Collection context
Summary
- Creator:
- James, Meadows & Howard
- Abstract:
- The records of the architectural firm of James, Meadows & Howard represents the accumulated archives of a firm dating back ninety years.
- Extent:
- 135 boxes and (67.5 linear feet)
- Language:
- Collection material in English .
Background
- Scope and Content:
The records of the architectural firm of James, Meadows & Howard represents the accumulated archives of a firm dating back ninety years. The records include log books, construction specification books, bids, contracts, plans and blueprints, correspondence, invoices, site photographs and other records of an architectural firm of local importance commissioned to design a wide variety of structures, including many hospitals, churches, banks and other commercial buildings.
Specifications for Falconwood Club, Buffalo Historical Society Building, Clifton Park Memorial, Crippled Children's Home, and Albright Art Gallery Transferred from Iconography section, 1975.
- Biographical / Historical:
Buffalo architectural firm which originally began as Green & Wicks in 1884. It became Edward B. Green & Son in 1917 and, upon the death of the son in 1933, Edward B. Green. R. Maxwell James joined the firm in 1930 as a designer and became a partner in Green & James in 1936. Rufus W. Meadows, who joined as a designer in 1936, became a partner in Green, James & Meadows in 1945. When Mr. Green died in 1950, the partners continued under the name James & Meadows. Lewis E. Howard, Jr., a former associate, rejoined Green, James & Meadows in 1946. In 1953 he became a partner in James, Meadows & Howard. The firm's designs included the Federal Reserve Bank on South Elmwood Avenue, and buildings in the Buffalo General Hospital and Children's Hospital complexes, Erie County Medical Center, and at the University of Buffalo. Mr. Howard died in 1956. The firm was dissolved in 1974.
Date Event 1884 Green & Wicks founded. 1917 Edw. B. Green & Son. 1933 Edw. B. Green - Son died. 1936 Green & James. 1945 Green, James & Meadows. 1950 James & Meadows - Green died. 1952 James, Meadows & Howard. - Acquisition information:
- James, Meadows Howard; gift; 1973/11/13; 74-3
- Arrangement:
This collection is arranged in four series:
- I. Log Books
- II. Construction Specifications
- III. Job Files
- IV. Miscellaneous Photographs, Concrete Site Reports, Cost Books and Contracts.
The archival practice of maintaining the original arrangement of the firm's records has been carefully observed here. Alphabetical arrangement within series.
- Rules or conventions:
- Finding aid prepared using local best practices.
Access
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- CONTACT:
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716-873-9644 exlibrary@buffalohistory.org