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Catalog Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm81059873
Collection material in English
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the LC Catalog. They are grouped by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically.
The papers of John Merven Carrère, architect, were purchased by the Library of Congress in 1981.
The collection was processed in 1984. The finding aid was revised in 2009.
The status of copyright in the unpublished writings of John Merven Carrère is governed by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.).
The papers of John Merven Carrère are open to research. Researchers are advised to contact the Manuscript Reading Room prior to visiting. Many collections are stored off-site and advance notice is needed to retrieve these items for research use.
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container number, John Merven Carrère Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
John Merven Carrère, American architect, was born in 1858 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Educated in Switzerland, he later graduated from the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and moved to New York, where his American family had resettled from Brazil. He worked first as a draughtsman with the firm of McKim, Mead, and White in New York City, and joined in architectural partnership with Thomas Hastings after 1885. Among the important works of Carrère and Hastings are the Manhattan Bridge, New York Public Library, office buildings of the Senate and House of Representatives, and the Carnegie Institution in Washington, D.C. He was instrumental in controversial legislation persuading Congress and the Treasury Department to award architectural commissions for federal buildings through open design competitions. As a city planner, he wrote and lectured on the subject and produced plans for various cities, including Cleveland, Baltimore, Grand Rapids, Michigan, and Hartford, Connecticut. He died on March 2, 1911 in New York City.
The papers of John Merven Carrère (1858-1911) span the years 1894-1911. The collection consists of one volume of correspondence, telegrams, notes, clippings, photographs, and other papers relating to a controversy involving Carrère and the architect of the United States Capitol. Also included are two volumes of typescript diary notes with letters, clippings, and other matter laid in. Correspondents include Daniel Hudson Burnham, John Griffin Carlisle, Charles Follen McKim, and Bruce Price.
This collection is arranged by bound volumes.
Catalog Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm81059873