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| Awards and Honors, 1958-1998 (continued) | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 260/5, 400/7 | National Medal of Arts, 1988 | ||||||||||||
| Includes: Photograph | |||||||||||||
| BOX 402 | National Medal of Arts, 1988 | ||||||||||||
| Medal in original box | |||||||||||||
| BOX 417 | Postal Department, Citation for public service to Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee, 1969 January 16 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 260/6, 400/7 | Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1987-1988 | ||||||||||||
| Includes: Photographs | |||||||||||||
| BOX 401 | Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1988 | ||||||||||||
| Medal in original box | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 260/7 | United States Conference of Mayors, Lifetime Achievement Award, 1998 | ||||||||||||
| Includes: Photographs | |||||||||||||
| BOX 417 | United States Institute of Theatre Technology, recognition plaque, 1977 March | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 262/4 | United States Senator Birch Bayh, appreciation plaque, 1973 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 260/8 | University of Illinois, honorary degree, 1970 | ||||||||||||
| University of Michigan | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 260/9 | Certificate of recognition, 1975 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 260/9 | Honorary degree, 1964 | ||||||||||||
| Includes: Photographs | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 260/9 | Sesquicentennial award, 1967 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 260/10, 427/3 | Washington College, honorary degree, 1985 | ||||||||||||
| Washington, D.C. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 261/4 | Arts and Culture Committee, Arts Industry plaque, 1982 June 7 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 416/12 | Certificate of appreciation, 1981 | ||||||||||||
| BOX 436 | Mayor's Art Award, 1985 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 416/11 | Proclamation, Roger L. Stevens Day, 1984 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 416/11 | Tribute dinner, 1987 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 260/11 | Washington Theatre Awards Society, Helen Hayes award, 1996 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 260/12 | Washington Times, Arts Award, 1983-1984 | ||||||||||||
| Includes: Congratulatory letters from Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan | |||||||||||||
| BOX 418 | Washington Times, Arts Award, 1984 February 6 | ||||||||||||
| Plaque | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 416/13 | Washingtonian magazine, Washingtonian of the Year, 1972 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 260/13 | Wayne State University, honorary degree, 1958-1961 | ||||||||||||
| BOX 433 | WGMS 570AM-103.5FM, Bravo! award, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX 409 | Winston-Salem, North Carolina, key to the city, 1983 April 23 | ||||||||||||
| BOX 407 | Wisconsin Idea Theatre Foundation, John R. Barton Award for Community Arts Leadership, 1967 | ||||||||||||
| Piece of petrified wood with engraved metal plate | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 260/14 | Wisdom Society for the Advancement of Knowledge, Learning and Research in Education, Award of Honor, 1965-1966 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 260/15 | Young Audiences of the District of Columbia, tribute dinner, 1988 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 260/16 | Unidentified awards, 1970, 1980, and undated | ||||||||||||
| Includes: Photographs | |||||||||||||
| BOX 409 | Unidentified medal with orange and green ribbon, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 261/5 | Unidentified plaque, 1970 | ||||||||||||
| BOX 263-396, 400, 419-421, 424, 427 MAPCASE FOLDER 1-4, 6, 8-20, 23-30 | Real Estate Files, 1871-2002 (bulk 1953-1988) | ||||||||||||
| The largest series in the collection, these files document Roger L. Stevens’s role as the founder, executive, or shareholder of numerous commercial and residential real estate businesses. Material types include agreements, articles of incorporation, contracts, construction plans, correspondence, financial records, leases, legal documents, meeting minutes, photographs, stock certificates, and sales documents. | |||||||||||||
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Organized as five subseries according to geographic region or subject. |
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| BOX 263-278, 400, 419, 424 MAPCASE FOLDER 12 | Buildings, 1933-1994 | ||||||||||||
| This subseries holds records for three hotels and five office buildings in
which Roger L. Stevens owned a controlling interest. In 1950, Stevens purchased
a controlling share in the Belleview-Biltmore Hotel in Belleair, Florida. He
maintained at least partial ownership in the property until it was sold in
1990. Present here are the sale closing documents for the hotel as well as
agreements, correspondence, daily reports, financial statements, and
promotional materials. In 1955, Stevens was part of a syndicate that briefly owned the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, buying and selling the complex in the same year. In 1961, Stevens partnered with Hernando Courtright to re-purchase the hotel and maintained an interest in the building into the 1980s. Folders contain correspondence, financial records for the hotel, and documentation on the Courtright Corporation. Through his companies Rostev Realty Corporation and Stevens Development Corporation, Stevens was for a brief time a shareholder of the Commodore Hotel in New York City. Materials include documents on the acquisition of common stock, correspondence, financial records, legal documents, and meeting minutes. As part of a syndicate, Stevens briefly owned the Empire State Building from 1951 to 1954 and the acquisitions documents of that purchase are found here. He went on to be a partial owner of several other office buildings, including the Cleveland Terminal Tower, the Bankers Building in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the Wilcox Building in Portland, Oregon, and the Squibb Building at 745 Fifth Avenue in New York City. Stevens was partial owner of the Squibb Building between 1953 and 1955, but he maintained offices there into the early 1970s. Materials include correspondence, financial records, floor plans, meeting minutes, and sales and closing documents. |
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Arranged alphabetically by building name. |
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| Bankers Building (Milwaukee) | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 263/1 | Agreements, correspondence, and financial records, 1953-1966 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 263/2 | Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, first mortgage financing, 1958 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 263/3 | Sale of the Bankers Building, Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Apache Realty Corporation, 1958-1959 | ||||||||||||
| Belleview-Biltmore Hotel (Belleair, Florida) | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 263/4 to 265/2 | Agreements, correspondence, and financial records, 1947-1994 and undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 265/3 | Brochures and promotional materials, 1958-1991 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 265/4 | Cabana Club, 1980-1987 | ||||||||||||
| Agreements, brochure, and correspondence | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 265/5 | Clippings and photographs, 1975-1989 and undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 400/8 | Daily reports, 1972-1974, 1980-1983 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 265/6 to 267/1 | Financial statements, 1960-1987 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 267/2 | Group booking lists, 1970-1973 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 267/3-4 | Loan documents, 1985 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 267/5 | Operating company incorporation documents, 1987 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 267/6 | Postepe Company, 1969-1981 | ||||||||||||
| Financial statements and stock certificates | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 267/7 to 268/4 | Sale closing documents, 1980-1990 | ||||||||||||
| Beverly Wilshire Hotel (Beverly Hills, California) | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 268/5 | Appraisal report for existing and proposed addition, 1969 | ||||||||||||
| Includes: Photographs | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 268/6 | Clippings and promotional materials, 1958-1964 and undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 269/1 to 271/2 | Correspondence and financial records, 1957-1986 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 271/3 | Courtright Corporation - agreements, by-laws, and meeting minutes, 1961-1962, 1972-1975, 1980 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 271/4 to 273/2 | Courtright Corporation - financial statements, 1961-1985 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 273/3 | Proposed new construction program and related matter, 1963 | ||||||||||||
| Includes: Photographs | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 273/4 | Report on proposed reorganization, 1982-1983 | ||||||||||||
| Cleveland Terminal | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 274/1 | Acquisition documents, 1955-1956 | ||||||||||||
| Bound | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 273/5 | Correspondence and financial records, 1956-1963 | ||||||||||||
| Commodore Hotel | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 274/2 to 275/1 | Acquisition of common stock, 1958 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 275/2-3 | Comtel, Inc., 1957-1966 | ||||||||||||
| Correspondence, financial records, legal documents, and meeting minutes | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 275/4 | Correspondence, 1958-1961 | ||||||||||||
| Empire State Building | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 275/5 | Annual report, clippings, correspondence, and financial records, 1951-1966 | ||||||||||||
| Includes: Photographs | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 419/1 | Empire State: a pictorial record of its construction, 1931, 1952 | ||||||||||||
| Published by William Edwin Rudge and presented to Roger L. Stevens Christmas 1952 | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 276/1, 277/1 | Sales and closing documents, 1951 | ||||||||||||
| Bound | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 424/5 | Scrapbook, 1951 | ||||||||||||
| Squibb Building (New York City) | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 275/6 | Agreements, 1954-1963 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 276/2 | Budgets and income statements, 1953-1963 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 276/3 | Certificates and abandoned property report, 1933, 1951-1964 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 276/4 | Closing documents, 1955, 1963 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 277/2 to 278/2 | Correspondence and financial records, 1953-1966 and undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 424/6 | Floor plans, 1952, 1962, and undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 278/3-5 | Leases, meeting minutes, and title documents, 1946, 1952-1963 | ||||||||||||
| MAPCASE FOLDER 12 | Office layouts, 1958 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 419/2 | Stock certificates, 1955-1962 | ||||||||||||
| Bound | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 278/6-7 | Wilcox Building (Portland, Oregon), 1956-1965 | ||||||||||||
| BOX 279-308, 420 MAPCASE FOLDER 21, 23-24 | Midwest (Missouri and Ohio), 1905-1988 (bulk 1957-1972) | ||||||||||||
| Materials in this subseries record the acquisition, mergers, and liquidation
of small department store chains in the Midwest region, as well as the
construction and leasing of a shopping mall. In 1960, Stevens led a group with
N. S. Potter III, Charles W. Lyon Jr., and Ezra K. Zilka to form Midwest
Holdings Corporation. The purpose of the company was to buy and sell the assets
of the Kobacker’s department store chain. Although Kobacker’s was headquartered
in Ohio, material on stores based in Buffalo, New York, are housed in this
subseries. Transactions also involved other department stores such as
Federal’s, Davidson Bros., and Tiedke’s. Midwest Holdings later merged with R.
R. Leaseholds, Inc., a corporation that was also involved in the construction
and leasing of River Roads Shopping Mall in Jennings, Missouri. The mall was
administered by the Stevens-run River Roads Properties, Inc. which also
garnered support from Stevens’s Seattle based company, University Properties,
Inc. This subseries also holds material on smaller projects Stevens worked on
in the region such as the Bolton Square Hotel and the Ohio Center. Material types include agreements, architectural plans, construction records, contracts, correspondence, financial records, leases, meeting minutes, operating summaries, photographs, stock certificates, and tenant agreements. |
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Arranged alphabetically according to organization name and by material type therein. |
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| BOX-FOLDER 279/1 | Bolton Square Hotel Company, 1947-1959 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 279/2 | Crosby Realty & Mortgage Co., Inc., 1956-1965 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 279/3 to 280/3 | Davcorp, Inc., 1962-1965 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 280/4 to 282/1 | Davidson Bros., Inc., 1958-1969 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 282/2 | Davidson Realty Company, 1961 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 282/3-4 | Federal's, Inc., 1967-1973, 1978 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 282/5-7 | H. & S. Realty Co., 1961-1964 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 283/1-4 | Kobacker's, 1905, 1945-1972 | ||||||||||||
| Midwest Holdings Corporation | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 283/5 to 284/1 | Acquisition documents, 1960-1961 | ||||||||||||
| Bound | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 284/2-3 | Agreements and amendments, 1960-1963 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 285/1 | Balance sheets, 1961-1963 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 285/2-3 | Bank statements, 1962-1966 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 285/4 | Billing correspondence and invoices, 1962-1965 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 285/5 | Board of Directors meeting minutes, 1960-1961 | ||||||||||||
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