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Papers of Milton L. Grigg, Accession #6478-c , Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.
This collection was given to the Library by Mrs. Milton Grigg of Charlottesville, Virginia, on December, 1986.
This collection consists of ca. 1,850 items (6 Hollinger boxes, ca. 2 linear feet), ca. 1924-1982, and undated, and contains photographs, drawings, blueprints, and additional papers of the Charlottesville architect, Milton Grigg (1905-1982), and includes examples of church architecture, the restoration of historic buildings, and contemporary dwellings. Grigg attended the University of Virginia Architecture School during 1924-1929.
Photographs form the bulk of this collection and comprise the first series; they are divided into two subseries of identified and unidentified photographs. The identified structures are arranged according to the city or county in which they are found and are listed individually in the box listing. The unidentified photographs were simply grouped together as either churches or houses.
The remainder of the collection was placed in a second series of miscellaneous files consisting of a list of architectural projects by Grigg; biographical information concerning Grigg; papers regarding a church architectural tour of Europe; church projects undertaken by Grigg which are listed alphabetically by the name of the church in the box listing; slide show presentation notes concerning church architecture and a reel-to-reel tape describing the slides; description of a business trip to Canberra, Austrailia; blueprints of Belle Haven, Edgemont, and a Manager's House for an estate at Carters Bridge; and correspondence. The correspondence was chiefly concerned with the election of Grigg to a Fellowship in the American Institute of Architects (1951-1953) and Grigg's acceptance into the Cosmos Club (1954). Correspondents include: Harvey Wiley Corbett, Mayor William R. Hill of Charlottesville, Frederick H. Hobbs, Jr., Fiske Kimball, Merrill C. Lee, Walter M. Macomber (1957 Mar 12), Francis Pickens Miller (1954 Jul 30), F.A. de Moleyns (1956 Oct 16), Edwin Bateman Morris, and Henry H. Saylor.
Bowman's Folly (front exterior); Mt. Custis
[Everingham] Blake House, Garth Road; Burnley's Tavern, Stony Point Ordinary; [Cismont, Maury Mills ?]; Colle; Arthur Derby House, Stony Point; Farmington Houses: Cone House & Mayo House; Forest Lodge-Frank L. Parker; Glen Echo; Glenower on Totier Creek; Hollymead, Proffit; Land's End, Stony Point; Monticello
Dunlora, Rio Road; [Emmanuel Church ?], Greenwood; Estouteville; Kenwood (Watson House); Lewisfield, Free Union Road; Manahan House, Rt. 20; Mountain Grove (interior); Mountain View (door only); Round Top (previously known as Sharon); Sunnybank, North Garden
Edgemont
Belle Haven, Residence of Richard B. English; Christ Church Parish House; First Church of Christian Science
[Gadsby Tavern ?]; General; Grace Church; Anna Jones House; Bernard Knight House
Hindle House
Poplar Forest (privy, fireplace); Woodburne (doors, fireplace)
Fincastle (fireplace)
Cello; [Courthouse stairs?]; Old Colonial Home for Tourists
Bowling Green
Glebe House; Greenway; Weyanoke
Albemarle Hotel Dining Room; James Burnley House, Fenall Avenue; Courthouse and City Hall; Eleanor Harrison House, Hessian Road; Dr. James Kindred House, Hessian Road; The National Bank; Old Christ Church; Thomas Jefferson Inn; [Wit's End ?], Mark Henderson House, Cameron Lane
Basham Farm Cottage, Rio Road; Branch Library; Jane Hashagen House, Hessian Road; Lee House, Spottswood Road; Evan J. Male House, Spottswood Road; Everard Meade House, Valley Road; [Everett] Meade House, Valley Road; [Michie Tavern]; O'Neill House, Cameron Lane; W. W. Parks House, Hessian Road; Ridge Street House; [Southeast Corner, 9th Street]; Street Scenes of Old Charlottesville; Thomas Towles House, Thompson Road; Via House, West Main Street
Grigg Residence on Hessian Road
Photograph Album Showing the Construction of the Grigg Residence on Hessian Road
Memorial Gym (Boxing Exhibition); Monroe Hill; Nu Chapter House, Kappa Sigma; Pavilion IX, Watercolor, Rotunda
Greenway Court (postcard); Old Chapel near Millwood (postcards)
Floor plan
Bathurst, Vawter's Episcopal Church
Courthouse; Falls Church; Ernest Randolph Follin House; Pohick Church; St. John's Church, McLean; St. Paul's Church, Baileys Crossroads
Bremo Smokehouse; Caldwell House, near Palmyra, House (Unidentified)
Kenmore; Rising Sun Tavern
Abingdon Church; Argyle; Glebe House; Long Bridge Ordinary; [Toddsbury] (interior views)
Tuckahoe
Belle Isle, St. Mary's Whitechapel, Towle's Point
The Castle; Criss Cross, Poindexter House (doors, exterior); St. Peter's Church
Frascati Kitchen; Montpelier
Effingham (door detail); Merchent House
Keeling House; Wishart House
Monumental Church; Rutherford House
Indian Banks
Falmouth
Bacon's Castle
Courthouse
Matthew Jones House
Emmalou Barlow House; Richard Bland House; Bracken Hall; [Bourbon House], East Francis Street; Bruton Parish Churchyard; Christian House, Duke of Gloucester Street; [Courthouse ?]; Galt House; Lottie Garrett House, Nicholson Street; Governor's Palace; Grigg Residence on Francis Street; Moorecock-Waller House, Francis Street; Poplar Hall; Powder Horn
St. Stephens Lutheran Church, Semple House, Francis Street; [Sweet Hall ?]; Tenements; Tucker House
Unidentified
St. John's Episcopal Church
Cole-Digges House; Moore House; Nelson Tomb; Shield House; West House
Chalybeate Springs, [Alleghany County ?]; [Gordonsdale ?], Fauquier County; House in Worsham, Prince Edward County; [Jamestown ?] Church; Kinsole Manor; R. D. Moore House Hall Fixture (drawing); Rice's Hotel, Heathsville, Northumberland County; Sara's Creek (living room, front elevation, & stair hall); Study for Solarium Army Medical Center, Walter Reed Hospital
taken by Grigg for the Charlottesville Camera Club
Unidentified Exterior Views
Unidentified Interior Views
Unidentified Exterior Views
Unidentified Exterior Views
Unidentified Furniture & Interior Views
re Milton Grigg, including portrait photographs of Grigg
Braddock Street United Methodist Church, Winchester, Va; Bush Hill United Presbyterian Church; Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church, Staunton, Va.; Church of the Ascension, Virginia Beach, Va; Church of the Holy Communion, Congress Heights, Washington, D. C.; Emmanuel Church, Harrsionburg, Va.; Espiscopal Church of the Advent, Annadale, Va., Fairfax Prebyterian Church, Fairfax, Va.; Falls Church, The City of Falls Church, Va., First Church of Christ, Scientist, Roanoke, Va.; First Presbyterian Church, Greenville, N.C., First Presbyterian Church, Winston-Salem, N.C.; First Presbyterian Church of the Covenant, Arlington, Va.; First Presbyterian Church [?]; Goodson Chapel and Recital Hall of the Shenandoah; College and Conservatory of Music; Grace Church, Kilmarnock, Va.; Grace Episcopal Church, Alexandria, Va.; Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church, Waynesboro, Va.; Hidenwood Presbyerian Church, Newport News, Va.; Holy Trinity Luthern Church, Falls Church, Va.
Kirkwood Presbyterian Church; Luther Memorial Lutherian Church, Blacksburg, Va.; Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd, Virginia Beach; Northampton Presbyterian Church Building, Hampton, Va.; Orange Presbyterian Church, Orange, Va.; St. Alban's Church and Parish House, Annadale, Va.; St. James Church, Cartersville, Va.; St. James Lutheran Church, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania; St. James the Less, Ashland, Va.; St. James United Methodist Church; St. John's Episcopal Church, McLean, Va.; St. John's Church, King William County, Va.; St. John's Lutheran Church, Emporia, Va.; St. Stephen Church, Williamsburg, Va.; St. Thomas Catholic Center, University of Virginia; St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Columbus, Georgia; St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Thomasville, Georgia; Second Presbyterian Church, Waynesboro, Va.; Temple Beth-El, Alexandria, Va.; Trinity Lutheran Church, Richmond, Va.; Virginia Methodist Home for the Aged, Chapel, Richmond; Washington Street Methodist Church, Alexandria, Va.; Zion Union Baptist Church, Charlottesville, Va.
for use in conjunction with one of Grigg's slide show presentations concerning church architecture