Scope and Content Note
Primarily architectural drawings by Thomas Tileston Waterman for and of historic buildings, residential buildings, religious buildings, and education buildings in Virginia; other locations include Maryland, Washington, D.C., and Massachusetts. Among his work represented in the archive are reconstructions of buildings in Williamsburg, Virginia and other locations; single detached houses; chapels and churches; and measured drawings of historic buildings, some of which were used to illustrate his books. Materials document the preliminary and working phases of the design process, as well as correspondence, notes, and specifications relating to building projects. The archive also includes landscape architecture drawings and architectural drawings by other creators, including Perry, Shaw & Hepburn (where Waterman was employed for a portion of his career).
Specific media or processes represented include graphite, ink, stat, photomechanical print, photographic print, watercolor, and crayon.
Some ADE UNITs have additional materials to the drawings that are filed separately. If present, these series are noted at the end of the ADE UNIT's summary with the following options: specifications, photographs, and/or miscellaneous supplementary materials. These materials are not item inventoried but can be requested from a librarian while doing research in the Reading Room.