1865-1957
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The 阿瑟·阿萨赫·舒尔克利夫的论文 are stored offsite and must be requested at least two 提前一个工作日通过 Portal1791. Researchers needing more than six items from offsite storage should 提供额外的提前通知. If you have questions about requesting materials from offsite storage, please contact the reference desk at 617-646-0532 or reference@nxadmin.net.
摘要
This collection includes journals, diaries, genealogical accounts, family papers, published and unpublished writings, biographies, and the autobiography of Arthur A. 波士顿景观设计师Shurcliff说. There is also correspondence, both personal and pertaining to professional work, including Metropolitan District 委员会 (波士顿) projects, Colonial Williamsburg, 老斯特布里奇村, Plymouth Rock, and 夸宾水库(马萨诸塞州.), as 还有私人地产工作. 记者包括他的父亲亚米. 这是他的弟弟 牧师. 阿尔弗雷德维. K. shuttleff和妹妹Gertrude H. 沙特尔夫，亚历山大和威廉·詹姆斯， 兰登·沃纳，雅克·巴赞，阿尔伯特·B. 和J. 切尼·威尔斯，约瑟夫·G. 迪尔林和纳尔逊. 洛克菲勒.
传记草图
Arthur Asahel Shurcliff (1870-1957) was born Arthur Asahel Shurtleff in 波士顿, 质量achusetts. 1930年，他改变了他的 name to Shurcliff to conform to the old English spelling. 他追求 engineering at the 质量achusetts Institute of Technology and graduated in 1894. 授予后 with Charles Eliot and Frederick Law Olmsted, he enrolled at Harvard University to do graduate 从事景观设计工作. When he graduated in 1896, he went to work for the Olmsted firm 在马萨诸塞州的布鲁克林. 1899年，他和小弗雷德里克·劳·奥姆斯特德. 形成了第一个 four-year course of landscape architecture in the country at Harvard. 1905年，他结婚了 玛格丽特·霍默·尼科尔斯博士的女儿. 和夫人. 波士顿和康沃尔的亚瑟·霍华德·尼科尔斯， 新汉普郡. In that year, Shurcliff also established his own landscape practice in 波士顿.
Shurcliff served as president of the American Society of Landscape Architects from 1928-1932. His work included major work for the Metropolitan District 委员会 and the Metropolitan Planning Board in 波士顿 in the fields of town planning, engineering, and landscape and park 设计. He was the chief landscape architect for the restoration at Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, from its inception in 1928 until 1941. 他还曾在波士顿艺术学院任职 委员会.
He practiced landscape architecture, 设计ed and built furniture (with his wife Margaret), painted and sketched and invented various labor-saving devices until within a year of his death in 1957.
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The Shurcliff collection consists of 11日记录 纸箱 of papers. 它的一部分是专用的 to family history, records, photographs, and personal correspondence. 几个盒子里装着他的 correspondence with his sister Gertrude Hope Shurtleff and with his brother 牧师. 阿尔弗雷德维. K. Shurtleff. Also included in his correspondence are exchanges with his two friends Alexander and William James (sons of the philosopher William James) and with Langdon Warner, professor of Asian art at the Fogg Museum, Harvard University.
与J的通信. G. Deering and Nelson 洛克菲勒 reflects his work for them. 与 阿尔伯特·B. 韦尔斯和J. Cheney Wells, the letters combine his personal relationship with them, his work on their private estates, and his work on their restoration/reconstruction village, Old Sturbridge村. Several boxes contain general correspondence which runs from personal 专业交易的交换.
Correspondence also reveals aspects of his work at Plymouth Rock, Plymouth, 质量achusetts, and 在威廉斯堡. Included in the Williamsburg material is a book called “南部的地方,” which is a portion of the large tome he produced for the Williamsburg Corporation to aid in the 恢复过程. His work for the Metropolitan District 委员会, specifically at the Quabbin水库, is also revealed through correspondence.
Represented in the collection are samples of his writings, published and unpublished, including the process of writing and publishing two of his books.
One of the chief sources of his personal and professional activities is found in his diaries 从1922年到1956年. Personal and agency accounts are preserved in the collection.
获取信息
爱丽丝·W的礼物. 西德尼·N·舒尔克利夫. 威廉·肖克利夫. 约翰·舒尔克利夫. Shurcliff,夫人. 弗朗西斯·P. 洛厄尔(伊丽莎白. 弗朗茨·J. 英格芬格(莎拉P .. Shurcliff),可能 1969.
访问限制
The 阿瑟·阿萨赫·舒尔克利夫的论文 are stored offsite and must be requested at least two 提前一个工作日通过 Portal1791. Researchers needing more than six items from offsite storage should 提供额外的提前通知. If you have questions about requesting materials from offsite storage, please contact the reference desk at 617-646-0532 or reference@nxadmin.net.
收集的详细描述
[j]. 沙特尔夫，在亚瑟·A的办公室里制作. Shurcliff, 1949年4月
界打出的.景观设计:威廉斯堡
Landscape work: Metropolitan District 委员会, 波士顿
喜欢引用
阿瑟·阿萨赫·舒尔克利夫的论文, 马萨诸塞州历史学会.
访问条款
This collection is indexed under the following headings in 阿比盖尔的在线目录 马萨诸塞州历史学会. Researchers desiring materials about related persons, organizations, or subjects should search the catalog using these headings.
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从收藏中删除的照片
Photographs and glass plate negatives were removed from the collection to the MHS Photo 档案.