Lowthorpe School of Landscape Architecture records (SP 2.0)

Series I. Corporate records
Deeds, leases, mortgages, and correspondence document the purchase of the Groton property by Parker Fletcher (1887) and J. Eleanor Low (1901), the transfer of the property to the Lowthorpe School (1915-1916), leases, and the sale of land in 1934. Included are the incorporation (1909) and name change (1929) documents issued by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as well as the records transfer correspondence (1954). One folder contains alumni survey postcards returned by students, 1935-1937. The cards record the name, address, dates of attendance, graduate/non-graduate, and work history.

Series II. Publications
Catalogs for the School (1910-1945; incomplete) may provide information on courses offered, the academic calendar, tuition and room/board, corporation officers, members, patrons, and advisors, administrators and instructors, School background and history, pictures and illustrations of student/alumni projects, and photographs of the School grounds and individuals. The Annual Reports (1928-1931) may provide information on finances, corporation officers and committee reports, fundraising, and School activities. The Endowment Campaign begun in 1923 is documented by pamphlets and correspondence.

Series III. Library accession books
Three condensed accession books record publications acquired by the School, 1926-1945. The books record the accession number, author, title, publisher, year, cost, and origin (gift or purchase). Numbering is not consecutive and not all numbers are used. Book One, 1926-1932, records 1-1049; Book Two, 1933-1939, records 1-1001; and Book Three, 1940-1945, records 1002-1332. Books transferred to RISD are maintained in the Library as the Lowthorpe Collection on Landscape Architecture. See the RISD-Providence Athenaeum Online Public Catalog.