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Maps showing historic sites and structures, North Carolina, 1919-1941
Creator: Waterman, Thomas Tileston, 1900-1951, architect
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2891
Extent: 2 items : ink, colored pencil, felt pen, and photomechanical print; in folder(s) 89 x 123 cm.
Note: Drawings not signed; attribution based on provenance.
Note: Date based on years Waterman practiced as an architect and the publication of his The early architecture of North Carolina, 1941.
Summary: Includes maps showing historic structures and sites; topographic maps.
East side of state
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2891, no. 1 (E size)
Extent: 1 item : ink/colored pencil/photomechanical print on paper
West side of state
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2891, no. 2 (E size)
Extent: 1 item : ink/colored pencil/photomechanical print/felt pen on paper
Miscellaneous sketchbooks containing travel sketches and measured drawings, 1923-1947
Creator: Waterman, Thomas Tileston, 1900-1951, architect
Call No.: LOT 13051 (F)
Extent: 11 sketchbooks ; 30 x 24 cm. or smaller
Summary: Includes travel sketches mainly of churches in England and Spain and measured drawings of historic houses and architectural elements in Virginia, Maryland, South Carolina and Connecticut; architectural drawings.
A survey of the early buildings in the region of the proposed Santee and Pinopolis reservoirs in South Carolina, 1939
Creator: Waterman, Thomas Tileston, 1900-1951, architect
Related Names: Historic American Buildings Survey
Call No.: LOT 13052-1 (G)
Extent: 1 v. (57 photographic prints, 4 architectural drawings) ; 30 x 28 cm. + 56 p typescript
Note: Also includes supplementary reports, 1 folded map, and 1 folded newspaper clipping.
Note: Annotations on title-page.
Note: Another copy of the report, with varying photographs, was processed as LOT 13052-2.
Summary: Includes transcript text and illustrations documenting historic houses, outbuildings, and a church to be demolished in the construction of the Santee reservoir (now Lake Marion) and the Pinopolis reservoir (now Lake Moultrie): Black Oak Church, Hanover, North Hampton, Belvidere, Eutaw, The Rocks, Lawson Pond, Pond Bluff, Loch Dhu, Ophir, Somerset, Springfield, Bunker Hill, White Hall, Indian Field, Wampee, Cedar Spring, Pooshee, and Woodlawn.
A survey of the early buildings in the region of the proposed Santee and Pinopolis reservoirs in South Carolina, 1939
Creator: Waterman, Thomas Tileston, 1900-1951, architect
Related Names: Historic American Buildings Survey
Call No.: LOT 13052-2 (G)
Extent: 1 v. (62 photographic prints, 4 architectural drawings) ; 30 x 28 cm. + 38 p typescript
Note: Also includes 1 folded map.
Note: Another copy of the report, with varying photographs and supplementary reports, was processed as LOT 13052-1.
Summary: Includes transcript text and illustrations documenting historic houses, outbuildings, and a church to be demolished in the construction of the Santee reservoir (now Lake Marion) and the Pinopolis reservoir (now Lake Moultrie): Black Oak Church, Hanover, North Hampton, Belvidere, Eutaw, The Rocks, Lawson Pond, Pond Bluff, Loch Dhu, Ophir, Somerset, Springfield, Bunker Hill, White Hall, Indian Field, Wampee, Cedar Spring, Pooshee, and Woodlawn.
Architectural reports, 1924-1939
Creator: Waterman, Thomas Tileston, 1900-1951, architect
Related Names: Historic American Buildings Survey
Call No.: LOT 13053 (G)
Extent: 2 v. ; 30 x 28 cm.
Note: New Netherlands architecture section contains a pamphlet entitled "Fort Crailo, 'The home of Yankee Doodle.'"
Note: Churches and public buildings of the South section includes several pages of architectural drawings; sketches.
Note: Produced for the Historic American Buildings Survey.
Summary: Textual histories of the architecture in various American colonies and in the West Indies from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries; sketches.
Architectural drawings used by Waterman as source material, 1764-1829
Creator: Waterman, Thomas Tileston, 1900-1951, collector
Call No.: LOT 13054 (H)
Extent: 5 prints : engraving ; 23 x 29 cm. or smaller
Summary: Includes exterior views of Dulwich College, London, dated 1829; Rye House, Hertfordshire, dated 1784; Nutley Abbey, Buckinghamshire; Gothurst, Buckinghamshire; and Southill, Bedfordshire, dated 1782.
Sketchbook of details of buildings located primarily in Virginia but also in Maryland, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, West Virginia, and England, 1927-1940
Creator: Waterman, Thomas Tileston, 1900-1951, architect
Call No.: LOT 13055 (H)
Extent: 1 sketchbook (158 architectural drawings) : graphite, ink, and colored pencil ; 28 x 23 cm.
Extent: 5 architectural drawings : graphite and stat ; in folders 28 x 23 cm.
Note: Two page numbering schemes are used within the sketchbook. Page numbers without a suffix indicate normal pagination (i.e., the first page in the book is page 1). Page numbers suffixed with a "B" indicate pagination from the end of the sketchbook. (i.e., the last page in the book is page 1B).
Note: For the Pictorial Archives of Early American Architecture, Library of Congress, Division of Fine Arts.
Note: Title on cover: "Sketch book--details of buildings, bound 1937."
Note: Sketches bound in 1937; rebound at Dumbarton Oaks in 1939.
Note: Includes cutout portrait photograph of T.T. Waterman, Sr.
Summary: Sketchbook includes measured drawings showing a comparison of architectural details of buildings, houses, and churches as plans, elevations, details, and perspective projections; sketches; photographs.
Viewing the sketchbook from front to back
Note: Two page numbering schemes are used within the sketchbook. Page numbers without a suffix indicate normal pagination (i.e., the first page in the book is page 1).
Abingdon Church, Gloucester vicinity, Gloucester County, VA. Plan
Call No.: LOT 13055, page no. 1 (H)
Governor's Palace, Williamsburg, James City County, VA. View
Call No.: LOT 13055, page no. 2 (H)
Vergelegen, Somerset West, South Africa. Layout
Call No.: LOT 13055, page no. 2 (H)
Camden, Caroline County, VA. Ext. view
Call No.: LOT 13055, page no. 3 (H)
Mount Airy, Warsaw vicinity, Richmond County, VA. View
Call No.: LOT 13055, page no. 3 (H)
The Elms, Berkeley County, SC. Ext. view
Call No.: LOT 13055, page no. 3 (H)
Belle Farm, Gloucester Co.
Call No.: LOT 13055, page no. 3 (H)
Bewdley on the Rappahannock
Call No.: LOT 13055, page no. 3 (H)
Fairfield (Carter Creek House) Gloucester County
Call No.: LOT 13055, page no. 4 (H)
Carlyle House, Alexandria, VA. Side view, keystone design, plan.
Call No.: LOT 13055, page no. 5 (H)
Belvoir, Fairfax County, VA. View
Call No.: LOT 13055, page no. 5 (H)
Laneville, King and Queen County, VA. Front view, floor plan
Call No.: LOT 13055, page no. 6 (H)
Greenspring, James City County, VA. Plan
Call No.: LOT 13055, page no. 7 (H)
Stone House, Ware Creek, James City County, VA. Plan
Call No.: LOT 13055, page no. 7 (H)
Waite-Potter House, South Westport, MA. Ext. view
Call No.: LOT 13055, page no. 7 (H)
Stratford Hall, Westmoreland County, VA. Drawing exterior
Call No.: LOT 13055, page nos. 8-9 (H)
Menokin, Warsaw vicinity, Richmond County, VA. Front view
Call No.: LOT 13055, page no. 11 (H)
Column (no additional identifying information)
Call No.: LOT 13055, page no. 13 (H)
General Plan (no additional identifying information)
Call No.: LOT 13055, page no. 13 (H)
Blandfield, Caret vicinity, Essex County, VA. Brick Joint in Arch
Call No.: LOT 13055, page no. 14 (H)
Blandfield, Caret vicinity, Essex County, VA. Block plan
Call No.: LOT 13055, page no. 14 (H)
Blandfield, Caret vicinity, Essex County, VA. Whalf view
Call No.: LOT 13055, page no. 15 (H)
Jamestown Church, Jamestown, James City County, VA. Block plan
Call No.: LOT 13055, page no. 16 (H)
Little Wigborough, Essex, England. Ext. plan
Call No.: LOT 13055, page no. 16 (H)
St. Luke's Church, Isle of Wight County, VA. Block plan
Call No.: LOT 13055, page no. 17 (H)
Bruton Parish Church, Williamsburg, James City County, VA. Plan
Call No.: LOT 13055, page no. 17 (H)
St. Luke's Church, Isle of Wight County, VA. Tower, front
Call No.: LOT 13055, page nos. 18-19 (H)
Pembroke, Nansemond County, VA. View
Call No.: LOT 13055, page no. 21 (H)
Kingsmill, Williamsburg vicinity, James City County, VA. Side and front view
Call No.: LOT 13055, page no. 22 (H)
Keeling House, Virginia Beach, Princess Anne County, VA. Side view
Call No.: LOT 13055, page no. 23 (H)
Sweet Hall, Sweet Hall vicinity, King William County, VA. Front elevation
Call No.: LOT 13055, page no. 24 (H)
Sweet Hall, Sweet Hall vicinity, King William County, VA. Side elevation
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