places Lescaze in the history of modern architecture, has been copied as an appendix to this guide.

Lescaze was the author as well as the subjet of numerous essays, articles and reviews in both professional and popular journals. He spoke frequently and appeared on radio broadcasts often. Major early essays include his "A Community Theatre" in Edith J.R. Isaacs' Architecture for the New Theatre (New York, 1935), and his contribution to Augusto Centeno's The Intent of the Artist (Princeton, 1941). His book On Being an Architect appeared in 1942; a copy of this work is available in the Rare Book Collection, as are copies of the two major pieces of Lescaze scholarship to date, namely Lorraine Welling Lanmon's William Lescaze, Architect (doctoral dissertation, University of Delaware, 1979) and William Lescaze, published by the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies and Rizzoli International Publications. (New York, 1982).

Return to top

Scope and Contents of the Collection

The William Lescaze Papers consists of biographical material, correspondence, drawings (renderings, sketches, etc), photographs, photo panels, slides, and other formats. It has been divided into ten series; items relating to a given project may therefore be found in several series; the researcher is advised to review the entire finding to ensure locating all relevant material.

Individual commissions contains blueprints, drawings (renderings, sketches, etc), photographs, photo panels and other formats relating to specific commissions executed by Lescaze either alone or in partnership with George Howe. Commissions without numbers are listed first, followed by numbered commissions.

Material relating to Lescaze's Architectural career consists of a comprehensive job listing, and school and miscellaneous material.

Biographical material contains biographical sketches and chronologies, resumes, exhibit lists, lectures and radio broadcasts, memberships and appointments, and a list of works executed.

Correspondence is entirely incoming, apart from one letter to the editor from Lescaze. Correspondents include academic institutions (Columbia, Harvard, Princeton), museums and galleries (Cincinnati Art Museum, Museum of Modern Art), publications (Architectural Review, New Republic), and individuals (Le Corbusier, Mabel Dodge Luhan, Pierre Soulages).

Drawings contains a selection of architectural drawings but also a number of industrial design drawings, such as designs for ashtrays, lamps, radiators, and so forth, plus some etchings and sketches.

Legal and financial papers include contracts, leases, passports, naturalization papers, and Lescaze's Swiss military service records.

Memorabilia includes certificates and awards, cards, photographs, printed material, and scrapbooks.

The Architectural works series contains material specifically relating to particular architectural projects. ranging from Ansonia High School to the Woods End apartments.

Writings contains primarily of works by Lescaze. There is a copy of his On Being an Architect as well as lectures, radio interviews, notes, and other material. There are also a few items by others, about Lescaze.

Return to top

Arrangement of the Collection

Commissions are arranged in order by commission number, with unnumbered and unidentified commissions listed first. All other series are arranged alphabetically.

Return to top

Restrictions

Access Restrictions

The majority of our archival and manuscript collections are housed offsite and require advanced notice for retrieval. Researchers are encouraged to contact us in advance concerning the collection material they wish to access for their research.

Use Restrictions

Written permission must be obtained from SCRC and all relevant rights holders before publishing quotations, excerpts or images from any materials in this collection.

Return to top

Related Material

See the "Howe and Lescaze Buildings Map" at http://www.greatbuildings.com for locations and photographs of Lescaze's buildings.

Return to top

Subject Headings

Persons

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

Genres and Forms

Occupations

Return to top

Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Preferred citation for this material is as follows:

William Lescaze Papers,
Special Collections Research Center,
Syracuse University Libraries

Acquisition Information

Gift of William Lescaze and Mrs. William Lescaze.

"Lord Algernon" etching, gift of Dwight Lanmon, 2013.

Norman House (#628) blueprints, gift of Abigail Norman, 2020.

Finding Aid Information

Created by: -
Date: 1982
Revision history: 12 Mar 2007 - converted to EAD (MRC); 26 Oct 2009 - format updated (MRC); 12 Feb 2010 - oversize redone (MRC); 3 May 2012 - update to Job #121 (MRC); 4 Feb 2014 - adds M13-048 (MRC); 23 Jan 2015 - added descriptions of "Miscellaneous", where known (MRC); 31 May 2016 - added Job #379 drawings (MRC); 24 Feb 2020 - additional items for Job #628, Norman House (MRC); 14 Oct 2020 - deteriorated negatives for Job #602 rehoused (MRC)

Return to top

Inventory

	Individual commissions
		Unnumbered projects are listed first, in order by date. Numbered projects are listed next, by project number. For an alphabetical listing, see Alphabetical index of projects at the end of this finding aid.
		Unidentified projects
Oversize 1			Miscellaneous
				photographs (bookshelves, others), renderings (inkwell, sofa, desk lamp, "Project for Washington DC", others), sketches ("Elevation D’Une Paroi Laterale A L’Echelle 1/100/Juillet 1919," others), etc.
		Unnumbered projects
Oversize 1			undated 1200 Market St. [Philadelphia Savings Fund Society building?] (3 blueprints [?], 1 photograph)
Oversize 5			undated CBS, unidentified projects - photographs, drawings, renderings
Oversize 8			undated Grand Central building (1 folio of drawings)
Oversize 8			undated Hanna building, Cleveland, OH (1 drawing, "Flower from Jones Russell")
Oversize 17			undated Kootz residence (1 elevation and plan)
Oversize 8			undated League of Nations - 1 rendering
Box 1			1919 Community House for La Chaux de Fonds
Oversize 1			1919 Diploma Project, Large building block in Zurich [??] - color drawing
Box 1			1922 Warehouse for the Board of Education, Cleveland, OH
Box 1			1924 Edgewood School
Box 1			1924 Painted drapery for a restaurant
Oversize 17			1927 Country House for A Young Couple, commissioned for Architecture Forum - ink drawings (3 site plans, 1 rendering)
			1928 Soldiers and Sailors Monument
Box 1				Miscellaneous
Oversize 11				Drawings (3 renderings)
Box 1			1928 An American House
Box 1			1928 Halle Brothers Exhibition
Box 1			1928 House of the Future
Box 1			1928 Barber and beauty shop, Grand Central Station
Oversize 17			1928, June Apartment house project, Park Avenue and 72nd Street (2 renderings)
			1928 Future American Country House, Commissioned for Architectural Record
Box 1				Miscellaneous
Oversize 1				Drawings (2 renderings, enhanced with color)
Box 1			1933 [?] Maurice J. Speiser residence, Philadelphia, PA
Box 1			1936 House for Meridian Housing Corporation
Box 1			1938 House of 2039 Project
Box 1			Miscellaneous unidentified photographs
		107B William Stix Wasserman residence, Whitemarsh, PA
Tube			Miscellaneous
Oversize 17			Drawings (6 renderings)
Oversize 17		117 James M. R. Sinkler residence, Philadelphia, PA (1 rendering)
		121 Philadelphia Saving Fund Society main vault, Philadelphia, PA
Oversize 4			Photographs (2 photographs)
Tube			Miscellaneous
		131 Simeon Ford House, 2 Sutton Square, NYC
			See also 771 William Brown Meloney alteration at Sutton Square, NYC.
Box 1			Miscellaneous
Oversize 8			Photograph (1 photograph)
		133 Willow Garden Restaurant
Box 1			Miscellaneous
Oversize 8			Photographs of screen, interior (4 photographs)
Tube		157 Theatre and store building for Carl Brunson Hollywood, CA 1926
Box 1		180 Tapestry design for theatre, New Haven, CT
Box 1		185 Moulin Rouge Restaurant alterations, NYC
		214 Alice Ferguson apartment house, NYC
Box 1			Miscellaneous
Tube			Miscellaneous
		220 Jean de Sieyes hunting lodge, Mt. Kisco, NY
Box 1			Miscellaneous (3 folders)
Oversize 2			Miscellaneous (1 site plan, 2 renderings, 2 photographs)
		222 R. Colfax Phillips apartment, NYC
Box 1			Miscellaneous
Oversize 1			Drawing (1 rendering)
Box 1		226 Frederick Loeser Exhibition Rooms, Brooklyn
Box 1		228 Amos Parrish & Co. offices, NYC
Box 1		232 Macy exhibition, penthouse studio, NYC
Box 1		236 Nudelman & Conti showroom, NYC
Box 1		239 S. T. Meyer's apartment store, NYC
		241 Leopold Stokowski apartment, NYC
Box 1			Miscellaneous
Oversize 8			Photographs (1 photograph)
Oversize 8		247 London Shoe showroom, NYC - drawings (2 renderings/elevations)
		251 Andrew Geller Shoe Stores showroom, NYC
Box 1			Miscellaneous
Oversize 1			Drawings (1 drawing, 1 rendering)
Oversize 2		252 Apartment house and garage, West 50th and West 51st Streets, NYC (1 rendering (“worm’s eye view”), 2 drawings)
Box 1		255 Maison Bertie beauty parlor, NYC
Box 1		256 Arden Gallery penthouse duplex, NYC
		258 Oak Lane Country Day School, Philadelphia
Box 2			Miscellaneous
Oversize 2			Photographs (2 photographs, 1 photo of drawing, 1 negative)
Oversize 2			Drawings (1 site plan, 1 rendering)
Box 2		259 Unity Lap Robe Co. showroom, NYC
Box 2		262 William Wasserman residence (2 renderings)
		270 Mrs. Charles Harding salon, NYC
Box 2			Miscellaneous
Oversize 8			Drawings (2 renderings)
Oversize 1		272 Briggs Haberdashery, NYC (1 rendering)
		275 Herbert M. Dreyfus apartment, NYC
Box 2			Miscellaneous
Oversize 8			Drawing
Box 2		276 Ben Herzberg apartment, NYC
		277 Mrs. George French Porter house, Ojai, CA
Box 2			Miscellaneous
Oversize 17			Drawing (1 rendering)
		284 Philadelphia Saving Fund Society Building, Philadelphia
Tube			Miscellaneous
Tube			Miscellaneous
Tube			Miscellaneous
Oversize 4			Drawings - renderings, sketches, etc.
Oversize 4			Photographs
Oversize 13			Photo panel (1 item)
Box 2			Tracings - includes sections, layout of banking room floor, details of various portions of building including elevators, stairways, hardware, bank counters, mail chutes and mailboxes, doors, etc. (2 folders)
Box 3			Tracings - includes details of various portions of building including concession booth, telephone booth, lighting, pneumatic tube stations, kitchen, board room, dining room, elevator cabs, tellers' cages, steel grilles, dumbwaiters, clocks, signs, record cabinet, furniture, etc. (4 folders)
Box 4			Tracings - includes plan, elevation and details of barber shop; elevations and sections of various portions of building; electrical layouts and outlet locations; details of windows, roof, ceilings, trolley wire connection; future squash court layout; proposed tenant storage; furniture layouts for various floors and rooms,; signage, ettering, color diagrams; plan for Trans-Lux Theatre; etc. (7 folders)
Box 5			Tracings - includes floor plans for all floors including basement, furniture plans, designs for desks and tables, assorted signage, rattan furniture layout, board room furniture and decor, layouts for linen chest and silver safe, flagpoles, lettering and signage, and blueprints from Victor V. Clad Co. (kitchen), Curtiss Lighting (show windows and main space lighting), N. Smellenburg & Co. (rugs and carpets), American District Telegraph Co. (fire alarm box), Structural Waterproofing Co. (wall section) (8 folders)
Box 6			Tracings - includes typescript "Architectural Analysis of the Proposed Building for the Philadelphia Savings Fund Society at 12th and Market Streets" (1930), sectional plans and cross-sections for subway [?], street view profiles, structural plans for upper floors (7-17), presentation drawings for 5th and 22nd-32nd floors, sketches for light fixtures and desks, and details for stairs, doors, hall buttons, working spaces. Also includes material from Riggs, Distler & Co. (lavatories) and from Pringle Electrical Mfg. Co. (battery charging station, switchboards, etc.) (7 folders)
Box 7			Tracings - basement plan, sketches for lighting fixtures, rental brochure with color rendering and floor plan, structural and rental for floors 1, 3, 4, 5 and 6 (3 folders)
Box 8			Photographs and articles
Box 9			Book of construction photographs
Box 10		286 Arthur Peck house, Paoli, PA
		289 Howe and Lescaze office, Philadelphia
Box 10			Miscellaneous
Oversize 8			Photographs (2 photographs)
		295 Museum of Modern Art project, NYC
Box 10			Miscellaneous (2 folders)
Oversize 7			"A Modern Museum" bound folio
		297 Philadelphia Saving Fund Society garage, Philadelphia, PA
Box 10			Miscellaneous (5 folders)
Oversize 4			Photographs (4 photographs)
		301 Frederick Vanderbilt Field house, New Hartford, CT
Box 11			Miscellaneous, including photographs - photographs, negatives, tracings, blueprints; includes elevations, plans, plumbing and heating plans, framing, topographical details, electrical layouts, and details of closets, stairs, handrails, furniture, windows, lighting fixtures, shelving, etc. (5 folders)
Box 12			Miscellaneous (2 folders)
Oversize 8			Photographs (2 photographs, 1 photograph of rendering)
Oversize 13			Photo panels (1 item)
		304 Dartington Hall, headmaster's house (W. B. Curry), South Devon, England
Box 12			Miscellaneous
Tube			Miscellaneous
Oversize 3			Photographs (1 photograph)
Tube		304B Dartington Hall, junior school
		307 Trans Lux motion picture theaters, NYC
Box 12			Miscellaneous
Oversize 8			Drawings (1 photograph, 3 renderings)
		312 Hessian Hills School, Croton-on-Hudson, NY
Box 12			Miscellaneous
Oversize 8			Photographs (1 photograph)
Box 12		313 Frank Vance Storrs offices
Box 12		314 William Stix Wasserman office, Philadelphia
Oversize 8		316 Hattie Carnegie shop (5 photogaphs)
Box 12		318 Fox motion picture theater
Box 12		320 Pennsylvania Museum of Art children's room, Philadelphia, PA
		321 Maurice Wertheim house, Cos Cob, CT
			Miscellaneous (3 folders)
Oversize 2			Drawings (3 renderings)
		322 Christie-Forsythe housing development, NYC
Box 12			Miscellaneous, including photographs (2 folders)
Box 13			Miscellaneous (5 folders)
Oversize 2			Drawings (1 rendering)
Box 14		323 Dartington Hall offices, South Devon, England
Box 14		335 Psi Upsilon Fraternity Club House, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
		336 River Gardens housing development, NYC
Box 14			Miscellaneous (4 folders)
Oversize 12			Photostat plan enhanced with color
Box 14		339 Dorothy Gray store front, NYC
Box 14		340 Astoria-Queens housing development, NYC (2 folders)
		345 Laurel Hill housing development, NYC
Box 15			Miscellaneous (3 folders)
Oversize 8			Drawings (3 renderings)
		346 Churston Estate housing development, Devon, England
Box 15			Miscellaneous (2 folders)
Box 16			Miscellaneous (5 folders)
Box 17			Miscellaneous, including photographs (6 folders)
Tube			Miscellaneous
Oversize 1			Drawings (1 rendering)
Oversize 1			Photographs (1 photograph)
		347 Dartington Hall boarding school, South Devon, England
Box 18			Miscellaneous (2 folders)
Oversize 3			Photographs (1 photograph)
Box 18		355 Dartington Hall, nursery school (2 folders)
		356 Dartington Hall, gymnasium
Box 18			Miscellaneous, including photographs (2 folders)
Box 19			Miscellaneous (2 folders)
Oversize 1			Drawing (1 rendering)
		357 Dartington Hall offices and laboratory
Box 19			Miscellaneous (2 folders)
Tube			Miscellaneous
Oversize 3			Photographs (1 photograph)
Box 19		358 Dartington Hall piggery
		360 Roy F. Spreter house and garage/studio, Ardmore, PA
Box 20			Miscellaneous (5 folders)
Oversize 3			Miscellaneous (1 drawing, 1 photograph, 1 photo rendering)
		361 Dr. G. W. Hartmann house, State College, PA
Box 20			Miscellaneous
Oversize 2			Drawing (1 rendering)
Box 20		364 Children's Haven hospital, NYC
Box 20		366 Wilbour Library alterations, Brooklyn
		369 Dartington Hall, cottages, South Devon, England
Box 20			Miscellaneous
Tube			Miscellaneous
Box 20		375 Dartington Hall, theater (2 folders)
Box 21		377 Queensbridge housing development, NYC
		379 Raymond C. Kramer town house, 32 East 74th, NYC
Tube 1			Drawings
Box 21			Miscellaneous (3 folders)
Box 22			Miscellaneous, including photographs (5 folders)
Oversize 3			Photographs (2 photographs)
Box 22		380 William Kay Wallace country house, Bedford Village, NY
Box 22		381 Editorial Publications office alterations, NYC
		386 Brooklyn Children's Museum, NYC
Box 22			Miscellaneous
Oversize 8			Drawings (1 rendering)
Tube			Miscellaneous
Box 22		387 Metropolitan Museum of Art - American Industrial Art Exhibition, NYC
		388 Williamsburg (Ten Eyck) housing project, NYC
Box 23			Miscellaneous
Oversize 11			Project book, bound - contains photographs, plans, descriptions, etc.
Oversize 11			Miscellaneous (1 rendering, 1 photograph)
Tube		391 Brooklyn Museum, auditorium, NYC
Box 23		393 Dartington Hall. Jooss residence, South Devon, England
Box 23		396 Mrs. Benjamin J. Buttenweiser town house, 17 East 73rd, NYC
		397 Unity House camp, Bushkill, PA
			See also Scrapbooks, Oversize 14.
Box 23			Miscellaneous (I) - blueprints, including bar layout, main building, refrigerator details, electrical and plumbing plans, sewage disposal, kitchen ventilation
Box 23			Miscellaneous (II) - blueprints, plans and sketches; includes plan for building A, front and rear elevations, sketch of exterior, and details for sewage disposal, stairs, lounge fireplace, piano hinge, "toilet room", telephone booths
Box 23			Miscellaneous (III) - includes contour map, survey, outdoor landscaping and tree positions, layouts A and B, tennis courts survey, mechanic plot, etc.
Box 24			Photo album 1935 - progress photos of Unity House
Box 24			Miscellaneous (I) - includes photographs of interior (fireplace, chairs, tables, stairwell, hallway, bar, dining hall, dormitory, etc.) and exterior (cottage, pavilion, entrance sign, etc.); photos taken during construction; a few negatives and black prints; articles from Architectural Record (1936) and New York Times (1965); sketches of tea room, dining room, lounge, deck
				Portfolio of Special Building Types (185-193)
Box 24			Miscellaneous (II) - includes plans for toilet room building, alterations to social hall, 8-room cottages (several different schemes); sketches of tennis courts, cottage plot plan, door details, shelving;
Box 24			Miscellaneous (III) - includes plans and elevations for Building #1 and dormitory, sketches of Building #1, room layouts, details of stair railing, windows, mirrors, shelves
Box 24			Miscellaneous (IV) - material relating to Building A including survey of new roads, "1-0" and "1/8-0" sections, roof/floor/foundation, elevations, and details of casement windows, lounge fireplace, light trough, sliding doors, etc.
Oversize 8			Photographs - dining room (1 item)
		398 CBS Theater, West 45th Street, NYC
Box 24			Miscellaneous
Oversize 5			Photographs
Box 24		402 Cocktail shaker design (2 folders)
Box 25		405 CBS Studios, 485 Madison Avenue, NYC
Box 25		406 Brunswick-Balke-Collender billiard tables (2 folders)
Box 25		407 Vincent K. Cates house, Melrose, MA
Box 25		408 J. Walter Thompson office for Ruth Waldo, NYC
Box 25		409 Howard Froelich house, NYC
Box 25		410 CBS little theater, NYC
Box 25		411 Silvray lamps
Box 25		417 CBS display room, NYC
Box 25		418 CBS miscellaneous accessories, NYC
		419 Ansonia High School, Ansonia, CT
Box 25			Miscellaneous
Box 26			Miscellaneous (8 folders)
Box 27			Miscellaneous, including photographs (4 folders)
Oversize 3			Photographs (19 photographs)
Tube			Miscellaneous
Box 28		426 CBS Studios, NYC (3 folders)
			Tracings: floor plans for 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8 and tower; elevations N, S and W
			Rough drafts and sketches for several schemes (uncounted)
			Blueprints for Scheme 30 (9 pg. dated 12/15/1935, includes 1st fl, 1st fl mezzanine, 1st fl deck, 2nd fl mezzanine, promenade roof, typical office floor 2d-5th, street elevation, avenue elevation), Scheme 33 (8 pg. dated 2/16/1936, includes summary, 1st fl, 2d fl, 2d fl mezzanine, 4th fl, 6th fl, 7-12th fl), and Scheme 39 (8 pg. dated 7/13/1936, includes stores, 2d fl, 3d fl, 4th fl, 4th fl mezzanine, typical office floor, elevation)
			Unlabeled prints, some damaged (31 items)
			Items from other jobs, including 110 E. 59th St (photostat copy, 1 item), Liederkranz Hall, 115 E. 58th St. (6 tracings), and an apartment house at 485 Park Ave (4 drawings and 3 photostats)
		431 CBS microphones, NYC
			See also 751 CBS microphones.
Box 28			Miscellaneous (2 folders)
Oversize 5			Scrapbook
Box 28		432 Lloyd Good and William Butler weekend houses, Harvey Cedars, NJ
Box 28		434 Purdue University small house, Purdue, IN
		440 Magnolia Petroleum exposition building, Dallas, Texas
Box 28			Miscellaneous
Oversize 3			Drawings (1 rendering)
Box 28		443 CBS Studio #7, NYC - tracings and blueprints; includes rough sketch, preliminary floor layouts and elevations, floor plan and details for new studio radio station WABC, and details for lettering on studio floor, air conditioning and electrical, control desk speaker bafle, etc..
Box 29		444 CBS elevator study, NYC
Box 29		450 Churston Development hotel, Devon, England (2 folders)
		451 Churston Development hotel, second batch houses
Box 29			Miscellaneous (2 folders)
Tube			Miscellaneous
Box 30		454 Churston Development hotel, third batch houses
Box 30		455 Churston Development hotel, fourth batch houses (3 folders)
		501 CBS-WBBM Studios, Chicago
Box 30			Miscellaneous (3 folders)
Oversize 5			Photographs
Box 30		507 Frederick V. Field apartment, NYC
		509 Frederick S. Dunn house, Woodbridge, CT
Box 31			Miscellaneous (3 folders)
Oversize 2			Photographs (1 photograph)
Box 31		512 John Gustavson house, Harvey Cedars, NJ
Box 31		514 Frederick V. Field house addition, Hartford, CT (2 folders)
			rough sketches, tracings for Schemes 1-4, plans and elevations, electrical layout, blueprint for bedroom, survey on linen
		515 CBS Hollywood Studios
Box 31			Miscellaneous
Oversize 5			Miscellaneous - Photographs, drawings, renderings, elevations, photographs of models, more
Oversize 17			"First drawings" (1 rendering)
Tube			Miscellaneous
		516 J. Walter Thompson offices, NYC
Box 31			Miscellaneous
Oversize 2			Miscellaneous (5 photographs, 1 rendering)
		517 Alfred Loomis house, Tuxedo Park, NY
Box 32			Miscellaneous - several dozen photographs of interior and exterior; few nagatives; drawing of exterior; sketch of lighting fixture for bathroom; blueprint; detail sketches of lamp, desk, clock; clipping from magazine of diagram of house
Oversize 8			Photographs (4 photographs)
		518 Time, Inc. offices, NYC
Box 32			Miscellaneous
Oversize 2			Miscellaneous (3 photographs, 1 rendering)
Box 32		519 Bernard Rogers house, Rochester, NY
Box 32		520 W. H. Fain [Williams] house
		523 Kimble Glass office building, Vineland, NJ
Box 32			Miscellaneous
Oversize 8			Photographs (4 photographs)
Box 32		531 CBS San Francisco Studios
		532 Frederick V. Nash country house, Minneapolis, MN
Box 32			Miscellaneous - photographs of Nash property (1936), exterior of house in progress near completion (1937)
Oversize 1			Drawings (1 rendering)
Box 32		542 Howard Markel country house, Redding, CT
Box 32		545 Mrs. Mali playroom, NYC
		548 Kimble Glass superintendent's offices, Vineland, NJ
Box 32			Miscellaneous
Oversize 8			Photographs (12 photographs)
		549-570 CBS Studios, San Francisco and NYC
Box 32			Miscellaneous, including photographs
Box 33			Miscellaneous
		582 Aviation Building, World's Fair, NYC
Box 33			Miscellaneous
Oversize 8			Photograph
Tube			Miscellaneous
		584 Libby-Owen-Ford Building, World's Fair, NYC
Box 33			Miscellaneous
Oversize 8			Photograph (1 photograph of model)
Box 33		586 Garage at Queensborough Bridge, NYC
		588 Garret A. Hobart III house, Tuxedo Park, NY
Box 33			Miscellaneous - sketches, tracings, blueprints, memorabilia, photographs and negatives (3 folders)
				Rough sketches (27 items) - site, layout, furniture, etc.
				Numbered tracings (approximately 60 items) - plans, survey, elevations, plot plans, longitudinal sections, door schedule, kitchen layout, furniture layouts for all rooms, planting and paving plan, mechanicals for all floors, and details for shelving, windows, mirrors, lighting fixtures, bathrooms, skylight, fireplace, studio, railings, closets, etc.
				Blueprints (2 items)
				Memorabilia (3 items)
				Photographs and negatives of interior, exterior, and construction
Oversize 17			Miscellaneous (1 plan, 1 photograph)
		597 Swiss Pavilion, World's Fair, NYC
Box 34			Miscellaneous
Oversize 8			Photographs (1 photograph)
Box 34		598 Goucher College competition, Baltimore
Box 34		600 CBS-WCAU auditorium alteration, Philadelphia, PA
		602 Lescaze House, 211 East 48th, NYC
Box 34			Miscellaneous
Box 67			Negatives - most are badly deteriorated (2 folders)
Box 34			Photographs
Oversize 2			Photographs (2 items)
Oversize 13			Photo panels (3 items)
Oversize 17			Drawings (1 rendering)
		604 Frederick S. Dunn cottage, Woodbridge, CT
Box 34			Miscellaneous
Oversize 9			Photographs (4 items)
Box 34		606 Stacy May cottage, Martha's Vineyard, MA
Box 34		614B Benjamin J. Buttenwieser alteration, Bedford, NY
Tube		617A Cherry Lawn School alteration, Darien CT
Tube		617B Cherry Lawn School boy's dormitory
		619 Longfellow Building, Washington, DC
Box 35			Miscellaneous, including photographs (2 folders)
Box 36			Miscellaneous (5 folders)
Oversize 9			Photographs (2 items)
Oversize 13			Photo panels (2 items)
Tube			Miscellaneous
Box 36		622 Harold Spivacke house, Washington, DC
Box 36		623 Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition, NYC
		628 Edward A. Norman house, 124 East 70th, NYC
Box 36			Miscellaneous (3 folders)
Box 37			Miscellaneous,s including photographs (2 folders)
Oversize 1			Photographs (2 folders)
Tube 2			Blueprints
				Gift of Abigail Norman, 2020.
Box 37		630 Mrs. George Crawford guest house, Greenwich, CT (2 folders)
Box 37		634 Garret A. Hobart III alterations, Paterson, NJ
Box 37		639 Apartment house lobby alterations, Washington, DC
		643 Chelsea houses, NYC
			See also 749 Elliot Houses alterations.
Box 37			Miscellaneous
Oversize 2			Drawing (1 site plan)
Tube		643A Mrs. Joseph Barnes alterations, NYC
Box 37		648 Maurice Stone bedroom, NYC
Box 37		658 Frederick V. Field guest house, New Hartford, CT - photographs (12 items)
Box 37		673 Benjamin J. Buttenwieser child's bedroom, NYC
		680 Woods End defense housing, Roselle, NJ
Tube			Miscellaneous
Oversize 9			Photographs (2 items)
Box 37		684 WLW Studios, Cincinnati, OH (2 folders)
Box 37		686 Dorie-Miller East Harlem Housing Project, NYC
Box 37		688 Pass & Seymour lighting fixture designs, Syracuse, NY
Box 37		692 Monsanto Chemical Company designs in plastic, NYC
Box 37		694 The Kawneer Company consulting, Miles, MI
Box 37		695 Architectural Forum design for filling station, NYC
Box 37		700 Spelman Prentice farmhouse alterations, Wheelock, VT
Box 37		704 J. Walter Thompson office layout, NYC
Tube		706 CBS Theater #4, West 53rd St, NYC - sketches and drawings, including balcony and auditorium plans, structural and lettering details, framing, flagpole, room layout, etc.; includes items from Columbia Broadcasting Company (control room details), Chapman Metal Products (Kal work), Harold Ryan Inc., Air Conditioning, Pan American Iron Works, Inc. (details of pipe railings), and C.E. Halback and Co. (mixer console panels)
Box 37		713 Emerson Radio Cabinet design, NYC
		717 HOPE Windows, Inc., Jamestown NY
Box 37			Miscellaneous
Oversize 16			Research report, bound - clippings, blueprints, plans, etc.
Box 38		719 Pittsburg Plate Glass commercial, Pittsburgh, PA
		723 Cherry Lawn School, Darien, CT
Box 38			Miscellaneous
Tube			Miscellaneous
Tube		725 Parking terminal, Boston
Oversize 12		731 WOR building sign, NYC (4 renderings)
		738 Johnson & Johnson research building, New Brunswick, NJ
Box 38			Miscellaneous
Tube			Miscellaneous
Box 38		740 City for children planning study, East Harlem
		749 Elliot Houses alterations
			See also 643 Chelsea houses, NYC.
Box 38			Miscellaneous
Tube			Miscellaneous
Box 38		751 CBS microphones, NYC (2 folders)
			See also 431 CBS microphones.
Box 38		759 Scarsdale Recreation Survey, Scarsdale, NY
		760 Crosset Health Center, Crosset, AR
Box 39			Miscellaneous (2 folders)
Tube			Miscellaneous
Box 39		761 Chicopee Sales Corporation offices, NYC
Oversize 9		763 City Athletic Club addition, NYC (6 photographs)
		767 (Dr. Frank) Calderone Theatre, Hempstead (Long Island), NY
Box 39			Miscellaneous
Tube			Miscellaneous
Box 39		771 William Brown Meloney alteration at Sutton Square, NYC 1923 - includes items from first WL commission (2 folders)
			See also 131 Simeon Ford House, 2 Sutton Square, NYC.
Tube		777 Radio station, Reykjavik, Iceland
Box 39		779 CBS Mobile unit, NYC (2 folders)
Box 40		780 Alfred Loomis House, Easthampton, NY
Box 40		785 Elementary School Norwood, NJ
		786 City & Municipal Courts Building, NYC
			See also 1000 City and Municipal Courts Building, NYC .
Box 40			Miscellaneous (4 folders)
Tube			Miscellaneous
		787 Public School 14, Richmond (Staten Island) NY
Box 40			Miscellaneous
Tube			Miscellaneous
Box 40		789 Crown Central Petroleum Corporation filling station, Baltimore
		791 Jerome Crowley house, South Bend, IN
Tube			Miscellaneous
Oversize 9			Photographs (4 items)
		800 NY Housing Trust prefab research, NYC
Box 41			Miscellaneous
Oversize 9			Drawings (3 chalk (?) renderings)
		801 Reliance Steel Corporation prefab houses, Pittsburgh, PA
Box 41			Miscellaneous
Oversize 9			Photographs (1 negative)
		810 Sherwin S. Levey house, Candlewood Lake, CT
Box 41			Miscellaneous
Tube			Miscellaneous
Oversize 9			Photograph (1 item)
Tube		813 Belmont Hill School additions, Belmont, MA
Box 41		831 UNIWALL research, second stage
Box 41		832 Frederick V. Field house alterations, NYC
Box 41		844 Sydenham Hospital addition, NYC
		849A Harbor Homes housing development, Port Washington (Long Island), NY
Box 42			Miscellaneous
Tube			Miscellaneous
		849B Spinney Hill Homes, Manhasset, NY
Box 42			Miscellaneous
Oversize 9			Photographs (4 items)
Box 42		862 Durisol, Inc., house, Aberdeen, MD
Box 42		873 Dune Deck Hotel
		874 Sydney Kaye house, Cornwall Bridge, CT
Box 42			Miscellaneous
Tube			Miscellaneous
Oversize 9			Photographs (10 items)
Box 43		896 J. Walter Thompson office for Ruth Waldo, NYC
Tube		899 Webb & Knapp alterations, NYC
Box 43		900 State Building Code Commission
Box 43		917 Republic Steel penthouse, Cleveland, OH
Box 43		928 Sculptors Guild exhibition, NYC 1952
Box 43		930 Porcelain Enamel Institute research (4 folders)
		931 Webb & Knapp addition, NYC
Box 43			Miscellaneous
Tube			Miscellaneous
Box 44		937 India Exchange, Ltd. Calcutta
Box 44		941 Cinerama Theater alterations, NYC
Box 44		942 Sutton House apartments, NYC
		951 711 Third Avenue, NYC
Box 44			Miscellaneous (2 folders)
Oversize 9			Photographs (5 photographs, including 3 of mural by Hans Hyman)
Oversize 9		962 Government of India tourist information office, 11 East 58th NYC - (2 photographs)
		980 School of Industrial Art, NYC
Box 44			Miscellaneous
Tube			Miscellaneous
		985 Salamanca Housing Project, Salamanca, NY
Box 44			Miscellaneous
Tube			Miscellaneous
Oversize 12			Drawings (3 renderings)
		1000 City and Municipal Courts Building, NYC
			See also 786 City & Municipal Courts Building, NYC.
Box 45			Miscellaneous (2 folders)
Tube			Miscellaneous
Oversize 6			Project files and photographs - 1 set of project files (plans, renderings, descriptions), 2 portfolios of photographs
Oversize 12			Miscellaneous - 1 rendering, 1 photograph, 2 folios of preliminary documents and blueprints
		1009 Manhattanville Houses, NYC
Box 46			Miscellaneous (2 folders)
Tube			Miscellaneous
Box 46		1014 U.S. Mission to the U.N. office layouts, NYC
Box 46		1015 Plainview Jewish Community Center, Long Island NY
Box 46		1017 CBS, 18th floor lobby, NYC
		1025 Borg-Warner Building, Chicago
Box 46			Miscellaneous
Tube			Miscellaneous
Oversize 12			Printed advertising piece
Box 46		1045 Dune Deck Hotel, Westhampton Beach, NY
Box 46		1050 2 Broadway Building, NYC
		1057 Swiss Embassy Chancellery Building, Washington, DC
Box 47			Miscellaneous (2 folders)
Oversize 2			Drawings (6 floor plans)
Oversize 10		1064 111 Pine Street, San Francisco - brochure, 1 photograph of rendering
		1072 30 West Broadway, NYC
Box 47			Miscellaneous
Tube			Miscellaneous
Box 47		1083 Jerome Crowley house alterations, South Bend, IN (2 folders)
Box 47		1086 Benjamin J. Buttenweiser apartment, 450 East 52nd St., NYC
Box 47		1092 Swiss Embassy interiors, Washington, DC
Tube		1100 Manhasset housing project, Manhasset, NY
		1101 200 East 58th apartments, NYC
Box 47			Miscellaneous
Tube			Miscellaneous
Box 47		1107 Mayfair Theatre, 47th St. & 7th Avenue, NYC
Box 47		1108 Brotherhood-In-Action House, 40th St. & 7th Avenue, NYC
Box 48		1116 250 Greenwich Avenue, NYC
Box 48		1120 Shore Club Towers, Detroit, MI
		1121 Churchill apartment house, Los Angeles, CA
Box 48			Miscellaneous
Tube			Miscellaneous
		1125 245 Park Avenue, NYC
Box 48			Miscellaneous
Tube			Miscellaneous
Oversize 10			Photographs (9 photographs of model)
Box 48		1135 Lawrence Buttenweiser apartment, 5th Avenue & 89th St, NYC
Box 48		1136 Monterey Tower limited dividend housing, 180th St. & Monterey Avenue, Bronx
		1140 10 East 70th Street, NYC - possibly motel/apartment house
Box 48			Miscellaneous
Oversize 10			Photographs (4 photographs of model)
		1160 Washington Street Market project, NYC
Tube			Miscellaneous
Oversize 10			Photographs (4 photographs of model)
Box 48		1161 74 West 92nd apartments, NYC
		1183 Methodist Church Center, East 44th St, NYC
Box 48			Miscellaneous
Tube			Miscellaneous
		1185 300 East 42nd Building, NYC
Box 48			Miscellaneous
Tube			Miscellaneous
Oversize 10			Drawings (2 renderings, 2 photographs of renderings)
		1194 777 Third Avenue Building, NYC
Box 48			Miscellaneous
Box 49			Miscellaneous, including photographs (2 folders)
Tube			Miscellaneous
Oversize 11			Project book, photographs - 3 photographs, bound project book with photographs, plans, descriptions, etc., and 1 small box slides
		1195 First National City Bank World's Fair exhibition building, NYC
Box 49			Miscellaneous - includes site plan, floor plans, planting plan, interior elevations, sections, finish schedules, furniture plan, and details for windows, metalwork, teller's counter, exterior door/window, assorted signage
Tube			Miscellaneous
Box 49		1204 59th St. & Madison Avenue Office Building, NYC
Box 49		1222 Speed-Park garage study
Box 49		1224 Stern's Department Store alteration, NYC
		1225 Goldwater Memorial Hospital auditorium and chapels, NYC
Box 49			Miscellaneous
Tube			Miscellaneous
Oversize 10			Project book - plans, renderings, descriptions, etc.
Tube		1229 979 Third Avenue Rothschild showroom and offices, NYC
Box 49		1241 200 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago
Tube		1242 110 East 59th, NYC
Tube		1249 905 Third Avenue, Post Office Building, NYC
		1263 Stratford Tower apartments, NYC
Box 49			Miscellaneous
Tube			Miscellaneous
Tube		1265 345 Park Avenue/580 Lexington Avenue, NYC
Tube		1271 Hotel converted to apartments, Detroit, MI
		1282 Downstate Medical Center Garage, Brooklyn
Box 50			Miscellaneous (2 folders)
Tube			Miscellaneous
		1284 Chatham Plaza Center, Pittsburgh
Box 50			Miscellaneous
Tube			Miscellaneous
Oversize 10			Miscellaneous (1 photograph, 1 rendering)
Box 50		1285 Washington Market commercial, warehouse and industrial buildings, NYC
			See also 1160 Washington Street Market project, NYC.
Tube		1300 Junior High School #24, Richmond (Staten Island), NY
Tube		1305 Post Office, Hicksville (Long Island), NY
Box 50		1306 1 New York Plaza
		1318 Metro North housing project, East Harlem
Box 50			Miscellaneous
Tube			Miscellaneous
		1325 Creedmoor Hospital rehabilitation center, Queens, NY
Box 51			Miscellaneous
Tube			Miscellaneous
		1330 1 Oliver Plaza (Oliver Tyrone Building), Pittsburgh
Tube 1330-A			Miscellaneous - includes garage level plans, office building plans, interior and exterior elevations, first floor plans with exit stairs, 13th floor machine room, ductwork, landscape drawings, grading study, restaurant study scheme, miscellaneous sketches, exterior perspective, 6th Ave. entrance, and details of lobby wall finish, luminous ceiling, parapet, etc.
Tube 1330-B			Miscellaneous - includes garage level plans, plans and "core plans" for 1st through 38th floors, 13th floor mechanical, roof plan and sections, sections and details for stairs and truck bay, wall sections and details for roof and bulokhead wall, garage/entrance ramp section, and details for curtain wall, louvers, storefront, elevator, toilets, elevator lobby floor, and "moving stairs"
Tube 1330-C			Miscellaneous - includes master list of plans with drawing numbers, site plan, plans for garage level (all three floors and ramp), plans and core plans for 1st through 38th floors, 13th floor mechanical room, exterior elevations (including stonework), and details for lobby, interior columns, stairs, "moving stairs", elevators, plaza, truck bay, curtain wall, storefront, ironwork and toilets
Oversize 10			Miscellaneous (2 photographs of model, 1 rendering)
			Scale model
		1360 110 East 59th Street, NYC
Box 51			Miscellaneous (3 folders)
Tube			Miscellaneous
Box 51		1363 NYSE site study, NYC
Tube		1376 1 Oliver Plaza (Oliver Tyrone Building) revisions, Pittsburgh
Box 51		1388 Chase Manhattan Bank canopies, NYC
Box 51		1411 2 New York Plaza, Broad & South Sts, NYC
Tube		1422 Garage roof, Albany, NY
Box 51		1477 1155 Raymond Avenue Building, Newark, NJ
Box 51		1452 1 New York Plaza alterations, NYC
Box 52		Slides and photographic negatives
Box 53		Slides and photographic negatives
Box 54		Slides and photographic negatives

	Architectural career
Box 55		Joblist
Box 55		Miscellaneous
Box 55		Schools

	Biographical material
Box 55		Sketches and chronologies
Box 55		Coate, Robert "Profiles" The New Yorker Dec. 12, 1936
Box 55		Resumes
Box 55		Exhibitions
Box 55		Lectures and radio broadcasts
Box 55		Memberships registration and appointments
Box 55		Published on or by Lescaze and his work
Box 55		Works executed

	Correspondence
Box 55		A - E
Box 56		F - Z
Box 56		Albers, Jose F
Box 56		American Institution of Architects
Box 56		Architectural Forum
Box 56		Architectural League of New York
Box 56		Architectural Press
Box 57		Architectural Record
Box 57		Architectural Review
Box 57		Architecture and design
Box 57		Architecture forms and functions
Box 57		Ballardie, Thompson and Matthews
Box 57		Beline, Arthur S (commissioner)
Box 57		Binet, Jean
Box 57		Board of Standards and Planning for the Living Theatre
Box 57		Building Research Advisory Board
Box 57		Cincinnati Art Museum
Box 57		Citizens Housing and Planning Council
Box 57		Clauss, Alfred
Box 57		Columbia University
Box 57		Connecticut Library Association
Box 57		Cooper Union, Student Association of the Institute of Architects
Box 57		Cummings, George Bain
Box 57		Dumper, Henry A
Box 57		Empire State Architect
Box 57		Exhibitions (2 folders)
Box 58		Harvard Graduate School of Design
Box 58		Hecksher, August
Box 58		High School of Music and Art, New York City
Box 58		Howe, George
Box 58		Le Corbusier
		Lescaze, Mary (Mrs. William)
Box 58			1921-1938, 1940s, 1950s (7 folders)
Box 58			NY 1930s?
Box 58		Luhan, Mabel Dodge - by and about
Box 58		Moser, Werner M
Box 58		Mumford, Lewis
Box 58		Museum of Modern Art
Box 59		New Helvetic Society 1948-1949
Box 59		New Republic
Box 59		New York City Federation of Women's Clubs
Box 59		New York State Building Code Commission
Box 59		New York University
Box 59		Norman, Dorothy (Mrs. Edward Dorman)
Box 59		Pasmore, Victor - by and about
Box 59		Pepper, Beverly (Mrs. William)
Box 59		Philadelphia Savings and Fund Society
Box 59		Plus
Box 59		Progressive Education Association
Box 59		Princeton University
Box 59		G. P. Putnam & Sons and others 1938-1956 - regarding monograph by WL on being an architect (2 folders)
Box 59		Radio Daily
Box 59		Santacilia, Carlos Obregon
Box 59		Savings Bank Journal
Box 59		School of Industrial Art, New York City
Box 59		Serrand, Gabriel
Box 59		Shelter
Box 59		Soulages, Pierre
Box 59		Syracuse University
Box 59		TASK
Box 59		United States, Office of War Information
Box 59		University of Florida
Box 59		WNYC, Educational Institute of the Air
Box 59		WQXR
Box 59		Western Arts Association
Box 59		Wells College
Box 60		Wingert, Paul S.
Box 60		Worcester Art Museum
Box 60		Yale University Press
Box 60		Unidentified
Box 60		Letters to the editor, New York Times and others

	Drawings
		Architectural
Box 60			by George Howe of Mellor, Meigs & Howe (PSFS) 1923
Box 60			by George Howe? Mellor, Meigs & Howe, Stokowski 1926
Box 60			by Howe & Lescaze for Arts & Decoration Aug 1934
Box 60			by William Lescaze and others
		Architectural/miscellaneous
Box 60			by William Lescaze
Box 60			by unidentified
		Industrial design
Box 60			Ashtray, cigarette cases, salt & pepper shaker
Box 60			Furniture, not used
Box 60			Furniture and miscellaneous
Box 61			Lamp fixtures, Kootz
Box 61			Radiators 1938
Box 61			Miscellaneous
		Miscellaneous
Box 61			Etching, "Lord Algernon" for Pierre Girard undated
				Gift of Dwight Lanmon, 2013.
Box 61			Etching, "With Best Wishes for a Happy New Year" undated
Box 61			Sketches undated - pencil; pen and ink

	Legal and financial
Box 61		Analysis of costs to owners and architects 1939-1940
Box 61		Mary Lescaze 1956, 1961 - passport and International Drivers License
Box 61		Certificates
Box 61		Contract with G. P. Putnam & Sons for How to be an architect 4 Feb 1941
Box 61		Lease Oct. 1, 1932 - Sept.30, 1933
Box 61		Military Service Record, Switzerland 1914
Box 61		Naturalization papers March 18, 1929
Box 61		Passport, driver's permits 1937-1938, 1956, 1961
Box 61		Transportation identification card 1935
Box 61		Memorandum of facts in connection with auction sale of 21 Sutton Place Dec. 15, 1924

	Memorabilia
Oversize 7		Certificates, awards, other documents, in portfolio
Box 61		Christmas cards
		Clippings
			See Scrapbooks.
Box 61		Clipping and notes from trip 1962
		Photographs
Box 61			Samuel A. Crozer Residence, Philadelphia, PA, by Howe before 1929
Box 61			L. Hoden Residence, Bryn Mawr, PA, by G. Howe
Box 61			Philadelphia Savings Fund Society, by Howe circa 1923
Box 61			2 Sutton Place, NY 1923, 1928
Box 61			Architecture by WL?
Box 61			Drawings from "renderings" scrapbook (2 folders)
Box 61			Artworks by WL
Box 61			Industrial design photographs from scrapbook
Box 62			Howe, George
Box 62			Lescaze, Mary
Box 62			Lescaze, William
Box 62			Lescaze, William and others
Box 62			Lescaze, William and Mary (in studio?), artwork and other individuals
Box 62			McCormick, Walter
Box 62			Sculptures by others
Box 62			Printed material - exhibition and exposition catalogues and announcements
		Printed material
Box 62			by Lescaze (3 folders)
Box 62			On being an architect by WL
Box 62			The intent of the artist by Sherwood Anderson (2 copies)
Box 62			The intent of the artist by Thornton Wilder
Box 62			The intent of the artist by Roger Sessions
Box 62			The intent of the artist by William Lescaze
Box 62			About Lescaze, On being an architect
Box 62			About Lescaze (5 folders)
Box 62			The story of our time (Encyclopedia yearbook)
Box 62			Art and the machine by Sheldon and Martha Cheney
Box 62			Tomorrow's house by Nelson Wright
Box 63			"The new world architecture" by Sheldon Cheney
Box 63			The role of William Lescaze in the introduction of the international style to the United States, by Lanmon 1979 - dissertation, University of Delaware
Box 63			New York's Turtle Bay: old and new by Delaney
		Scrapbooks
Oversize 14			Clippings - includes Unity House, other jobs
Oversize 15			Clippings
Oversize 16			Clippings

	Architectural works
		For many of these projects there is also material -- drawings, blueprints, and other material -- in the first series in the collection ("Individual commissions"). This material is arranged by project number. Refer to the Alphabetical index of projects at the end of this finding aid to locate this material.
Box 63		Ansonia High School
Box 63		Aviation Building
Box 63		Bernhard Residence
Box 63		Butler House
Box 63		Buttenwieser
Box 63		Calderone Theater
Box 63		Candlewood Lake
Box 63		CBS (2 folders)
Box 63		Cates House
Box 63		Cinerama
Box 63		City and Municipal Courts Building
Box 63		Crawford House
Box 63		Crossett House
Box 63		Curry House
Box 63		Dartington Hall
Box 63		Dune Hotel
Box 63		Dunn
Box 63		Fenestra
Box 63		Field House
Box 63		Goucher College
Box 63		Harbor House
Box 63		Henderson Theater
Box 63		Hessian Hills
Box 63		Hobart House
Box 63		Kramer House
Box 63		Lescazes Homes
Box 63		Levey House
Box 63		Loomis House
Box 63		Mali Playroom
Box 63		Manhattanville Houses
Box 63		Museum of Modern Art
Box 63		Norman House
Box 63		Norwood School
Box 63		Oak Lane Country Day
Box 63		Philadelphia Savings Fund Society (6 folders)
Box 63		Prefabricated Houses
Box 63		Spinny Hills
Box 63		Stowkowski Apartment
Box 63		Swiss Embassy
Box 63		Swiss Pavilion
Box 63		J. W. Thompson Company
Box 63		Unity House
Box 63		Wilbour Library
Box 63		Williams C. D.
Box 63		Williamsburg Houses
Box 63		Woods End Apartment
Box 63		No. 2 Broadway
Box 63		No. 30 West Broadway
Box 63		No. 300 East 42nd Street
Box 63		No. 711 Third Avenue
Box 63		No. 777 Third Avenue

	Writings
Box 64		On architecture 1937, undate (2 items)
Box 64		On architecture 1937-1954
		On being an architect
Box 64			Research material and photographs
Box 64			Manuscript, typescript
Box 64			Manuscript, typescript 1941-1942
Box 64			Early version? partial
Box 64			Book reviews 1943, 1949
Box 64			Book reviews by WL with correspondence
		Lectures
Box 65			1928-1932
Box 65			1934-1935
Box 65			1934-1938 (Lescaze?)
Box 65			1936-1937
Box 65			1939-1964 (Lescaze?)
Box 65			1938-1939
Box 65			1940-1943
Box 65			1945
Box 65			1951-1963
Box 65			Correspondence
Box 65			Slides
Box 65			Miscellaneous material
Box 65		Lescaze(?) notebook with sketches circa 1918
Box 65		Lescaze and N.B. Brainerd / Wealth or the thrift of the city plan 1921 - playPhotoplay scenario TMS
Box 65		Radio interviews 1938-1954
Box 65		Notes, lecture 1932-1969 - includes clippings and excerpts from others
Box 65		Unidentified
Box 65		Notes, miscellaneous 1920?-1968, undated
Box 66		Smith, L.W. / Art or Insanity - which? 1933
Box 66		Wingert, Paul S. / William Lescaze: Modern American Architect
Box 66		About Lescaze
Box 66		By others - quotes and notes
Box 66		Miscellaneous (2 folders)

Return to top

Alphabetical index of projects

The index below lists all projects alphabetically, followed by their corresponding project number(s). Those with no number may be found in the inventory above, in the section entitled "Individual commissions : Unnumbered projects."

• 1 New York Plaza, alterations : 1452
• 1 New York Plaza : 1306
• 1 Oliver Plaza, Pittsburgh, revisions, : 1376
• 1 Oliver Plaza, Pittsburgh : 1330
• 10 East 70th Street, NYC : 1140
• 110 East 59th Street, NYC : 1242; 1360
• 111 Pine Street, San Francisco : 1064
• 1155 Raymond Avenue Building, Newark, NJ : 1477
• 1200 Market St. [PSFS?] : [no number]
• 2 Broadway Building, NYC : 1050
• 2 New York Plaza, Broad & South Sts, NYC : 1411
• 200 East 58th apartments, NYC : 1101
• 200 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago : 1241
• 245 Park Avenue, NYC : 1125
• 250 Greenwich Avenue, NYC : 1116
• 30 West Broadway, NYC : 1072
• 300 East 42nd Building, NYC : 1185
• 345 Park Avenue/580 Lexington Avenue, NYC : 1265
• 59th St. & Madison Avenue office building, NYC : 1204
• 711 Third Avenue, NYC : 951
• 74 West 92nd apartments, NYC : 1161
• 777 Third Avenue Building, NYC : 1194
• 905 Third Avenue, Post Office Building, NYC : 1249
• 979 Third Avenue Rothschild showroom and offices, NYC : 1229
• Amos Parrish & Co. offices, NYC : 228
• An American House : [no number]
• Andrew Geller Shoe Stores showroom, NYC : 251
• Ansonia High School, Ansonia, CT : 419
• Apartment house and garage project, NYC : 252
• Apartment house lobby alterations, Washington, DC : 639
• Apartment house project, Park Avenue and 72nd Street : [no number]
• Architectural Forum design for filling station, NYC : 695
• Arden Gallery penthouse duplex, NYC : 256
• Astoria-Queens housing development, NYC : 340
• Aviation Building, World's Fair, NYC : 582
• Barber and beauty shop, Grand Central Station : [no number]
• Barnes, Mrs. Joseph, alterations, NYC : 643A
• Belmont Hill School additions, Belmont, MA : 813
• Borg-Warner Building, Chicago, IL : 1025
• Briggs Haberdashery, NYC : 272
• Brooklyn Children's Museum, NYC : 386
• Brooklyn Museum auditorium, NYC : 391
• Brotherhood-In-Action House, 40th St. & 7th Avenue, NYC : 1108
• Brunswick-Balke-Collender billiard tables : 406
• Butler, William weekend residence, Harvey Cedars, NJ : 432
• Buttenweiser, Benjamin J. apartment, 450 East 52nd St., NYC : 1086
• Buttenweiser, Benjamin J. alteration, Bedford, NY : 614B
• Buttenweiser, Benjamin J. child's bedroom, NYC : 673
• Buttenweiser, Lawrence apartment, 5th Avenue & 89th St, NYC : 1135
• Buttenweiser, Mrs. Benjamin J. town house, 17 East 73rd, NYC : 396
• Calderone Theatre, Hempstead, NY : 767
• Cates, Vincent K. residence, Melrose, MA : 407
• CBS display room, NYC : 417
• CBS elevator study, NYC : 444
• CBS little theater, NYC : 410
• CBS microphones, NYC : 431; 751
• CBS miscellaneous accessories, NYC : 418
• CBS mobile unit, NYC : 779
• CBS Studios, Hollywood : 515
• CBS Studios, NYC : 405; 426; 443; 549-570
• CBS Studios, San Francisco, CA : 531; 549-570
• CBS Theater #4, West 53rd St, NYC : 706
• CBS Theater, West 45th Street, NYC : 398
• CBS, 18th floor lobby, NYC : 1017
• CBS, unidentified jobs : [no number]
• CBS-WBBM Studios, Chicago, IL : 501
• CBS-WCAU auditorium alteration, Philadelphia, PA : 600
• Chase Manhattan Bank canopies, NYC : 1388
• Chatham Plaza Center, Pittsburgh, PA : 1284
• Chelsea houses, NYC : 643
• Cherry Lawn School alteration, Darien CT : 617A
• Cherry Lawn School boy's dormitory : 617B
• Cherry Lawn School, Darien, CT : 723
• Chicopee Sales Corporation offices, NYC : 761
• Children's Haven hospital, NYC : 364
• Christie-Forsythe housing development, NYC : 322
• Churchill apartment house, Los Angeles, CA : 1121
• Churston Development hotel, 1st, Devon, England : 247
• Churston Development hotel, 2d batch houses : 451
• Churston Development hotel, 3rd batch houses : 454
• Churston Development hotel, 4th batch houses : 455
• Churston Estate housing development, Devon, England : 346
• Cinerama Theater alterations, NYC : 941
• City and Municipal Courts Building, NYC : 786; 1000
• City Athletic Club addition, NYC : 763
• City for children planning study, East Harlem : 740
• Cocktail shaker design : 402
• Community House for La Chaux de Fonds 1919 : [no number]
• Country House for Young Couple, commissioned for Architecture Forum 1927 : [no number]
• Crawford, Mrs. George guest house, Greenwich, CT : 630
• Creedmoor Hospital rehabilitation center, Queens, NY : 1325
• Crosset Health Center, Crosset, AR : 760
• Crowley, Jerome residence alterations, South Bend, IN : 1083
• Crowley, Jerome residence, South Bend, IN : 791
• Crown Central Petroleum Corporation filling station, Baltimore : 789
• Dartington Hall boarding School, South Devon, England : 347
• Dartington Hall cottages : 369
• Dartington Hall gymnasium : 356
• Dartington Hall nursery school : 355
• Dartington Hall offices and laboratory : 357
• Dartington Hall offices : 323
• Dartington Hall piggery : 358
• Dartington Hall residence for Kurt Jooss, South Devon, England : 393
• Dartington Hall theater : 375
• Dartington Hall, headmaster's residence (W.B. Curry) : 304
• Dartington Hall, junior school only : 304B
• de Sieyes, Jean hunting lodge, Mt. Kisco, NY : 220
• Diploma Project, Large building block in Zurich 1919 : [no number]
• Dorie-Miller East Harlem Housing Project, NYC : 686
• Dorothy Gray store front, NYC : 339
• Downstate Medical Center Garage, Brooklyn : 1282
• Dreyfus, Herbert M. apartment, NYC : 275
• Dune Deck Hotel, Westhampton Beach, NY : 1045
• Dune Deck Hotel : 873
• Dunn, Frederick S. cottage, Woodbridge, CT : 604
• Dunn, Frederick S. residence, Woodbridge, CT : 509
• Durisol, Inc., residence, Aberdeen, MD : 862
• Edgewood School 1924 : [no number]
• Editorial Publications office alterations, NYC : 381
• Elementary School Norwood, NJ : 785
• Elliot Houses alterations : 749
• Emerson Radio Cabinet design, NYC : 713
• Fain, W.H. [Williams] residence : 520
• Ferguson, Alice apartment house, NYC : 214
• Field, Frederick V. apartment, NYC : 507
• Field, Frederick V. guest house, New Hartford, CT : 658
• Field, Frederick V. residence addition, Hartford, CT : 514
• Field, Frederick V. residence alterations, NYC : 832
• Field, Frederick V. residence, New Hartford, CT : 301
• First National City Bank World's Fair exhibition building, NYC : 1195
• Ford, Simeon residence, 2 Sutton Square, NYC : 131
• Fox motion picture theater : 318
• Frank Vance Storrs offices : 313
• Frederick Loeser Exhibition Rooms, Brooklyn : 226
• Froelich, Howard residence, NYC : 409
• Future American Country House, Commissioned for Architectural Record 1928 : [no number]
• Garage at Queensborough Bridge, NYC : 586
• Garage roof, Albany, NY : 1422
• Goldwater Memorial Hospital auditorium and chapels, NYC : 1225
• Good, Lloyd weekend residence, Harvey Cedars, N.J : 432
• Goucher College competition, Baltimore : 598
• Government of India tourist information office, 11 East 58th NYC : 962
• Grand Central Building : [no number]
• Gustavson, John residence, Harvey Cedars, N.J : 512
• Halle Brothers Exhibition 1928 : [no number]
• Hanna Building : [no number]
• Harbor Homes housing development. Port Washington (Long Island), NY : 849A
• Harding, Mrs. Charles salon, NYC : 270
• Hartmann, Dr. G.W. residence, State College, PA : 361
• Hattie Carnegie shop : 316
• Herzberg, Ben apartment, NYC : 276
• Hessian Hills School, Croton-on-Hudson, NY : 312
• Hobart residence, alterations, Paterson, N.J : 634
• Hobart residence, Tuxedo Park, NY : 588
• HOPE Windows, Inc., Jamestown NY : 717
• Hotel converted to apartments, Detroit, MI : 1271
• House of 2039 Project : [no number]
• House of the Future : [no number]
• Howe and Lescaze office, Philadelphia : 289
• India Exchange, Ltd. Calcutta : 937
• J. Walter Thompson offices, NYC : 516
• J. Walter Thompson, office for Ruth Waldo, NYC : 408; 896
• J. Walter Thompson, office layout, NYC : 704
• Johnson & Johnson research building, New Brunswick, NJ : 738
• Junior High School #24, Richmond (Staten Island), NY : 1300
• Kaye, Sydney, residence, Cornwall Bridge, CT : 874
• Kimble Glass, office building. Vineland, N.J : 523
• Kimble Glass, superintendent's offices, Vineland, N.J : 548
• Kootz, Samuel residence : [no number]
• Kramer, Raymond C. town house, 32 East 74th, NYC : 379
• Laurel Hill housing development, NYC : 345
• League of Nations : [no number]
• Lescaze residence, 211 East 48th, NYC : 602
• Levey, Sherwin S. residence, Candlewood Lake, CT : 810
• Libby-Owen-Ford Building, World's Fair, NYC : 584
• London Shoe showroom, NYC : 247
• Longfellow Building, Washington, DC : 619
• Loomis, Alfred residence, Easthampton, NY : 780
• Loomis, Alfred residence, Tuxedo Park, NY : 517
• Macy exhibition, penthouse studio, NYC : 232
• Magnolia Petroleum exposition building, Dallas, TX : 440
• Maison, Bertie beauty parlor, NYC : 255
• Mali, Mrs. playroom, NYC : 545
• Manhasset housing project, Manhasset, NY : 1100
• Manhattanville Houses, NYC : 1009
• Markel, Howard country house, Redding, CT : 542
• May, Stacy cottage, Martha's Vineyard, MA : 606
• Mayfair Theatre, 47th St. & 7th Avenue, NYC : 1107
• Meloney, William Brown alteration at Sutton Square, NYC 1923 : 771
• Meridian Housing Corporation 1936 : [no number]
• Methodist Church Center, East 44th St, NYC : 1183
• Metro North housing project, East Harlem : 1318
• Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Industrial Art Exhibition, NYC : 387
• Metropolitan Museum of Art, exhibition, NYC : 623
• Meyer, S.T. apartment store, NYC : 239
• Monsanto Chemical Company, NYC : 692
• Monterey Tower limited dividend housing, 180th St. & Monterey Avenue, Bronx : 1136
• Moulin Rouge Restaurant alterations, NYC : 185
• Museum of Modern Art project, NYC : 295
• Nash, Frederick V. country house, Minneapolis, MN : 532
• Norman, Edward A. residence, 124 East 70th, NYC : 628
• Nudelman & Conti showroom, NYC : 236
• NY Housing Trust prefab research, NYC : 800
• NYSE site study, NYC : 1363
• Oak Lane Country Day School, Philadelphia : 258
• Painted drapery for a restaurant 1924 : [no number]
• Parking terminal, Boston, MA : 725
• Pass & Seymour lighting fixture designs, Syracuse, NY : 688
• Peck, Arthur residence, Paoli, PA : 286
• Pennsylvania Museum of Art children's room, Philadelphia, PA : 320
• Philadelphia Saving Fund Society, building, Philadelphia, PA : 284
• Philadelphia Saving Fund Society, garage, Philadelphia, PA : 297
• Philadelphia Saving Fund Society, vault, Philadelphia, PA : 121
• Phillips, R. Colfax apartment, NYC : 222
• Pittsburg Plate Glass commercial, Pittsburgh, PA : 719
• Plainview Jewish Community Center, Long Island NY : 1015
• Porcelain Enamel Institute research : 930
• Porter, Mrs. George French residence, Ojai, CA : 277
• Post Office, Hicksville (Long Island), NY : 1305
• Psi Upsilon Fraternity Club House, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH : 335
• Public School 14, Richmond (Staten Island) NY : 787
• Purdue University small house, Purdue, IN : 434
• Queensbridge housing development, NYC : 377
• Radio station, Reykjavik, Iceland : 777
• Reliance Steel Corporation prefab houses, Pittsburgh, PA : 801
• Republic Steel penthouse, Cleveland, OH : 917
• River Gardens housing development, NYC : 336
• Rogers, Bernard residence, Rochester, NY : 519
• Salamanca Housing Project, Salamanca, NY : 985
• Scarsdale Recreation Survey, Scarsdale, NY : 759
• School of Industrial Art, NYC : 980
• Sculptors Guild exhibition, NYC 1952 : 928
• Shore Club Towers, Detroit, MI : 1120
• Silvray lamps : 411
• Sinkler, James M. R. residence, Philadelphia, PA : 117
• Soldiers and Sailors Monument 1928 : [no number]
• Speed-Park garage study : 1222
• Speiser, Maurice J. residence, Philadelphia, PA : [no number]
• Spelman Prentice farmhouse alterations, Wheelock, VT : 700
• Spinney Hill Homes, Manhasset, NY : 849B
• Spivacke, Harold residence, Washington, D.C : 622
• Spreter, Roy F. residence and garage, Ardmore, PA : 360
• State Building Code Commission : 900
• Stern's Department Store alteration, NYC : 1224
• Stokowski, Leopold apartment, NYC : 241
• Stone, Maurice bedroom, NYC : 648
• Stratford Tower apartments, NYC : 1263
• Sutton House apartments, NYC : 942
• Swiss Embassy Chancellery Building, Washington, D.C : 1057
• Swiss Embassy interiors, Washington, D.C : 1092
• Swiss Pavilion, World's Fair, NYC : 597
• Sydenham Hospital addition, NYC : 844
• Tapestry design for theatre, New Haven, CT : 180
• The Kawneer Company consulting, Miles, MI : 694
• Theatre and store building for Carl Brunson Hollywood, CA 1926 : 157
• Time, Inc. offices, NYC : 518
• Trans Lux motion picture theaters, NYC : 307
• U.S. Mission to the U.N. office layouts, NYC : 1014
• Unity House camp, Bushkill, PA : 397
• Unity Lap Robe Co. showroom, NYC : 259
• UNIWALL research, second stage : 831
• Wallace, William Kay country house, Bedford Village, NY : 380
• Warehouse for the Board of Education, Cleveland, OH 1922 : [no number]
• Washington Market commercial, warehouse and industrial buildings, NYC : 1285
• Washington Street Market project, NYC : 1160
• Wasserman, William Stix office, Philadelphia : 314
• Wasserman, William Stix residence, Whitemarsh, PA : 107B; 262
• Webb & Knapp addition, NYC : 931
• Webb & Knapp alterations, NYC : 899
• Wertheim, Maurice residence, Cos Cob, CT : 321
• Wilbour Library alterations, Brooklyn : 366
• Williamsburg housing project, NYC : 388
• Willow Garden Restaurant : 133
• WLW Studios, Cincinnati, OH : 684
• Woods End defense housing, Roselle, N.J : 680
• WOR building sign, NYC : 731

Return to top