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| | Manuscript Collection | Save | | 1 | Title: | Historic American Buildings Survey, District 22 Records
| | | | Creator: | Historic American Buildings Survey, District 22 | | | | Dates: | 1931-1942 | | | | Abstract: | The Historic American Buildings Survey was a national survey to record and catalog historic buildings. It began in 1934 as a federal make-work project to provide work for unemployed architects, draftsmen and photographers. It was initially funded and supervised by the Civil Works Administration and later supervised by the National Park Service, the American Institute of Architecture, and the Library of Congress, with a combination of private and Works Progress Administration (WPA) funds. William A. Bohnard was the first Northern Ohio District Officer. The collection consists of field notebooks, correspondence, articles, project histories, financial records, administrative forms, sketches, maps, blueprints, drawings, lists of buildings, and indexes of the HABS Northern Ohio District (District 22). | | | | Call #: | MS 3352 | | | | Extent: | 4.20 linear feet (10 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Historic buildings -- Ohio. | Architecture, Domestic -- Ohio. | Public service employment -- Ohio.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2 | Title: | Henry Barnes Curtis Papers
| | | | Creator: | Curtis, Henry Barnes | | | | Dates: | 1824-1847 | | | | Abstract: | Henry Barnes Curtis (1799-1885) was a lawyer, of Mt. Vernon, Ohio. The collection consists of specifications, contracts, bills, orders, receipts, and other memoranda, relating to the construction of the Curtis home. Actual construction of this building, now known as the Curtis-Devin home, was begun in 1934 by Westley Irvin and Eliphalet Armstrong, who followed a design published in Edward Shaw's Civil Architecture in 1831. Some of these papers were published in the Appendix of I. T. Frary's Early Homes of Ohio (Richmond: Garrett and Massie, 1936). | | | | Call #: | MS 2896 | | | | Extent: | 0.10 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Curtis, Henry Barnes, 1799-1885. | Architecture, Domestic -- Ohio. | Mount Vernon (Ohio) -- History.
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