Dodge House Preservation Campaign
- Collection Creator
- McCoy, Esther
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- Esther McCoy papers
- Esther McCoy papers / Series 5: Projects
- Sponsor
- Funding for the processing and digitization of this collection was provided by the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and the Terra Foundation for American Art.
- Date
- circa 1953-1983
- Archival Repository
- Archives of American Art
- Identifier
- AAA.mccoesth, Subseries 5.1
- Type
- Archival materials
- Collection Citation
- Esther McCoy papers, circa 1876-1990, bulk 1938-1989. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
- Arrangement note
- Researchers should note that additional records about the Dodge House can be found in Series 5.3: Historic American Buildings Survey.
- Collection Rights
- The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.
- Existence and Location of Copies
- The bulk of this subseries has been scanned. Photographs taken by Julius Shulman and Marvin Rand have not been scanned. The Dodge House film has been digitized and copied to a new film projection print.
- Scope and Contents note
- Found here are documents regarding the campaign to preserve the architecturally significant Dodge House, built by Irving Gill. Preservation efforts began in 1963 and continued until the house was demolished in 1970. Esther McCoy was very active in the preservation efforts, serving on the Citizen's Committee for the Dodge House and a Dodge House Special Committee of the American Institute of Architects. This subseries includes various committee documents, clippings and other printed material, correspondence, and notes and writings by McCoy regarding the preservation efforts. In 1965 McCoy produced a film, Dodge House 1916, as part of the preservation efforts. The film was directed by Robert Snyder. Documentation of this film project includes correspondence, photographs used for the film, draft film scripts written by McCoy, lab notes, and the finished film.
- Collection Restrictions
- Use of original papers requires an appointment. Use of audiovisual recordings without access copies requires advance notice.
