Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

Use Restrictions

There are no restrictions.

Preferred Citation

Dell Upton papers, Manuscript #MS 1999.13, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.

Acquisition Information

Gift, 1999

Biographical/Historical Information

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)

Scope and Content

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 .

Arrangement

The files are arranged in series.

Index Terms

Persons:

• Upton, Dell

Corporate Names:

• Colonial Williamsburg

Subjects:

• Architecture, Colonial - Virginia.
• Architecture, domestic
• Church architecture - Virginia.
• Church decoration and ornament - Virginia
• Historic buildings - Virginia

Geographical Names:

• United States - Architecture - 18th Century
• United States - Architecture - 19th Century
• Virginia - Church history
• Virginia - Religious life and customs.

Genre and Form Terms:

• Architectural drawings
• Notebooks