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Call Number:
Ms. Coll. 295
Repository:
University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
Extent:
39 box(es) (+ one map drawer)
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
Paul Phillippe Cret papers, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania
Date:
1865-1976 (inclusive)
Creator:
Cret, Paul Philippe
Form:
Writings (documents), Business records, Correspondence, Photographs, and Sketches
Abstract:
Paul Philippe Cret (1876-1945) was an architect and industrial designer who taught in the Department of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. Born and educated in France, Cret moved to the United States in 1903, but served in the French Army during World War I. Following the War, he returned to Philadelphia and to the University of Pennsylvania and worked on significant projects across the country. One third of the collection comprises correspondence, including exchanges with professional colleagues and clients as well as a few family members. With the exception of a substantial group of letters written by Cret to his wife while serving in World War I, there is little personal material. None of the correspondence files contains comprehensive representation of the transactions of Cret and/or his firm on any given project. The collection also includes writings by Cret, project and teaching materials (incomplete), notes, biographical material, and photographs.

Paul Cret was born in Lyon, France, on 23 October 1876 to parents of modest means: he was their third son and their only child to survive infancy. His father, Paul Adolphe Cret, died in 1881, leaving Anna Durand Cret and young Paul, five years old. Paul Cret's earliest surviving letter, 30 December 1881, tells his mother not to cry and assures her that he will take care of her. Anna Cret's opportunity to provide a future for her son came through the marriage of her sister to a businessman who was the younger brother of a prominent Lyon architect, Joannes Bernard. By 1892 Cret was enrolled in a fee-paying school, Académie de Lyon. In 1893 he withdrew from that school before graduation and entered the École nationale des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, where he studied architecture and won the Prix de Paris in 1897; the award provided a stipend from his home city for his subsequent study at the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris. Cret placed first in the entrance examinations for the École des Beaux-Arts and did superior work as a student there. He was attached to Atelier Pascal, whose patron, Jean Louis Pascal, promoted his career and corresponded with him in collegial tones until his death in 1920.

The École des Beaux-Arts drew students from all over the world, including a significant number of Americans; enterprising young French architects from the École des Beaux-Arts traveled widely in search of active architectural careers. The American students who returned home opened doors for their French colleagues both in architectural practice and in the expanding schools of architecture in the United States. Cret had come to the United States briefly in 1902, working at small jobs arranged through contact with his American fellow students. The opportunity, however, that shaped his career occurred in 1903, when he was offered the position of Assistant Professor of Design in the School of Architecture of the University of Pennsylvania. According to John Harbeson, students of the School of Architecture had longed for good training in design, and graduates had collaborated to raise money to bring in a first-class design teacher. Their search to fill the position naturally turned to the École des Beaux-Arts, where many of their number had gone to fill out the deficiencies of their architectural training at home. Paul Davis, a graduate of the School of Architecture and a former student of Atelier Pascal in the École des Beaux-Arts, consulted Jean Pascal, corresponded with Cret about the possible appointment, and proposed Cret for the position to Warren Laird, head of the School of Architecture.

Cret was warmly received by American architecture students. He taught design in the style of the French atelier and also lecture courses in the history of art and the philosophy of architecture. In the evenings he was patron (unpaid) of an atelier on the French model sponsored by the T Square Club, Philadelphia's architectural society. The atelier was open (at a very small fee) to practicing architects and to draftsmen with experience in architectural offices, who hoped to develop advanced skill in design to balance their experience in the practical side of architecture. Both atelier students and university students participated in competitions and exhibitions sponsored locally by the T Square Club and competed in regular design competitions sponsored by the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects. Cret's students especially appreciated his keen attention to their drawings and his constructive criticism and suggestions. In 1910 he was elected the most popular professor by the University of Pennsylvania senior class, the first time the senior class had honored a member of the architecture faculty. Through the years he trained many of America's future architects and architectural educatures, and by his retirement he was surrounded by colleagues across the nation who had also been his students.

From his first year at the University of Pennsylvania he maintained a private practice in tandem with his teaching, and that practice never stopped, even during his service in World War I. His early architectural projects were done in collaboration with architects who maintained full-scale offices, which could handle the day-to-day business of accounts and routine drafting. Even before he opened a formal office, he practiced out of his home and employed some of his students and former students, most notably John Harbeson. Later he formed a partnership with Harbeson and three other former students, William J. H. Hough, William H. Livingston, and Roy F. Larson. While he delegated responsibility for certain aspects of his projects to his partners, he remained in full control of all of his firm's work to the end of his very active career.

Until his professional practice became firmly established in Philadelphia, however, it was not entirely certain that Cret would remain at the University of Pennsylvania. He kept in touch with his colleagues at other American universities, and from time to time he was tempted to go elsewhere. In 1906 his old friend from the École des Beaux-Arts, M. J. Prévot, gave him to believe that a position would be available at Cornell University, where Prévot was teaching. Cret wrote to Cornell's president, but the position did not materialize. In 1910 Cret's University of Pennsylvania colleague C. F. Osborne proposed that they both leave for positions at Washington University. In this case, the university was eagerly offering the position and Cret accepted at first, but immediately he backed down and convinced Osborne not to leave either. By 1913 when he was asked whether he would be interested in the Directorship of the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana, he declined to pursue it.

Cret had arrived from France in a period of ferment in American education. Just as lawyers could still choose to "read law" in a practicing lawyer's office, architects could still begin as practicing draftsmen instead of college freshmen. University-based professional education was growing, however, and would ultimately replace various types of apprenticeship in the professions. This transition was much debated in the professional literature of the early twentieth century. Also under debate was the direction and content of the university course of study. Architectural engineering was becoming a separate specialized field, seen by some as a serious challenge to architectural design. And within the sphere of architectural design, the influence of the French École des Beaux-Arts tradition was challenged by some who viewed it as inhibiting the development of an American national style. The Beaux-Arts tradition in America placed considerable emphasis on the use of competitions, both in education and in professional practice, to select an architect for a major building project. The use of competitions was challenged in addition to the French influence in design and ornament. Cret followed the debates keenly and participated actively. During his tenure as Professor of Design, the University of Pennsylvania emerged as a model for other universities opening or developing programs of architectural study, and Cret published significant contributions to the theory of architecture and architectural education in professional journals.

This was also a period in which burgeoning city growth was coming under the civilizing control of city planning. In his city planning work Cret brought his French heritage of boulevards, vistas, monuments, public buildings, and gardens to bear on the relentless rectangular street patterns so characteristic of nineteenth-century American cities (and on the successful American businessman's characteristic determination to build productive structures on every available parcel of land). In 1907 in Philadelphia, he was appointed by the Fairmount Park Art Association, together with C. C. Zantzinger and Horace Trumbauer, to draw up the plan that became the Philadelphia Parkway, now the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. In Cret's absence during World War I, Jacques Gréber continued to work out the Parkway plan. After the war Cret resumed city planning projects in Philadelphia and continued to serve on the Philadelphia Art Jury. He executed major design work on Rittenhouse Square, the Schuylkill River embankments, and numerous other city amenities; he also designed and built many Philadelphia bridges, including the Delaware River Bridge (now the Benjamin Franklin Bridge), for many years the longest suspension bridge in the United States.

Cret's bridges display several facets of his complex personality in a way that illustrates the basic consistency of his convictions. He designed his bridges as pieces of public art forming part of the design of a city or public space. With bridge engineer Ralph Modjeski and his successor Frank M. Masters, he designed and built many bridges, large and small, including the Delaware River Bridge, the Calvert Street Bridge in Washington, D.C., and the Falls View Bridge in Niagara Falls, New York. This long and fruitful collaboration shows Cret's conviction that designing architects and engineers must work together to make the best use of new materials and construction techniques while maintaining the pre-eminence of artistic considerations in the design process. His bridge designs were functional and modern in spirit, demonstrating his respect for the styles of his own time, but they were also rooted in his rich knowledge of the history of architectural design.

Cret's city planning work was not limited to Philadelphia. The overall plan of the city was an essential part of his design of each of his public buildings, monuments, and memorials in cities across the nation. In the nation's capital the Pan American Union, Folger Shakespeare Library, Federal Reserve Board Building, and Cret's bridges and roads bear witness to his skill in planning his designs in relation to other buildings, parks, and open spaces with a larger city design in mind. His appointment in 1940 to the United States Commission on the Fine Arts was a fitting recognition of his role in American city planning and in the design of Washington, D.C., in particular.

His work as planning consultant to universities is similar in many ways to city planning, as each institution can be seen as a little city in itself as well as part of the larger city plan. Cret began this kind of work in collaboration with Warren Laird, completing planning projects for the University of Wisconsin, the University of Cincinnati, the University of Pennsylvania, and Brown University. Brown University later retained Cret alone as continuing consultant, as did the University of Pennsylvania on a number of occasions. His largest single university planning project concerned the University of Texas, for which he served as consulting architect from 1930 to 1945. During his tenure he drew up an overall university plan, designed and built nineteen buildings, and designed the landscaping of the grounds. He also did substantial consulting and design work for Pennsylvania State University in the 1940s.

Even while Cret became a significant part of America's professional and educational establishment, he remained rooted in his native country. In 1905 he had married Marguerite Lahalle, sister of his long-time friend and fellow student Pierre Lahalle, and brought her to Philadelphia. Throughout their forty-year marriage, they returned each summer to her father's country home, Beauvois, in Loiret, France. In 1909 Cret was made a member of the French Academy. Paul and Marguerite Cret were at Beauvois in the summer of 1914, when World War I began. Cret, as a reservist, reported for duty and was assigned as a private soldier to the Chasseurs alpins. Marguerite contributed to the war effort as a volunteer hospital worker and carried on a voluminous correspondence with her husband. During the war Cret remained in active correspondence with his colleagues, kept his mind focused on the reading matter Marguerite regularly sent him, and poured out his thoughts in his letters to her. His architectural practice in the United States continued even in his absence. His associated firm, Zantzinger, Borie & Medary, completed construction of the Indianapolis Public Library, and John Harbeson managed other commissions left incomplete at the beginning of the war. After the United States entered the war, Cret, now a lieutenant, was assigned as interpreter first to the American First Division and then, after that division entered Germany, to the 92nd Division. For his wartime service to his country, he was awarded the Croix de guerre, and in 1925 he was made a member of the Légion d'honneur.

Although Cret became an American citizen in 1927, he remained loyal to his heritage. He and Marguerite had no children, and they were devoted to their families in France. Cret kept in touch with them through correspondence and through their annual summer residence at Beauvois, and he consistently assisted relatives in need (both his and Marguerite's) throughout the years of postwar recovery, the Great Depression, and the World War II. He was an honorary member of the Société académique d 'architecture de Lyon and published articles in French professional journals. During a period when sculpture was a prominent part of architecture, he engaged a number of French sculptors (as well as Americans) to design sculpture for his buildings. It was a serious disappointment to him that after many years of work and substantial financial expenditure, his French Embassy in Washington, D.C., was never built. The Depression and politics in Paris finally deprived him of this achievement, as it appears the same factors conspired to stop the exhibition hall that he designed with Jacques Carlu for the French exhibition at the Century of Progress Exposition at Chicago in 1933.

Cret's greatest professional legacy was in his adopted country. In addition to his profound influence on young architects during thirty-four years of teaching and his major contributions to the professional debates of his day, his own built work has left an enduring mark. His architectural contribution in Europe came by way of America, as he designed monuments to commemorate the war dead for the state of Pennsylvania and for the American Battle Monuments Commission and served as juror for the Canadian Battlefields Memorials Competition. In the United States his public buildings, commemorative structures, bridges, boulevards, and parks remain as vital parts of the cities over fifty years after his death. And the admiring imitation that his built work sp arked in his contemporaries has multiplied his influence on American cities many times over. It is noteworthy that the very Depression that frustrated his work for the French government resulted in increased commissions from the American government. His important public buildings and monuments had already established him as a vital force to be reckoned with in national circles, and during the years of major federal investment in construction during the Depression and World War II, he designed or participated in the design of a large number of government buildings, hospitals, monuments, bridges, dams, and military installations.

Cret's idea of rest and enjoyment was to work on his architectural projects. He retired from teaching in 1937 on the advice of his physician, but he never stopped his professional work. When his larynx was removed in 1939 because of throat cancer, his office carried on his work while he recovered, and he returned to his practice as soon as possible. On 16 August 1945 he was in the midst of several ongoing projects and on a site visit to one of them when he suffered a heart attack. Typically, he returned home before he sought medical attention. This time he could not return to work. He died on 8 September 1945 at the age of sixty-nine.

The Paul Philippe Cret Papers were donated to the University of Pennsylvania by John Harbeson, Cret's partner and a partner in the successor firm of Harbeson, Hough, Livingston and Larson, later known as H2L2. The first donation included architectural drawings, correspondence, and personal and family materials. Later donations added materials related to Cret's projects, including working drawings and collections of photographs, offprints, and clippings. The drawings held by the University of Pennsylvania Library are now housed in the Architectural Archives of the School of Fine Arts and are available for study there. After Harbeson's death in 1986, H2L2 offered for sale a further group of Cret materials, which were acquired by the Athenaeum of Philadelphia. The drawings held by the Athenaeum are available for study there and are cataloged in Franklin.

The largest portion of the Cret Papers now housed in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library of the University of Pennsylvania comprises Cret's correspondence, ranging in date from his letter (age 5) to his mother in 1881 on the death of his father to a letter to his office from his bed shortly before he died in 1945. Between those dates the collection is by no means comprehensive.

The collection includes correspondence for only a small number of Cret's projects, and even for those files the correspondence is not comprehensive. Because of the limited nature of the project correspondence, it has not been grouped together but, instead, has been filed alphabetically by correspondent in General Correspondence. Individual correspondent files, however, have been cataloged in Franklin; many of these 587 cataloging records contain brief summaries that mention various projects.

The most extensive project documentation found in Cret's correspondence relates to four projects. Correspondence with Cret's associate Albert Kelsey provides substantial documentation for the Pan American Union from 1907 to 1926. Correspondence with Louis Bernier and Louis E. Jallade documents their collaboration on Bernier's proposed French Embassy in Washington, D.C., which was never built. Albert Kahn, Clyde Burroughs, and W. R. Valentiner corresponded on behalf of the Detroit Institute of Arts with Cret and with his associates Zantzinger, Borie, and Medary. Correspondence in 1932 and 1933 with the Detroit Institute of Arts and with Detroit architect William E. Kapp addressed the controversy over murals painted by Diego Rivera in the museum on the walls of Cret's garden courtyard. Alexander Trowbridge was professional advisor to Henry Clay Folger for the Folger Shakespeare Library and sent Cret detailed information on his conferences and correspondence with Folger. Cret also corresponded directly with Folger as well as his wife and responded to their intensely detailed interest in the design and decoration of their building. For each of these projects additional correspondents contribute significant documentation.

The collection includes useful but more limited correspondence related to Cret's later additions to the Pan American Union, his own design for a never-realized French Embassy in Washington, D.C., the Indianapolis Public Library, the Barnes Foundation, the Rodin Museum, Brown University, the University of Texas, and his many varied projects for the United States government, including the American Battle Monuments Commission, the Army, and the Navy. There is spotty coverage of a wide range of additional projects, as well as architectural competitions in which he was a professional advisor, a juror, or a competitor. Occasionally correspondence about a competition contains information on the jury's reasoning for choosing the winning design.

In connection with his projects Cret corresponded with a number of sculptors and other artists who were commissioned to execute decorative details of his buildings or asked to submit proposals or estimates. The collection does not include comprehensive correspondence with any artist on any project. Significant correspondence is found with John Gregory and Brenda Putnam on the Folger Library. Others include J. H. Allen (architectural terra cotta: Pan American Union, Delaware River Bridge, Barnes Foundation); Alfred Bottiau (sculpture: Integrity Trust Company); Leon Hermant (sculpture: Calvert Street Bridge); Mrs. Buell Mullin (mural painting: Library of Congress Hispanic Room); and Jean De Marco (sculpture: Whitemarsh Memorial Park).

Cret's project correspondence includes public figures such as Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was personally active in planning the architecture and public spaces of Washington, D.C., and environs; General John J. Pershing in his capacity as head of the American Battle Monuments Commission; and Archibald MacLeish, as Librarian of Congress.

In addition to practical correspondence related to projects, Cret corresponded with many American architects active during the first half of the twentieth century, including advocates of widely divergent styles, ranging from Ralph Adams Cram and Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue to Albert Kahn. Cret respected Frank Lloyd Wright's work and wrote, at the request of Otto Tod Mallery, to the Commissioners of Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania, in support of Wright's "Ardmore experiment" (Sun Top Homes ). His correspondence with Mallery contains copies of Wright's correspondence with Lower Merion Township. Occasionally Cret responded to a request for a list of American architecture that he considered noteworthy. The collection contains his responses to John Cushman Fistere of the Architectural Forum; Caroline Hewitt, wife of the architect Edwin H. Hewitt; and William Jones Smith, his former student. It is noteworthy that the collection contains no correspondence with or about one of his most famous students, Louis I. Kahn.

Early in his life Cret corresponded with a number of French architects who had been his mentors, teachers, and fellow students, including a few contemporaries who also made careers in the United States, for example, Leon Arnal and M. J. Prévot. His own students wrote to him from study and travel abroad, from architectural practices all over the country, and from university teaching positions. His students wrote to him when he was serving in World War I and when they were serving in World War II. He corresponded with colleagues whose articles he had read and colleagues who had read his, discussing the big issues facing the architectural profession and architectural education in his day.

Cret's correspondence is nearly all professional with the exception of that with his family. Even Cret's social relations were largely professional; much of his social correspondence, therefore, reflects his academic and professional interests. His correspondents include two notable women with whom he had long-term friendships--Shirley Watkins, a novelist, and Marcella Du Pont, a poet and the wife of the architect Alfred Du Pont. In each case, the correspondence reflects broad and deep reading and articulate reflection on literature, philosophy, and public affairs as well as on art and architecture.

Of particular value to the researcher is his wartime correspondence with his wife Marguerite. He wrote frequently from the very beginning of the war to the end, and Marguerite saved his letters faithfully. At the front he was unable to save her letters, nor could he save consistently those of anyone else who wrote to him, including his mother. In one case he enclosed in a letter to Marguerite a photograph that his mother had sent him of herself, because he could not hope to preserve it. One must guess that the few surviving original letters received by Cret during World War I must have been sent on to Marguerite. One such letter, from the Philadelphia Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, has written at the bottom in Cret's handwriting that it was damaged in the battle of Ypres. Two letters from children who did not know him (Blanche Ripert and P. R. T. Gluksman) have been preserved: they express their concern for his safety. His wartime letters provide a day-to-day view of World War I from the front and at the same time show how a man of Cret's sensitivity preserved his mental and emotional balance in the midst of the boredom and horrors by reading, thinking, and writing to his wife about art, philosophy, history, and public affairs.

The collection also includes correspondence about Cret. A bound volume contains more than one hundred letters recommending Cret for the Philadelphia Award. There is also a small amount of correspondence about Cret after his death, primarily correspondence with John Harbeson. A carbon copy of a letter of 1949 from J. N. Pease, an architectural engineer who collaborated with Cret on the naval hospital at Beauford, South Carolina, describes Cret's visit to the hospital site in August 1945 and the "slight attack" that he suffered at the end of that visit (Cret died September 8th).

The collection is rich in Cret's own writings, found in Essays, Addresses, Lectures, Interviews, etc., including notes, drafts, and revisions of many of his published articles and contributions to books as well as notes and m anuscripts for public lectures and less formal talks. Included are several drafts of a long article on architectural rendering, which was never published in its original form. Also included are published interviews and articles written by others containing lengthy quotations from a Cret interview. This collection of Cret's writings is not exhaustive. Some are not represented at all. Some lectures or talks are represented only by sketchy manuscript notes. Some published writings are represented only by an incomplete or preliminary manuscript or typescript draft. Some published writings are represented only by an offprint or clipping of the published article.

Material other than correspondence about Cret's projects is even less complete than the project correspondence. Material related to Cret's architectural practice includes contracts, accounts, reports to the client, reports an d notes for internal use, drawings, and printed ephemera. There is also a substantial collection of offprints and clippings about Cret's work, including a few from publications such as L'Architecture. Nearly all Cret's formal project drawings donated to the University of Pennsylvania are housed in the Architectural Archives. Only a very few drawings remain with this collection. Reports, memoranda, and notes--some to clients and some for internal use--are available for only a few projects but may be of considerable value to researchers; some include sketches. Reports and notes for the Detroit Institute of Arts are particularly numerous and substantial.

Researchers interested in Cret's office and partnership will find a small amount of business information. In addition to financial information, there are manuscript notes about the partnership agreement. A description of how a building was studied in Cret's office was written by Harbeson for the "Paul P. Cret Exhibition of Architectural Drawings," held at the Philadelphia Art Alliance from 17 October through 7 November 1937. The exhibition included the following works: the Barnes Foundation in Merion, Pennsylvania; the Federal Reserve Bank in Philadelphia; the University Avenue Bridge and the Henry Avenue Bridge in Philadelphia; and the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. The collection also includes a caricature strip (1927), found in Biographical material, showing Cret and members of his office: each caricature is signed by the subject. Cret's correspondence with his office collectively, found in General Correspondence filed under Harbeson, includes a Christmas card to Cret (1944) signed by members of his office and Cret's response (dated 21 August 1945) to a get well card during his final illness.

Photographs are available only for some projects and may include photographs of a completed building and/or miscellaneous working photographs of the proposed site and context, work in progress, and plaster models of decorative details or sculpture. There are also photographs of architectural drawings, including some of Cret's student work and some of his competition drawings, probably photographed for publication. Projects with large numbers of photographs include the Folger Shakespeare Library, the American Battle Monuments Commission, the Hartford County Building, the Providence War Memorial, Integrity Trust Company, Whitemarsh Memorial Park, Rittenhouse Square in Philadelphia, the U.S. Post Office and Court House in Fort Worth, Texas, and private houses built for Theodore Shaeffer and Clarence Geist in Philadelphia suburbs.

Apart from the correspondence, the most valuable research materials in the collection may be Cret's notes. Cret read voraciously all his life and taught for thirty-seven years. Through the decades he kept files of notes drawn from and commenting on his reading and observation, and they are combined with clippings and offprints, many of them annotated. These materials from a large body of notes and commentary, most in Cret's handwriting and many on scraps of paper, on a wide range of art and architectur al subjects from an extremely broad range of writers, many of whom are not often linked with art. He seems to have used these for different purposes at different times, including university lectures, project design, and writing for publication. As received by the Penn Library, a large number of these were roughly arranged as if for use in specific course lectures. A large number, however, of similar materials were found in no discernible order, while others had been pasted on sheets of paper as if for an exhibition focused on the wide variety of Cret's interests and comments. These materials have been grouped to make them more accessible. Notes and drafts in preparation for writing a letter are filed with the letter in General Correspondence. Notes and drafts that led to published articles are filed with the articles in Essays, Addresses, Lectures, Interviews, etc. Notes directly related to any one specific project are filed with the project in Material related to Cret's architectural practice. Cret's extensive notes on museums made in preparation for the Detroit Institute of Arts are filed with that project, even though the same notes also led to articles on museum design. Notes used for Cret's teaching and notes and articles related to architectural education are grouped together in Material related to Cret's teaching and to architectural education. The balance of Cret's notes forms a separate series, Miscellaneous notes and articles/clippings saved by Cret.

The collection contains a moderate amount of biographical material. Cret wrote no memoirs, but he saved birth certificates, obituaries, and a few other documents for some of his close family members. Cret suffered from serious deafness most of his life as a result of his service in World War I. After he lost his speech in 1939 as a result of surgery for cancer of the larynx, he communicated with others in his daily life largely by means of notes written on a note pad that he carried with him at all times. The collection includes a small number of these notes and written conversations. As with his other notes, conference notes about a project are filed with the project in material related to Cret's architectural practice. Many of these written conversations are found in miscellaneous notes and articles/clippings saved by Cret. Only Cret's written conversation with his physician during his final illness in 1945 is filed in Biographical material. The collection includes a substantial number of clippings and offprints of published material about Cret. John Harbeson added to the collection some biographical materials that he had prepared as well as a draft he had prepared for a book about Cret, which was never completed or published. The collection contains few personal photographs. Among photographs including Cret are group photographs of consultants to the Board of Design for the 1939 New York Exposition and members of the United States Commission of Fine Arts (1940 ). Most photographs in the collection are related to Cret's architectural projects, and any photograph related to a project is filed under the project in Photographs even if Cret is included in the image. The only photograph of his wife in the collection is a Budd Company photograph showing Mr. and Mrs. Cret seated inside a railroad car.

Grossman, Elizabeth Greenwell. The Civic Architecture of Paul Cret. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. McMichael, Carol. Paul Cret at Texas: Architectural Drawing and the Image of the University in the 1930s. Austin: Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, 1983. White, Theo B. Paul Philippe Cret: Architect and Teacher. Philadelphia: Art Alliance Press, 1973.

Gift of John Frederick Harbeson, 1967-1978.

At Columbia: Paul Philippe Cret architectural drawings, 1901-1936

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University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
Finding Aid Author
Nancy Thorne
Finding Aid Date
1999
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The processing of the Paul Philippe Cret Papers and the preparation of this register were made possible in part by a grant from the Walter J. Miller Charitable Trust.
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Series Description

All correspondence in the three subseries is arranged alphabetically by correspondent's name and chronologically within each correspondent. Incoming and outgoing correspondence is interfiled. At the end of the alphabet are correspondents identified only by first name and unidentified correspondents. Most correspondent files have been individually cataloged in Franklin and can be searched by a correspondent's name; for a listing of all the cataloged correspondent files, do the following title search: Paul Philippe Cret Papers.

Adams, Mary L., letter to Cret (1 item), 1905.
Box 1 Folder 2
Adams, O. Eugene, former student of Cret, incomplete letter to Cret while both were soldiers in World War I (1 item), circa 1917.
Box 1 Folder 3
Ader, J., lawyer writing on behalf of the estate of Louis Bernier, letter to Cret regarding legacies from Louis Bernier to Cret and to Louis E. Jallade as payment for work performed on Bernier's proposed French Embassy, Washington, D.C (1 item), 1921.
Box 1 Folder 4
Agnus, Eugene, letter to Cret (1 item), 1910.
Box 1 Folder 1
Alaux, Jean Paul, letters to and from Cret (2 items), 1925-1926.
Box 1 Folder 5
Aldrich, Chester Holmes, 1871-1940, letters to Cret (3 items), 1935-1938.
Box 1 Folder 6
Allen, George H., letters to and from Cret includes a questionnaire about Cret's personal characteristics, completed by Cret and also by two friends, John Harbeson and Shirley Watkins for Allen's article about Cret to be published in Architectural Forum (3 items), 1931.
Box 1 Folder 7
Allen, J. H. Dulles, president of Enfield Pottery and Tile Works, letters to and from Cret regarding architectural tile work produced by Allen for the following projects: Rittenhouse Square, Work No. 98, Delaware River Bridge, Work No. 115 (now Benjamin Franklin Bridge), and Barnes Foundation, Work No. 132; includes copies made by Allen of letters from Albert C. Barnes to Allen (8 items), 1917-1929.
Box 1 Folder 8
Allison, George B., 1904-1977, letter from Cret to Los Angeles Penn Men's Reunion, alumni of the University of Pennsylvania (1 item), 1940.
Box 1 Folder 9
American Academy of Arts and Letters, letter to and from Cret (1 item), 1941.
Box 1 Folder 16
American architect, letter to Cret written by Francis Rogers Bacon (1 item), 1914.
Box 1 Folder 11
American Battle Monuments Commission, established after World War I to oversee memorials in Europe to the American war dead, letters to Cret from John J. Pershing and X. H. Price regarding the American Battle Monuments Commission, Work No. 158, and regarding Cret's service as consultant (9 items), 1932-1944.
Box 1 Folder 12
American Institute of Architects, letter to Cret from Charles D. Maginnis informing Cret that he would receive the Gold Medal of the American Institute of Architects (1 item), 1938.
Box 1 Folder 13
American Institute of Architects. Philadelphia Chapter, letters to Cret from C. A. Ziegler and Horace Wells Sellers (2 items), 1914.
Box 1 Folder 14-15
American Philosophical Society, letters to and from Cret and C. F. Skinker and Alba Johnson regarding Cret's design for a new building, Work No. 181 (never built), and/or alterations to the existing building, Work No. 283 (2 items), 1932-1933.
Box 1 Folder 16
Anderson, William Peirce, 1870-1924, letter to Cret (1 item), 1912.
Box 1 Folder 17
André, Pierre, letter to Cret (1 item), 1906.
Box 1 Folder 18
Antoine, Henry, letters to Cret (2 items), 1905-1914.
Box 1 Folder 19
Antoni, a retired French military officer, letters to Cret (2 items), 1933-1934.
Box 1 Folder 20
Architecte (Paris, France), French architectural journal, letters to and from Cret and editors Pol Abraham and Michel Roux-Spitz (10 items), 1923-1926.
Box 1 Folder 21
Architectural forum, letters to and from Cret and editors John Cushman Fistere and Howard Myers; includes Cret's response to a request for a list of America's architectural masterpieces (4 items), 1932-1935.
Box 1 Folder 22
Armbruster, J., friend and fellow architecture student from Lyon, France, letters to Cret (8 items), 1896-1905.
Box 1 Folder 23
Arnal, Leon Eugene, 1881-1963, fellow student in Paris who taught with Cret at the University of Pennsylvania from 1911 to 1914, served in World War I, and moved to Minneapolis after the war, where he practiced architecture and taught at the University of Minnesota, letters to and from Cret, in French and English (11 items), 1921-1938.
Box 1 Folder 24
Atherton, Thomas H., letter to Cret (1 item), 1931.
Box 1 Folder 25
Atkinson, Alice M., letter to Cret (1 item), 1905.
Box 1 Folder 26
Aubert, Marcel, 1884-1962, letters to Cret (2 items), 1940.
Box 1 Folder 27
Ayers, Louis, letter to Cret regarding Cret's work as consulting architect to the architectural firm York & Sawyer on the Tripler Army Hospital in Hawaii, Work No. 485 (1 item), 1944.
Box 1 Folder 28
Bach, Richard F. 1887-1968, letters to and from Cret regarding the Detroit Institute of Arts, Work No. 105 (6 items), 1927-1928.
Box 1 Folder 29
Barnes, Albert C. 1872-1951, letters to and from Cret regarding the buildings of the Barnes Foundation in Merion, Pa., Work No. 132 (15 items), 1923-1924.
Box 1 Folder 30
Barney, J. Stewart, letter to Cret (1 item), 1908.
Box 1 Folder 31
Baumann and Baumann, letters to and from Cret and Albert B. Baumann regarding Cret's work as consulting architect on the Knoxville Post Office and Court House, Work No. 268 (4 items), 1931-1932.
Box 1 Folder 32
Belgium. Consulat (Philadelphia, Pa.), letter from Cret to Jules Leroux, probably regarding the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Work No. 260 (1 item), 1933.
Box 1 Folder 33
Bellows, Robert Peabody, 1877-1957, letter to Cret regarding Atelier Pascal (1 item), 1930.
Box 1 Folder 34
Bénard, E., letters to Cret includes a letter regarding the Pan American Union, Work No. 23 (3 items), 1899-1908.
Box 1 Folder 35
Bendiner, Alfred, letter to Cret includes an original pen and ink caricature of Cret (1 item), 1943.
Box 1 Folder 36
Bennett, Edward H. 1874-1954, letters to and from Cret regarding the Minneapolis Museum (2 items), 1911.
Box 1 Folder 37
Bennett, Stanley, letter to Bennet and forwarded to Cret from David Scott contains legal advice concerning a lawsuit, Kruesi v. Hull, in which Kruesi appears to be suing on behalf of Cret, for attempting to collect payment owed him by the architect Washington Hull of New York for work performed by in 1902 (1 item), 1907.
Box 1 Folder 38
Bénureau, France, letter to Cret regarding the death of her husband, H. Bénureau (1 item), 1944.
Box 1 Folder 39
Bénureau, H., letters to and from Cret regarding the Barnes Foundation, Work No. 132; the French Pavilion at the Century of Progress Exposition (never built), Work No. 269; and the French Embassy, Washington, D.C (never built), Work No. 212, in French (5 items), 1932-1933.
Box 1 Folder 40
Béranger, Henry, letters to Cret and Fernand Chapsal of the Comité Français des Expositions regarding the French Pavilion at the Century of Progress Exposition (never built), Work No. 269; includes Chapsal's reply to Béranger forwarded to Cret (2 items), 1932.
Box 1 Folder 41
Bernier, Louis, died 1919, architect in Paris, letters to and from Cret regarding preparations for the construction of Bernier's proposed French Embassy in Washington, D.C., which was never built (73 items), 1908-1914.
Box 1 Folder 42-45
Bernier, Louis, died 1919, architect in Paris, letters to and from Cret regarding preparations for the construction of Bernier's proposed French Embassy in Washington, D.C., which was never built (73 items), 1908-1914.
Box 2 Folder 46
Bertinot, Charles, executor of the estate of Louis Bernier, letters to and from Cret regarding legacies from Louis Bernier to Cret and to Louis E. Jallade as payment for work performed on Bernier's proposed French Embassy, Washington, D.C (2 items), 1921.
Box 2 Folder 47
Bidauer, M., letter to Cret regarding a letter forwarded by Cret to her from her mother, Elisabeth Lesort, and her response to be forwarded by Cret to her parents, M. et Mme. André Lesort (1 item), 1945.
Box 2 Folder 48
Biddle, Charles J., letter to Cret (1 item), 1939.
Box 2 Folder 49
Biddle, Francis, 1886-1968, letters to Cret (3 items), 1929-1945.
Box 2 Folder 50
Bigot, Paul-Marie-Arsène, 1870-1942, letters to and from Cret (5 items), 1928-1929.
Box 2 Folder 51
Blackall, Clarence Howard, 1857-1942, letters to and from Cret and John Harbeson concerning the Hershey Theatre and Social Center Building, Work No. 37, which Harbeson completed during Cret's absence as a soldier in World War I (5 items), 1910-1915.
Box 2 Folder 52
Blum, Albert, letter to Cret (1 item), 1940.
Box 2 Folder 53
Blum, Edward I., 1876-1944, letter from Cret regarding Atelier Pascal (Cret's original letter returned "unclaimed") (1 item), 1930.
Box 2 Folder 54
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.), letter to Cret from Marriner S. Eccles, Chairman, regarding the Federal Reserve Board Building, Work No. 302 (1 item), 1938.
Box 2 Folder 55
Bolles, Randolph, letter to Cret regarding Atelier Pascal (1 item), 1930.
Box 2 Folder 56
Bonnier, Louis, 1856-1946, letter to Cret regarding T Square Club Exhibition in Philadelphia in 1906 (1 item), 1906.
Box 2 Folder 57
Borie, Edith, wife of Adolph Borie who painted a portrait of Cret, letters to Cret, in French and English (2 items), 1917-1943.
Box 2 Folder 58
Bottiau, Alfred, 1889-1951, French sculptor who provided sculpture for several Cret projects, letters to and from Cret regarding Integrity Trust Company, 16th and Walnut Streets, Philadelphia, Work No. 200, and Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Work No. 260 (4 items), 1930-1933.
Box 2 Folder 59
Brazil. Charge d'Affaires, letter from Cret (1 item), 1937.
Box 2 Folder 60
Brée, Germaine, letters to Cret (12 items), 1943-1945.
Box 2 Folder 61
Bresse, Paul, letters to and from Cret, in French (2 items), 1933.
Box 2 Folder 62
Brown University, letters to and from Cret and Theodore Francis Green, Edwin A. Burlingame, W. H. P. Faunce, and Henry M. Wriston regarding Cret's work as consulting architect to the University and the 1922 Plan for the Future Development of Brown University, Work No. 129, on which they collaborated (33 items), 1922-1937.
Box 2 Folder 63-64
Brunon, Eva, mother of Cret's fellow soldier Raoul Brunon, who was killed in World War I, letter to Cret (1 item), 1921.
Box 2 Folder 65
Butler, Charles, letters to and from Cret, in French and English (4 items), 1910-1943.
Box 2 Folder 66
Cairns, Bayard S., letter to Cret regarding Atelier Pascal (1 item), 1930.
Box 2 Folder 67
Callender, Clarence N. b 1887, letter to Cret to arrange a lecture for the Civitan Club of Philadelphia (1 item), 1924.
Box 2 Folder 68
Cameron, James M., letters to and from Cret regarding a house designed and built for James M. Cameron, Work No. 199; and letter to Mrs. Cameron written by John Harbeson on behalf of Cret about another house (4 items), 1929-1936.
Box 2 Folder 69
Cannon, Will Alban, letter from Cret regarding the Falls View Bridge, Work No. 354 and Cret's association on that bridge with Modjeski & Masters (1 item), 1938.
Box 2 Folder 70
Carlu, Jacques, 1890-1976, letters to and from Cret regarding Cret's association with Carlu on the French Pavilion (never built), Work No. 269, for the Century of Progress International Exposition in Chicago (24 items), 1931.
Box 2 Folder 71
Carrère, John Merven, 1858-1911, letter to Cret regarding T Square Club Exhibition in Philadelphia in 1906 (1 item), 1906.
Box 2 Folder 72
Carrière, L., friend from Lyon, letters to Cret (8 items), 1904-1940.
Box 2 Folder 73
Catholic Encyclopedia, letters to Cret from editor, Condé B. Pallen, regarding Cret's article "Animals in Christian Art" (3 items), 1906.
Box 2 Folder 74
Century of Progress International Exposition (Chicago, Ill., 1933-1934), letters to and from Cret and Rufus C. Dawes, Allen D. Albert, Daniel H. Burnham, Lenox Riley Lohr, Nathaniel Alexander Owings, and Henry Crew regarding Cret's service as a member of the architectural commission and the Hall of Science, Work No. 240, as well as the French Pavilion (never built), Work No. 269 (11 items), 1928-1938.
Box 2 Folder 75
Certoux, Charles, letter from Cret regarding the Légion d'Honneur (1 item), 1929.
Box 2 Folder 76
Chance, Edwin M., letters to Cret regarding the Central Heating Plant, Washington, D.C., Work No. 267 with which Chance's firm, United Engineers & Constructors, was associated (3 items), 1929-1944.
Box 2 Folder 77
Chapman, Alfred H., fellow student from École des Beaux Arts, Paris, who was employed, with Cret, by the New York architect Washington Hull, letters to Cret regarding Cret's early employment in America and attempts to get paid by Washington Hull, in English and French (6 items), 1902-1906.
Box 2 Folder 78
Chaussemiche, B., letter to Cret regarding T Square Club Exhibition in Philadelphia in 1906 (1 item), 1906.
Box 2 Folder 79
Clarke, Gilmore D., 1892-, letter to Cret (1 item), 1943.
Box 2 Folder 80
Clarkson, Wiley Gulick, 1885-1952, letters to and from Cret regarding Fort Worth Post Office (Fort Worth, Texas), Work No. 270 (5 items), 1931-1944.
Box 2 Folder 81
Clemesha, F. Chapman, letters to and from Cret regarding the Canadian Battlefields Memorials Competition, Work No. 159; includes copies of Clemesha's correspondence to C. F. Osborne and of correspondence from C. H. Reilly to General Hughes (2 items), 1923.
Box 2 Folder 82
Collens, Charles, letter to Cret regarding Atelier Pascal (Paris, France) (1 item), 1930.
Box 2 Folder 83
Compagnie générale transatlantique, letters to and from Cret (2 items), 1933.
Box 2 Folder 84
Conlen, William J., letters to and from Cret regarding legal advice about Albert C. Barnes and the Barnes Foundation, Work No. 132 (3 items), 1924-1943.
Box 2 Folder 85
Cook, Catherine., letter from Cret regarding a book published about the Folger Shakespeare Library, Work No. 226 (1 item), 1937.
Box 2 Folder 86
Cooke, Morris Llewellyn, 1872-1960, letters to Cret (2 items), 1940-1943.
Box 2 Folder 87
Corbett, Harvey Wiley, 1873-1954, letters to and from Cret regarding Atelier Pascal (Paris, France) and drawings by Eugene Duquesne; includes a letter Cret sent to Leon Arnal, William Emerson, George Harold Edgell, and (?) Hafner and Corbett's response (2 items), 1930.
Box 2 Folder 88
Cormier, Ernest, letter to Cret regarding Atelier Pascal (Paris, France) (1 item), 1930.
Box 2 Folder 89
Cornell University, letter to Cret from President Schurmann regarding Cret's inquiry about a possible position at Cornell (1 item), 1906.
Box 2 Folder 90
Cortissoz, Royal, 1869-1948, letters to Cret (5 items), 1929-1943.
Box 2 Folder 91
Coutan, Étienne, letters to Cret, in French (2 items), 1906-1932.
Box 2 Folder 92
Craig, Colister M., letter of congratulations to Cret from Craig, Frederick A. Muhlenberg, Raymond J. Richardson, Miles B. Dechant, and Frederick R. Shenk (1 item), 1938.
Box 2 Folder 93
Cram, Ralph Adams, 1863-1942, letters to and from Cret (2 items), 1922.
Box 2 Folder 94
Creighton, William J., 1892-, letters to and from Cret regarding the Century of Progress International Exposition, Work No. 240 (4 items), 1933.
Box 2 Folder 95
Cross, John Walter, 1878-1951, member of the competition jury for the Federal Reserve Board Building, letter to Cret regarding the Federal Reserve Board Building, Work No. 302 (1 item), 1935.
Box 2 Folder 96
Daily Pennsylvanian (Philadelphia, Pa., 1855), letter to Cret from John Francis Manfredi requesting an article for the paper (1 item), 1940.
Box 3 Folder 97
Darling, Frank, letters to and from Cret regarding the Canadian Battlefields Memorials Competition, Work No. 159; includes copies of Darling's correspondence with Percy Nobbs and H. C. Osborne (3 items), 1921-1922.
Box 3 Folder 98
Davis, Paul A (Paul Armon), 1872-1948, letters to Cret regarding Cret's University of Pennsylvania appointment and Atelier Pascal (Paris, France), in French and English (5 items), 1902-1930.
Box 3 Folder 99
Day, Frank Miles, 1861-1918, letters to Cret regarding the Perry Memorial Competition, Work No. 26 (Cret competitor), and the Detroit Library Competition (Cret juror) (2 items), 1911-1913.
Box 3 Folder 100
De Marco, Jean, 1898-, sculptor, letter to Cret regarding De Marco's sculpture for Whitemarsh Memorial Park, Work No. 246, Tower of Chimes (1 item), 1937.
Box 3 Folder 101
Debry, Béné, letter to Cret (1 item), 1939.
Box 3 Folder 102
Delano, William Adams, 1874-1960, letters to and from Cret regarding United States Military Academy, Work No. 308, and United States Military Academy Competition, Work No. 489 (9 items), 1929-1945.
Box 3 Folder 103
Delisle, Léopold, 1826-1910, letter to Cret (1 item), undated.
Box 3 Folder 104
Detroit Institute of Arts, letters to and from Cret and Albert Kahn, Clyde H. Burroughs, Ralph H. Booth, Edsel Ford, Mary Soper Pop, and W. H. Valentiner regarding the Detroit Institute of Arts, Work No. 105; and letters regarding the frescos Diego Rivera painted on the walls of the museum's courtyard garden (113 items), 1919-1933.
Box 3 Folder 105-110
Deville, Henry, letter to Cret (1 item), 1910.
Box 3 Folder 111
Donaldson, John M., 1854-1941, letter from Cret regarding the Washington Peace Carillon, Work No. 113 (never built) (1 item), 1924.
Box 3 Folder 113
Donn, Edward W., letter to Cret regarding a rendering for a client of his firm, Wood, Donn and Deming (1 item), 1906.
Box 3 Folder 112
Dreyfous, Julius, letters to and from Cret (2 items), 1932-1933.
Box 3 Folder 114
Du Pont, Marcella Miller, letters to and from Cret, in French and English (24 items), 1936-1945.
Box 3 Folder 116-117
Dubasoff, Dmitri, letter to Cret includes a list of artists in the employ of his New York City interior decoration firm, Les Arts modernes, in French and English (1 item), 1931.
Box 3 Folder 115
Ecker, Edith, letter to Cret (1 item), 1943.
Box 3 Folder 118
Edgell, George Harold, 1887-1954, letter to Cret (1 item), 1932.
Box 3 Folder 119
Edward G. Budd Manufacturing Company, letters to and from Cret and Edward G. Budd regarding trains designed for the Budd Company, Work No. 278 (2 items), 1936-1939.
Box 3 Folder 120
Egbert, Donald Drew, 1902-1973, letters to Cret (2 items), 1941-1943.
Box 3 Folder 121
Ellett, Thomas Harlan, 1880-1951, letters to Cret (2 items), 1935-1943.
Box 3 Folder 122
Ely, Gertrude, letter to Cret (1 item), 1939.
Box 3 Folder 123
Emerson, William, 1873-1957, letters to and from Cret regarding Atelier Pascal (Paris, France), Eugene Duquesne, the Competition for a Memorial to George Eastman (Emerson professional advisor; Cret competitor), and the Federal Reserve Board Building, Work No. 302 (Emerson juror) (11 items), 1921-1943.
Box 3 Folder 124
Emmart, William W., letter to Cret regarding drawings to be done by Cret for Emmart's firm, Ellicott & Emmart (1 item), 1905.
Box 3 Folder 125
Erikson, Carl A., letter from Cret responding in detail to a paper, written by alumni practicing in Chicago, criticizing the teaching of architecture at the University of Pennsylvania (1 item), 1940.
Box 3 Folder 126
Estate of Joseph Pulitzer, decd., letters to Cret from C. C. Rawlings regarding the Pulitzer Fountain Competition in which Cret served as juror (2 items), 1912.
Box 3 Folder 127
Evans, John Lane, former draftsman in Cret's office, letter to Cret from the armed forces in Hawaii about the Chateau Thierry Memorial Cret designed and built for the American Battle Monuments Commission, Work No. 158 (1 item), 1944.
Box 3 Folder 128
Evening Bulletin (Philadelphia, Pa.), letter from Cret to editor Fred Fuller Shedd about William L. Price and M. Hawley McLanahan of Price and McLanahan (1 item), 1929.
Box 3 Folder 129
Everett, Herbert E., 1863-1932, letter from Cret (1 item), undated.
Box 3 Folder 130
Fairmount Park Art Association, letters to and from Cret and Leslie W. Miller regarding the Philadelphia Parkway, Work No. 38, now known as the Benjamin Franklin Parkway (3 items), 1907.
Box 3 Folder 131
Fairmount Park Commission (Philadelphia, Pa.), letters to and from Cret and Eli Kirk Price regarding the Philadelphia Parkway, Work No. 38, now know as the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, and the Henry Avenue Bridge, Work No. 194 (2 items), 1919-1929.
Box 3 Folder 132
Faugier, Etienne, letters to Cret (2 items), 1898-1920.
Box 3 Folder 133
Fechheimer, A. Lincoln, letter to Cret (1 item), 1929.
Box 3 Folder 134
Fesler, James W.,, letters from Cret regarding the Art School of the John Herron Art Institute (Indianapolis, Ind.), Work No. 193, and the proposed museum extension, Work No. 196 (never built) (4 items), 1927-1928.
Box 3 Folder 135
Fetterolf, Edwin H., letters to and from Cret regarding the pedestal for the statue of Benjamin Franklin donated to the University of Pennsylvania by the Class of 1910, Work No. 33 (2 items), 1914.
Box 3 Folder 136
Fèvre & Cie, letters to Cret regarding the American Battle Monuments Commission, Work No. 158; and the French Pavilion (never built), Work No. 269, for the Century of Progress International Exposition; includes an enclosed copy of a letter from Fèvre & Cie on Cret's behalf to Leon Sireyjol (2 items), 1932-1933.
Box 3 Folder 137
Finley, David E (David Edward), director of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., letter to Cret regarding Cret's correspondence with Henry Poor (1 item), 1945.
Box 3 Folder 138
Flagg, Ernest, 1857-1947, letters to and from Cret largely regarding Cret's enlargement of the Chapel of the United States Naval Academy, Cret's Work No. 363 (the Chapel was originally designed and built by Flagg) (5 items), 1937-1938.
Box 3 Folder 139
Folger Shakespeare Library, letters to and from Cret and Joseph Quincy Adams regarding the Folger Shakespeare Library, Work No. 226 (10 items), 1932-1939.
Box 4 Folder 143
Folger, Emily Clara Jordan, 1858-1936, letters to and from Cret regarding the Folger Shakespeare Library, Work No. 226; includes letters to Mrs. Folger from Samuel A. Tannenbaum (20 items), 1930-1931.
Box 4 Folder 140
Folger, Henry Clay, 1857-1930, letters to and from Cret regarding the Folger Shakespeare Library, Work No. 226 (47 items), 1929-1930.
Box 4 Folder 141-142
Foltz, Richard G., letters to and from Cret (2 items), 1929.
Box 4 Folder 144
Ford, George B (George Burdett), 1879-1930, letter to Cret regarding Atelier Pascal (Paris, France) (1 item), 1930.
Box 4 Folder 145
France. Administration des Monnaies et Médailles, letters to and from Cret and André Dally regarding the French Pavilion (never built), Work No. 269, for the Century of Progress International Exposition (2 items), 1932.
Box 4 Folder 146
France. Ambassade (U.S.), letters to and from Cret and Ambassador J. J. Jusserand, Ambassador Paul Claudel, Jules Henry, G. Henry-Haye, Garreau-Dombasle, and André de Laboulaye regarding Cret's work on Louis Bernier's project to build a French Embassy in Washington, D.C (never built); Cret's own French Embassy, Work No. 212 (never built); and the French Pavilion, Work No. 269 (never built), planned for the Century of Progress International Exposition; includes copies of correspondence with Ministère des Affaires Étrangères and with Ministère du Commerce (35 items), 1909-1941.
Box 4 Folder 147
France. Armée, letters to and from Cret and Frédéric Reboul, General Sibert, Capitaine Ney, Major Lestre, and G. K. Wilson regarding Cret's military affairs (9 items), 1903-1922.
Box 4 Folder 148
France. Bureau des Bâtiments Civils, letters to and from Cret and Monsieur Perchet (as well as other unnamed correspodents) regarding Cret's work on Louis Bernier's project to build a French Embassy in Washington, D.C., (never built) and Cret's own French Embassy, Work No. 212 (never built) (6 items), 1910-1934.
Box 4 Folder 149
France. Comité consultatif de santé publique et d'assistance sociale aux États Unis, letters to Cret from Micheline (3 items), 1944.
Box 4 Folder 150
France. Consulat (Philadelphia, Pa.), letters to and from Cret and Monsieur de Verneuil regarding, among other things, a legacy from Cret's uncle Jean Paul Durand (most other correspondents' signatures are illegible) (8 items), 1903-1935.
Box 4 Folder 151
France. Consulat général (New York, N.Y.), letters to and from Cret and E. Lanel regarding Cret's work on Louis Bernier's project to build a French Embassy in Washington, D.C (never built); includes a letter from Lanel addressed to Louis E. Jallade, Cret's associate for this project (3 items), 1909.
Box 4 Folder 152
France. Ministère de la Guerre, letter to Cret regarding a military decoration awarded to Cret (1 item), 1922.
Box 4 Folder 153
France. Ministère de l'instruction publique, letters to Cret (4 items), 1898-1902.
Box 4 Folder 154
France. Ministère des affaires étrangères, letter to and from Cret announcing that Cret has been made a member of the Légion d'Honneur (1 item), 1924.
Box 4 Folder 155
France. Ministère du Commerce, letter from Cret to Monsieur Chomet regarding the French Pavilion, Work No. 269 (never built), for the Century of Progress International Exposition (1 item), 1932.
Box 4 Folder 156
Françon, F., letter to Cret (1 item), 1938.
Box 4 Folder 157
Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.), letter to Cret regarding a committee to design a gold medal (1 item), 1914.
Box 4 Folder 158
Free Library of Philadelphia, letter from Cret to John Thomson regarding appointment of Cret and Albert Kelsey as architects for a branch library (Cret refused because of the association with Kelsey) (1 item), 1912.
Box 4 Folder 159
French Information Center (New York, N.Y.), letters to and from Cret responding to questions from André Vulliet, in French and English (2 items), 1941.
Box 4 Folder 160
Frost, Wallace, 1892-1962, letter to Cret (1 item), 1935.
Box 4 Folder 161
Furber, William Copeland, letters to Cret regarding the Pan American Union, Work No. 23 (3 items), 1909-1911.
Box 4 Folder 162
G.P. Putnam's Sons, letter from Cret regarding Talbot Hamlin's Architecture through the Ages (1 item), 1940.
Box 4 Folder 163
Garfield, Abram, 1872?-1958, letter from Cret regarding the American Battle Monuments Commission, Work No. 158 (1 item), 1927.
Box 4 Folder 164
Garnier, Tony, 1869-1848, letter to Cret (1 item), 1906.
Box 4 Folder 165
Gaulaunès, Noël, letter to Cret (1 item), 1942.
Box 4 Folder 166
Gay, Charles Merrick, 1871-1951, letter to Cret regarding Atelier Pascal (Paris, France) (1 item), 1930.
Box 4 Folder 167
Geerlings, Gerald K (Gerald Kenneth), 1897-1998, letters to Cret regarding an article on the Detroit Institute of Arts, Work No. 105 (5 items), 1927.
Box 4 Folder 168
George A. Fuller Company, letters from Cret and Cret's associate, Louis E. Jallade, to Paul Starett regarding Louis Bernier's French Embassy in Washington, D.C (never built) (2 items), 1909-1910.
Box 4 Folder 169
Gettysburg College, letter to Cret from President Henry W. A. Hanson regarding consultation work on the new college chapel (1 item), 1941.
Box 4 Folder 170
Gibbs, Harrison, letter from Cret (1 item), 1937.
Box 4 Folder 171
Gilbert, Cass, 1859-1934, letter to Cret from Cass Gilbert and Walter Corr (or Cork) regarding Cret's service on a competition jury for Pittsburgh City Hall and Allegheny County Court House (1 item), 1913.
Box 4 Folder 172
Gluksman, P. R. T., a child who knows Cret's mother, letter to Cret written to support Cret as a soldier in World War I (1 item), 1914.
Box 4 Folder 173
Goodhue, Bertram Grosvenor, 1869-1924, letters to and from Cret regarding Goodhue's architectural work; includes items from Oscar H. Murray of Goodhue's firm, after Goodhue's death, arranging for the return of Goodhue's original letters for the Art Institute of Chicago (6 items), 1923-1932.
Box 4 Folder 174
Gould, Dorothy Fay, letter from Cret responding to her questions regarding her rights withing her deceased husband's (Carl F. Gould's) partnership and legal aspects of an architectural partnership (1 item), 1940.
Box 4 Folder 175
Granger, Alfred Hoyt, 1867-1939, letters to and from Cret regarding a proposed school of architecture at the University of Chicago; Cret's response includes detailed information about the University of Pennsylvania School of Architecture (4 items), 1925-1926.
Box 4 Folder 176
Gray, Austin Kayingham, letters to Cret regarding Gray's candidacy for the position of Assistant Librarian of the Folger Shakespeare Library; includes copies of testimonials (originals were forwarded to Mrs. Emily Folger) addressed to Cret from E. M. W. Tillyard, F. J. Foakes-Jackson, Rufus Jones, Felix Schelling, and Carleton Brown (2 items), 1930.
Box 4 Folder 177
Gray, Christine Chambers, wife of Austin Kayingham Gray, letter to Cret (1 item), circa 1939-1940.
Box 4 Folder 178
Gréber, Jacques, letters to and from Cret regarding the Philadelphia Parkway (now known as the Benjamin Franklin Parkway) Work No. 38; the Detroit Institute of Arts, Work No. 105; the Rodin Museum in Philadelphia, Work No. 176; and the American Battle Monuments Commission, Work No. 158, in French and English (65 items), 1920-1945.
Box 5 Folder 179-182
Green, Theodore Francis, 1867-1966, letter to Cret (1 item), 1940.
Box 5 Folder 183
Gregory, John, 1879-1958, letters to and from Cret regarding Gregory's sculpture for the Folger Shakespeare Library, Work No. 226; includes items to John Frederick Harbeson and from William Henry Livingston on Cret's behalf (11 items), 1929-1938.
Box 5 Folder 184
Groben, William Edward, -1883, letters to Cret (4 items), 1906-1907.
Box 5 Folder 185
Guiffrey, Jean, letter from John Frederick Harbeson on Cret's behalf regarding photographs of Cret's work to be exhibited at the Boston Museum (1 item), 1915.
Box 5 Folder 186
Guiton, Jean W., letters to Cret (2 items), 1943.
Box 5 Folder 187
Hadden, Gavin, 1888-, letters to and from Cret regarding Brown University Stadium, Work No. 146 (5 items), 1924-1930.
Box 5 Folder 188
Hamilton County (Ohio). New Court House Building Commission, letter to Cret regarding a competition for the Hamilton County Court House; includes a copy of the report of the competition jury by James Knox Taylor, Cret, and H. Van Buren Magonigle (1 item), 1913.
Box 5 Folder 189
Hamlin, Talbot, 1889-1956, letters to and from Cret (2 items), 1930.
Box 5 Folder 190
Harbeson, John Frederick, 1888-1986, letters to and from Cret includes a 1944 Christmas card to Cret from his entire office (signed), and Cret's response to a card from his office during his final illness (4 items), 1917-1945.
Box 5 Folder 191
Harbord, James G (James Guthrie), 1866-1947, letter to and from Cret regarding the American Battle Monuments Commission, Work No. 158 (1 item), 1937.
Box 5 Folder 192
Harding, George M., letter to and from Cret regarding the American Battle Monuments Commission, Work No. 158 (1 item), 1944.
Box 5 Folder 193
Harmon, Arthur Loomis, 1878-1958, letters to and from Cret regarding the American Battle Monuments Commission, Work No. 158, and Harmon's overpayment to Lahalle et Levard (firm of Cret's brother-in-law, Pierre Lahalle) (3 items), 1933-1943.
Box 5 Folder 194
Harper & Brothers, letter from Cret to David H. Scott regarding William Ward Watkin's book, The Church of Tomorrow (1 item), 1936.
Box 5 Folder 195
Harrison, Wallace K. 1895-, letter from Cret (1 item), 1930.
Box 5 Folder 196
Harvard University, letters to Cret from James Bryan Conant, Reginald Fitz, Henry C. Clark, Walter H. Trumbull, and Edward Waldo Forbes regarding the awarding of an honorary degree, Doctor of Arts, to Cret (5 items), 1940.
Box 5 Folder 197
Hastings, Thomas, 1860-1929, letters to and from Cret includes a copy of a letter from Hastings to Warren Powers Laird (4 items), 1906-1925.
Box 5 Folder 198
Headman, August Goonie, b 1883, letters from John Frederick Harbeson on behalf of Cret, regarding the Naglee Memorial in San Jose, California, Work No. 23 (2 items), 1915-1916.
Box 5 Folder 199
Hébert, Edmond, letters to Cret (4 items), 1901-1906.
Box 5 Folder 200
Hébrard, Jean, letters to and from Cret (2 items), 1931.
Box 5 Folder 201
Hedrick, Wyatt C., 1888-1964, letters to and from Cret regarding the Naval Air Station at Trinidad, Work No. 424 (2 items), 1941.
Box 5 Folder 202
Hermant, Leon, letters to and from Cret regarding Hermant's sculpture for the Calvert Street Bridge in Washington, D.C., in French (10 items), 1935.
Box 5 Folder 203
Hewitt, Caroline, wife of Cret's fellow student in Atelier Pascal, Edwin H. Hewitt, letters to and from Cret includes Cret's detailed response to Mrs Hewitt's request for a list of distinguished American modern architecture (2 items), 1933.
Box 5 Folder 204
Hewitt, Edward Shepard, letters to Cret (2 items), 1928.
Box 5 Folder 205
Hewitt, Edwin Hawley, 1874-1939, letters to Cret includes a letter regarding Atelier Pascal (Paris, France), in English and French (4 items), 1906-1930.
Box 5 Folder 206
Hewlett, J. Monroe, letters from Cret regarding Folger Shakespeare Library, Work No. 226 (2 items), 1929-1930.
Box 5 Folder 207
Hirons, Frederic C., 1882-1942, letter to Cret (1 item), 1928.
Box 5 Folder 208
Holabird, John Augur, letters to Cret (4 items), 1933-1943.
Box 5 Folder 209
Holbrook, J. Byers, letters to and from Cret regarding Holbrook's work on Louis Bernier's French Embassy, Washington, D.C (never built) (3 items), 1913.
Box 5 Folder 210
Holland, Leicester Bodine, 1882-1952, letters to and from Cret (3 items), 1929-1943.
Box 5 Folder 211
Hood, Raymond M (Raymond Mathewson), 1881-1934, letters to Cret regarding the Century of Progress International Exposition in Chicago (2 items), 1928-1929.
Box 5 Folder 212
Hornblower, Joseph C. 1848-1908, letter to Cret (1 item), 1900.
Box 5 Folder 213
Hough, William Jarrett Hallowell, 1888-1969, letters from Cret regarding the French Embassy, Washington, D.C., Work No. 212 (1 item), 1930.
Box 5 Folder 214
Howe, George, 1886-1955, letters to and from Cret (4 items), 1929-1943.
Box 5 Folder 215
Howell, Carl E., letters to and from Cret regarding the establishment of a school of architecture in Cleveland, Ohio (3 items), 1906-1920.
Box 5 Folder 216
Howells, John Mead, 1868-1959, letter to Cret (1 item), 1943.
Box 5 Folder 217
Hudnut, Joseph, 1886-1968, letters to and from Cret (4 items), 1940-1943.
Box 5 Folder 218
Hughes, William H., warden of the Church of the Redeemer, letter from Cret regarding the Thayer Cross, Work No. 144, which the First City Troop wished to place in the graveyard of the Church of the Redeemer (copy was sent to Captain Clement B. Wood of the First City Troop) (1 item), 1924.
Box 5 Folder 219
Hull, Washington, letters to Cret (3 items), 1904.
Box 5 Folder 220
Hunsicker, J. Quincy, letter from Cret regarding Independence Hall, Memorial Park, Work No. 276, in Philadelphia (1 item), 1937.
Box 5 Folder 221
Hunter, John H., letter to Cret (1 item), 1941.
Box 5 Folder 222
Indianapolis Public Library, letters to and from Cret on behalf of himself and his associates Zantzinger, Borie and Medary and Charles E. Rush and L. L. Dickerson regarding the Indianapolis Public Library, Work No. 34; includes one letter written by Clarence Clark Zantzinger (5 items), 1914-1931.
Box 5 Folder 223
Ingalls Stone Company, letter from Cret regarding Whitemarsh Memorial Park, Work No. 246 and supplementing the correspondence of Jean De Marco, the sculptor (1 item), 1937.
Box 5 Folder 226
Ingersoll, R. Sturgis b 1891, letter to Cret (1 item), 1944.
Box 5 Folder 224
Integrity Trust Company (Philadelphia, Pa.), letters to and from Cret and Walter K. Hardt and William A. Clarke regarding the Integrity Trust Company, Work Nos. 200 and 238 (4 items), 1929-1930.
Box 5 Folder 225
International Museum Office, letters to and from Cret and Euripide Foundoukidis regarding an international conference and Cret's article for the journal Mouseion., in French and English (6 items), 1933.
Box 5 Folder 227
International Railways Company, letter from Cret to B. J. Yungbluth, includes a list of Cret's work (1 item), 1938.
Box 5 Folder 228
Jackson, Chevalier, 1865-1958, letter to Cret (1 item), 1939.
Box 5 Folder 229
Jacques Seligman & Fils, letters to Cret and Germain Seligman regarding the Detroit Institute of Arts, Work No. 105 (4 items), 1921-1922.
Box 5 Folder 230
Jallade, Louis E., letters to and from Cret regarding Louis Bernier's proposed French Embassy, Washington, D.C (never built); the Fulton Memorial Competition, Work No. 25; the Detroit Institute of Arts, Work No. 105; and a house for Paul Debry (includes letters from Debry to Jallade) (93 items), 1906-1930.
Box 6 Folder 231-233
Jane, Mie, letter to Cret (1 item), undated.
Box 6 Folder 234
Jarel, P., letter to Cret (1 item), circa 1918.
Box 6 Folder 235
Jarny Brindean, J. de., letter to Cret (1 item), 1907.
Box 6 Folder 236
Jennewein, Carl Paul, 1890-1978, letter from Cret regarding the Providence War Memorial, Providence, R.I., Work No. 192 (1 item), 1927.
Box 6 Folder 237
Jodocius, A., letter to Cret (1 item), 1918.
Box 6 Folder 238
Johnson, William Templeton, 1877-1957, letter to Cret regarding a municipal city planning exhibition, includes copies of letters sent to Johnson from Flavel Shurtleff (1 item), 1911.
Box 6 Folder 239
Jooss-Andreoni, letter to Cret regarding Paul Albert Pocheron (1 item), 1922.
Box 6 Folder 240
Jusserand, E., widow of J.J. Jusserand, letter to Cret regarding the French Embassy, Washington, D.C (never built), Work No. 212; and responding to Cret's letter of condolence and her husband's hopes for the project (1 item), 1930.
Box 6 Folder 241
Kahn, Albert, 1869-1942, letters to and from Cret including a letter regarding the Milwaukee County Court House Competition, Work No. 198 for which Kahn was a juror and Cret was a competitor (8 items), 1921-1942.
Box 6 Folder 242
Kahn, Ernestine, letter to Cret regarding Cret's obituary for her husband, Albert Kahn, in the Octagon (1 item), 1943.
Box 6 Folder 243
Kane, James A., letters to Cret (2 items), 1940.
Box 6 Folder 244
Kapp, William E., letters to and from Cret regarding murals painted by Diego Rivera on the walls of the garden courtyard of the Detroit Museum of Art, Work No. 105 (3 items), 1933.
Box 6 Folder 245
Karcher, Walter T., 1881-1953, letters to Cret (2 items), circa 1906-1929.
Box 6 Folder 246
Keast, W. R. Morton 1888-1973, letters to and from John Frederick Harbeson on Cret's behalf regarding the Hershey Theatre and Social Center, Work No. 37 (2 items), 1913-1917.
Box 6 Folder 247
Keller, Kent Ellsworth, -1867, letter from Cret regarding the Smithsonian Gallery Competition, Work No. 384-X (1 item), 1938.
Box 6 Folder 248
Kelsey, Albert, 1870-1950, letters to and from Cret regarding the Pan American Union, Work No. 23, Fulton Memorial Competition, Work No. 25, and Valley Forge Monument, Work No. 94 (44 items), 1907-1926.
Box 6 Folder 249-251
Kendall, Henry H., letter from Cret regarding the Providence War Memorial, Work No. 192 (1 item), 1927.
Box 6 Folder 252
Kendall, William Mitchell, 1856-1941, letter to Cret (1 item), 1936.
Box 6 Folder 253
Keppel, Frederick P. 1875-1943, letter to Cret (1 item), 1940.
Box 6 Folder 254
Kilham, Walter Harrington, 1904-, letter to Cret (1 item), 1943.
Box 6 Folder 255
Killam, Charles Wilson, 1871-1961, letter from Cret (1 item), 1937.
Box 6 Folder 256
Kimball, Fiske, 1888-1955, letters to and from Cret (26 items), 1922-1943.
Box 6 Folder 257
Kimball, Thomas R., letters to and from Cret regarding the Nebraska State Capitol Competition, Work No. 106 (4 items), 1919.
Box 6 Folder 258
King, Stanley, 1883-1951, letters to and from Cret regarding the Folger Shakespeare Library, Work No. 226 (4 items), 1932-1933.
Box 6 Folder 259
Kirkpatrick, Donald Morris, letter to Cret (1 item), circa 1906.
Box 6 Folder 260
Klaber, Eugene Henry, letter to Cret regarding Atelier Pascal (Paris, France) (1 item), 1930.
Box 6 Folder 261
Klauder, Charles Z., letters to Cret (5 items), 1935-1938.
Box 6 Folder 262
Kohn, Robert D., 1870-1953, letter to Cret includes an original sketch by Kohn of himself, pen and ink, colored (1 item), 1943.
Box 6 Folder 263
Krimmel, Edmund, letter to Cret regarding planning military hospitals (1 item), 1943.
Box 6 Folder 264
Krouse & Fort, letters from John Frederick Harbeson on behalf of Cret, regarding the Meridian Post Office, Work No. 262-B, in Mississippi (1 item), 1932.
Box 6 Folder 265
Kruesi, Walter E., letters to Cret regarding a suit against the New York architect, Washington Hull (2 items), 1907.
Box 6 Folder 266
Krummheich, Paul, letters to and from Cret (6 items), 1930-1931.
Box 6 Folder 267
Kuehne, Hugo Franz, letter to Cret regarding the School of Architecture at the University of Texas (1 item), 1912.
Box 6 Folder 268
La Montagne Saint Hubert, letters to Cret (2 items), 1941-1944.
Box 7 Folder 269
La Montagne Saint Hubert, Marthe, letters to Cret (2 items), 1941-1944.
Box 7 Folder 270
Labolle, Georges, letters to Cret (4 items), 1944-1945.
Box 7 Folder 271
Labolle, J., letter to Cret (1 item), 1945.
Box 7 Folder 272
Lacroix, Georges A., letter to Cret (1 item), 1944.
Box 7 Folder 273
Lahalle et Levard, the firm of Cret's brother-in-law, Pierre Lahalle, letter from Cret regarding the Detroit Institute of Arts, Work No. 105 (see also folder 537 for occasional references to busines matters in Cret's personal correspondence with Pierre Lahalle) (1 item), 1924-1926.
Box 7 Folder 274
Laird, Warren Powers, 1861-1948, letters to and from Cret regarding some of Cret's many professional collaborations with Laird, including the following projects: the University of Wisconsin, Work No. 29, the University of Cincinnati, Work No. 78; Springfield Hospital, Work No. 95, and the University of Pennsylvania Comprehensive Plan, Work No. 96; the following competitions: Minneapolis Museum (Cret advisor then juror), Hamilton County Court House (Laird advisor, Cret juror), New Castle County-Wilmington Public Buildings (Laird advisor, Cret juror), Virginia War Memorial (Laird advisor, Cret competitor and winner, Work No. 165), and Young Women's Christian Association, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (Laird advisor, Cret juror); copies of correspondence with Charles Willam Dabney and George Dwight Pratt; and a jury report signed by Cret, Thomas W. Kellogg, and Charles Z. Klauder (25 items), 1906-1938.
Box 7 Folder 275
Lamb, William Frederick, 1883-1952, letter to Cret (1 item), 1943.
Box 7 Folder 276
Lambert, Jacques H., letters to Cret (4 items), 1923-1925.
Box 7 Folder 277
Lankes, Julius J., 1884-1960, letters to Cret regarding a bookplate designed by Cret, Work No. 12, for Paul and Béné Debry, with trial proof enclosed (4 items), 1922.
Box 7 Folder 278
Laplace, Ernest, letters to and from Cret (2 items), 1910.
Box 7 Folder 279
Larson, Roy Frank, 1893-1973, letter from Cret regarding sculpture by Alfred Bottiau for the Hartford County Building, Work No. 173 (1 item), 1927.
Box 7 Folder 280
Latenser, Frank, letters to and from Cret regarding the University of Omaha, Work No. 328, for which Cret was consultant to John Latenser & Sons (11 items), 1937.
Box 7 Folder 281
Lawrie, Lee, 1877-1963, letters to and from Cret regarding sculpture by Leon Hermant for the Calvert Street Bridge, Work No. 263; sculpture for the Gettysburg Peace Memorial, Work No. 340; and requests from Cret for estimates on each of the projects (letters sent to Lawrie and to the following other sculptors: John Gregory, Benjamin F. Hawkins, Edmond Amateis, Malvina Hoffman, Albert Stewart, and Sidney Waugh) (4 items), 1933-1937.
Box 7 Folder 282
Le Monnier, A., letter to Cret (1 item), 1919.
Box 7 Folder 283
Lea, Arthur H (Arthur Henry), 1859-1938, letter from Cret regarding the Henry Charles Lea Memorial, Work No. 28, St. James Church, 22nd and Walnut Streets, Philadelphia (1 item), 1914.
Box 7 Folder 284
Lefebvre, Jean, letters to and from Cret regarding a fund-raising effort Cret undertook on behalf of Atelier Pascal (Paris, France), for which Lefebvre was massier (treasurer); includes a copy of Cret's form letter sent to a list of former students (6 items), 1930.
Box 7 Folder 285
Légion d'honneur (France), letters to and from Cret (2 items), 1925.
Box 7 Folder 286
Legrain, Léon, b 1878, letter to Cret (1 item), 1940.
Box 7 Folder 287
Lescaze, William, 1896-1969, letters to Cret (2 items), 1938-1941.
Box 7 Folder 288
Lesort, Elisabeth, wife of André Lesort and a friend of Cret's mother-in-law, letter to Cret requesting assistance in making contact with her married daughter, M. Bidauer, in Mexico (1 item), 1944.
Box 7 Folder 289
Levi, Julian Clarence, 1874-1971, letter to Cret (1 item), 1943.
Box 7 Folder 290
Library of Congress, letters to and from Cret and Herbert Putnam, Leicester Holland, Archibald MacLeish, and Verner W. Clapp regarding the Hispanic Room at the Library of Congress, Work No. 331 (19 items), 1937-1942.
Box 7 Folder 291
Licht, George A., letter to Cret regarding Atelier Pascal (Paris, France) (1 item), 1930.
Box 7 Folder 292
Liegey, Irma, letters to and from Cret (2 items), 1930.
Box 7 Folder 293
Lipschitz, Jacques, 1891-, letters to and from Cret regarding sculpture for the Barnes Foundation, Work No. 132 (5 items), 1923.
Box 7 Folder 294
Livingood, Charles J., letters to and from Cret regarding the Cincinnati Art Museum, Work No. 299, includes letters written by John Harbeson on Cret's behalf (6 items), 1935.
Box 7 Folder 295
Lower Merion (Pa. : Township). Commissioners, letters from Cret to Julius Zieget regarding "the Ardmore Experiment," houses designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for Otto Mallery (Mallery had asked Cret to encourage the township to make exceptions in building code enforcement) (2 items), 1939.
Box 7 Folder 296
MacDonald, Kenneth, letters to and from John Frederick Harbeson on Cret's behalf (3 items), 1913.
Box 7 Folder 297
Maginnis, Charles Donagh, 1867-1955, letters to Cret includes one letter addressed to Marguerite Lahalle Cret during Cret's illness in 1939 (3 items), 1939-1942.
Box 7 Folder 300
Magonigle, Harold Van Buren, 1867-1935, letters to and from Cret regarding competitions on which Cret and Magonigle served as jurors: the Hamilton County Court House competition and the New Castle County-Wilmington Public Buildings competition; includes a draft of an article by Magonigle and Cret's letter with comments (3 items), 1913-1935.
Box 7 Folder 301
Mahieu, Abel, letter to Cret (1 item), 1908.
Box 7 Folder 302
Mallery, Otto Tod, 1881-1956, letter to Cret regarding "The Ardmore Experiment," (Sun Top Homes), designed by Frank Lloyd Wright; includes copies of a telegram and a letter written by Frank Lloyd Wright to Julius Zieget and C. E. Rahn of Lower Merion Township (Pa.) requesting exceptions to the local building code, a copy of the memo of C. E. Rahn to which Wright's letter responded, and a request for Cret to write in support of the request for building code exceptions (1 item), 1939.
Box 7 Folder 303
Mandelstamm, Valentin, b1876, letters to and from Cret (2 items), 1928.
Box 7 Folder 304
Manhattan (New York, N.Y.). Office of the President, letters to Cret from George McAneny regarding a competition, on which Cret served as juror, for a Court House of Inferior Jurisdiction (3 items), 1913.
Box 7 Folder 305
Marcel, Alexandre, 1860-1928, letter to Cret (1 item), 1906.
Box 7 Folder 306
Marshall, George C (George Catlett), 1880-1959, letters to Cret (2 items), 1941-1944.
Box 7 Folder 307
Martel, E., letter to Cret (1 item), 1899.
Box 7 Folder 308
Martial, Armand, letters to and from Cret (2 items), 1928.
Box 7 Folder 309
Mastbaum, Jules E., letters to and from Cret regarding the Rodin Museum, Work No. 176; letters following death of Mautbaum were written to the Estate of Julius Mastbaum (Morris Wolf); includes a letter from Mrs. Mastbaum in support of Cret's nomination for the Philadelphia Award (7 items), 1926-1930.
Box 7 Folder 310
Mathé, Pierre, letter to Cret (1 item), undated.
Box 7 Folder 311
McGoodwin, Henry, 1871-1927, letters to Cret (8 items), 1906-1917.
Box 7 Folder 298
McGoodwin, Robert Rodes, 1886-1967, letters to Cret (2 items), 1918-1929.
Box 7 Folder 299
Meeks, Everett Victor, 1879-1954, letters to Cret regarding the competition (for which Meeks was a professional advisor) for the Federal Reserve Board, Work No. 302, includes the report of the jury and the official press release (4 items), 1929-1935.
Box 7 Folder 312
Meigs, Arthur I. 1882-1956, letters to Cret (2 items), 1929-1943.
Box 7 Folder 313
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), letters to and from Cret and Henry Watson Kent regarding the Detroit Institute of Arts, Work No. 105 (2 items), 1928.
Box 7 Folder 314
Michigan Society of Architects, letter to Cret from G. Frank Cordner regarding Cret's election as Honorary Member (1 item), 1928.
Box 7 Folder 315
Migonney, Jules, 1876-1929, letters to and from Cret (2 items), 1927.
Box 7 Folder 316
Milliken, Henry Oothout, letters to Cret (3 items), 1934-1943.
Box 7 Folder 317
Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts, letters to and from Cret and John Russell Van Derlip and F. W. Winston regarding the Minneapolis Museum competition, for which Cret was first a professional advisor and then a juror; includes a sketch by Cret (5 items), 1911.
Box 7 Folder 318
Modjeski and Masters, letters to and from Cret and Ralph Modjeski and Frank M. Masters regarding some of Cret's many collaborations with Modjeski and Masters including the Market Street Bridge, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Work No. 153; the Calvert Street Bridge, Washington, D.C., Work No. 263; the Falls View Bridge, Niagara Falls, New York, Work No. 354; the South Capitol Street Bridge, Washington, D.C., Work No. 439; and the Memphis Bridge, Memphis, Tennessee, Work No. 482 (13 items), 1924-1944.
Box 7 Folder 319
Montange, Louis, letters to Cret (3 items), 1894-1896.
Box 7 Folder 320
Moore, Charles, 1855-1942, letters to and from Cret (2 items), 1940.
Box 7 Folder 321
Morguet, Maurice, letter to Cret (1 item), 1931.
Box 7 Folder 322
Mounier, Paul, letters to Cret (5 items), 1903-1905.
Box 7 Folder 323
Mouroux, Anie (?), letters to Cret (2 items), 1921.
Box 7 Folder 324
Muhlenberg, Frederick A., 1887-1980, letters to Cret (1 item), 1939.
Box 7 Folder 325
Mullin, Buell, letters to Cret from Mrs. Buell Mullin regarding her mural for the Library of Congress Hispanic Room, Work No. 331 (2 items), 1939-1940.
Box 7 Folder 326
Nash, Arthur C., letter to Cret regarding Atelier Pascal (Paris, France) (1 item), 1930.
Box 7 Folder 327
National Academy of Design (U.S.), letter to Cret from Charles C. Curran regarding Cret's membership in the Academy (1 item), 1938.
Box 7 Folder 328
Nobbs, Percy E (Percy Erskine), 1875-1964, letters to and from Cret regarding the Canadian Battlefields Memorials Competition, Work No. 159 (13 items), 1920-1922.
Box 7 Folder 329
Notovitch, Nicolas, b 1858, letters to and from Cret (2 items), 1926.
Box 7 Folder 330
Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1870-1957, letter from Cret regarding the Folger Shakespeare Library, Work No. 226 (1 item), 1931.
Box 8 Folder 331
Osborne, Charles Francis, d 1913, letters to and from Cret (10 items), 1905-1913.
Box 8 Folder 332
Osborne, H. C., letters to and from Cret regarding the Canadian Battlefields Memorials Competition, Work No. 159 (7 items), 1921-1923.
Box 8 Folder 333
Osborne, Maysie, wife of H. C. Osborne, letters to Cret (2 items), 1921.
Box 8 Folder 334
Palais des arts (Lyon, France), letter to Cret regarding Cret's "pension" for study in Paris, as winner of the Prix de Paris, in French (1 item), 1898.
Box 8 Folder 335
Pan American Union, letters to and from Cret and L. S. Rowe regarding the Pan American Union, Work No. 23, and additional work (including grounds and annex), Work Nos. 65 and 66., and Annex, Work No. 242, which was not built during Cret's lifetime and was redesigned after his death; includes copies of Rowe's correspondence with the United States Commission of Fine Arts (Charles Moore) and the National Capital Park and Planning Commission (John Nolen) (39 items), 1926-1940.
Box 8 Folder 336-337
Panichelli, A. P., letter from Cret regarding Atelier Pascal (Paris, France) and drawings of Eugene Duquesne, in French (1 item), 1930.
Box 8 Folder 338
Paquet, Pierre, letters to Cret regarding T Square Club Exhibition in Philadelphia in 1906 (2 items), 1906.
Box 8 Folder 339
Pascal, Jean Louis, 1837-1920, patron of Atelier Pascal in the École des Beaux Arts, Paris, France, letters to Cret includes an original letter from Paul A. Davis to Pascal concerning Cret's appointment at the University of Pennsylvania, in French (22 items), 1899-1920.
Box 8 Folder 340
Patouillard-Demoriane, Auguste René Gaston Antoine, 1869-, letter to Cret regarding T Square Club Exhibition in Philadelphia in 1906, in French (1 item), 1906.
Box 8 Folder 341
Patout, P., letter from Cret regarding the American Battle Monuments Commission, Work No. 158, and a French sculptor named Poisson, in French (1 item), 1927.
Box 8 Folder 342
Patton, Alexander Ennis,, letter from Cret regarding Independence Hall, Memorial Park, Work No. 276 (1 item), 1937.
Box 8 Folder 343
Peabody, Arthur, 1858-1942, letters to and from Cret includes a letter in support of Frank Lloyd Wright's application for registration to practice architecture in the state of Wisconsin, in English and French (6 items), 1921-1936.
Box 8 Folder 344
Pencil points, letters from Cret to Kenneth Reid, includes a letter written by John Harbeson on Cret's behalf (2 items), 1928-1940.
Box 8 Folder 345
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, letters to and from Cret and Alfred G. B. Steel regarding Cret's work with students of the Academy (2 items), 1937.
Box 8 Folder 350
Pennsylvania State College. School of Chemistry and Physics, letter from Cret to Dean Frank C. Whitmore regarding a proposed Chemistry building (1 item), undated.
Box 8 Folder 351
Pennsylvania State College. School of Engineering, letter from Cret to Dean Harry Parker Hammond regarding the future of the Landscape Architecture course (1 item), 1943.
Box 8 Folder 352
Pennsylvania. Capitol Grounds Extension Planning Committee, letters from Cret and J. Horace McFarland regarding Capitol Grounds Extension, Work No. 375 (letters are signed by Cret and by William Gehron and Thomas W. Sears) (2 items), 1938.
Box 8 Folder 346
Pennsylvania. National Guard. Troop of Philadelphia Cavalry, 1st, letter from Cret to Clement B. Wood regarding the Thayer Cross, Work No. 144, to be placed in the graveyard of the Church of the Redeemer, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, in memory of George Thayer, captain of the First City Troop (1 item), 1934.
Box 8 Folder 347
Pennsylvania. State Art Commission, letter to Cret from J. Horace McFarland regarding Cret's appointment to the State Art Commission (1 item), 1939.
Box 8 Folder 348
Pennsylvania. Valley Forge Park Commission, letters to and from Cret and Gilbert S. Jones regarding the Washington Memorial Arch, Work No. 94 (2 items), 1938.
Box 8 Folder 349
Perrot, Emile George, 1872-1954, letters to and from Cret (2 items), 1922.
Box 8 Folder 353
Philadelphia (Pa.). Art Jury, letter to Cret from Andrew Wright Crawford (1 item), 1915.
Box 8 Folder 354
Philadelphia (Pa.). Bureau of City Architecture, letter from Cret to Georgina Yeatman regarding Woodlands Cemetery (1 item), 1936.
Box 8 Folder 355
Philadelphia (Pa.). Bureau of Surveys, letters to and from Cret and George S. Webster regarding the National Conference on City Planning at Philadelphia (2 items), 1911.
Box 8 Folder 356
Philadelphia (Pa.). Councils. Select Council, letter to Cret from Charles B. Hall regarding Cret's reappointment to the Committee on Comprehensive Plans (1 item), 1915.
Box 8 Folder 357
Philadelphia (Pa.). Mayor, letters to Cret from Mayor John E. Reyburn regarding the National Conference on City Planning in Philadelphia and Cret's appointment to the Art Jury (2 items), 1911.
Box 8 Folder 358
Philadelphia Art Alliance, letters to and from Cret and Samuel Price Wetherill regarding Cret's resignation from the Board of Directors (2 items), 1929.
Box 8 Folder 359
Philadelphia Award, letter to Cret from Clarence Gardner regarding a folio of letters received by the Board proposing Cret's name for the Philadelphia Award (see these letters in Folder 552) (1 item), 1931.
Box 8 Folder 360
Philadelphia Museum of Art, letters to Cret from Fiske Kimball regarding a cast-iron railing donated to the Philadelphia Museum of Art by Cret and H. Louis Duhring, includes a copy of Kimball's letter to Duhring (2 items), 1939-1940.
Box 8 Folder 361
Pocheron, Paul-Albert, letter to Cret regarding a donation Cret made for the reconstruction of Authuille, France in response to a letter from Mrs. Jooss-Andreoni, in French (1 item), 1923.
Box 8 Folder 362
Pomi, Angelino, letter to Cret (1 item), 1894.
Box 8 Folder 363
Pontremoli, Emmanuel, letters to and from Cret regarding the French Pavilion (never built), Work No. 269, for the Century of Progress International Exposition in Chicago and the French Embassy, Washington, D. C (never built), Work No. 212, in French (6 items), 1928-1932.
Box 8 Folder 364
Pope, John Russell, 1874-1937, letters to and from Cret (2 items), 1929.
Box 8 Folder 365
Prévot, M. J (Maurice J.), letters to Cret, in French (4 items), 1904-1906.
Box 8 Folder 366
Price, Philip, letters to and from Cret regarding legal aspects of Cret's naturalization and the revision of his will (3 items), 1926-1933.
Box 8 Folder 367
Price, Walter F., 1857-1951, letter to Cret regarding William L. Price and the firm Price and McLanahan (1 item), 1929.
Box 8 Folder 368
Prost, Henri, 1874-1959, letter to Cret, in French (1 item), 1902.
Box 8 Folder 369
Providence (R.I.). War Memorial Committee, letters to and from Cret and Frederick J. O'Donnell and Sol Bromson regarding the Providence War Memorial, Work No. 192 (5 items), 1927-1929.
Box 8 Folder 370
Providence Journal Company, letter from Cret regarding the Providence War Memorial, Work No. 192, in Rhode Island (1 item), 1927.
Box 8 Folder 371
Purves, Carroll, letters to Cret (2 items), 1943.
Box 8 Folder 372
Putnam, Brenda, 1890-1975, letters to and from Cret regarding sculpture for the Folger Shakespeare Library, Work No. 226, includes photographs (8 items), 1930.
Box 8 Folder 373
R. H. Macy & Co., letter from Cret to Albert Kornfeld regarding an exposition in cooperation with the Architectural Forum (1 item), 1933.
Box 8 Folder 374
Rankin, John Hall, 1868-1952, letters to and from Cret regarding John T. Windrim's proposed convention hall in Philadelphia, includes a copy of Rankin's 1914 letter to Morris Llewellyn Cooke, Director of Public Works for the City of Philadelphia (2 items), 1920.
Box 8 Folder 375
Rather, John Thomas, letter from Cret regarding the University of Texas, Work No. 261 (1 item), 1937.
Box 8 Folder 376
Recoura, Alfred, letters to and from Cret regarding Atelier Pascal (later Atelier Recoura-Duquesne) and the drawings of Eugene Duquesne, in French (4 items), 1930-1931.
Box 8 Folder 377
Reed, Earl, letter from Cret regarding Atelier Pascal and the drawings of Eugene Duquesne (1 item), 1930.
Box 8 Folder 378
Reilly, C.H (Charles Herbert), 1874-1948, letter to Cret (1 item), 1943.
Box 8 Folder 379
Ripert, Blanche, a 10-year-old French girl who wrote to "un bon soldat français", letter given to Cret by his commanding officer (1 item), circa 1914.
Box 8 Folder 380
Robert and Company, letters to and from Cret and Lee C. McClure and C. L. Emerson regarding the Naval Air Station, Bermuda, Work No. 424 (3 items), 1941.
Box 8 Folder 381
Robida, Camille, letter to Cret (1 item), 1918.
Box 8 Folder 382
Robins, Thomas, letters to and from Cret regarding the Naglee Memorial, Work No. 36; includes contains correspondence written by John Harbeson on Cret's behalf and Robins's letter of introduction for Cret to John E. Richards (3 items), 1914-1915.
Box 8 Folder 383
Robinson, John Beverley, 1853-, letter to Cret (1 item), 1910.
Box 8 Folder 384
Rogniat, Louis, letter to Cret (1 item), 1899.
Box 8 Folder 385
Roisin, Maxime, letters to Cret (9 items), 1902-1908.
Box 8 Folder 386
Romains, Jules, 1885-1972, letter to Cret (1 item), 1943.
Box 8 Folder 387
Rome, Alfred, letter to Cret (1 item), 1901.
Box 8 Folder 388
Romquin, Charles, letter to Cret (1 item), 1920.
Box 8 Folder 389
Roosevelt, Franklin D (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945, letter to Cret from Roosevelt regarding the Federal Reserve Board Building, Work No. 302; includes a letter from Edward Bruce of the Public Buildings Administration to Marguerite Lehand (1 item), 1941.
Box 8 Folder 390
Root, John Wellborn, 1887-1963, letter to Cret (1 item), 1933.
Box 8 Folder 391
Rosenberger, Homer, letter from Cret regarding the Rodin Museum, Work No. 176, in Philadelphia (1 item), 1938.
Box 8 Folder 392
Rowe, L. S (Leo Stanton), 1871-1946, letters to Cret (5 items), 1913-1938.
Box 8 Folder 393
Royal Institute of British Architects, letter to Cret from Ian Macalister regarding Cret's election as Honorary Corresponding Member (1 item), 1938.
Box 8 Folder 394
San Francisco Public Library, letter from Cret includes s a competition jury report from jurors Cret, Gilbert Cass Gilbert, and Phelan (1 item), 1914.
Box 9 Folder 395
Sawyer, Philip, 1868-1949, letter to Cret (1 item), 1935.
Box 9 Folder 396
Shenton, Edward, 1895-1977, letter from Cret (1 item), 1930.
Box 9 Folder 397
Shepherd, William E., letter from Cret (1 item), 1939.
Box 9 Folder 398
Shreve, Richmond Harold, 1877-1946, letter to Cret (1 item), 1938.
Box 9 Folder 399
Sigma Chi Fraternity. University of Pennsylvania Chapter, letter to Cret from Owen Louis Shinn regarding Cret's election to membership (1 item), 1906.
Box 9 Folder 400
Simon, Grant Miles, letters to Cret (3 items), 1917-1938.
Box 9 Folder 401
Simons, Albert, letter to Cret (1 item), 1945.
Box 9 Folder 402
Singlas, letters to Cret regarding a proposal to have Cret transferred from ordinary military service to war service procuring armaments in the United States for the French government; includes one letter to Marguerite Cret, in French (2 items), 1916.
Box 9 Folder 403
Sireyjol, Leon, letter to Cret regarding the French Pavilion (never built), Work No. 269, for the Century of Progress International Exposition; includes a letter of introduction for Cret to Fernand Chapsal (1 item), 1932.
Box 9 Folder 404
Smith and Bassette, letter from Cret regarding the Hartford County Building, Work No. 173 (1 item), 1926.
Box 9 Folder 405
Smith, Francis Palmer, letters to Cret (2 items), 1917-1938.
Box 9 Folder 406
Smith, James Kellum, 1893-, letter to Cret (1 item), 1920.
Box 9 Folder 407
Smith, William Jones, letters to and from Cret includes a detailed list of distinctive and representative American buildings which Cret compiled at Smith's request (4 items), 1929-1942.
Box 9 Folder 408
Société académique d'architecture de Lyon, letters to Cret from Louis Rogniat regarding competitions in which Cret was awarded prizes (2 items), 1895-1898.
Box 9 Folder 409
Société centrale des architectes (France), letter from Cret regarding the Canadian Battlefields Memorials Competition, Work No. 159 (1 item), 1920.
Box 9 Folder 410
Spear, Elise, letter to Cret (1 item), 1939.
Box 9 Folder 411
Spiering, Louis C., letters to and from Cret regarding an offer of positions to Cret and Charles F. Osborne at Washington University (2 items), 1910.
Box 9 Folder 412
Springfield Hospital (Springfield, Mass.), letter from Cret to George Dwight Pratt regarding Cret's visit to Springfield Hospital, Work No. 95, a collaboration between Cret and Warren P. Laird (1 item), 1910.
Box 9 Folder 413
Stalpart, letter from Cret regarding France and the French people (a pencil copy in Cret's hand in English of a letter written to M. Stalpart, without first name, with an annotation in Cret's hand stating that the letter was written in French) (1 item), 1941.
Box 9 Folder 414
Stanley-Brown, R (Rudolph), 1889-1944, letter from Cret (1 item), 1935.
Box 9 Folder 415
Stephens, Frank, letters to and from Cret regarding William L. Price and M. Hawley McLanahan of the firm Price and McLanahan and Price's work with Stephens on the community at Arden, Delaware (2 items), 1929.
Box 9 Folder 416
Stewart, Albert, letter from Cret regarding sculpture for the Calvert Street Bridge in Washington, D.C., Work No. 263 (1 item), 1933.
Box 9 Folder 417
Stewart, Mary, letters to and from Cret regarding the residence of Mrs. Mary Stewart in Washington, D.C., Work No. 336 (5 items), 1937-1940.
Box 9 Folder 418
Stokes, May, letter to Cret (1 item), 1943.
Box 9 Folder 419
Sudell, Harold, letters to and from Cret regarding William L. Price (2 items), 1929.
Box 9 Folder 420
Summerall, Charles Pelot, 1867-1955, letter to Cret (1 item), 1938.
Box 9 Folder 421
Swales, Francis S., letters to and from Cret regarding Atelier Pascal and Swales's article on Cret (4 items), 1928-1930.
Box 9 Folder 422
Swartwout, Egerton, 1870-1940, letters to and from Cret regarding the Hartford County Building, Work No. 173, and the Pan American Union Annex, Work No. 242, including Swartwout's descriptions of the deliberations of the Fine Arts Commission (13 items), 1926-1941.
Box 9 Folder 423
T Square Club (Philadelphia, Pa.), letters to and from Cret and Thomas M. Kellogg regarding the T Square Club Exhibition, Philadelphia, 1906, includes a form letter that Cret sent to French architects soliciting drawings for the exhibition (4 items), 1906.
Box 9 Folder 424
Tardit, letter to Cret regarding a legacy from Louis Bernier to Cret and Louis E. Jallade in payment for their work on his French Embassy, Washington, D.C (never built), in French (1 item), 1921.
Box 9 Folder 425
Taylor, William., letter to Cret (1 item), 1943.
Box 9 Folder 426
Templier, P. A., letter to Cret (1 item), 1902.
Box 9 Folder 427
Thomas, Walter H., letter to Cret (1 item), 1935.
Box 9 Folder 428
Tilton, Edward Lippincott, 1861-, letter to Cret regarding Atelier Pascal (Paris, France) (1 item), 1930.
Box 9 Folder 429
Tolman, Hugh H., letters to and from Cret regarding memories of World War I (2 items), 1926.
Box 9 Folder 430
Toriet, L., letter to Cret (1 item), 1917.
Box 9 Folder 431
Trowbridge, Alexander Buell, 1868-1950, letters to and from Cret regarding the Folger Shakespeare Library, Work No. 226, for which Trowbridge was Henry Folger's professional advisor, includes copies to Cret of Trowbridge's correspondence with Henry Folger and Trowbridge's correspondence with John Harbeson on Cret's behalf (38 items), 1928-1935.
Box 9 Folder 432-433
Trumbauer, Horace, 1869-1938, letters to Cret (2 items), 1905.
Box 9 Folder 434
Tucker, Ernest F., letters to and from Cret (2 items), 1931.
Box 9 Folder 435
Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, letter to Cret from Booker T. Washington regarding the campus of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute (1 item), 1905.
Box 9 Folder 436
United States Military Academy, letters to and from Cret and Jay L. Benedict and Francis Bowditch Wilby regarding the United States Military Academy, Work No. 308 and Work No. 488 (3 items), 1938-1944.
Box 9 Folder 445
United States Naval Academy, letters to and from Cret Correspondence with A. G. Bisset, Wilson Brown, and Harry Alexander Baldridge regarding the U.S. Naval Academy Chapel, Work No. 363 (3 items), 1939.
Box 9 Folder 446
United States. Architect of the Capitol, letters to and from Cret and David Lynn regarding the Hispanic Room of the Library of Congress, Work No. 331 (7 items), 1937-1939.
Box 9 Folder 437
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers, letters to and from Cret and H. G. Montgomery, James H. Stratton, D. W. Griffiths, Charles M. Wellons, and J. R. Crume in U.S. Engineer offices in Little Rock, Caddoa, Colorado, and Pittsburgh regarding some of Cret's projects for the Corps of Engineers including the Berlin Dam, Work No. 332; Caddoa Dam, Work No. 395; Norfolk Dam, Work No. 408; and the Goethals Monument, Work No. 372; and from E. W. Garbisch concerning the 1944 competition for the United States Military Academy, Work No. 488 (17 items), 1938-1945.
Box 9 Folder 438
United States. Army. Quartermaster Corps, letter from Cret to Major General Willam Durward Connor regarding a reference for the work of the firm LaRoche and Dahl (1 item), 1941.
Box 9 Folder 439
United States. Bureau of Yards and Docks, letters to and from Cret and Ben Moreell, F.W. Southworth, and E.L. Marshall regarding some of Cret's projects for the Navy including the U.S. Naval Academy Chapel, Work No. 363; the U.S. Naval Medical Center, Work No. 371; the Naval Experimental Model Basin at Carderock, Maryland, Work No. 377; Naval Air Stations at Newfoundland (Canada), Bermuda, and Trinidad, Work No. 424; the Naval Air Station at Quonset Point, Rhode Island; the Aviation Base at Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, Work No. 458; and Cret's general consulting services, Work No. 409 (17 items), 1938-1943.
Box 9 Folder 440
United States. Commission of Fine Arts, letters to and from Cret and Charles Moore, H.P. Caemmerer and Gilmore D. Clarke regarding the Pan American Union, Work No. 242, the Calvert Street Bridge, Work No. 263, the Federal Reserve Board Building, Work No. 302, and the U.S. Naval Medical Center, Work No. 371; includes copies of official correspondence of the Commission with Mrs. Charles Louis Borie (letter written by Cret), Fritz G. Lanham, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Col. Nowland (18 items), 1928-1942.
Box 9 Folder 441
United States. National Capital Park and Planning Commission, letters to and from Cret and U. S. Grant, 3rd, Frederic A. Delano, and John Nolen regarding the Folger Shakespeare Library, Work No. 226; the Pan American Union, Work No. 242; and the U.S. Naval Medical Center, Work No. 371 (6 items), 1931-1939.
Box 9 Folder 442
United States. Navy Department. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, letters to and from Cret and Rear Admiral Ross T. McIntire regarding the U.S. Naval Medical Center, Work No. 371 (2 items), 1943-1944.
Box 9 Folder 443
United States. Secretary of the Interior, letters to and from Cret and Harold L. Ickes regarding the Pan American Union, Work No. 242; includes a copy of a memorandum from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Ickes (2 items), 1941.
Box 9 Folder 444
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dept. of Architecture, letters to and from Cret and F. M. Mann regarding the offer of the position of head of the Department of Architecture to Cret (3 items), 1913.
Box 10 Folder 447
University of Michigan, letter from Cret responding to a questionnaire from architecture students (1 item), 1934.
Box 10 Folder 448
University of Pennsylvania, letters to and from Cret and Warren P. Laird, Charles Custis Harrison, Jesse Y. Burk, Edgar Fahs Smith, Edward Robins, William H. Hutt, Josiah H. Penniman, Charles Osborne, George S. Koyl, Edward W. Mumford, and Thomas A. Gates regarding Cret's employment at the University of Pennsylvania; and from John Harbeson as acting dean of the School of Fine Arts proposing Cret for the Philadelphia Award, including a partial list of his works (32 items), 1903-1940.
Box 10 Folder 449
University of Pennsylvania. Architectural Alumni Society, letter to Cret from J. Roy Carroll regarding a resolution honoring Cret (1 item), 1937.
Box 10 Folder 450
University of Pennsylvania. Class of 1904, letter to Cret from Taylor B. Register regarding the Franklin Statue (pedestal), Work No. 33 (1 item), 1914.
Box 10 Folder 451
University of Texas, letters to and from Cret and W. J. Battle, Beauford H. Jester, H. Y. Benedict, and J. W. Calhoun regarding the University of Texas General Plan, Work No. 241, and University of Texas, Work No. 261 (14 items), 1931-1940.
Box 10 Folder 452
Urban, C. Emlen, 1863-1939, letters to and from Cret regarding the Hershey Theatre and Social Center Building, Work No. 37, includes letters written by John Harbeson on Cret's behalf (15 items), 1913-1916.
Box 10 Folder 453
Urban, Joseph, 1872-1933, letter from Cret regarding the Century of Progress International Exposition, Work No. 240 (1 item), 1933.
Box 10 Folder 454
Van Leyen, Edward G., letters to and from Cret (2 items), 1919.
Box 10 Folder 455
Varon, David Jacob, 1872-, letters to and from Cret, in French (4 items), 1905-1922.
Box 10 Folder 456
Ventre, André, letters to and from Cret, in French (2 items), 1933.
Box 10 Folder 457
Verrier, Jean, letter to Cret, in French (1 item), 1931.
Box 10 Folder 458
Verrier, Pierre, letter to Cret, in French (1 item), 1931.
Box 10 Folder 459
Viennois, A., letter to Cret, in French (1 item), 1898.
Box 10 Folder 460
Walker, Ralph, 1889-1973, letters to Cret (2 items), 1943-1944.
Box 10 Folder 461
Ward, Charles F., letter to Cret (1 item), 1944.
Box 10 Folder 462
Warren, Whitney, 1864-1943, letters to and from Cret, in English and French (7 items), 1912-1940.
Box 10 Folder 463
Washington University (St. Louis, Mo.), letters to and from Cret and Robert S. Brookings and Chancellor D. F (or D. T.) Houston regarding offers of positions at Washington University to Cret and to Charles F. Osborne (7 items), 1910.
Box 10 Folder 464
Watkin, William Ward, 1886-1952, letters to and from Cret (8 items), 1909-1933.
Box 10 Folder 465
Watkins, Ned, letter to Cret (1 item), 1939.
Box 10 Folder 466
Watkins, Shirley, 1897-1979, letters to and from Cret (8 items), 1939-1944.
Box 10 Folder 467
Watts, Harvey Maitland, 1864-1939, letter to Cret (1 item), 1911.
Box 10 Folder 468
Wegman, Jules F., letters to Cret (1 item), 1928.
Box 10 Folder 469
White, Percival, 1887-1970, letters to and from Cret (2 items), 1930.
Box 10 Folder 470
White, Robert Leon, letters to and from Cret regarding the University of Texas, Work No. 261 (6 items), 1933-1942.
Box 10 Folder 471
Whitemarsh Memorial Park, letter from Cret regarding sculpture of Jean De Marco for Whitemarsh Memorial Park, Work No. 246 (1 item), 1937.
Box 10 Folder 472
Williams, Edgar, letter to Cret (1 item), 1943.
Box 10 Folder 473
Williams, Talcott, 1849-1928, letter to Cret (1 item), 1912.
Box 10 Folder 474
Wilson, John Albert, 1899-1976, letters to and from Cret regarding James A. Kane's The Ancient Building Science (3 items), 1940.
Box 10 Folder 475
Windrim, John T (John Torrey), 1866-1934, letters to Cret (3 items), 1914-1915.
Box 10 Folder 476
Wm. H. Watts & Co., letter to Cret regarding the Library of Congress Hispanic Room, Work No. 331 (1 item), 1938.
Box 10 Folder 477
Wood, Waddy B (Waddy Butler), 1869-1944, letter from Cret regarding the Pan American Union, Work No. 242 (1 item), 1935.
Box 10 Folder 478
Woodward, George, 1863-1952, letters to Cret (2 items), 1929, undated.
Box 10 Folder 479
Wurster, William Wilson, letter to Cret regarding Rebecca Wood (1 item), 1937.
Box 10 Folder 480
Wyeth, Nathan C., 1870-1963, letters to and from Cret regarding Atelier Pascal, includes a letter written by Cret that was also sent to Robert Peabody Bellows, Charles Collens, and Edward L. Tilton (2 items), 1930.
Box 10 Folder 481
Yale University Corporation. Committee on Architectural Plan, letter from Cret to John Villiers Farwell regarding the buildings of Yale University (1 item), 1920.
Box 10 Folder 482
Yellin, Samuel, 1885-1940, letter to Cret (1 item), 1938.
Box 10 Folder 483
Young, George, letter to Cret (1 item), 1938.
Box 10 Folder 484
Zantzinger, Borie and Medary (Firm), letters to and from Cret and C. C. Zantzinger and C. L. Borie regarding the firm's collaboration with Cret on the following projects: the Philadelphia Parkway, Work No. 38, the Schuylkill River Embankments, Work No. 76, the University of Pennsylvania Comprehensive Plan, Work No. 96, the Indianapolis Public Library, Work No. 34, and the Detroit Institute of Arts, Work No. 105; includes an original letter of Ralph Adams Cram to Clarence Zantzinger (sent on to Cret), copies to Cret of correspondence from C. L. Borie (to Edgar Fahs Smith) and from M. B. Medary (to Clyde H. Burroughs); anda letter from C. L. Borie addressed jointly to Olmsted Brothers, Warren P. Laird and Cret (19 items), 1905-1921.
Box 10 Folder 485
Zumthor, Jules, letters to and from Cret, in French (3 items), 1925-1926.
Box 10 Folder 486
Signed without surname (arranged alphabetically by first name).
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llegible surname (arranged by date, followed by undated).
Box 10 Folder 493
Unsigned/addressee unnamed.
Box 10 Folder 494
Bernard, André Jean Marie, 1886-, cousin of Paul Cret and son of Fleury Louis Bernard and Victoire Durand Bernard, letter to Cret, in French (1 item), 1905.
Box 11 Folder 495
Bernard, Fleury Louis, 1859-1933, uncle of Paul Cret, letter to Cret, in French (1 item), 1920.
Box 11 Folder 496
Bernard, Josephine, aunt of Paul Cret, letters to Cret, in French (2 items), 1920.
Box 11 Folder 497
Bouvier, Marie Bernard, aunt of Paul Cret and sister of Fleury Bernard, letters to Cret, in French (2 items), 1929.
Box 11 Folder 498
Cret, Anna Durand, died 1920, mother of Paul Cret, letters to and from Cret, in French (8 items), 1881-1920.
Box 11 Folder 499
Cret, Marguerite Lahalle, died 1965, wife of Paul Cret, letters to and from Cret the bulk of which date from 1914 to 1919 and are from Cret to Marguerite during his service as a soldier in World War I, during which he wrote frequently, often daily, sometimes more than once a day, in French (791 items), 1905-1916 July.
Box 11 Folder 500-513 and 961
Cret, Marguerite Lahalle, died 1965, wife of Paul Cret, letters to and from Cret the bulk of which date from 1914 to 1919 and are from Cret to Marguerite during his service as a soldier in World War I, during which he wrote frequently, often daily, sometimes more than once a day, in French (791 items), 1916 August-1917 December.
Box 12 Folder 514-524
Cret, Marguerite Lahalle, died 1965, wife of Paul Cret, letters to and from Cret the bulk of which date from 1914 to 1919 and are from Cret to Marguerite during his service as a soldier in World War I, during which he wrote frequently, often daily, sometimes more than once a day, in French (791 items), 1918-1940s.
Box 13 Folder 525-531
Defond Frères, proprietors or which were cousins of Fleury Bernard, Paul Cret's uncle, letters to and from Cret regarding Fleury Bernard. Cret wrote to Defond Frères, cousins of his uncle, expressing concern for the safety of his uncle, living alone. Defond Frères arranged to have his uncle moved to an institution in his old age, and Cret supported him there until his death in 1933. Defond Frères handled the accounts and sent Cret reports. Their letters are signed only Defond Frères with no personal names., in French (2 items), 1929-1933.
Box 13 Folder 532
Dessus, E., cousin of Paul Cret, letter to Cret, in French (1 item), 1894.
Box 13 Folder 533
Durand, Jeanne, cousin of Paul Cret and daughter of his uncle Jean Paul Durand, letters to Cret, in French (2 items), 1922-1923.
Box 13 Folder 534
Durand, Jean Paul, died 1922, uncle of Paul Cret, letters to and from Cret, in French (6 items), 1903-1920.
Box 13 Folder 535
Lahalle, Charles Dominique Oscar, died 1909, father-in-law of Paul Cret, letters to Cret, in French (3 items), 1905-1908.
Box 13 Folder 536
Lahalle, Pierre, brother-in-law of Paul Cret, letters to and from Cret Correspondence contains occasional reference to business in addition to personal and family matters. Pierre Lahalle's firm, Lahalle et Levard, represented Cret's professional interests in Europe. Correspondence also contains a letter to Paul Cret from Pierre's children Daniel, Monique, and Olivier., in French (15 items), 1903-1940.
Box 13 Folder 537
LeBeuve, Jacqueline, wife of Marguerite Cret's nephew Henri LeBeuve, letter to Cret, in French (1 item), 1939.
Box 13 Folder 538
Magne, Alice Lahalle, sister of Marguerite Cret, wife of Felix Magne, and mother of Hélène and Paquerette, letters to and from Cret, in French (8 items), 1913-1940.
Box 13 Folder 539
Magne, Felix, brother-in-law of Paul Cret, letters to and from Cret, in French (12 items), 1913-1931, undated.
Box 13 Folder 540
Magne, Hélène,niece of Paul Cret, letter to Cret, in French (1 item), 1936.
Box 13 Folder 541
Magne, Paquerette, niece of Paul Cret, letter to Cret, in French (1 item), 1936.
Box 13 Folder 542
Académie de Lyon, letters to Anna Durand Cret regarding Paul Cret's education., in French (3 items), 1892-1893.
Box 13 Folder 543
Belin, Clement, letters to Anna Durand Cret, in French (2 items), 1890.
Box 13 Folder 544
Guigue, Jules, letter to Anna Durand Cret, in French (1 item), 1885.
Box 13 Folder 545
Molle, A., letter to Anna Durand Cret, in French (1 item), 1919.
Box 13 Folder 546
Arnal, Leon Eugene, 1881-1963, letter to Marguerite Lahalle Cret, in French (1 item), 1918.
Box 13 Folder 548
Dolbeau, M., letter to Marguerite Lahalle Cret, in French (1 item), 1918.
Box 13 Folder 549
Lahalle, Pierre, brother-in-law of Paul Cret, letter to Marguerite Lahalle Cret, in French (1 item), undated.
Box 13 Folder 550
Allen, J. H. Dulles, president of Enfield Pottery and Tile Works, 1929.
Box 13 Folder 552
Ames, Herman Vandenburg, 1865-1935, 1929.
Box 13 Folder 552
Banwell, Roy W, 1893-1973, 1929.
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Barney, W. Pope, 1890-1970, 1929.
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Baton, Henry E., 1929.
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Bauer, Charles H., 1929.
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Baylinson, S. Brian, 1929.
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Beck, James M, 1861-1936, 1929.
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Beitler, Amanda C., 1929.
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Betts, Benjamin F., 1929.
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Bickley, George Howard, 1929.
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Biddle, Francis, 1886-1968, 1929.
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Biddle, Gertrude Bosler, wife of Edward W. Biddle, 1929.
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Bioren, John S., 1929.
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Borie, Adolphe, 1877-1934, 1929.
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Borie, Charles Louis, 1870-1943, 1929.
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Bush-Brown, James, 1929.
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Cadwalader, Williams Biddle, 1876-, 1929.
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Cameron, James M., 1929.
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Chance, Edwin M., 1929.
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Chase, Clement Edwards, 1929.
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Daniels, Charles, 1929.
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Davis, Paul A, 1872-1948, 1929.
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Delano, William Adams, 1874-1960, 1929.
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Detroit Institute of Arts, 1929.
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Dise, J. Ivan, 1929.
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Dohan, Joseph M., 1929.
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Donaldson, E. B., 1929.
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Donaldson, Henry Herbert, 1857-1938, 1929.
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Dow, Mary P., 1929.
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Dunlap, M. Edmunds, 1881-1970, 1929.
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Edwards & Hoffman, 1929.
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Emerson, William, 1873-1957, 1929.
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Fenhagen, G. Corner, 1929.
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Folger, Henry Clay, 1857-1930, 1929.
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Folsom & Stanton signed by Donald Folsom and William C. Stanton, 1929.
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Ford, Edsel, 1893-1943, 1929.
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France. Ambassade, 1929.
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Francis, Isaac Hathaway, 1929.
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George Kessler Contracting Co., 1929.
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Geyelin, Emile C., 1929.
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Gravell, William H., 1929.
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Greenberg, Joseph J., 1929.
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Greenfield, Albert M., 1887-1967, 1929.
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Hahn, Frank E., 1879-1962, 1929.
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Hammond, Charles Herrick, 1882-1969, 1929.
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Hammond, Harold, 1929.
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Harris, W. Carlton, 1890-, 1929.
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Hartford County. County Commissioners, 1929.
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Hewitt, Edward Shepard, 1929.
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Hewlett, J. Monroe, 1929.
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Hitchens, William Frank, 1929.
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Holland, Leicester Bodine, 1882-1952, 1929.
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Hood, Raymond M, 1881-1934, 1929.
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Howe, George, 1886-1955, 1929.
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Ingersoll, Charles E., 1929.
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Integrity Trust Company, 1929.
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Jansson, Erik, 1929.
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John N. Gill Construction Co. signed Edward P. Flannery, 1929.
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Johnson, Eldridge Reeves, 1867-1945, 1929.
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Johnson, Virgil L., 1929.
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Kahn, Albert, 1869-1942, 1929.
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Karcher, Walter T., 1881-1953, 1929.
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Keen, William W, 1837-1932, 1929.
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Ketterer, Gustav, 1929.
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Kocher, A. Lawrence, 1929.
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Lear, W. H., 1929.
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Mastbaum, Jules E., 1929.
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McCormick, Vance Criswell, 1872-1946, 1929.
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McDaniel, Alice C., wife of W.B. McDaniel, 1929.
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McDaniel, Walton Brooks, 1871-, 1929.
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McGoodwin, Robert Rodes, 1886-1967, 1929.
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Meeks, Everett Victor, 1879-1954, 1929.
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Meigs, Arthur I. 1882-1956, 1929.
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Mellen, James J., 1929.
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Metheny, James P., 1929.
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Morris, Benjamin W, 1870-1944, 1929.
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Nardo, Antonio Di., 1929.
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Newbold, John S., 1929.
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Oberholtzer, Ellis Paxson, 1868-1936, 1929.
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Parker, Harry, 1887-1974, 1929.
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Pershing, John J, 1860-1948, 1929.
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Pinchot, Gifford, 1865-1946, 1929.
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Pope, John Russell, 1874-1937, 1929.
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Price, William G., 1929.
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Providence. War Memorial Committee, 1929.
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Purves & Day, signed by Kenneth M. Day, 1929.
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Reed, David Aiken, 1880-1953, 1929.
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Register, H. Bartol, 1929.
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Reid, Kenneth, 1929.
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Riggs, Arthur Stanley, 1879-1952, 1929.
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Rittase, William M., 1894-1968, 1929.
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Rowe, L. S, 1871-1946, 1929.
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Royer, Frank C., 1929.
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Saylor, Henry H, -1880, 1929.
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Schluter, William Charles, 1890-1932, 1929.
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Shay, Howell Lewis, 1929.
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Silverman, Charles, 1929.
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Simon, Grant Miles, 1929.
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Sinkler, Caroline, 1929.
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Sioussot, St. George Leakin, 1878-1960, 1929.
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Smith, Livingstone, 1929.
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Smith, William Jones, 1929.
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Sternfeld, Harry, 1929.
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Stratton, Howard Fremont, 1929.
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Sundt, Thoralf M., d 1969, 1929.
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Thomas, John D., 1929.
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Trowbridge, Alexander Buell, 1868-1950, 1929.
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Truscott, Arthur, 1929.
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United States. Commission of Fine Arts, 1929.
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University of Pennsylvania, letter from John Harbeson as acting dean of the School of Fine Arts proposing Cret for the Philadelphia Award, including a partial list of his works, 1929.
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Vauclain, Samuel M, 1856-1940, 1929.
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Voigt, Max, 1929.
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Warren, Whitney, 1864-1943, 1929.
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Weimer, Albert B, 1857-1938, 1929.
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Weitz, David D., 1895-, 1929.
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Weyl, Charles, 1929.
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Whiteside, G. Morris, 1929.
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Willing, Charles, 1884-1963, 1929.
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Windrim, John T, 1866-1934, 1929.
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Wood, Ida, 1929.
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Woodward, George, 1863-1952, 1929.
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Berninger, Dominique, letter to John Harbeson (1 item), 1945.
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Emerson, William, 1873-1957, letters to and from John Harbeson (2 items), 1945-1946.
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Gilchrist, Agnes Addison, 1907-, wife of John M. Gilchrist, letters from John Harbeson (2 items), 1949-1950.
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Pease, J. N., letter to Harbeson Hough Livingston & Larson Architects includes a copy of a letter to Harold D. Hauf, editor of Architectural Record. regarding Cret's visit to the site of the Naval Hospital at Beauford, South Carolina, Work No. 503, in August 1945, during which Cret had "a slight attack" (1 item), 1949.
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Rosenberger, Homer Tope, 1908-, letter from John Harbeson (1 item), 1961.
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United States. Commission of Fine Arts, letter to John Harbeson from H. P. Caemmerer regarding the death of Paul Cret and pending projects including the South Capitol Street Bridge, Work No. 439; Federal Reserve Annex, Work No. 405; and the Pan American Annex, Work No. 242 (1 item), 1945.
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University of Pennsylvania. Press, letter to John Harbeson from Phelps Soule regarding the proposed publication of Paul Cret's papers (1 item), 1945.
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Van Trump, James D (James Denholm), 1908-, letter from John Harbeson regarding Cret's work on Hope Lodge, Work No. 130 (1 item), 1963.
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Van Zanten, David, -1943, letter to John Harbeson regarding a lecture by Van Zanten on Cret, includes a copy of the lecture (1 item), 1976.
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White, Theophilus Ballou, 1903-, letter from John Harbeson regarding Rittenhouse Square in Philadelphia, Work No. 98, and sketches Cret made while serving as a soldier in World War I (1 item), 1959.
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Series Description

This series contains Cret's own writings, including notes, drafts and revisions of many of his articles (published and unpublished), contributions to books, public lectures, and less formal talks. Typescripts not identified as written by another in Cret's office are assumed to be by Cret. Also included are newspaper articles resulting from interviews with Cret.

All notes, drafts, and versions of a writing are filed together, including offprints or cuttings of the published text, if available. Writings are arranged chronologically by year, followed by undated, and alphabetically by title within each year. In case of writings with more than one version (including drafts), the date of the earliest dated version is used for arrangement purposes. In case of unpublished writings with variant titles, the predominant or last title is used for arrangement. In case of published writings with variant titles, the title used for publication is used for arrangement, or if published in different journals under different titles, the earliest published title is used.

"A Comparative Study of Sevres Methods." The Craftsman, pp. 355-367, 1904 July.
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"T Square Club Exhibition." Old Penn, pp. 1-2, 1904 January 23.
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"The Utility of Exhibitions." T Square Club Year-book, pp. 9-12, 1904-1905.
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"Animals in Christian Art." Catholic Encyclopedia, pp. 515-517, 1907.
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