Published References

• Thomas, George E.Buildings of Pennsylvania Philadelphia and Eastern Pennsylvania, Society of Architectural Historians, University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville, 2010, p. 116
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  Client/Project Name: Girard College Campus
  Architect Referenced: Walter, Thomas Ustick (1804-1887)
   
• Lewis, Michael J., Frank Furness: Architecture and the Violent Mind, W. W. Norton & Company, New York, 2001, p. 189
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  Client/Project Name: Girard College Campus
   
• National Register. (National Register Information System)
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  Client/Project Name: Girard College Complex
   
• Pennsylvania Cultural Resources Geographic Information System, a cooperative venture of the Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission and the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation.
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  Client/Project Name: Girard College
   
• King, Moses. Philadelphia and Notable Philadelphians. New York: Blanchard Press, Isaac H. Blanchard Co., 1901., p. 12
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  Client/Project Name: Girard College
   
• Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission Cultural Resources Database
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  Client/Project Name: Girard College
   
• Maynard, W. Barksdale, Architecture in the United States, 1800-1850, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2002, p. 1-4, 9, 38, 68, 231-233, 236, 264, 266, 267, 279
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  Client/Project Name: Girard College Campus
   
• The Architect, New York : Forbes Pub. Co., 1923-1931. , v. 10, n. 5, p. 587, 8/1928
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  Client/Project Name: Girard College
  Architect Referenced: Walter, Thomas Ustick (1804-1887)
   
• American Architect, May 1932, p. 121, ad. Frick Refrigeration (ill.)
   
• National Register Information System database (imported May 8, 2001)
   

Drawings, Photos, Papers, etc.

• Girard College Architectural Drawings Collection - Competition Drawings - I. 04. John Haviland
  Holding Name: Girard College / Founder's Hall Out Buildings, "Girard's College Elevation of the Principal Front"
  Quantity: 1 sheet : ink, wash, watercolor on paper ; , Call Number: I.04.02
  Architect Referenced: Haviland, John (1792-1852)
   
• Girard College Architectural Drawings Collection - Competition Drawings - I. 04. John Haviland
  Holding Name: Girard College / Founder's Hall Out Buildings, "No 3 Plan of Upper Story of the College"
  Quantity: 1 sheet : ink, wash on paper, previously removed from heavy backing ; 22.75 X 38.25, Call Number: I.04.03
  Architect Referenced: Haviland, John (1792-1852)
   
• Girard College Architectural Drawings Collection - Competition Drawings - I. 04. John Haviland
  Holding Name: Girard College / Out Buildings, "Girard's College Plans No 4"
  Quantity: 1 sheet : ink, wash on whatman paper: watermark: 1827 ; 22.75 X 36.5, Call Number: I.04.04
  Architect Referenced: Haviland, John (1792-1852)
   
• Girard College Architectural Drawings Collection - Competition Drawings - I. 04. John Haviland
  Holding Name: Girard College / Founder's Hall Out Buildings, "Girard's College Transverse Section No 5"
  Quantity: 1 sheet : ink, wash, watercolor on paper ; , Call Number: I.04.05
  Architect Referenced: Haviland, John (1792-1852)
   
• Girard College Architectural Drawings Collection - Competition Drawings - I. 21. Thomas Ustick Walter
  Holding Name: Girard College / "Plan Of A Tract of Land Appropriated by the Late Stephen Girard Esq for a College"
  Quantity: 1 sheet : ink, wash, pencil on whatman paper ; 24.75 X 43, Call Number: I.21.01
  Architect Referenced: Walter, Thomas Ustick (1804-1887)
   
• Girard College Architectural Drawings Collection - Construction Drawings - II. 01. Preliminary Designs
  Holding Name: Girard College / "Plan of Land Appropriated for Girard College"
  Quantity: 1 sheet : ink, wash, pencil on paper, mounted ; 26.5 X 47.25, Call Number: II.01.10
  Architect Referenced: Walter, Thomas Ustick (1804-1887)
   
• Girard College Architectural Drawings Collection - Construction Drawings - II. 03. Ground Plans
  Holding Name: Girard College / "Plan of Land Surrounding & Belonging to the Girard College"
  Quantity: 1 sheet : ink, wash on paper mounted on canvas ; , Call Number: II.03.01
  Architect Referenced: Walter, Thomas Ustick (1804-1887)
   
• Girard College Architectural Drawings Collection - Construction Drawings - II. 03. Ground Plans
  Holding Name: Girard College / "A Plan of the Girard College with the Surrounding Land"
  Quantity: 1 sheet : ink, wash on whatman paper ; 25 X 18, Call Number: II.03.02
  Architect Referenced: Walter, Thomas Ustick (1804-1887)
   
• Girard College Architectural Drawings Collection - Construction Drawings - II. 03. Ground Plans
  Holding Name: Girard College / "Ground Plan of Girard College"
  Quantity: 1 sheet : ink, wash, pencil on paper ; 14.5 X 21.75, Call Number: II.03.03
  Architect Referenced: Walter, Thomas Ustick (1804-1887)
   
• Girard College Architectural Drawings Collection - Construction Drawings - II. 03. Ground Plans
  Holding Name: Girard College / Plot Plan Showing Location of Old House
  Quantity: 1 sheet : ink, pencil on paper ; 12.5 X 15.25, Call Number: II.03.04
   
• Girard College Architectural Drawings Collection - Construction Drawings - II. 03. Ground Plans
  Holding Name: Girard College / "Sections Through the Grounds Belonging to Girard College"
  Quantity: 1 sheet : ink, wash on paper ; 10.75 X 39.5, Call Number: II.03.06
  Architect Referenced: Walter, Thomas Ustick (1804-1887)
   
• Girard College Architectural Drawings Collection - Construction Drawings - II. 03. Ground Plans
  Holding Name: Girard College / "Landscape Profile of College Grounds"
  Quantity: 1 sheet : pencil on paper ; 20.25 X 27, Call Number: II.03.07
  Architect Referenced: Walter, Thomas Ustick (1804-1887)
   
• Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Jane Campbell Scrapbooks
  Holding Name: Girard College
  Quantity: 1 item, Call Number: v.3, p.48-50
   
• Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC) Bureau for Historic Preservation - General Collection
  Holding Name: "Plan of the Girard College Grounds"
  Call Number: I.4.6
  Architect Referenced: Haviland, John (1792-1852)
   

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