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Architectural Archives, University of Pennsylvania
Wilson Eyre Collection
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102 Meyerson Hall
220 South 34th Street
Philadelphia, PA
United States

phone: 215-898-8323

 The collection comprises 580 original drawings, 401 blueprints, and 6 rendered photographs documenting 147 buildings and projects designed between 1880 and 1938 by Wilson Eyre, his predecessor James Peacock Sims (1849-1882), and later John Gilbert McIlvaine (1880-1939) - his partner in the firm of Wilson Eyre & McIlvaine (fl. 1911-1939). The most significant body of material in the collection are Eyre's magnificent large-scale renderings and sketches in watercolor, charcoal, and pastel, including those for country residences, townhouses, apartment houses, gardens, commercial buildings, institutional buildings, architectural details, posters, and travel sketches.

To view a detailed description of this collection, see the Finding Aid.
The finding aid is in Adobe Acrobat PDF format, and requires the free Acrobat viewer available from Adobe (www.adobe.com).

Individual holding records for this collection are available on the Philadelphia Architects and Buildings website.