Babcock, Chas. (Charles), 1829-1913.
Person
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Charles E. Babcock papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 15-5-1626
Scope and content
Two volumes of lecture notes entitled "Ancient Architecture" and "Romanesque and Byzantine"; two publications, "Vaults" (20 pp.) and "Pendentives and other Devices" (3 pp.); and a typescript outline "Architectural Methods of Covering Spaces" (2 pp.). Also, a typescript describing the making of a bust of Professor Babcock and a photo of the bust, a cabinet card portrait of Babcock, and a note from him to Frederick W. Field (1895). Drawings of Lincoln Hall (1904). June 15, 1872, Plan of Sage...
Dates:
[ca.1880-1908]
[Plans of proposed Cornell University buildings]
Collection — Mapcase folder 1: [Barcode: 31924070595768]
Identifier: 43-2-41
Scope and content
Plans and architectural renderings of various proposed campus buildings at Cornell that were never built, including dormitories, an assembly hall, a library, a library and museum building, a student apartment house (planned for Eddy Street in Collegetown), a faculty residence, and also a stone drinking fountain. Two of the drawings have comments by Andrew Dickson White written on them, including comments on a drawing for a library in which White recalls why the design was rejected and who...
Dates:
1865 - 1909; Undated
Sage Chapel construction records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 43-9-37
Scope and content
1873-1874 ledger book, cash book, check book and checks, 1983-1874; Curtis's book pertaining to estimates and accounts of additions to Sage Chapel, 1898; and Charles Babcock's book of estimates and specifications for additions to Sage Chapel and other buildings, 1903-1906. Also copy of a plan, "Addition to the Chapel," 1898.
Dates:
1873-1906.