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    Nov 06, 2023

    J. H. Pierce (1855-1932)

    Name

    Pierce, J. H. (Joseph Hart)

    Personal Information

    Birth/Death:      deceased 8/28/1932
    Occupation:      American architect
    Location:      Elmira, NY

    AIA Affiliation

    Member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) 1889-decease
    Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (FAIA) 1889. (On the merger of the Western Association of Architects with The American Institute of Architects in 1889, all AIA members were made Fellows because WAA members were known as Fellows.)

    Biographical Sources

    Biographical Directories:
    Entry in Henry F. Withey, A.I.A., and Elsie Rathburn Withey, Biographical Dictionary of American Architects (Deceased) (Los Angeles: New Age Publishing Company, 1956. Facsimile edition, Hennessey & Ingalls, Inc., 1970)

    Related Records

    Partner of Hiram H. Bickford

    Archival Holdings

    The American Institute of Architects Archives
    Membership file contains membership-related correspondence, notification of death. The AIA's Incoming Correspondence files contain letters from Pierce during his time as secretary of the Western New York Chapter in 1891-92.

    Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
    Pierce and Bickford records. Collection Number: 2299
    Correspondence consists of both outgoing (51 letter impression books, 1899-1926) and incoming letters (131 letterboxes, ca. 1892-ca. 1931) to and from clients, contractors, and supply companies in regard to the design and construction of schools, churches, private homes, apartment houses, commercial establishments, hospitals, public buildings, and other structures in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, including the stairs and stone walls at Watkins Glen (1908), the Arnot Art Gallery, the Corning Glass Works, Cortland County and Arnot-Ogden Hospitals, the Elmira College Library, Elmira Y.M.C.A. and Masonic Temple, and the Elmira Free Academy; also, bills, receipts, contracts, indexes (2 volumes) of jobs, and various photographs, blueprints, and detail drawings.
    For more information, http://rmc.library.cornell.edu

    Publications

    Architects of Standing: Pierce & Bickford, Elmira, N. Y. 1890-1932. Published in 1983 by the Chemung County Historical Society.

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