Guide to the Lou Henry Hoover House Papers
Processed by Susan Rosenberg; machine-readable finding aid created by Patricia White
Stanford University Libraries
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
1997
Copyright © 2010 The Board of Trustees of Stanford University. All rights reserved.
Overview
Call Number: SC0076b
Creator:
Clark, Birge M. (Birge Malcolm), 1893-
Title: Lou Henry Hoover House Papers
Dates: 1921-1949
Physical Description:
0.25 Linear feet
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Stanford University Libraries
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: speccollref@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/spc.html
Administrative Information
Provenance
Custodial History
Gift of Birge M. Clark, 1970.
Information about Access
The materials are open for research.
Ownership & Copyright
Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To obtain
permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections and University
Archives.
Cite As
Lou Henry Hoover House Papers (SC0076B). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries,
Stanford, Calif.
BIOGRAPHY
Birge M. Clark (born 1893) was the son of Arthur B. Clark, who came to Stanford in 1892 as an Instructor in Drawing. Birge
Clark received his A.B. from Stanford, 1914, and B.Arch from Columbia, 1917, and was an architect in Palo Alto. Both A. B.
Clark and Birge Clark served as advising architects to Herbert and Lou Henry Hoover for their house on the Stanford campus.
SCOPE AND CONTENT
These papers consist primarily of correspondence between the Hoovers, Professor Clark, and Mr. Clark regarding planning and
construction of the Lou Henry Hoover house; and sketches and specifications for the house. Part of the correspondence consists
of copied materials from the Lou Henry Hoover papers in the Herbert Hoover Library (West Branch, Iowa), some of which concern
Louis Mullgardt's plans for a house. Also included are materials used for and final edition of Mr. Clark's
MEMOIRS ABOUT MR. AND MRS. HERBERT HOOVER, WITH PARTICULAR EMPHASIS ON THE PLANNING AND BUILDING OF THEIR HOME ON SAN JUAN
HILL
(Palo Alto: privately printed, 1969).
Access Terms
Clark, Arthur Bridgman, 1866-1948
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964
Hoover, Lou Henry
Lou Henry Hoover House
Collection Contents
Box 1, Folder 4
Miscellaneous materials
Scope and Content Note
Material includes undated correspondence, sketches of portions of the house, "Specifications for the revised heating of the
residence for Lou Henry Hoover. . .," xerox copies of newspaper clippings, and other assorted miscellany.
Box 1, Folder 5
Book:
Memoirs about Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Hoover, with Particular Emphasis on the Planning and Building of their Home on San Juan
Hill.
By Birge M. Clark. Palo Alto, California.
March 1969,
Box 1, Folder 6
Material used in Memoirs: tracings of the Hoover House.
Box 1, Folder 7
Material used in Memoirs: Letters and pictures appearing within the text.
Box 1, Folder 8
Numbered letters referred to in text of Memoirs.
Box 1, Folder 9
Unnumbered letters, most of which appear in back of book.
Box 2, Folder 1
Correspondence [copied from Lou Henry Hoover papers],
1917 - Feb. 1920
Box 2, Folder 2
Correspondence [copied from Lou Henry Hoover papers],
1920 March - 1922
Box 2, Folder 3
Correspondence [copied from Lou Henry Hoover papers],
1923- 1929
Box 2, Folder 4
Correspondence [copied from Lou Henry Hoover papers],
1930
Box 2, Folder 5
Correspondence [copied from Lou Henry Hoover papers],
1931- 1933
Box 2, Folder 6
Correspondence re Mullgardt plan [copied from Lou Henry Hoover papers],
1917, 1960
