Box 220

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Following the 1917 death of Herbert Langford Warren, Dean of the Faculty of Architecture at Harvard University, Kimball recovered and edited Warren's partial draft for the first volume of what he had intended as a three-volume, comprehensive history of architecture. Kimball wrote an introduction to accompany the essay, and it was published in 1919 by the Macmillan Company under the title "The Foundations of Classic Architecture," reflecting the limited scope of the work. The records are...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: This subseries is comprised of correspondence, photographs, architectural drawings, specifications and other material pertaining to approximately twenty residential architectural projects completed or planned by Kimball primarily during the very early years of his career. Of particular note are the records regarding Dunewood, a cottage community near Traverse City, Michigan, where Kimball designed affordable cottages for professorial colleagues from the University of Illinois. The subseries...