Price: $2,500 Norman Houston, Paul Williams, Walter Gordon. The first black architectural firm. Typewritten Letter Signed, Norman Houston, Paul R. Williams, Walter A. Gordon, one page, quarto, [1943]. On stationery with a colored illustration of a cameraman filming a residential lakefront neighborhood. Two tall palm trees are drawn in the left margin. “Greetings to Walter … [ Read More ]
Architecture
Bulfinch, Charles
Price: $6,750 American architect. Autograph Document Signed, one page, legal folio, Boston, May 17, 1802. “To All whom it may concern, this certifies that Messrs. Richard Chamberlain and Thomas Chase obtained liberty of the selectmen to break ground in the public burying place, south of the common for the purpose of building a tomb therein; … [ Read More ]
Eames, Charles and Ray
Price: $5,750 Inventive designers of the post World War II period; created the “Eames Chairs.” Typewritten Letter Signed by Charles, C, one page, quarto, May 14, 1952. To Alexander Girard (in Grosse Pointe, Michigan). With one word and two corrections in his hand, and one sentence, written in red crayon, in Ray’s hand: ” will … [ Read More ]
Wren, Christopher
Price: $15,000 English architect of St. Paul’s Cathedral. Autograph Endorsement Signed Christopher Wren, “Recd. 7th May, 1716, Chr: Wren,” on the verso of a printed document ordering the payment of £500 from “her Majesty’s treasure…in repayment of the…sum…lent upon credit…and paid into the receipt of Her Majesty’s Exchequer the…first day of July, 1713.” Framed in … [ Read More ]
Wren, Christopher
Price: $20,000 English architect of St. Paul’s Cathedral. Document Signed Christopher Wren, Chr:Wren, one page, small legal folio, March 4, 1679/1680. Headed A bill for ye Pryvey Garden begining ye 29 of Septembe: 1679: and Ending ye 23 of Decembe: of 79. An account signed by Christopher Wren probably as the Kings Surveyor of Works … [ Read More ]
Wright, Frank Lloyd
Price: $12,500 American architect. Typewritten letter Signed, in pencil, one page, Taliesin, July 26, 1957. On his Taliesin letterhead with his modernist device, measuring 11 inches wide by 8 inches high. With pencil emendations. To Desmond Smith in Stamford, Connecticut. “Major Jenney built the first “tall” building: The Home Insurance Building Chicago with cast iron … [ Read More ]