Oral history interview with Nelson Aldrich
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 5 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 10 digital wav files. Duration is 6 hrs., 30 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Aldrich, Nelson W.
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
label: Names
content: Boston Architectural Center
label: Names
content: Boston Arts Festival
label: Names
content: Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston, Mass.)
label: Names
content: Radcliffe College
label: Names
content: Rhode Island School of Design
label: Names
content: Breuer, Marcel, 1902-
label: Names
content: Gropius, Walter, 1883-1969
label: Names
content: Rockefeller, Abby Aldrich
topic: label: Occupation
content: Architects -- Massachusetts -- Boston
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and administrators.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Aldrich, Nelson W.
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Nelson W. Aldrich (1911-1986) was an architect from Marblehead, Massachusetts.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 93 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1982 January 22-1985 April 4
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.aldric82
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Nelson Aldrich conducted 1982 January 22-1985 April 4 at Marablehead, Massachusetts, by Robert Brown, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Nelson Aldrich discusses his childhood as the son of an architect and nephew of the great collectors Lucy Aldrich and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller; his education in architecture at Harvard University with Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer (1934-38); his architectural practice with Wallace Harrison in New York City and his own practice in Boston; his position as a Trustee of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (1947-1960), the Boston Arts Festival (1955-62), the Metropolitan Boston Arts Center (1959-1963), the Rhode Island School of Design (1955-1962), Radcliffe College (1957-1972) and the Boston Architectural Center (1968-1973).