Center for Housing and Environmental Studies records

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Identifier: 53-4-1308

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Scope and content

Correspondence, project reports, accounts, speeches, publications, and committee records of Director Glenn H. Beyer of the Cornell Center for Housing and Environmental Studies.

Scope and content

Includes a DVD of the film "The Cornell Kitchen" that was produced in 1960 by the Reynolds Metals Company.

Dates

1950-1969.

Creator

Cornell University. Center for Housing and Environmental Studies. Director (Organization)

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

Biographical / Historical

Cornell University Housing Research Center (later known as the Center for Housing and Environmental Studies) was new in 1952. Professor Glenn Beyer, professor of Housing and Design since 1947, was appointed Director of this center in which the School of Architecture, the College of Engineering, some units of the College of Agriculture, and the Departments of Housing and Design and Economics of the Household and Household Management in the College of Home Economics were all concerned. Two lustron houses were erected in the College of Home Economics, providing the central laboratory for interdisciplinary studies in the center, from which the Cornell Kitchen evolved.

Extent

13 cubic feet. (13 cubic feet.)

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Abstract

Correspondence, project reports, accounts, speeches, publications, and committee records of Director Glenn H. Beyer of the Cornell Center for Housing and Environmental Studies.