{"id":51003,"date":"2015-08-25T11:00:49","date_gmt":"2015-08-25T15:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nybg.org\/plant-talk\/?p=51003"},"modified":"2015-08-25T10:00:45","modified_gmt":"2015-08-25T14:00:45","slug":"preserving-the-legacy-of-lord-burnham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2015\/08\/history\/preserving-the-legacy-of-lord-burnham\/","title":{"rendered":"Preserving the Legacy of Lord & Burnham"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stephen Sinon is Head of Information Services and Archives in the New York Botanical Garden<\/a>\u2019s LuEsther T. Mertz Library.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Sample of plans from the Lord & Burnham Co. collection<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Lord and Burnham Co. was the premier builder of glasshouses in 19th- and 20th-century America. The firm was a natural choice for the founders of The New York Botanical Garden to turn to as they commissioned the design and construction of the largest and finest conservatory in America, the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory<\/a>, which remains the centerpiece of the Garden today. Lord and Burnham constructed glasshouses for many well-known private clients, schools, parks, and botanical gardens across the country, but they never built anything larger than the Haupt Conservatory, which features a 90-foot central dome and one acre under glass.<\/p>\n

The original plans and drawings for the Haupt Conservatory can be found in the Garden Archives along with architectural plans for 140,000 other clients which form part of the surviving business records of the Lord and Burnham Co.
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Rendering of Charles V. Paterno glasshouse<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This rich collection of architectural drawings, correspondence and advertising artwork offers a unique look at a major American company during the golden age of American industrialization. The collection contains a trove of original research materials for glasshouse enthusiasts and architectural historians, and provides an overview of photo reproduction processes in use during the 19th and 20th centuries.<\/p>\n

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This book is illustrated with many images of plans and drawings from the collection.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When the company dissolved in 1987, its architectural and business records were transferred to the Garden. Since that time, the Library has received several grants to inventory and preserve portions of the collection. With recent funding from the New York State Archives Documentary Heritage Program, the remaining portion of the plans and drawings have been inventoried and rehoused for long term storage.<\/p>\n

A complete finding guide<\/a> for the collection has been prepared and an online subject guide introducing the company\u2019s history and offering several digitized advertising catalogs can be viewed at the LuEsther T. Mertz Library website<\/a>. This subject guide links to a database that contains an inventory which can be searched by the name of the client or the original location of each structure. So valued were Lord and Burnham\u2019s designs that they were often taken down and moved to other sites when estates were sold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now memorialized by its masterpiece, the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, the written history of the Lord & Burnham Co.’s once-thriving design business now resides in the NYBG’s Mertz Library\u2014as architectural and business records.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":166,"featured_media":51006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1170],"tags":[928,4671,193,4718,4613],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/LB-plans.png","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph0lU-dgD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51003"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/166"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51003"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51015,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51003\/revisions\/51015"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}