05247cpcaa2200781 a 4500 mm 82075863 DLC 20260227111716.0 cr ||||||||||| 820702|||||||||||| eng mm 82075863 DLC DLC DLC dacs S lcmd Owings, Nathaniel Alexander, 1903- Nathaniel Alexander Owings papers, 1911-1983 (bulk 1960-1980). 28,300 items. 64 containers plus 12 oversize. 29.2 linear feet. Arranged in 7 series. Series 1: Correspondence, 1939-1977; Series 2: Office File, 1954-1969; Series 3: Subject File, 1934-1977; Series 4: Speeches and Writings File, 1944-1977; Series 5: Miscellany, 1911-1976; Series 6: Addition, 1929-1983; and Series 7: Oversize, 1936-1975. Open to research. Correspondence, memoranda, journals, minutes, speeches, writings, reports, notes, subject file, legal and financial records, biographical material, appointment calendars, clippings, scrapbooks, printed matter, charts, graphs, diagrams, photographs, and other papers documenting Owings's career as a founding partner of the architectural firm, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill; chairman of public commissions responsible for the redesign of Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C.; member of various commissions relating to conservation, preservation, and redevelopment in California; and author of works on the aesthetic and practical applications of architecture in contemporary life, architectural theory, and city planning. Includes material relating to his service on or contribution to the California Advisory Committee on a Master Plan for Scenic Highways, the Monterey coast master plan, the Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation, and the President's Council on Pennsylvania Avenue. Includes drafts of Owings's books, The American Aesthetic (1969) and The Spaces In Between: An Architect's Journey (1973); and material pertaining to his gold medal awarded by the American Institute of Architects in 1983 and his collection of kachina dolls made by Hopi Indians. Correspondents include Ansel Adams, Stephen Davison Bechtel, Jerry Brown, Wolf von Eckardt, Arthur J. Goldberg, Lady Bird Johnson, Robert Moses, Daniel P. Moynihan, Elwood R. Quesada, David Rockefeller, Nicholas Roosevelt, Wallace Earle Stegner, and Stewart L. Udall. Recorded tapes transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division. Some photographic material transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Architect and engineer; died 1984. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011038 Adams, Ansel, 1902-1984 Correspondence. Bechtel, Stephen Davison, 1925- Correspondence. Brown, Jerry, 1938- Correspondence. Eckardt, Wolf von, 1918- Correspondence. Goldberg, Arthur J. Correspondence. Johnson, Lady Bird, 1912-2007 Correspondence. Moses, Robert, 1888-1981 Correspondence. Moynihan, Daniel P. (Daniel Patrick), 1927-2003 Correspondence. Quesada, Elwood R. (Elwood Richard), 1904- Correspondence. Rockefeller, David, 1915- Correspondence. Roosevelt, Nicholas, 1893-1982 Correspondence. Stegner, Wallace, 1909-1993 Correspondence. Udall, Stewart L. Correspondence. American Institute of Architects. California. Advisory Committee on a Master Plan for Scenic Highways. Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation. President's Council on Pennsylvania Avenue (U.S.) Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. Architectural firms. Architecture United States. Architecture Awards United States. City planning California. City planning United States. City planning Washington (D.C.) Conservation of natural resources California. Historic preservation California. Hopi Indians. Kachina dolls. Roadside improvement California. Urban beautification United States. Monterey Peninsula (Calif.) Pennsylvania Avenue (Washington, D.C.) Architects. itoamc Engineers. itoamc Owings, Nathaniel Alexander, 1903- American aesthetic. Owings, Nathaniel Alexander, 1903- Spaces in between. Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011038 Finding aid (PDF) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011038.3 43704 43704