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Historic buildings -- New Mexico

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:

Bainbridge Bunting Collection of Measured Drawings

 Collection
Identifier: SWA-Bunting-Drawings
Scope and Content The collection consists of architectural plans for over 200 historic buildings located in New Mexico. The buildings were researched, measured, and the plans drawn by Bunting's students at the University of New Mexico Department of Architecture, 1965-1979. Drawings include floor plans, elevations, site plans and details of structures such as churches, chapels, moradas, houses, schools, stores, hotels, and railroad buildings. Included are examples of architecture from the Spanish colonial,...
Dates: 1934-1979

Bainbridge Bunting Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-385-BC
Scope and Content This collection focuses on historic buildings and architecture in New Mexico. There is a significant component of the collection that relates to the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) and nominations of buildings to the National Register of Historic Places. Student research and research papers, class notes and lectures, and Bunting's articles and publications are significant components of the collection. Photographs associated with reports remain in the collection, while loose...
Dates: 1849-1981; Majority of material found in 1964-1979

Wesley Bradfield Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: PAAC-0046
Scope and Content This small yet historically significant collection covers a range of Bradfield's photography over his career. While not comprehensive it does touch on many of his areas research and interest. As this collection was disbursed through the subjects files, retrieval of additional Bradfield material will occur over time.
Dates: 1910 - 1929

D. H. Lawrence Ranch Collection

 Collection
Identifier: UNMA 088
Abstract The D.H. Lawrence Ranch near Taos, New Mexico, was gifted to UNM after the death of Frieda Lawrence. The collection consists of five folders of materials related to the D.H. Lawrence Ranch from the late 1990s through early 2000s.
Dates: 1998 - 2002

David Kammer Professional Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-942-BC
Abstract The collection contains David Kammer’s accumulated research, notes, and writing pertaining to his work as a cultural and architectural historian. Most of the work relates to State and National Register nominations for properties and districts in New Mexico, and Route 66.
Dates: 1934-2009; Majority of material found within 1990-2008

HABS Measured Drawings of New Mexico Buildings,

 Collection
Identifier: SWA-HABS-Drawings
Abstract The collection contains blue line prints of Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) measured drawings of historic buildings in New Mexico. Consists of 39 projects pertaining to New Mexico, plus two from Arizona, and one from Colorado.



Dates: 1934-1974

Jeremiah Iowa Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: PAAC-0061
Scope and Content Collection of 3914 35mm slides and 329 postcards, negatives, photographs, cassette tapes and 4x5" transparencies of New Mexico historical architecture, Hopi Housing architecture, Pueblo adobe buildings, Egyptian architecture, American rural Vernacular architecture, Moroccan architecture and Louis Sullivan in Cedar Rapids Iowa. Many slides are organized as lectures for various venues, including several on Hopi Housing.
Dates: 1970-1990 (approximately)

John Gaw Meem Job Files

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-790-BC
Abstract This collection contains John Gaw Meem's files pertaining to his architectural projects, predominantly in Santa Fe and Albuquerque, NM, 1925-1960. Files consist of correspondence, proposals, specifications, bids, contracts, contractor accounts, progress notes, change orders, schematics, soil analysis, photographs, and certificates of payment.
Dates: 1925-1960

Kendyl Monroe Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1049-BC
Abstract The collection centers on New Mexico State Register nominations for the Goodson School and D.D. Monroe Civic Building/Clayton Public Library in Union County, NM, as well as genealogical research pertaining to the Sayre and Monroe families.
Dates: 1997-2010

New Mexico Historic American Building Survey (HABS)

 Collection
Identifier: AC 418-s
Scope and Content This is a collection of measured drawings of historical buildings in New Mexico and the region. The drawing represent architectural styles in Pueblo, Spanish Colonial, Spanish Revival, and Territorial structures. Drawings also represent communities and building types such as pueblos, churches, and private homes
Dates: 1930-1940

Jesse L. Nusbaum Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: PAAC-0017
Scope and Content Materials included original 5 x 7 glass plate negatives, 5 x 7 vintage prints, and nitrate film negatives of various sizes. Many of the vintage 5 x 7 contact prints have notes on the back written in pencil by Jesse Nusbaum and notes in ball point pen by his wife, Rosemary Nusbaum. There are also other notes in unidentified handwriting in both pen and pencil on the back of the photographs. Some 5 x 7 vintage photos have a small stamp on bottom edge: MEJ Colter or H. H. Dorman...
Dates: 1906 - 1939

T. Harmon Parkhurst Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: PAAC-0023
Scope and Content Collection of several thousand images includes glass lantern slides, film negatives, glass negatives and original prints.
Dates: Majority of material found in 1915 - 1945

Perry E. Borchers Photogrammetry Plans

 Collection
Identifier: AC 538
Scope and Content Collection contains photogrammetric plans of towns, pueblos, archaeological sites, and buildings in New Mexico and Arizona. Collection also contains photogrammetric plans of buildings in Vermont, Illinois, Ohio, and New York; and Sweden and Greece.

Photogrammetry is the practice of determining the geometric properties of objects from photographic images. Photogrammetry is used by archaeologists to quickly produce plans of large or complex sites.
Dates: 1970-1999

James R. Riddle Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: PAAC-0051
Scope and Content This collection is comprised of cabinet and boudoir cards, a few stereoviews and viewing album pages with photos on both sides. All images are of New Mexico subjects. If album pages have single image they are 9 1/2" x 15", if four images, each is 4 1/2" x 7 1/2".
Dates: 1880 - 1890

Student papers on historic preservation in New Mexico

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-754-BC
Abstract This is a collection of papers and projects by students in Chris Wilson's and Martin Stupich's historic preservation classes at UNM's School of Architecture and Planning. The papers/projects document the history, culture and architecture of particular buildings and areas around New Mexico.
Dates: 1987-2011