AMHERST COLLEGE ARCHIVES AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS COLLECTION 1820- Quantity: 4 archive boxes 30 record storage boxes 21 oversize flat boxes 19 rolls 21 map case drawers (approx. 263 folders) Linear Feet: Ca. 100 and growing Processed: 1984-1987 By: Ralph C. McGoun AC 1927, Emeritus Professor of Dramatic Arts L. Ann Hopkins, Assistant in Archives and Special Collections Reprocessed: 1995-1997, 1999 Listing Updated: Continually 1997-2014 Edited by: Daria D'Arienzo, Archivist of the College Peter A. Nelson, Archivist Access: There is no restriction on access to the collection for research use. Copyright: Requests for permission to publish material from the collection should be directed to the Head of Archives and Special Collections. Individuals hold copyright to their own work. Requests for permission to publish from their work should be directed appropriately. © 2014 Amherst College Archives & Special Collections Page 1 Buildings and Grounds Collection HISTORY OF THE COLLECTION The material in this collection incorporates items previously scattered throughout the College in departments such as Physical Plant, the President's Office, and the Office of Public Affairs, as well as miscellaneous files in the Archives and Special Collections. The Collection was assembled between 1984 and 1987. During 1995-1997, additional material was added to the collection and the listing was updated and revised. The Buildings and Grounds Collection is constantly expanding. New material has been added yearly and it will continue to grow as the physical campus changes. DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION The Buildings and Grounds Collection is arranged in ## series: 1. BUILDINGS 2. GROUNDS AND PROPERTIES 3. ARCHITECTS AND LANDSCAPERS 4. DUPLICATE IMAGES AND PUBLICATIONS 5. STEREOGRAPH IMAGES 6. FRAMED IMAGES 7. PHYSICAL PLANT RECORDS (RESTRICTED) Series Descriptions (partial) SERIES 1: BUILDINGS, 1823 to date. This section is arranged alphabetically by building name or by type and use of structure. Material in this series includes the financial documents (fund raising, gifts), architects' drawings, and accounts of dedications, ground breaking, construction, and remodeling. For many of the buildings, blueprints, drawings, and both exterior and interior photographs dating as far back as the 1860s provide a remarkably complete account. Buildings that have the same use have been combined under one heading; for example, the Fraternity Houses are grouped together and listed under the name of the national fraternities that originally built the houses. Dormitories are listed under “Student Housing,” and the list includes those buildings that no longer exist but once formed part of the campus. Faculty Houses are most often listed under the name of the person from whom the house was purchased. The general heading Physical Plant includes the College Garage, the Heating Plants and Tunnels, the Service Building, and the Storage Barns. The BUILDINGS series also includes several buildings which are not located on the Amherst campus but which have had, or still have, a close connection with Amherst College (e.g., Doshisha University). These are listed separately at the end of Series 1. © 2014 Amherst College Archives & Special Collections Page 2 Buildings and Grounds Collection Items of particular interest are listed separately; for example, the Packardville Bell (see Box 11, Folder 47) and the granite (gneiss) stone used so frequently (Box 10, Folder 13) in College buildings. Structures that were once part of the campus, but which no longer exist, are included in the collection, listed according to their names. SERIES 2: GROUNDS AND PROPERTIES, 1827 to date. Contains a range of information about the College's physical plant and holdings that do not relate to a specific building. Series 2 is arranged topically. GROUNDS AND PROPERTIES includes deeds of land, surveys; information about off-campus holdings and properties; campus views, including drawings and photographs; documentation of the 1938 hurricane and its effects; records of memorials and sculptures located on the campus; information regarding the athletic grounds and playing fields; the Wildlife Sanctuary; and other information regarding the general administration of campus properties and functions such as campus utilities. This series contains some drawings and paintings from the earlier years of the College, including, in photocopy form, the work of Orra White Hitchcock, wife of President Edward Hitchcock. (The originals of Orra Hitchcock's works are located in the Edward and Orra White Hitchcock Papers.) These representations date from the early 1820s (see Box 18). Of special interest are various schemes for developing the College Campus by Frederick Law Olmsted for the late 1890s and early 1900s and Arthur A. Shurcliff, in the 1920s (see Grounds and Planting, Box 20). Several of the boxes and folders in the BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS Collection are supplemented by materials that have been added over the years. This material has been integrated into the Collection; cross-references to relevant locations have been added to the listing. © 2014 Amherst College Archives & Special Collections Page 3 Buildings and Grounds Collection SERIES 1: BUILDINGS Box Folder Date Description Buildings (General): Lists, Histories, etc. 1 1 Lists of buildings, alphabetically arranged 1 2 Lists of buildings, chronologically arranged 1 2A 2005 May Amherst College Walking Tour 1 2B [1990s] Locations of academic departments and administrative offices on campus, over time (compiled from college directories and other publications) 1 2C 2012 Facilities “factoids” Development of the Campus – Compilations and Histories 1 3 (1 of 5) 1934-2000 Architecture - History, etc. 1 3 (2 of 5) 1904-1924 Development of the campus: grounds, plantings, etc. - history, etc. 1 3 (3 of 5) 2002- Amherst College Residential Master Plan (a comprehensive multi-year strategy to enhance Amherst College dormitories) 1 3 (4 of 5) 2003 April “Buildings and Grounds of Amherst College,” by M. Barnes Taft (AC 1957). (Duplicate copy also kept with finding aids behind service desk) 1 3 (5 of 5) 2003- Campus [Residential] master plan – General 1 3a Campus models – slide images 1B 1 2008 Buildings and Grounds of Amherst College – database compiled by M. B. Taft (AC 1957) – full printout 1B 2 2008 Buildings and Grounds of Amherst College (M. B. Taft, AC 1957) – copies of source databases for above 1B 3 2008 Buildings and Grounds of Amherst College (M. B. Taft, AC 1957) – copies of articles appearing in Amherst Alumni News and Amherst © 2014 Amherst College Archives & Special Collections Page 4 Buildings and Grounds Collection SERIES 1: BUILDINGS Box Folder Date Description 1B 4 2008 Buildings and Grounds of Amherst College (M. B. Taft, AC 1957) – copies of articles appearing in The Amherst Student and The Daily Hampshire Gazette 1B 5 2008 Buildings and Grounds of Amherst College (M. B. Taft, AC 1957) – copies of articles appearing on college website 1B 6 2001-2006 Buildings and Grounds of Amherst College (M. B. Taft, AC 1957) – printouts of photographs of individual buildings 1B 7 2007 Notebook: scanned miscellaneous buildings and grounds photographs 1B 8 2008 Copies of the slide notes for M. B. Taft’s slide presentation “The Amherst College Campus: A Historical View of the Growth of the Buildings and Grounds of Amherst College Since 1820” 1B 9 2008 Printed out copies of images used in the above slide presentation 1B 10-12 ca. 2010 Photographs of various campus buildings (exterior and interior views) by Thomas Stratford 1B 13 ca. 2010 Views of various student living spaces and campus buildings, prepared in limited edition by the Office of Advancement Clippings, essays, published articles, etc. 1 4 (1 of 7) ca. 1920- Newspaper clippings and similar miscellany 1 4 (2-7, ff) 1996 May 15 Student papers prepared for Fine Arts 92.1: American Architecture and the Amherst College Campus. Seminar, spring 1996, Prof. Carol Clark. 1 4 (2 of 7) 1996 May 15 Blum, Andrew (AC 1999). “Amherst's Modernist Expression, Post-World War II Academic Buildings.” [Mead Art Museum, Chapin Hall, Robert Frost Library, Music Building, Merrill Science Center, Seeley G. Mudd Building, Merrill Life Sciences addition] © 2014 Amherst College Archives & Special Collections Page 5 Buildings and Grounds Collection SERIES 1: BUILDINGS Box Folder Date Description 1 4 (3 of 7) 1996 May 15 Chadwick, Bethany (AC 1996). “The Amherst College Campus and the Demise of the Victorian Gothic.” [Walker Hall, Stearns Church, Pratt Gymnasium] 1 4 (4 of 7) 1996 May 15 Gargiulo, Chris (AC 1998). “Architecture and the Amherst College Campus: 20th Century Campus Social Life.” [Fraternity Houses, Dormitories since 1960, The Campus Center] 1 4 (5 of 7) 1996 May 15 Glynn, Tom (AC 1996). “A Religious College Learns Ambition.” [Fayerweather Science Laboratory, Morris Pratt Memorial Dormitory, Converse Memorial Library, Morrow Dormitory] 1 4 (6 of 7) 1996 May 15 Morsman, Whitney H. (AC 1996). “The Foundations of Amherst College: a Landmark of Education.” [College Row, College Hall, Johnson Chapel, President's House] 1 4 (7 of 7) 1996 May 15 Webb, Matthew Scott (AC 1996). “Buildings for Investigative Learning: Changing Architecture on the Amherst College Campus of the 1840s and 1850s.” [the Octagon, Williston Hall, Morgan Library, Barrett Appleton Cabinet, East College] Records 1 5 Records, general 1 6 1824-1827 Carpenter's Daybook, kept by George Guild (Vol. 1). Vol. 2, 1827-1835 plus some 1890s entries, is labelled “1+” and shelved following Box 1. 1 7 1824-1835 Records: Votes relating to buildings and grounds, Trustees, from Prudential Committee minutes 1 8 1978 Records: Space needs (departments) 1 9 Records: Valuations, appraisals - general 1 10 1936 Records: Appraisal of Buildings [of Amherst College], by Bliss and Cole, Appraisers, Hartford, Conn. © 2014 Amherst College Archives & Special Collections Page 6 Buildings and Grounds Collection SERIES 1: BUILDINGS Box Folder Date Description 1 11 1950-1970 Records: Dept. reports (10-year) for 1950-60 and 1960-70 1 12 1860, 1862 Guides to Amherst College buildings et al.