Project Files
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Gugler, Eric, 1889-1974
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content: Eric Gugler papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 28.2 Linear Feet (Boxes 5-18, 20-24, OV 25-31, OV 33-49, RD 50-69)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1889-1977
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.gugleric, Series 4
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The series is arranged as 7 subseries.  Materials are minimally arranged by project title within each subseries; typescript letters labeled "duplicates" have been retained.  Glass plate slides are housed separately and closed to researchers.

4.1: Buildings, Commercial, 1913-1970

4.2: Buildings, Governmental, 1929-1973

4.3: Buildings, Residential, 1937-1973

4.4: Design Objects, 1937-1972

4.5: Memorials, 1929-1977

4.6: Preservation, 1889-1973

4.7: Sculptures, 1930-1971
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Project files consist of correspondence, architectural sketches, blueprints, and photographic and printed material related to Gugler's work on commercial schools, institutional buildings, residential houses, governmental buildings, and memorial commissions.  Gugler's work on specific design objects and patents, sculptures, and his collaborative work on preservation efforts on the Octagon House in Washington, D.C. and St. Peter's in Rome, are also included.   

Significant commissions include the White House Executive Office, the Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Theodore Roosevelt Memorials in Washington, D.C., and the proposed "Hall of Our History" project.  There is also substantial documentation of construction and renovations for Wabash College, the Education Building (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania), the Katherine Cornell, Henry Ford, Kent Leavitt, and Gertrude Macy residences, the Sicily-Rome American Cemetery and Memorial (Anzio Cemetery) in Italy, and the Battery Park (New York) and Eleanor Roosevelt memorials.