A Collection in
the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation's
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library
Manuscript Number MS 90.6
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial
Williamsburg Foundation
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library Colonial Williamsburg Foundation P.O. Box 1776 Williamsburg, Virginia 23187 USA Phone: (757) 565-8520 Fax: (757) 565-8528 Email: speccoll@cwf.org URL: http://www.history.org
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Preferred Citation
Delos H. Smith Collection, Manuscript MS 90.6, John D.
Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg
Foundation
Delos H. Smith (1884-1963) was the architect and
architectural historian of Alexandria, Virginia. Smith
specialized in ecclesiastical work and practiced in Washington
D. C. His projects included numerous churches, two low-rent
housing projects, the Beltsville Farm Export Station, and the
Capitol Building Prayer Room, on which he was a consulting
architect. Smith also served as commander of the Civil
Engineering Corps, U.S. Naval Reserve, from 1940-45, and as
design superintendent of the Army and Navy Munitious Board at
the Norfolk Navy Yard.
Materials in the collection include photographs, prints,
architectural drawings, newspaper and magazine clippings,
letters, scrapbooks, notebooks, maps, books, and periodicals.
Major subject areas in the collection are colonial religious
and secular architecture in the eastern United States,
materials on British and other European origins of American
colonial architecture, and art books as sources for
architectural drawings.
This collection has been organized into series:
Series 1. Photographs
Series 2. Correspondence
Series 3. Drawings
Series 4. Printed Materials
Series 5. Newspaper and Magazine Clippings
Series 6. Notebooks and Maps with Colonial Churches
Marked
Series 7. Miscellaneous Materials arranged and labelled
by D. H. Smith
Series 8. Washington (D.C.) and Surrounding Area
Materials
Series 9. Reference/Research Cards
Series 10. Scrapbooks
Series 11 Oversize Drawings