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Holding Information

Collection: Warren Powers Laird Collection

Institution: Architectural Archives of the University of Pennsylvania

Client Name: Girard College

Includes articles by Walter H. Thomas and Sydney E. Martin (successor architects to Thomas, Martin and Kirkpatrick) and T. F. Bludworth (on the "electro-acoustical system") and images from Architectural Record, June 1933. Includes plan by Laird dated June 27, 1929 for "Suggestion for Re-location of Chapel or Assembly Hall at Girard College."
[047.53] program; correspondence; clippings; 7 photographs; 10 sketches.

Quantity: 16 folders

Local Call: 047.53

RLIN: PAUP01-A26

Item dates: 1929-1933

Holding types: Clippings, Correspondence, Drawings, Photographs

Documented Projects

• Girard College Chapel
  Client: Girard College
   

Documented Architects, Engineers, and Others

• Butler, Charles (d. 1953) (Architect)
• Corbett, Harrison & MacMurray (Architects)
• Cret, Paul Philippe (1876 - 1945) (Architect)
• Hebrard, Jean
• Hirons & Mellor (Architects)
• Klauder, Charles Zeller (1872 - 1938) (Architect)
• Kohn, Robert D. (ca. 1870-1953) (Architect)
• Laird, Warren Powers (1861 - 1948) (Architect)
• McKim, Mead & White (fl. 1874 - 1912) (Architects)
• Meeks, Everett V.
• Pratt, Charles A.
• Raymond Hood, Godley & Fouilhoux (1927 - 1931) (Architects)
• Stein, Clarence S. (1883 - 1975) (Architect)
• Sternfeld, Harry (1888-1976) (Architect)
• Swartwout, Egerton (1870 - 1943) (Architect)
• Thomas & Martin (fl. 1931 - 1941) (Architects)
• Thomas, Martin & Kirkpatrick (fl. 1919 - 1931) (Architects)
• Zantzinger, Borie & Medary (fl. 1910 - 1929) (Architects)

Location

Philadelphia, PA

Image Gallery

[Girard College Chapel] [Girard College] Main Floor Plan Warren Powers Laird Collection, Architectural Archives of the University of Pennsylvania. Local ID #: aaup.047.53.1

[Girard College Chapel] [Girard College] north elevation Warren Powers Laird Collection, Architectural Archives of the University of Pennsylvania. Local ID #: aaup.047.53.2

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