Wheaton Holden collection (Ms. 2010.033)
Brown University Library
Box A, John Hay LibraryProvidence, RI 02912
Tel: 401-863-2146
E-mail: hay@brown.edu
Collection Overview
| Title: | Wheaton Holden collection |
| Date range: | 1845-1990 |
| Creator: | Holden, Wheaton Arnold, 1926-1993 |
| Extent: | 20 linear feet |
| Abstract: | Architectural historian and documentary filmmaker, Wheaton Holden was a specialist on the life and work of Robert Swain Peabody and Julius Adolph Schweinfurth. This collection contains mostly materials relating to Holden’s research on architect Robert Swain Peabody and his Boston-based firm Peabody and Stearns. Included are Peabody's films, diaries, reminiscences, writings, and processed copies of his correspondence. Also included are files on Peabody and Stearns building projects, with drawings, plans, photographs, and clippings. Finally the collection includes two videos created by Holden: The Peabody Touch and Providence Remembered. |
| Language of materials: | English. |
| Repository: | Brown University Library, Special Collections |
| Collection number: | Ms. 2010.033 |
