- Collection Overview
- Collection Description & Creator Information
- Access & Use
- Collection History
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Collection Overview
- Creator:
- Short, William H. (William Hosley), 1924-
- Title:
- William H. Short Collection on the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
- Repository:
- Manuscripts Division
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/6q182k17f
- Dates:
- 1956-1962
- Size:
- 2 boxes and 0.9 linear feet
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (mss): Box 1-2
- Language:
- English
Abstract
Consists of papers relating to the building of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City and Frank Lloyd Wright, its architect, collected by William H. Short (Princeton Class of 1946), the project supervisor for the building.
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Description:
The collection consists of papers relating to the building of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City and Frank Lloyd Wright, its architect, collected by Short (Princeton Class of 1946), the project supervisor for the building. The Wright material includes a typed carbon of a manuscript, "Concerning the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum," notes of an interview between Wright and Robert Venturi and Short, and correspondence. Short's papers include correspondence, notes and memos (1956-1962), and his expense accounts (1957-1959). In addition, there are daily construction reports on the museum (1956-1959), blueprints and plans, photographs of Wright and the museum, miscellaneous material, and newspaper clippings.
- Arrangement
Box 1--Frank Lloyd Wright material including a manuscript, correspondence, and interview notes; William H. Short material including correspondence, notes, and memos chronologically arranged (1956-1962), and expense accounts (1957-1959); Box 2--Guggenheim Museum construction reports (1956-1959), blueprints, plans, photographs of Wright and the museum, miscellaneous material, and printed matter.
- Collection Creator Biography:
Short, William H. (William Hosley), 1924-
William H. Short, a Princeton University graduate (Class of 1946), began his career in Manhattan with Holden, McLaughlin Associates and was chosen by Frank Lloyd Wright to supervise construction of the Guggenheim Museum from 1956 to 1960. He went on to a partnership with Robert Venturi of Philadelphia. In the early 1980s he guided restoration of the governor's mansion, "Drumthwacket," in Princeton. Short was a founding partner in 1974 of Short and Ford and Partners, an architectural firm that is one of the leading historic preservation organizations in the country. He died in Princeton, N.J., in 1991.
Collection History
- Acquisition:
Gift of William H. Short. Additions are a gift of Short via Alfred Bush.
- Appraisal
No appraisal information is available.
- Processing Information
Folder inventory prepared by Feng Zhu '2014 in 2011.
Folder inventory prepared by Feng Zhu '2014 in 2011.
Access & Use
- Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research.
- Conditions Governing Use
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. No further photoduplication of copies of material in the collection can be made when Princeton University Library does not own the original. Inquiries regarding publishing material from the collection should be directed to RBSC Public Services staff through the Ask Us! form. The library has no information on the status of literary rights in the collection and researchers are responsible for determining any questions of copyright.
- Credit this material:
William H. Short Collection on the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/6q182k17f
- Location:
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Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (mss): Box 1-2
Find More
- Other Finding Aids
A box and folder list (2 pp.) is available in the Dept.
- Subject Terms:
- Architecture -- Decision making.
Architecture, Modern -- New York (N.Y.)
Art museums -- New York (N.Y.) -- 20th century.
Building -- New York (N.Y.) -- 20th century.
Museum architecture -- New York (N.Y.) -- 20th century - Genre Terms:
- Architects -- New York (N.Y.)
Architectural drawings.
Blueprints.
Correspondence.
Reports. - Names:
- Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959.
