Charles Mason Remey papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 3395

Scope and content

c. 194 bound volumes of diary, letters, and other writings of Charles Mason Remey. Subjects include the Bahʹa'ʹi faith, architecture, his family, and daily events. Volumes include text, clippings, photographs, and programs. Includes, c. 160 volumes of reminiscences, letters, journals, opened in March 1995 after fifty years of restriction.

Dates

1940-1949.

Creator

Remey, Charles Mason (Date of work: 1874-1974..) (Person)

Biographical / Historical

Charles Mason Remey was an architect, author, and lecturer. Born in Burlington, Iowa on May 15, 1874, he studied at Cornell University and at ʹEcole des Beaux Arts, Paris. He was an architecture instructor, 1906-1908, and Assistant Professor of Architecture at George Washington University, Washington, D.C., 1908-1910. He was appointed to design the Bahʹa'ʹi Temple to be built upon Mount Carmel; was a Patron in Perpetuity of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; author of books on the Bahʹa'ʹi faith and temples, travel in the Orient, and architecture; and founder and organizer of the movement to build the National Church and Shrine of the United States of America in Washington, D.C., to carry out George Washington's intent to build a nonsectarian national shrine for national purposes such as public prayer, thanksgiving, funeral orations, etc.