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Collection: Warren Powers Laird Collection

Institution: Architectural Archives, University of Pennsylvania

Client Name: City of Wilmington

[047.17] program; clippings; correspondence; photographs; plans.
Includes photographs documenting the site and the entry by Zantzinger, Borie & Medary, and five sketches by Laird showing parti schemes of competition entries by Donn Barber, Boring & Tilton, Carrère & Hastings, Waddy B. Wood, and Zantzinger, Borie & Medary.

Quantity: 8 folders

Local Call: 047.17

RLIN: PAUP01-A26

Item dates: 1916-1917

Holding types: Clippings, Correspondence, Other, Photographs, Plans

Documented Projects

• Center Square; A City Park Development
  Client: City of Wilmington
   

Documented Architects, Engineers, and Others

• Barber, Donn (1871 - 1925) (Architect)
• Boring & Tilton (fl. 1891 - ?) (Architects)
• Carrere & Hastings (fl. 1885 - 1926) (Architects)
• Kendall, William Mitchell
• Laird, Warren Powers (1861 - 1948) (Architect)
• Platt, Charles Adams (1861 - 1933) (Architect)
• Pope, John Russell (1874 - 1937) (Architect)
• Wood, Waddy B. (Architect)
• Zantzinger, Borie & Medary (fl. 1910 - 1929) (Architects)

Location

Market Street near King Street, 10th Street, and 11th Street
Wilmington, New Castle County, DE

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[Center Square; A City Park Development] [City of Wilmington] Aerial perspective (10/26/1916) Warren Powers Laird Collection, Architectural Archives, University of Pennsylvania. Local ID #: aaup.047.17.2	[Center Square; A City Park Development] [City of Wilmington] Building Perspective (5/31/1916) Warren Powers Laird Collection, Architectural Archives, University of Pennsylvania. Local ID #: aaup.047.17.1	[Center Square; A City Park Development] [City of Wilmington] Site Plan Warren Powers Laird Collection, Architectural Archives, University of Pennsylvania. Local ID #: aaup.047.17.4
[Center Square; A City Park Development] [City of Wilmington] elevation Warren Powers Laird Collection, Architectural Archives, University of Pennsylvania. Local ID #: aaup.047.17.3

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