Awards

• American Institute of Architects. Gold Medal. (1938)

Published Biographical References

• Moss, Roger W. Philadelphia Victorian. Philadelphia: The Athenaeum of Philadelphia, 1998., p. 140
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• American Art Annual. v.21 (1924/25) "Who's Who In Architecture.", p. 384
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  Office: 112 South 16th St., Philadelphia, PA
   
• University of Pennsylvania Architectural Alumni Society. The Book of the School. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1934., p. 172
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• Time Will Not Dim: American Battle Monuments Commission, A Century of Service, 1923-2023, American Battle Monuments Commission, Arlington, VA 2023
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• Macmillan Encyclopedia of Architects. New York : Free Press ; London : Collier Macmillan, c1982. , v. 1, p. 476-477
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• AIA/T-Square Yearbook, p. 110-111, 1904
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• Philadelphia Real Estate Record and Builders' Guide, v. 28, n. 12, p. 189, 3/19/1913
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• Philadelphia Real Estate Record and Builders' Guide, v. 31, n. 49, p. 796, 12/6/1916
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• Who's Who in Philadelphia. Philadelphia : Stafford's National News Service, 1920-1927. 3 v. , v. 2, p. 117, 1925
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  Office: 112 S. 16th St., Phila.
   
• Who's Who in Philadelphia. Philadelphia : Stafford's National News Service, 1920-1927. 3 v. , v. 3, p. 180, 327, 1927
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  Office: 112 S. 16th St., Phila.
   
• AIA/T-Square Yearbook, 1928
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  Membership: T-Square Club, Active, Vice President
   
• AIA/T-Square Yearbook, 1928
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  Membership: T-Square Club, Honorary, President
   
• Philadelphia Real Estate Record and Builders' Guide, v. 45, n. 36, p. 564, 9/3/1930
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• AIA/T-Square Yearbook, 1931
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  Membership: Philadelphia Chapter, AIA, Fellow
   
• AIA/T-Square Yearbook, 1931
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  Membership: T-Square Club, Honorary
   
• American Institute of Architects. Journal of the American Institute of Architects. Washington, DC:, v. 10, n. 05, p. 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 5/1938
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  Membership: American Institute of Architects (AIA), Fellow
   
• Who's Who in Maryland, A Biographical Dictionary of Leading Living Men and Women of the States of Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and West Virginia.. Chicago, Marquis Company, 1939-?, p. 188, 1939
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  Office: Architects Building, Philadelphia, PA
   
• International Dictionary of Architects and Architecture. London: St. James Press, , 1993
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• Cret, Paul P. "The Ecole des Beaux-Arts and Architectural Education." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 1 (April 1944): 12-15.
   
• Cret. "The Ecole des Beaux-Arts: What Its Architectural Teaching Means." Architectural Record 23 (May 1908): 367-371.
   
• Dictionary of American Biography, v. 23 (suppl. 3), p. 199-200.
   
• Federal Architect: special issue devoted to Cret (1946)
   
• Grossman, Elizabeth Greenwell, "Paul Philippe Cret: Rationalism and Imagery in American Architecture." Ph.D. dissertation, Brown University, 1980.
   
• Magonigle, H. Van Buren. Architectural Rendering in Wash. New York: Scribners, 1936. (Includes examples of Cret renderings: p. 84, 98, plus the list of colors in his palette, p. 129)
   
• Obituary: AIA Journal 4 (December 1945): 281-282, 287-288; Philadelphia Inquirer (9 September 1945); Philadelphia Record (9 September 1945).
   
• Reid, Kenneth. "Paul Philippe Cret, Master of Design." Pencil Points (October 1938): 609-638.
   
• White, Theophilus B. Paul Philippe Cret, Architect and Teacher. Philadelphia: Art Alliance Press, 1973.
   
• Cret, Paul Philippe. "Are We Teaching Architecture?" Architectural Forum vol. 69, no. 4: 10-11.
   
• U.S. Immigration Original Documents, accessed on 8/22/2013 via Ancestry.com
   

Biographical Drawings, Photos, Papers, etc.

• Bills and Correspondence relating to Paul Cret's Office in the Architect's Building, Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Cret Collection
  Call Number: 27-F*005
  Quantity: 2 Folders
   
• Commission Ledger, A-F, Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Cret Collection
  Call Number: 27-V-007
  Quantity: 1 item
   
• Cret Portrait, Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Cret Collection
  Call Number: 27-P-058
  Quantity: 1 item
   
• General Ledger, Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Cret Collection
  Call Number: 27-V-008
  Quantity: 1 item
   
• Misc. Photos, Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Cret Collection
  Call Number: 27-P-019
  Quantity: 6 items
   
• Office of Paul Cret- Drawing Registers, Book 1, Commissions 62-163, Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Cret Collection
  Call Number: 27-V-009
  Quantity: 1 Folder
   
• Office of Paul Cret- Drawing Registers, Book 2, Commissions 164-239, Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Cret Collection
  Call Number: 27-V-010
  Quantity: 1 Folder
   
• Office of Paul Cret- Drawing Registers, Book 3, Commissions 240-286, Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Cret Collection
  Call Number: 27-V-011
  Quantity: 1 Folder
   
• Office of Paul Cret- Drawing Registers, Book 4, Commissions 290-363, Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Cret Collection
  Call Number: 27-V-012
  Quantity: 1 Folder
   
• Office of Paul Cret- Drawing Registers, Book 5, Commissions 365-435, Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Cret Collection
  Call Number: 27-V-013
  Quantity: 1 Folder
   
• Office of Paul Cret- Drawing Registers, Book 6, Commissions 436-515, Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Cret Collection
  Call Number: 27-V-014
  Quantity: 1 Folder
   
• Office of Paul Cret, Members of the Firm, Athenaeum of Philadelphia - John Harbeson Collection
  Call Number: 47-P-034
  Quantity: 7 items
   
• Paul P. Cret, Athenaeum of Philadelphia - John Harbeson Collection
  Call Number: 47-F*009
  Quantity: 1 folder
   
• Student Work- Trone Episcopal, Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Cret Collection
  Call Number: 27-P-059
  Quantity: 1 item
   
• Travel sketches and sketchbooks, Architectural Archives, University of Pennsylvania - Paul Philippe Cret Collection
  Call Number: 062.457-062.466
  Quantity: 178 sheets, 5 items
   
• Watercolor- A House, Private Collections - Private Collection-003
  Quantity: 1 item
   
• Watercolor- Street Scene, Private Collections - Collection of Charles Hough
   
• Student Work from the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Lyon and Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, Architectural Archives, University of Pennsylvania - Paul Philippe Cret Collection
  Call Number: 062.1-062.52
  Quantity: 132 sheets
  Dates: 1896-1903
   
• Watercolors, Architectural Archives, University of Pennsylvania - Paul Philippe Cret Collection
  Call Number: 062.53-062.62
  Quantity: 46 sheets
  Dates: 1898-1934
   
• Rendering by Paul Cret (Paris 1900), Athenaeum of Philadelphia - George M. D. Lewis Collection
  Call Number: CRE*030
  Quantity: 1 Sheet
  Dates: 1900
   
• Title Pages, Architectural Archives, University of Pennsylvania - Paul Philippe Cret Collection
  Call Number: 062.112-062.119
  Quantity: 49 items
  Dates: 1902-1925
   
• Portraits of Paul Philippe Cret, Architectural Archives, University of Pennsylvania - Paul Philippe Cret Collection
  Call Number: 062.447-062.451
  Quantity: 19 items
  Dates: 1905-1941
   
• Image file, Architectural Archives, University of Pennsylvania - Cret Clippings Collection
  Call Number: Collection 275
  Dates: 1910-1969
   
• World War I photographs and memorabilia, Architectural Archives, University of Pennsylvania - Paul Philippe Cret Collection
  Call Number: 062.452-062.463
  Quantity: 37 items
  Dates: 1914-1919
   
• Architectural Society, University of Pennsylvania, Group Photo, Athenaeum of Philadelphia - AIA Collection
  Call Number: 004-P-001
  Quantity: 1 Item
  Dates: 1924
   
• John F. Harbeson and Paul Cret- Misc Correspondence, Athenaeum of Philadelphia - John Harbeson Collection
  Call Number: 47-F*014
  Quantity: 1 folder
  Dates: 1926-1962
   
• Paul Cret Receives 10th Annual Philadelphia Award, Athenaeum of Philadelphia - General Collection - Photographs
  Call Number: 001-P-910
  Quantity: 1 Items
  Dates: 1931
   
• American Battle Monuments Commission, Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Cret Collection
  Call Number: 27-F-158
  Quantity: 1 Folder
  Dates: 1935-1940
   
• Portrait of Paul P. Cret, Athenaeum of Philadelphia - H2L2 Collection
  Call Number: 2013.38.01
  Quantity: 1 Item
  Dates: 1935
   
• AIA membership records, AIA Archives, Washington, DC
   
• Archives of American Art, microfilm of Cret Papers from the Detroit Institute of Arts (Roll #2106-2107).
   

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