Architecture
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
H. Allen Brooks, Architectural Historian Autobiography
00-2012-27-0
Collection
Identifier: 00-2012-27-0
Scope and Contents
The H. Allen Brooks, Architectural Historian Autobiography (2012-27-0) is a five-page typed story of how the auhor became an architectural historian. It includes information on his childhood, education, and professional experience.
H. Allen Brooks was an architectural historian and longtime professor at the University of Toronto. He wrote books on Frank Lloyd Wright and the Prairie School (the name, Prairie School has been credited to Brooks) and the early years of Le Corbusier.
H. Allen...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 2010; Other: Date acquired: 09/07/2012
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Congregational Society of Northfield subscription records
00-1954-50-0
Collection
Identifier: 00-1954-50-0
Scope and Contents
The Congregational Society of Northfield subscription records (1954-50-0) are comprised of three subscription documents relating to the Congregational Society of Northfield. Included are subscriptions records from 1840 and 1844 for repairing the Meeting House, as well as subscription records from 1866 for the construction of a new Meeting House. The 1866 records not only include lists of subscribers, but also written specifications for the construction of the new building which was designed...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1840-1866; Other: Date acquired: 05/05/1954
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Suzi Funnell Photographs
2013-121-0
Collection
Identifier: 2013-121-0
Abstract
Nine 16x24 photographic prints of Litchfield buildings and architectural details taken by photographer Suzi Funnell in 2005 for a local restaurant. They are unedited prints from 35mm film.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 2005
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Robert W. Hill lecture
00-1907-17-0
Collection
Identifier: 00-1907-17-0
Scope and Contents
Robert Wakeman Hill (1828-1909) was a noted architect. He received his early education in the schools of Waterbury and attended the Young Men's Institute in New Haven. He studied architecture with Henry Austin of New Haven and A. C. Nash of Milwaukee, Wis. He returned to Connecticut in 1858 and practiced architecture for a short time in Naugatuck. In 1863, he moved to Waterbury and spent the remainder of his life there. Hill was architect for the state under Governors Bigelow, Waller,...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1906 Jul 30; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1907
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society