Scope and Content Note
Primarily architectural drawings by Hugh Newell Jacobsen for residential buildings in Washington, D.C., and surrounding suburbs. The archive contains designs for single detached houses and student housing for Georgetown University. Materials document various phases of the design process, from preliminary sketches to working drawings, and include miscellaneous supplementary materials relating to building projects. The archive also includes some landscape architecture and engineering drawings.
Specific media or processes represented include graphite, ink, colored pencil, felt pen, diazo print, photographic print, stat, blueprint, and photomechanical print.
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.