Holding Information

Collection: Linfoot Collection

Institution: Athenaeum of Philadelphia

MARC Description:
"Project Number OP56 - 89; SR - W1 - 1". Drawing A, sheet nos. 1-2 and 5-6. Item no. USR56-69*001 is a map of the planned community which shows street names and locations of major buildings. It lists 21 names of officials involved with the project. The Administration Building is shown on North Road, the Heating plant and Fire / Police Station on West School Street, with the Cinema and shopping area betweeen these two structures. Drawing A blueprint sheets have original date Oct. 9, 1936, with revisions on Oct. 10, 1936, with approval signatures for [1] Walter E. Thomas [2] M.M. Bentley [3] Elbert Peets [4] Frederick Bigger [5] J.S. Lansill. Linfoot collection archival files supply a handwritten resume attached to a letter dated April 13, 1949, to a Mr. William Reinhardt. In this resume Linfoot states that he was a "Draftsman engaged on drawings for Greenbelt Housing pojrects in Heightstown, N.J. and Milwaukee, Wis." for the Resettlement Administration, Suburban Division, Washington, D.C., from Aug. 1935 to Dec. 1937. Linfoot's name is not visible on the graphics here, although he may have delineated some of the drawings. This position is sited in collection documents as his first after completion of his B. Arch from the University of Pennsylvania of in 1934. A reprint from Pencil points (Aug., 1936) entitled Greenbelt planning , resettlement administration builds three model towns by John Dreier, is included in the Linfoot collection. It lists the three towns as Greenbelt, Maryland, Greenhills, Ohio, and Greendale, Wisconsin.

Quantity: 10 photomechanical reproductions : blueprints ; 66 x 96 cm. or smaller. ; 3 photomechanical : stats ; ; 4 photoprints :

Local Call: USR56-89*001; USR56-89*002; USR56-89*003; USR56-89*004; USR56-89*005; USR56-89*006; USR56-89*007; USR56-89*008; USR56-89*009; USR56-89*010; USR56-89*011; USR56-89*012; USR56-89*013; USR56-89*014; USR56-89*015; USR56-89*016; USR56-89*017

RLIN: PAPV94-F895

Item dates: 1936

Holding types: Blueprints

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Location

Wisconsin ("Greendale")

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