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Buck, Lawrence - Buildings #1

 File — Box: 1

Scope and Content of the Collection

From the Collection:

Research files, photographs, and secondary materials related to work done by Prairie School and Chicago School architects in the Midwest. Includes timelines of work, research on buildings along with genealogy and career information for individual architects. The collection focuses on architects Lawrence Buck, Henry L. Ottenheimer and his firm Ottenheimer, Stern & Reichert, Rudolph Schindler, Robert Seyfarth, and Robert C. Spencer, Jr. and his firm Spencer & Powers. Also includes information about Blanche Ostertag, who worked with several of the Prairie School architects, and a paint sample pamphlet from a company in Wausau, Wisconsin.

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

The Donald Aucutt architecture research collection is open for research in the Special Collections Reading Room; 1 box at a time (Priority III).

Repository Details

Part of the The Newberry Library - Modern Manuscripts and Archives Repository

Contact:
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Chicago Illinois 60610 United States
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