manosca78 Cambridge School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture Records, 1919-1986 Finding Aid Finding aid prepared by Gayla Spaulding. Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Smith College Archives
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 Collection Overview Cambridge School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture Cambridge School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture Records1919-1986 RG 60 15 boxes (9.5 linear ft.) Smith College Archives
Northampton, MA
Educational institution developed in association with Harvard University, and later affiliated with Smith College, as a Graduate School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. Contains Alumnae Bulletins, sketches, bookplates, certificates, brochures, correspondence, examinations, photographs, reports, slides, and information on student careers. English. Historical Note

The School was founded in 1915 as the Cambridge School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, and was the first to produce women graduate training in these two professions, coordinated under a single faculty. Due to Harvard University's policy of a male institution, the school ran as a "little experiment" in the office of Henry Frost, professor of architectural design at Harvard University, with only nine to twelve students, all women. In 1924 it was incorporated under Massachusetts law as an educational institution. In 1934 the School was affiliated with Smith College as a Graduate School, retaining its own name and independent organization, but with the privilege of recommending its students to the College for the graduate degrees of Master in Architecture and Master in Landscape Architecture. Two years later the graduate degrees of Bachelor of Architecture and Bachelor of Landscape Architecture were introduced, preceding the Master's degrees, which since that time have been granted for advanced work. In 1938 the School became actually a part of Smith College as its Graduate School in the two professions for which it prepares students, while the school itself was to remain in Cambridge.

 Scope and Contents of the Collection

The Cambridge School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture Records are comprised of Alumnae Bulletins, sketches, bookplates, certificates, brochures, correspondence, examinations, photographs, reports, slides and information on student careers.

Organization of the Collection

This collection is organized into four series:

I. Background II. Alumnae III. Correspondence IV. Publications Information on Use Terms of Access and Use

The papers are open for research according to the regulations of the Smith College Archives with the exception of student files which are restricted and closed to research use.

Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. Permission to publish material from the documents must be requested from the Smith College Archives. Smith College owns copyright to any published material relating to college events and activities. Provenance and copyright ownership of other materials is unknown and researchers are responsible for determining any question of copyright.

Preferred Citation

Please use the following format when citing materials from this collection:

Cambridge School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture Records, Box #, Smith College Archives.

 History of the Collection

The Cambridge School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture Records were donated by Dorothy May Anderson to the Smith College Archives.

Processed by Gayla Spaulding

 Search Terms Cambridge School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture Smith College--History--Sources. Architecture--Study and teaching (Higher)--Massachusetts --Cambridge. Landscape architecture--Study and teaching (Higher --Massachusetts--Cambridge. Additional Information Related Material

Smith College President's Office Records re: Cambridge School, 1927-1943

Dorothy May Anderson Papers, American Society of Landscape, 1976

Architects, Committee for Women in Landscape Architecture, Cambridge School Project, questionnaires to Cambridge School graduates

Records of the Smith College Committee on Graduate Instruction, 1933-1942

SERIES I. BACKGROUND

Background contains information of examinations, exhibitions, faculty salaries, history of the school, photographs, reports and slides and books given to Smith College.

 1 1 Examinations 1938-1942 1 2 Exhibitions 1929-1940, 1984 1 3 Faculty salaries 1941-42 1 4 History of School 1928-1973 1 5 Organization of school 1924-1945 1 6 Photographs 1935-1978, n.d. 1 7 Report on the plan for Smith College 1942 1 8 Report to the President of Smith College 1938-1941 1 9 List: slides and books given to Smith College 1942-46 SERIES II. ALUMNAE

Alumnae contains information on the work of former students.

 1 10 General 1919-1941 1 11 Baily, Jane Luce 1921 1 12 Christiansen, Abby 1977-79, n.d. 1 13 Cunningham, Mary Parsons 1973-1980 1 14 Greely, Rose Ishbel 1998 1 15 Jones, Elizabeth Dickerman n.d. 1 16 Kirkwood, Grace Hight 1986 1 17 McPhearson, Bertha Mather 1993 1 18 Norcross, Katherine Brooks 1976-1978 1 19 Power, Ethel B. n.d. 1 20 Whitmore, Frances 1933 1 21 Williams, Beatrice 1982 1 22-23 Board of Trustees (Cambridge School): minutes 1924-1945 1 24 Miscellaneous 1935-1986 SERIES III. CORRESPONDENCE

Correspondence is comprised of general and course-related correspondence.

 General 2 1 Nicolson, Marjorie H. 1933-1940 2 2 Ford, Harriet Bliss (trustee) 1935 2 3-4 President Neilson 1926-1938 2 5 Presidents Neilson/Morrow/Davis 1939-1940 2 6-7 President Davis 1941-42 2 8 From alumnae 1942

[See also File of correspondence-Trustees, Eleanor Raymond]

 2 9 From trustees 1942 Correspondence re: courses 2 10 Koch, Kate Ries 1927-1940 2 booklet: course info 1920-21 2 11 Larkin, Oliver W. 1936-1940 2 12 Putnam, Karl L. 1934-1941 2 13 Van Der Poel, Priscilla (Paine) 1940 SERIES IV. PUBLICATIONS

Publications consists of Alumnae Bulletins, architectural sketches by alumnae, bookplates, certificates, Alumnae Bulletin publications and school bulletins.

 3 Alumnae Bulletins 1928-1937 3 Small, untitled architectural sketch n.d. 4 Alumnae Bulletins 1938 4 1 Bookplates n.d. 4 2 Certificates 1940, n.d. 4 3 Brochures 1932-39, n.d.

[See also Slides]

 4 4 Alumnae Bulletin publications 1939-1942, 1978 4 5-6 School bulletins 1916-1941 5 Student transcripts 1920-1946

[These records are restricted and closed to research use. Please see the reference archivist for more information.]

 6 Student files 1916-1946

[These records are restricted and closed to research use. Please see the reference archivist for more information.]