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Green and Wicks:
Architecture. [Vertical File]. Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society (BECHS) Research Library. Buffalo, NY.
E.B. Green & Sons. (1924). A selection of photographs
illustrating work of Edw. B. Green & Sons, Architects, One Niagara
Square, Buffalo. Buffalo, N.Y.: The Holling Press. Available only at
the Buffalo and Erie County Public Libraries, Rare Books Division.
Mintzer, D.E. (1984). Green and Wicks, Architects:
Residential Designs 1881-1913. Unpublished master thesis, Cornell University.
Available at BECHS Research Library.
E.B. Green:
Corcoran, K.L. (1989). Edward B. Green, architect:
A selected bibliography. Monticello, Ill.: Vance Bibliographies.
Evans, E.H. (2005). Hidden treasure: The Chautauqua
commission of Buffalo's E.B. Green. Falconer, N.Y.: Falconer Printing & Design.
Green, E.B. [Miscellaneous ephemeral material]. Thomas J. Watson Library, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Green, E.B. [Vertical file]. BECHS Research Library.
Green, E.B. [Vertical file]. Toledo Museum of Art Library. Toledo, OH.
Mead, G. C. (ed.). (1997). E.B. Green: Buffalo's
Architect. Buffalo, NY: Buffalo State College Foundation.
A music center for Buffalo: Humboldt Park proposed
for music hall. (1935). Buffalo, N.Y.: The Society: Buffalo Society
of Natural Science. Available only at the Albright Knox Gallery Library.
Sanford, J. D. (1987). The gallery architects: Edward
B. Green and Gordon Bunshaft. Buffalo, NY: Fine Arts Academy.
Sawyer, G. P., Sawyer J. D., Green, E., et al.
Family papers, 1838-1901. BECHS Research Library.
William S. Wicks:
Kidd, F.J. [Architectural drawing of] Mapp House, Trenton, NY: now owned by W.S. Wicks, Esq. Measured and drawn by by F.J. Kidd. Manuscripts and Special Collections, New York State Library.
The Mappa House, Trenton, New York. (1913).
The American Architect (1909-1921), 104(1964), 61-68, 72.
Wicks, William S. (1889). Log cabins and cottages:
How to build and furnish them. There are various editions and reprints
of this work.
General Buffalo Architecture:
Buffalo architecture: A guide. (1981). Cambridge,
M.A.: MIT Press.
Buffalo spree special architecture issue: Saving
the past & building the future. (2006). Buffalo, N.Y.: Buffalo Spree.
Available only at the University at Buffalo. Issued as Buffalo Spree magazine, vo.40, no 6, July/August 2006.
Grant, K.S. (2001). The Rainbow City: Celebrating
light, color, and architecture at the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo,
1901. Buffalo, N. Y.: Canisius College Press.
Gray, D. (ed.). (1901). Art hand-book, official handbook
of architecture and sculpture and art catalogue to the Pan-American
Exposition. Buffalo, NY: David Gray.
Hitchcock, H.R. (1940). Buffalo architecture, 1816-1940:[catalog
of the] exhibition, Buffalo, Albright Art Gallery, January 12-February
12, 1940. Buffalo, N.Y.
Hubbell, M.H. (ed.). (1915). Beautiful homes of Buffalo.
Buffalo, N.Y.: Buffalo Truth.
Hubbell, M.H. (ed.). (1931). Buffalo, the city beautiful:
Its homes, gardens and environs. Buffalo, N.Y.: Buffalo Truth.
Mingus, N.B. (2003). Buffalo: Good neighbors, great
architecture. Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia.
Randall, J.D. (1976). Buffalo and Western New York:
Architecture and human values: A bi-centennial, architectural compilation,
with some notes about the special heritage of community-oriented human
qualities of the makers of our great city and it architecture. Buffalo, NY: Artcraft-Burrow.
White, A.G. (1987). The architecture of Buffalo,
New York: A selected bibliography. Monticello, I.L.: Vance Bibliographies.
Available at the University at Buffalo.
Archival
Architectural Plans and Records in BECHS Manuscript Collections:
The Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society Research Library has
several collections that include architectural records and plans. These
collections are listed below, along with brief summaries of their author(s)
and contents. For more detailed information about any of these, either
contact the Library and/or search the online catalog at http://www.wnylibraries.org/.
Author: Goehle, Richard Z
Personal Papers and Records of Esenwein & Johnson, 1852-1942, bulk
1882-1942.
Includes records of the Buffalo architectural firm Esenwein & Johnson
such as job contracts, specifications and plans, account books and
ledgers, and correspondence.
Cary Family Papers
Includes 20 volumes of inventory sheets describing the drawings of
Buffalo architect George Cary, who designed the BECHS building among
others.
Author: James, Meadows & Howard (previously known as Green & Wicks)
Records, 1893-1974, bulk 1951-1971
Includes over 100 boxes of records covering most of the history of one of Buffalo's most important architectural firms. Items include log
books, construction specification books, plans and blueprints, contracts
and site photographs.
Author: James, Meadows & Howard (previously known as Green & Wicks)
Records, 1961-1976, bulk 1961-1974
These records, created by the firm after E.B. Green died, include correspondence,
job cost records, contracts, plans, and invoices especially for projects
for Frontier Linen Supply, Albany South Mall Legislative Building,
and Erie County Stadium.
Author: James, Meadows & Howard (previously known as Green & Wicks)
Architectural records: Airport renovation and county stadium projects,
1963-1978, bulk 1968-1974.
Includes records for two specific Buffalo-area projects.
Author: Ort, A. John
Papers, 1950-1967, bulk 1959-1964
Includes plan, sketches, blueprints, and specification booklets from
the last decade of this Buffalo architect's work.
Building specifications, 1894-1913
This small collection, containing eighteen items, includes specifications
for both commercial and residential buildings.
