A Collection in the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation`s John D.
Rockefeller, Jr. Library Manuscript Number MS 1999.13
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
Dell Upton, a graduate of Colgate University and Brown University, is currently
Professor of Anthropology and Architecture at the University of Virginia. Previously
he taught at the University of California, Berkelely. In his own words, "I study the
material world as an aspect of human expressive culture. My research and
publications have focused on architecture and cultural landscapes, which I see as
subsets of material culture. Early in my career I worked on colonial American
architecture, particularly the rural vernacular architecture of seventeenth- and
eighteenth-century Virginia and New England. I was interested in the
social-historical aspects of architecture as well as in theories of architectural
design drawn from archaeology and linguistics." (Retrieved from
http://www.virginia.edu/anthropology/faculty/upton.html, August 8, 2008)
The papers, a part of the 20th Century Collections, are arranged in four subseries:
Churches, Houses, Assorted, and Notebooks. The Churches subseries is arranged by
topic, with the majority of the information pertaining to church buildings in
Virginia. Those are listed alphabetically by location. The Houses subseries is also
arranged alphabetically by location. Assorted contains a variety of information,
arranged by topic. Upton's notes can be found in the Notebooks series, arranged by
size and chronologically .
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