Dodge House Preservation Campaign
name: label: Collection Creator
content: McCoy, Esther
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content: Esther McCoy papers
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content: Esther McCoy papers / Series 5: Projects
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1953-1983
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.mccoesth, Subseries 5.1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: Researchers should note that additional records about the Dodge House can be found in Series 5.3: Historic American Buildings Survey.
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: The bulk of this subseries has been scanned. Photographs taken by Julius Shulman and Marvin Rand have not been scanned. The Dodge House film has been digitized and copied to a new film projection print.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Found here are documents regarding the campaign to preserve the architecturally significant Dodge House, built by Irving Gill. Preservation efforts began in 1963 and continued until the house was demolished in 1970. Esther McCoy was very active in the preservation efforts, serving on the Citizen's Committee for the Dodge House and a Dodge House Special Committee of the American Institute of Architects. This subseries includes various committee documents, clippings and other printed material, correspondence, and notes and writings by McCoy regarding the preservation efforts. In 1965 McCoy produced a film, Dodge House 1916, as part of the preservation efforts. The film was directed by Robert Snyder. Documentation of this film project includes correspondence, photographs used for the film, draft film scripts written by McCoy, lab notes, and the finished film.