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Scope and Content note
Title: Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge drawings of the Mrs. C. H. McCormick house (Montecito, Calif.)
Identifier/Call Number: 0000283
Contributing Institution:
Architecture and Design Collection, Art, Design & Architecture Museum
Language of Material:
English
Container: 545
Physical Description:
3.0 Linear feet
(1 flat file folder)
Date (inclusive): circa 1897
creator:
Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge.
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Partially processed collection, open for use by qualified researchers.
Preferred Citation note
Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge drawings of the Mrs. C. H. McCormick house (Montecito, Calif.), Architecture and Design Collection.
Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University of California, Santa Barbara.
Biographical/Historical note
The firm Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge was established in 1886 and dissolved in 1914. Based in Boston, Massachusetts the firm
also operated satellite offices in Saint Louis, Missouri and Chicago, Illinois. Shepley, Rutan, and Coolidge met in the office
of architect H. H. Richardson, where the three men worked before forming a partnership after Richardson’s death in 1886.
Scope and Content note
The Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge drawings of the Mrs. C. H. McCormick house (Montecito, Calif.) span 3 linear feet and date from
circa 1897. The collection consists of two sets of 32 architectural drawings (one set of originals and one set of reprographic
copies). Drawings include: plan of beamed ceiling, elevations, sections, details, floor plans, basement and foundation plans,
plans for a gate lodge and stable, and a plan of a formal garden.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Coolidge, Charles Allerton, 1858-1936
Rutan, Charles Hercules, 1851-1914
Shepley, George Foster, 1861-1903
Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge.
Architectural drawings
Reprographic copies