Alfred Oscar Elzner sketch book and album
Scope and Contents
The first album features approximately 75 sketches and floor plans made during Elzner’s time working with architect James W. McLaughlin. The majority of the plans within the book are not Elzner's designs, but his sketches of houses he found interesting. Of particular interest to Elzner was Henry Hobson Richardson's work, and there are numerous sketches of the houses he designed. The sketches include William Burges' Tower house, and the Higginson House in Boston. The book also contains Elzner's submission to the Rotch's Traveling Scholarship in 1886. The design challenge for that year was to design an official mansion for the President of the United States.
The second album is a photo album with fifteen photographs. Thirteen of the images are of Homestead Hotel in Hot Springs, VA. Elzner designed the main building of the hotel in a Neo-Georgian scheme. The remaining two images, dated 15 February 1920 and 22 April 1920, depict the construction of an addition to The Greenbrier in White Sulphur, West Virginia. A sketch of the finished structure, dated 1923, is also included.
Dates
- 1883 - 1923
Language of Materials
Conditions Governing Use
Biographical Note
Source: http://www.architecturecincy.org/programs/biographical-dictionary-of-cincinnati-architects/e/
Extent
0.05 Cubic Feet (2 volumes)
- Title
- Alfred Oscar Elzner sketch book and album
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Tanner Greene
- Date
- 14 February 2019
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library Repository
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
P.O. Box 400110
University of Virginia
Charlottesville Virginia 22904-4110 United States