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THE JOHN AND DREW EBERSON ARCHITECTURAL RECORDS ARCHIVE FINDING AID

CONTENTS Collection Details Creators Title Arrangement Biographical Note Summary Provenance Terms Governing Use Funding Preferred Citation Preparator Associated Materials For Further Information Biographical Sketches John (Adolph Emil) Eberson Drew (Calvin) Eberson Sources Websites (Sources) Description of the Materials Series 1. Project Records. 1915-1988 (inclusive) Correspondence Oversized Manuscript Material Photographic Material Drawings Series II. Drew Eberson Materials, ca. 1920s to 1988 (inclusive), 1950-1980 (bulk) Subseries A. Personal Papers, ca. 1945-1978 Subseries B. Photographs, ca. 1920s-1970s Subseries C. Professional Papers, ca. 1929-1988 (inclusive), 1950-1980 (bulk) Subseries D. John Eberson, 1927-ca. 1947 Subseries E. Theater History, Preservation, Restoration & Rehabilitation, ca. 1920s1988 (inclusive), 1970-1985 (bulk) Subseries F. Motion Picture Films, ca. 1950s-1960s

Collection Details CREATORS: Eberson, John, 1875-1954; Eberson, Drew, 1904-1989. TITLE: The John and Drew Eberson Architectural Records Archive, (inclusive), (bulk). ARRANGEMENT: Arranged in two series: I. Project Records, 1915-1988 (inclusive). II. Drew Eberson Materials, ca. 1920s-1988 (inclusive), 1950-1980 (bulk). BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE: John Adolph Emil Eberson was born in 1875 in Cernauti, Bukovina, a region of Austria. He attended the University of Vienna, concentrating on technical engineering. Eberson emigrated from Austria to the United States, settling in St. Louis in 1901. John Eberson is best known for his “atmospheric” theaters, with the initial project in this style usually cited as the Houston Majestic Theatre, completed in 1923. With the offer of a number of commissions for Loew’s Theaters, John moved the firm to New York City in 1926. In 1928 son Drew Calvin Eberson was made a full partner in his father’s firm, which then became John and Drew Eberson, Architects. By the end of the 1920s the Eberson firm had completed nearly a hundred atmospheric theaters in the eastern two-thirds of the country. This period was followed by a significant number of Eberson theaters designed and constructed in the Art Deco style during the 1930s and 1940s. John Eberson died after a long illness in March of 1954. Drew continued the firm under the father and son name for another eighteen years. Drew’s major projects included the National Film Board of Canada’s center in Montreal, designs for suburban drive-in theaters throughout the United States, and in the 1960s through the 1980s, involvement in the preservation, restoration, rehabilitation, and renovation of historic theaters (many of which were Eberson designs). Drew kept the firm’s architectural records as an archive in his home in his later years, and corresponded frequently with historians, architects, and theater enthusiasts. SUMMARY: The John and Drew Eberson Architectural Records Archive collection includes drawings, photographs, correspondence, writings, publications, and clippings relating to the work of John and Drew Eberson as architects and engineers. The series originating solely from Drew Eberson includes personal papers, photographs, office files, project records, a small collection of published writings by John Eberson, as well as John’s club membership certificates, and twenty-two short motion picture films that appear to have been created and collected by C. J. Latta, Drew’s father-in-law. PROVENANCE: Gift of Mr. Mitchell Wolfson, Jr., 1991, purchased from the Max Protetch Gallery. Protetch purchased the original collection from Suzanne Callahan, Drew Eberson’s stepdaughter, in 1986. Parts of the collection were sold and/or gifted to other parties prior to the purchase by Mitchell Wolfson, Jr. The John And Drew Eberson Architectural Records Archive Finding Aid, page 2

ACCESS AND RESTRICTIONS: The John and Drew Eberson Architectural Records Archive is open to research by appointment only. Researchers are advised to contact [email protected] prior to visiting. Researchers are encouraged to review this finding aid and the project index to identify items of interest in advance of their visit. Because access to items in the archive requires museum staff handling and oversight, The Wolfsonian encourages researchers to contact registration personnel to arrange an appointment well in advance of their projected visit to the institution. (See Access Guidelines and Application) Researchers may also be asked to provide a letter of introduction from an appropriate individual or organization. FUNDING: Arrangement and description of this collection was funded by grants from the Getty Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. PREFERRED CITATION: Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Box number, folder number, drawing number, photograph number, title, The John and Drew Eberson Architectural Records Archive, The Wolfsonian–Florida International University, The Mitchell Wolfson, Jr. Collection PREPARATOR: Alexander T. Privee (with special thanks to Anne Cuyler Salsich for her preliminary work on the archive and for preparing the personal papers; Chad Cunha, art handler; and Amy E. Silverman, assistant registrar). ASSOCIATED MATERIALS: John Eberson Collection, Architectural Archives, the University of Pennsylvania. The M. Meredith “Millie” Hill Collection of Orpheum Theatre and John Eberson Movie Palaces Material, Wichita State University Libraries. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: The Wolfsonian–Florida International University 1001 Washington Avenue Miami Beach, FL 33139 Email: [email protected] tel: 305.535.2630 fax: 305.531.2133

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Biographical Sketches John (Adolph Emil) Eberson John Eberson, architect and engineer, was born on January 2, 1875 in Cernauti, Bukovina, a region of Austria. He was educated in Dresden and at the University of Vienna, where he specialized in electrical engineering. Eberson served in the Fourteenth Hussars of the Austrian Army before emigrating to the United States in 1901, settling in a German and Austrian immigrant community in St. Louis. His first employment was with an electrical contracting shop, which led to an informal business relationship with a St. Louis contractor-architect, scenic designer, and theater promoter, the Johnston Realty & Construction Company. In 1903 John married Beatrice Lamb (1885-1954), an interior decorator originally from London. Beatrice was an important figure in the Eberson architectural firm’s best-known work during the 1920s. John and Beatrice had three children: Drew, Lora, and Elsa. The 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair introduced John Eberson to the movies, and to Karl Hoblitzelle of the Interstate Theater Company. The use of temporary building materials in the fair buildings, pioneered by Daniel Burnham at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893, may have influenced John’s later approach to inexpensive, elaborate interior theater design and construction methods. In 1904 the Ebersons moved to Hamilton, Ohio, where John opened his own architectural practice in 1908. He executed his first independent theater design in Hamilton, as well as commissions for industrial and commercial buildings. In 1910 his theatrical connections prompted him to move to Chicago for theater design opportunities. It was there that John built a practice that would include theater projects throughout the United States and in a number of other countries. In 1926 Loew’s Theaters offered the firm a number of commissions in New York City, and John relocated the firm there in that year. John’s son Drew was made a full partner in 1928 under the name John and Drew Eberson, Architects. After John’s death in 1954, Drew directed the firm under that name for another 18 years. John Eberson is credited with inventing the “atmospheric” theater style, beginning possibly in 1922 with the Orpheum Theatre in Wichita, Kansas, but most clearly with the 1923 Majestic Theatre in Houston, commissioned by Hoblitzelle. The success of the Majestic was immediate, leading to the design and construction of significant numbers of similar theaters by John Eberson and other architects. By the end of the 1920s the Eberson firm had completed nearly a hundred atmospheric theaters in the eastern two-thirds of the country and designed important theaters in other parts of the world. The firm’s work included designs for several large theater chains such as Paramount, Universal, Warner Brothers, and Loew’s. Each of Eberson’s atmospheric theaters was loosely based on a different cultural design theme, or a combination of themes, for exotic effect. The atmospheric concept was, according to John Eberson, inspired by his winters in Florida, where he encountered “Italian gardens, Spanish patios, Persian shrines and French formal

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gardens.”1 Inside the Majestic Theatre, Eberson and his team created the illusion of a Mediterranean outdoor environment, using plaster for fake building facades and statuary— including a reproduction of the Porch of the Maidens on the Acropolis—on both side walls, with a different set of facades on each wall. The innovation lay in extending theater stage design to the entire theater interior, adding to the escapist nature of the early motion picture experience, enhanced by a live orchestra and a Wurlitzer organ, which held particular appeal during the 1920s. At the Majestic and other Eberson theaters, a cost-saving and crowd-pleasing feature was the plain, deep blue ceiling with twinkling lights, onto which moving clouds were projected. Artificial lights in the theater simulated full daylight, to nighttime, to dawn, to daylight again. The evocative environments were particularly suited to the enjoyment of silent movies with musical accompaniment. The total effect was heightened by grand lobbies and men’s and women’s rooms adorned with vaults, murals, chandeliers, furniture, banners, urns, statuary, and other objects vaguely associated with European estates or villas in the Mediterranean. In about 1923 John formed his own interior decoration firm, Michael Angelo Studios, to produce and collect the objects that would finish the theater interiors. His wife Beatrice directed that concern. The decoration often involved the inclusion of living plant material and live and stuffed birds, not unlike the earlier expositions in Chicago and St. Louis. Later atmospheric theaters designed and built by the Eberson firm include the Avalon Theatre (now the New Regal) done in a Persian theme in Chicago, Illinois (1927); the Moorish and Mediterranean Loew’s Akron Theater in Akron, Ohio (1928), the State Theatre in Gothic Revival in Sydney, New South Wales (1928); Loew’s Paradise Theatre in Italian Baroque in the Bronx, New York (1928); the Majestic Theatre in Spanish Mission Revival in San Antonio, Texas (1929); and the vaguely Baroque Le Grand Rex in Paris (1932). Le Grand Rex, still operating, currently seats 2,750 and remains the largest single movie auditorium in Europe. It was named a French historic monument by the Minister of Culture in 1981. For a brief time in 1934, following the onset of the Depression, the Ebersons dissolved the firm. John hired his services and personnel out to other firms in the interim, and attached himself to the firm Eberson and Kautzky before reincorporating under the former name of John and Drew Eberson, Architects. The economic crash, developments in architectural design, and motion picture technology moved theater design away from eclectic revivalism and atmospherics and toward the streamlined Art Deco style, with smaller theaters for sound pictures. The Eberson firm designed a significant number of successful Art Deco movie theaters during the 1930s and 1940s. In this John Eberson proved himself to be adaptable and immensely creative as an architect and engineer, responding to the rapidly evolving motion picture industry with ingenuity and entrepreneurship, as he had in the 1920s. During the war years in the 1940s, John Eberson and others like him served on the War Production Board. His projects during those years include a hospital and Camp Hero on Long Island, and housing and other facilities in Fort Monmouth, New Jersey and at the United States 1

John Eberson interview, Daily Times (Tampa), 15 October 1926, sec. C, p.10. As quoted in Michael D. Kinerk and Dennis W. Wilhelm, “Dream Palaces: The Motion Picture Playhouse in the Sunshine State.” Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts (The Wolfsonian-Florida International University), Vol. 23, 1998, 215.

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Military Academy. After active military service Drew Eberson rejoined the firm, and together the Ebersons engaged in housing construction, the design and construction of small, neighborhood theaters throughout the country, and larger theaters such as the Teatro Junin in Caracas (1950) and the Teatro Roble in Mexico City (1950). John Eberson died after a long illness at the age of 79, in Stamford, Connecticut on March 6, 1954.

Drew (Calvin) Eberson Drew Eberson was born to John and Beatrice Eberson on February 19, 1904 in Hamilton, Ohio. He attended the Northwestern Military and Naval Academy in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin from 1918-1922. As a young man Drew worked for his father’s architectural firm in various capacities before and during his education at the School of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, between 1922 and 1925. Drew dropped his studies prior to completion of his degree, perhaps in response to the family’s move to New York City in 1926 for commissions by Loew’s Theaters. In 1928 Drew was made a full partner in John and Drew Eberson, Architects. During the Depression, which necessitated a brief dissolution of the Eberson firm beginning in 1934, Drew worked for Warner Brothers Studios and Columbia Pictures in Hollywood for over eight years. He worked on more than 150 feature pictures, as film editor, unit manager, assistant director, and director. In 1938 Drew directed The Overland Express, an action Western set in 1861. During World War II Drew served as a colonel in the Army Corps of Engineers. He was the Chief of Operations in Construction in the China-Burma-India Theater of Operations. After the war Drew returned to the Eberson firm, and brought in commissions for theaters in the West Indies, San Salvador, Venezuela, Israel, the Dominican Republic, and Guadeloupe. Just as John Eberson’s wife, Drew’s mother, figured significantly in the Eberson firm as an interior decorator, so too did Drew’s wife, Peggy Latta Eberson. Peggy designed interiors for the firm from roughly 1955-1972. Peggy’s father, C. J. Latta (1896-1974), was a managing director of the Associated British Picture Corporation, and affiliated with ABC Cinemas/Warner Brothers. Drew and Peggy Eberson were active in the Variety Club of New York, a charitable organization for which C. J. Latta was a founding member in Great Britain. Drew’s work during the 1950s and 1960s consisted to a large degree of the design and construction of drive-in and other motion picture theaters, for which the firm executed its own electrical, air-conditioning, mechanical, and structural work. His largest commission was the National Film Board of Canada’s production facilities in Montreal completed in 1956, two years after John Eberson’s death. In the mid-1960s Drew worked with Pearson & Rawdon, Architects, based in Los Angeles. He was made a partner of the firm Eberson, Pearson, & Wuesthoff for the design and renovation of several theaters in San Bernardino, Topanga Canyon, Santa Ana, and San Diego, California. The association proved to be short-lived, coming to a halt sometime in 1968. Meanwhile the firm of John and Drew Eberson, Architects-Engineers continued under that name until Drew removed from New York City to Stamford, Connecticut in 1973. From that time until 1982, Drew practiced The John And Drew Eberson Architectural Records Archive Finding Aid, page 6

his profession under his name alone; thereafter he acted in partnership with an architect named Michael Toto. As the theater preservation movement gained ground in America in the decades after 1960, Drew became increasingly involved as a consultant and activist in the preservation, restoration, renovation, and rehabilitation of Eberson theaters. From roughly 1969 to 1978 the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) solicited Drew’s assistance to compile documentation for a number of Eberson theaters. HABS borrowed and copied photographs and drawings of Eberson projects from Drew’s archive (these copies are retained by the Library of Congress, and many of the photographs are on the American Memory Project Website). In the 1970s, fourteen John Eberson theaters were listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Akron Theatre in Ohio was the first Eberson theater to be listed on the register, in 1973. The early Eberson theaters were prime candidates for rehabilitation as performing arts centers, with their excellent acoustics, good sight lines, dressing rooms, and orchestra accommodations. The Akron Civic Theatre commissioned Drew to produce an advisory report on the restoration needs and costs for the theater, which he submitted in 1976. This theater was restored and developed as a performing arts center, and is still operating. Other examples of faithfully restored, operating performing arts centers designed by John Eberson include the Gusman Center for the Performing Arts in Miami (formerly the Olympia Theatre, 1926) and the Tampa Theatre (1926), in Florida. For the restoration of the Tampa Theatre the City of Tampa retained Drew for consulting services in 1976 and again from 1980-1982. Drew’s preservation activities were the subject of a 1983 Preservation News article, in which the author made reference to Drew’s archive of architectural drawings and photographs of theaters by the Eberson firm. The Architectural Archives of Pennsylvania contacted Drew for a donation of selected drawings from the atmospheric theater period of John Eberson’s work; Drew donated 100 drawings in response. In 1984 Drew sent copies of drawings of the Silver Theater and shopping complex (1938) in Silver Springs, Maryland upon request from the Art Deco Society of Washington, which had lobbied for the preservation of the complex beginning in the early 1980s. In 2003 the American Film Institute opened the rehabilitated Silver Spring Center for its Silver Theatre and Cultural Center. Drew Eberson died on July 8, 1989. As of May of 2008 there were twenty-eight John Eberson theaters on the National Register of Historic Places. Drew Eberson’s retention of drawings and other project records in his personal archive had been a source for preservationists, architects, and historians during his own lifetime and after, and will continue to be a significant historical and cultural resource as the John and Drew Eberson Architectural Records Archive at The Wolfsonian–Florida International University.

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Sources Earl, John. “Landscape in the Theatre: Historical Perspective.” Landscape Journal (University of Wisconsin Press), Vol. 16, No. 1 (Spring 1991), pp. 21-29. Eberson, John. “New Theatres for Old,” reprint of Motion Picture News issue of 30 December 1927, by B. F. Reynolds & Company, Chicago. John and Drew Eberson Architectural Records Archive, The Wolfsonian–Florida International University. Kinerk, Michael D. and Dennis W. Wilhelm. “Dream Palaces: The Motion Picture Playhouse in the Sunshine.” Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts (The Wolfsonian–Florida International University), Vol. 23 (1999), pp. 209-236. Leccese, Michael. “The Palace Guard.” Preservation News (February 1983, No. 2), p. 3. Luna, T. P. “Those Enterprising Exuberant Ebersons.” Marquee (Theatre Historical Society of America), Vol. 25, No. 1 (1991), pp. 25-30.

Palaces of Dreams: Working Drawings and Photographs: The Movie Theaters of John Eberson, Architect [exhibition catalog]. (San Antonio Texas: The McNay Art Museum), [1989]. Perri, Lynne. “A Sterling Place for Film History.” USA Today (2 April 2003), p. 5D. Preddy, Jane with Robert A. M. Stern, et al. Glitz, Glamour and Sparkle: The Deco Theatres of John Eberson. (Chicago, IL: Theatre Historical Society of America Annual), No. 16 (1989). Stamford City Directories, 1973-1990. Research courtesy of the Stamford Historical Society.

Temples of Illusion: the Atmospheric Theaters of John Eberson [exhibition catalog]. (New York: Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College), [1988]. “The Akron Civic Theatre, former Loew’s Akron: John Eberson, Architect.” Marquee (Theatre Historical Society of America), Vol. II, No. 2 (1979).

Websites (Sources) “Built in America: Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record, 1933-present.” American Memory Project Website, the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division, http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/habs_haer/. Cinema Treasures Website, http://cinematreasures.org. Variety Club Children’s Charity Website, London, http://www.varietyclub.org.uk/ . The John And Drew Eberson Architectural Records Archive Finding Aid, page 8

Description of the Materials Series I contains all project related material received by The Wolfsonian–Florida International University arranged by media type: these media include correspondence, oversized materials, photographs, and drawings. This material has been sorted according to unique project numbers assigned by the firm and reflects original order. Any project materials that do not have project numbers have been arranged chronologically by project, appearing after document groups with project numbers. This finding aid represents the simple box listing for these records; for a list of projects cross referenced with all available materials see the project index. All correspondence records were found in metal filing cabinets used by the Eberson firm and primarily consist of Drew's career beginning in the 1950's. Oversized materials include legalsized correspondence, folded reproductions of drawings, and miscellaneous materials such as product samples received by the firm. Approximately eleven linear feet of photographs were found within decaying leather binders and document John Eberson's career beginning in the 1920's and continue through Drew's career into the 1970's. The bulk of the archive is made up of drawings produced by the firm that document the very beginning of the Eberson firm up until several years before Drew’s death in the 1980’s. The papers, drawing reproductions, photographs, and films in Series II reflect Drew Eberson’s original order of the contents of the file cabinets in which they were housed during his lifetime, with the exception of the subseries on theater history and preservation. Most of the materials in this series, having to do with Drew’s business records and personal papers, appeared to have been undisturbed after the collection’s transfer to the Max Protetch Gallery in 1986 and subsequently to The Wolfsonian–Florida International University in 1991. The subseries of short 16mm films appear to have belonged to C. J. Latta, Drew’s father-in-law (see the subseries description for more information). Series I. Project Records. 1915-1988 (inclusive) Correspondence Contains nineteen linear feet of correspondence produced and received by the firm primarily from the 1950’s onward. Information within the correspondence files may include: engineering specifications, applications to local building authorities, lawsuits, and other project-related information. Photographs found in these files were removed to the photograph files. Box C-1 1. Job List and Code Numbers 2. Riviera Theatre, Project #574 3. Farragut Theatre, Project #1435 4. New Amsterdam Theatre, Project #1586 5. National Film Board of Canada, Project #1623/1635 The John And Drew Eberson Architectural Records Archive Finding Aid, page 9

6. Avon Theatre, Project #1624 7. Gene Leone Restaurant, Project #1625 8. U.S. Air Force Pictorial Service Building, Project #1626 9. National Film Board of Canada, Project #1635 10. National Film Board, Project #1658 11. National Film Board, Project #1658 12. Surveys - National Film Board of Canada, 1951 13. Yorktown Theatre, Project #1665

Box C-2 1. Grand Union Store, Project #1702 2. Grand Union Store, Project #1702 3. Aviation Country Club, Project #1705 4. Regal Theatre, Project #1713

Box C-3 1. Regal Theatre, Project #1713 2. Regal Theatre, Project #1713 3. Regal Theatre, Project #1713 4. Regal Theatre, Project #1713 5. Regal Theatre, Project #1713

Box C-4 1. Regal Theatre, Project #1713 2. Regal Theatre, Project #1713 3. Peter Pan Factory, Project #1718 4. Boulevard Drive-In Theatre, Project #1719 5. Boulevard Drive-In Theatre, Project #1719 6. Boulevard Drive-In Theatre, Project #1719 The John And Drew Eberson Architectural Records Archive Finding Aid, page 10

Box C-5 1. Neil Waterman Residence, Project #1720 2. Andres Boulton Residence, Project #1721 3. Roxbury Country Club, Project #1722 4. Roxbury Country Club, Project #1722 5. Roxbury Country Club, Project #1722 6. Roxbury Country Club, Project #1722 7. Palladium Theatre, Project #1723

Box C-6 1. Palladium Theatre, Project #1723 2. Palladium Theatre, Project #1723 3. Palladium Theatre, Project #1723 4. Palladium Theatre, Project #1723 5. Palladium Theatre, Project #1723 6. Storrowton Music Fair, Project #1725

Box C-7 1. Endicott National Bank, Project #1726 2. Endicott National Bank, Project #1726 3. Endicott National Bank, Project #1726 4. Endicott Branch Bank, Project #1726 5. Endicott Branch Bank, Project #1726 6. Endicott National Bank, Project #1726

Box C-8 1. Endicott National Bank, Project #1726 2. Endicott National Bank, Project #1726 3. Endicott National Bank, Project #1726 4. Endicott National Bank, Project #1726 The John And Drew Eberson Architectural Records Archive Finding Aid, page 11

5. 490 East 74th Street Apartment Building Remodel, Project #1728 6. 490 East 74th Street Apartment Building Remodel, Project #1728

Box C-9 1. Bergen Mall Theatre, Project #1732 2. Bergen Mall Theatre, Project #1732 3. New Park Lane Building, Project #1738 4. New Park Lane Building, Project #1738 5. New Park Lane Building, Project #1738

Box C-10 1. New Park Lane Building, Project #1738 2. New Park Lane Building, Project #1738 3. Cheltenham Center Theatre, Project #1740 4. Cheltenham Center Theatre, Project #1740

Box C-11 1. Cheltenham Center Theatre, Project #1740 2. Cheltenham Center Theatre, Project #1740 3. Cheltenham Center Theatre, Project #1740 4. Cheltenham Center Theatre, Project #1740 5. Strand Theatre, Project #1741

Box C-12 1. Strand Theatre, Project #1741 2. Strand Theatre, Project #1741 3. E.B. Osborn House, Project #1747 4. E.B. Osborn House, Project #1747 5. E.B. Osborn House, Project #1747 The John And Drew Eberson Architectural Records Archive Finding Aid, page 12

Box C-13 1. E.B. Osborn House, Project #1747 2. E.B. Osborn House, Project #1747 - Contractor File 3. Drive-In Theatre, Route 303, Project #1748 4. Grand Central Theatre, Project #1758 5. Apartment Building for Dworman Associates, Project #1761 6. Nesconset Theatre, Project #1765 7. 1100/800 Seat Theatre, Project #1770, 1771

Box C-14 1. La Mirada Theatre, Project #1775 2. La Mirada Theatre, Project #1775 3. La Mirada Theatre, Project #1775 4. La Mirada Theatre, Project #1775 5. State Theatre Remodeling, Project #1776 6. Plainview Theatre, Project #1785

Box C-15 1. Spring Valley Theatre, Project #1788 2. Spring Valley Theatre, Project #1788 3. Mt. Kisco Theatre, Project #1789 4. Pine Hallow Theatre, Project #1790 5. Pine Hallow Theatre, Project #1790

Box C-16 1. Pine Hallow Theatre, Project #1790 2. Pine Hallow Theatre, Project #1790 3. Closter Theatre, Project #1791 4. Closter Theatre, Project #1791 5. Playhouse Theatre, Project #1792 The John And Drew Eberson Architectural Records Archive Finding Aid, page 13

Box C-17 1. Warner Theatre Alteration, Project #1793 2. College Theatre, Project #1794 3. College Theatre, Project #1794 4. College Theatre, Project #1794 5. College Theatre, Project #1784

Box C-18 1. College Theatre, Project #1794 2. Sands Point Theatre, Project #1795 3. Sands Point Theatre, Project #1795 4. Sands Point Theatre, Project #1795 5. Route 17 Drive-In, Project #1797

Box C-19 1. Route 17 Drive-in, Project #1797 2. Route 17 Drive-in, Project #1797 3. Route 17 Drive-in, Project #1797 4. Route 17 Drive-in, Project #1797

Box C-20 1. Torrance Theatre, Project #1801 2. Torrance Theatre, Project #1801 3. Vestal Bank, Project #1802 4. Vestal Bank, Project #1802

Box C-21 1. Honor Plaza Theatre, Project #1805 2. Preakness Shopping Center and Theatre, Project #1806 The John And Drew Eberson Architectural Records Archive Finding Aid, page 14

3. Preakness Shopping Center and Theatre, Project #1806 4. Preakness Shopping Center and Theatre, Project #1806 5. Preakness Shopping Center and Theatre, Project #1806 6. Cass Theatre, Project #1807

Box C-22 1. Cass Theatre, Project #1807 2. Cass Theatre, Project #1807 3. Lefrak City Theatre, Project #1818 4. Lefrak City Theatre, Project #1818 5. Richard Wheelwright, Project #1830 6. Elstree Studios, Project #1858 7. Westchester Theatre, Project #1879 8. Interama, Project #1879 9. Westchester Theatre, Project #1879

Box C-23 1. Westchester Theatre, Coral Gables, Florida, Project #1879 2. Trans-Lux Theatre, Project #1880 3. Trans-Lux Theatre, Project #1880 4. Trans-Lux Theatre, Project #1880 5. Trans-Lux Theatre, Project #1880 6. Trans-Lux Theatre, Project #1880

Box C-24 1. Trans-Lux Theatre, Project #1880 2. Manahawkin Drive-In Theatre, Project #1882 3. Ottaviano House/Lumber Yard, Project #1883/1897 4. Ottaviano House/Lumber Yard, Project #1883/1897 5. Spartan Twin Theatres, Project #1889 The John And Drew Eberson Architectural Records Archive Finding Aid, page 15

6. Spartan Twin Theatres, Project #1889 7. Spartan Twin Theatres, Project #1889

Box C-25 1. Spartan Twin Theatres, Project #1889 2. Spartan Twin Theatres, Project #1889 3. Fox Village Theatre, Project #1890 4. 800 Seat Stanley Warner Prototype, Project #1891 5. Krim Theatre, Project #1893 6. Mamaroneck Theatre, Project #1894 7. Forum Theatre, Project #1895 8. Pirco Cleaners, Project #1896 9. Ottaviano Lumber Yard, Project #1897 10. Edgemont Branch Post Office, Project #1899

Box C-26 1. Edgemont Branch Post Office, Project #1899 2. Bayshore Theatre, Project #1900 3. Bayshore Theatre, Project #1900 4. Bayshore Theatre, Project #1900 5. Bayshore Theatre, Project #1900 6. Bayshore Theatre, Project #1900 7. Bayshore Theatre, Project #1900

Box C-27 1. Dr. William Frackelton Residence, Project #1905 2. Dr. William Frackelton Residence, Project #1905 3. Trans-Lux Theatre West, Project #1907 4. Elmwood Theatre, Project #1912 5. Trans-Lux Plant, Project #1917 The John And Drew Eberson Architectural Records Archive Finding Aid, page 16

6. Martinique Drive-In, Project #1921 7. The Woodway Country Club, Project #1923 8. The Woodway Country Club, Project #1923 9. Embassy Theatre, Project #1927 10. Sugar Estates Shopping Center, Project #1933 11. Neil Waterman Residence, Project #1938 12. Center for the Arts, Project #1947 13. United Artists Twin Theatres, Project #1950 14. United Artists Twin Theatres, Project #1950

Box C-28 1. Scottish Rite Masonic Temple, Project #1953 2. Scottish Rite Masonic Temple, Project #1953 3. Scottish Rite Masonic Temple, Project #1953 4. Torrington Parkade, Project #1954 5. National General Theatre, Project #1955 6. National General Theatre, Project #1955 7. National General Theatre, Project #1955

Box C-29 1. National General Theatre, Project #1955 2. National General Theatre, Project #1955 3. National General Theatre, Project #1955 4. National General Theatre, Project #1955 5. National General Theatre, Project #1955 6. National General Theatre, Project #1955 - Robert Rosenwasser 7. National General Theatre, Project #1955 - Leo Kornblath Assoc. File

Box C-30 1. National General Theatre, Project #1955 The John And Drew Eberson Architectural Records Archive Finding Aid, page 17

2. National General Theatre, Project #1955 3. National General Theatre, Project #1955 4. National General Theatre, Project #1955 5. National General Theatre, Project #1955 - Associate Architect-Engineer File 6. National General Theatre, Project #1955 7. National General Theatre, Project #1955 - Meeting Minutes 8. National General Theatre, Project #1955

Box C-31 1. Alexander Building, Project #1956 2. Oakdale Tavern, Project #1957 3. Perakos Theatre, Project #1958 4. Perakos Theatre, Project #1958 5. Minitek Theatre Supply, Project #1959 6. Canal Street Theatre, Project #1960 7. New York Daily News Drive-In, Project #1961 8. Cinema Dynamics Inc., Project #1962 9. The Broadway Theatre, Project #1963 10. Vivian Beaumont Theatre, Project #1964 11. Jerry Lewis, Project #1965 12. Westport Post Cinema, Project #1966 13. Westport Post Cinema, Project #1966 - Project Records

Box C-32 1. Post Cinema, Project #1966 - Specification Folder 2. Post Cinema, Project #1966 3. Brookfield Drive-In Theatre, Project #1967 4. Brookfield Drive-In Theatre, Project #1967 5. Brookfield Drive-In Theatre, Project #1967 6. American Film Institute, Project #1968 The John And Drew Eberson Architectural Records Archive Finding Aid, page 18

Box C-33 1. American Film Institute, Project #1968 - Printed Literature 2. American Theatre Alteration, Project #1970 3. Trans-Lux Theatre, Project #1972 4. Olympia Theatre Restoration, Project #1973 5. Trans-Lux Theatre, Project #1975 6. Cinema 9, Project #1976 7. Cinema 9, Project #1976

Box C-34 1. Cinema 9, Project #1976 2. Charles Moss Office Space, Project #1982 3. Landmark Twin Theatre, Project #1986a 4. Landmark Twin Theatre, Project #1986a 5. Landmark Twin Theatre, Project #1986a 6. Landmark Twin Theatre, Project #1986a

Box C-35 1. Trans-Lux Theatre, Project #1991 2. Philadelphia and Queens Blvd. Theatres, Project #1995-1996 3. 34th Street Twin Theatres, Project #1993 4. Donald S. Carmichael House, Project #1997 5. Rorer-Amchem Space, Project #1998 6. Central Theatre, Project #2000 7. Lebanon Theatre Remodel, Project #2002 8. Lebanon Theatre Remodel, Project #2002 9. Trans-Lux Saint Louis Twinning, Project #2002 10. 344 East 86th Street Property, Project #2004 11. Motion Picture Theatre, Project #2006 The John And Drew Eberson Architectural Records Archive Finding Aid, page 19

12. Trans-Lux West, Project #2007 13. Baker-Brush Office Space, Project #2011 14. Trans-Lux Offices, Project #2020

Box C-36 1. Quad Theatre, Project #2017 2. Quad Theatre, Project #2017 3. Quad Theatre, Project #2017 4. Quad Theatre, Project #2017

Box C-37 1. Prospects (1972-1973) 2. Prospects Puerto Rico (1970-1971) 3. St. John Hotel (1970) 4. Lester Dworman Theatre and Stores (1971) 5. Gimbels Department Store (1959) 6. Stamford Drive-In Prospect (1968) 7. Wallingford Prospect (1972) 8. Government Prospects (1967) 9. Prospect - Puerto Rico Motion Picture Studio (1963) 10. Prospect - Rose Hall Property Development (1966) 11. Miscellaneous Pamphlets (1965-1976)

Box C-38 1. Centro Filmico De La Habana (1945) [TD1991.161.48] 2. 132 West 43rd St. Office Building. New York, New York (1943-1945) 3. New London Theatre. New London, Connecticut (1944) 4. Savoy Hotel Theatre. New York, New York (1944) 5. Shubert Theatre. Washington, D.C. (1944) 6. Chalet Motel. Stamford, Connecticut (1953) The John And Drew Eberson Architectural Records Archive Finding Aid, page 20

7. Harbour and Duke Streets Parking Garage. Kingston, Jamaica (1960) 8. Columbia Cinema. Baghdad, Iraq (1963) 9. Legitimate Theatre. Miami Beach, Florida (1965) 10. Riverside Connecticut Harbor Point Association Correspondence (1954-1960) 11. Prospect - Drive-In Theatre. Wolcott, Connecticut (1967) 12. Prospect - Trans-Lux Corporation. Pensacola, Florida (1967) 13. Prospect - Malta (1968) 14. Miscellaneous Prospects (1970) 15. Prospect - "The White Witch of Rosehall" (1971) 16. Prospect - Seymour Golden (1971) 17. Prospect - Lost Tree Village (1975) 18. Prospect - U.S. Government (1972) 19. Prospect - Southern New England Telephone. Norwalk, Connecticut (1970-1972) 20. Prospect - United Artists Proposed Theatres (1974) 21. NGC Realty Building. New York, New York (1981)

Oversized Manuscript Material Contains eleven linear feet of correspondence material printed on legal sized paper, drawing reproductions and miscellaneous project-related documents. Drawings found in these files were found folded and interspersed within the correspondence files and are primarily reproductions of drawings found in the rolled drawings section. Box O-1 1. Riviera Theatre, Project #557 2. Tampa Theatre and Office Building, Project #571 3. Westboro Theatre and Store Building, Project #1373 4. Farragut Theatre, Project #1435 5. New Amsterdam Theatre, Project #1586 6. Avon Theatre, Project #1624 7. Gene Leone Restaurant, Project #1625 8. Trans-Lux Theatre, Project #1664 The John And Drew Eberson Architectural Records Archive Finding Aid, page 21

9. Yorktown Theatre, Project #1665 10. Grand Union Store, Project #1702 11. U.S. Steel Corporation, Project #1712 12. Regal Theatre, Project #1713 13. Boulevard Drive-In Theatre, Project #1719 14. Theatre Building for William N. Skirball, Project #1417

Box O-2 1. Neil Waterman Residence, Project #1720 2. Roxbury Swimming Club, Project #1722 3. Palladium Theatre, Project #1723 4. Storrowton Music Fair, Project #1725 5. Endicott Branch Bank, Project #1726 6. 490 East 74th Street Apartment Building Remodel, Project #1728 7. 490 East 74th Street Apartment Building Remodel, Project #1728 8. Theatre, Stores and Parking Area, Project #1731

Box O-3 1. George Ferris Weekend House, Project #1733 2. New Park Lane Building, Project #1738 3. Cheltenham Center Theatre, Project #1740 4. Town and Country Club, Project #1744 5. Osborn House, Project #1747 6. E.B. Osborn House, Project #1747 7. Criterion Theatre, Project #1754 8. Grand Central Theatre, Project #1758 9. Nesconset Drive-In Theatre, Project #1765 10. La Mirada Theatre, Project #1775 11. Spring Valley Theatre, Project #1788 12. Mt. Kisco Theatre, Project #1789 The John And Drew Eberson Architectural Records Archive Finding Aid, page 22

13. Pine Hallow Theatre, Project #1790 14. Closter Theatre, Project #1791 - Drawing File 15. College Theatre, Project #1794 16. Route 17 Drive-In, Project #1797

Box O-4 1. Torrance Theatre, Project #1801 2. Vestal Bank, Project #1802 3. Preakness Theatre, Project #1806 4. Cass Theatre, Project #1807 5. Lefrak City Theatre, Project #1818 6. Lefrak City Theatre, Project #1818 7. Lefrak City Theatre, Project #1818

Box O-5 1. Lefrak City Theatre, Project #1818 2. Richard Wheelwright, Project #1830 3. Richard Wheelwright, Project #1830 4. Proposed Drive-In Theatre, Project #1838 5. Proposed Drive-In Theatre, Project #1838 6. Leesburg Pike and Shop, Project #1857

Box O-6 1. Elstree Studios, Project #1858 2. Yorktown Theatre, Project #1862 3. Memorial Theatre, Project #1863 4. Interama, Project #1879 5. Trans-Lux Theatre, Project #1880 6. Manahawkin Drive-In Theatre, Project #1882 7. Spartan Twin Theatres, Project #1889 The John And Drew Eberson Architectural Records Archive Finding Aid, page 23

8. Fox Village Theatre, Project #1890 9. Mamaroneck Theatre, Project #1894 10. Forum Theatre Remodel, Project #1895 11. Pirco Cleaner, Project #1896 12. Edgemont Branch Post Office, Project #1899

Box O-7 1. Bayshore Theatre, Project #1900 2. Perakos Theatre, Project #1902 3. Perakos Theatre, Project #1902 4. Dr. William Frackelton Residence, Project #1905 5. Drive-In Theatre, Project #1909 6. Trans-Lux Sunshine Mall Theatre Twinning, Project #1911 7. Elmwood Theatre, Project #1912 8. Grand Union Store No. 227, Project #1916 9. Grand Union Store No. 227, Project #1916 10. Trans-Lux Plant, Project #1917

Box O-8 1. Martinique Drive-In Theatre, Project #1921 2. Martinique Drive-In Theatre, Project #1921 3. The Woodway Country Club, Project #1923 4. Amity Theatre, Project #1926 5. Cross Bay Theatre, Retail and Office, Project #1929 6. Church Alteration, Project #1930 7. Proposed Apartment Building, Project #1931 8. Sugar Estates Shopping Center, Project #1933 9. Binishell Theatre, Project #1939

Box O-9 The John And Drew Eberson Architectural Records Archive Finding Aid, page 24

1. United Artists, Project #1943 2. Route 3 Drive-In, Project #1945 3. Route 3 Drive-In, Project #1945 4. Center for the Arts, Project #1947

Box O-10 1. United Artists Twin Theatres, Project #1950 2. United Artists Twin Theatres, Project #1950 3. United Artists Twin Theatres, Project #1950

Box O-11 1. United Artists Twin Theatres, Project #1950 2. United Artists Twin Theatres, Project #1950 3. United Artists Twin Theatres, Project #1950 4. United Artists Twin Theatres, Project #1950

Box O-12 1. Scottish Rite Temple, Project #1953 2. National General Theatre, Project #1955 3. National General Theatre, Project #1955 4. Oakdale Tavern, Project #1957 5. Perakos Theatre, Project #1958 6. Minitek Theatre Supply, Project #1959 7. Canal Street Theatre, Project #1960 8. New York Daily News Drive-In, Project #1961 9. Brookfield Drive-In Theatre, Project #1967

Box O-13 1. American Theatre (Parkchester Alteration), Project #1970 2. American Theatre (Parkchester Alteration), Project #1970 The John And Drew Eberson Architectural Records Archive Finding Aid, page 25

3. American Theatre (Parkchester Alteration), Project #1970 4. American Theatre (Parkchester Alteration), Project #1970

Box O-14 1. American Theatre (Parkchester Alteration), Project #1970 2. Olympia Theatre Restoration, Project #1973 3. Olympia Theatre Restoration, Project #1973 4. Cinema 9 Theatre, Project #1976

Box O-15 1. Cinema 9 Theatre, Project #1976 2. Charles Moss Office Space, Project #1982 3. Charles Moss Office Space, Project #1982 4. Trans-Lux Theatre. Clarksville, Indiana, Project #1991 5. Donald S. Carmichael House, Project #1997 6. Lebanon Theatre Remodel, Project 2002 7. Trans-Lux Offices, Project #2020 8. Quad Theatre, Project #2017

Box O-16 1. Quad Theatre, Project #2017 2. Quad Theatre, Project #2017

Box O-17 1. 132 West 43rd Street Office Building. New York, New York (1943-1945) 2. 132 West 43rd Street Office Building. New York, New York (1943-1945) 3. Savoy Hotel Theatre. New York, New York (1944) 4. Proposed Theatre and Store. Hartford, Connecticut (1944) 5. Shubert Theatre, Washington, D.C. (1944) 6. New London Theatre. New London, Connecticut (1944) The John And Drew Eberson Architectural Records Archive Finding Aid, page 26

7. National Theatre Remodel. New York, New York (1948) 8. National Theatre Remodel. New York, New York (1948) 9. 72nd and Broadway Theatre Alteration. New York, New York (1949) 10. Arena Garage and Commercial Building. New York, New York (1949) 11. Proposed Drive-In. Monmouth, New Jersey (1949) 12. Palacio Deportivo (1948)

Box O-18 1. Chalet Motel. Stamford, Connecticut (1953) 2. Proposed Garage. New York, New York (1954) 3. Richard Roson Residence. Riverside, Connecticut (1955) 4. R.O. Roblin Residence. Stamford, Connecticut (1955) 5. Albert P. Delacorte Residence. Riverside, Connecticut (1955) 6. Phillip W. Vollmer Residence. Greenwich, Connecticut (1955) 7. Gustaf E. Lofgren Residence. Greenwich, Connecticut (1955) 8. Aryeh Theatre. Tehran, Iran (1956) 9. 40th Street Proposed Theatre, Store, Apartment. New York, New York (1957) 10. Maria Barr Ivey Residence. Riverside, Connecticut (1957) 11. Proposed Theatre. New York, New York (1959)

Box O-19 1. Tollerton Open-Air Cinema. Tollerton, England (1959-1966) 2. Tollerton Open-Air Cinema. Tollerton, England (1959-1966) 3. Open-Air Drive-In Cinema. Sandown, England (1960) 4. Gimbels Department Store. London, England (1960) 5. Reynolds Girdler Residence. Riverside, Connecticut (1961) 6. Theatre and Bank on White Plains Road. Bronx, New York (1965) 7. Trans-Lux Theatre. West Hartford, Connecticut (1965) 8. Pagliai Residence. Mexico City, Mexico (1965) 9. Prospect Drive-In Theatre. Wolcott, Connecticut (1967) The John And Drew Eberson Architectural Records Archive Finding Aid, page 27

Box O-20 1. Lester Dworman Theatre. Chevy Chase, Maryland (1971) 2. St. John's Hotel. St. John's, Canada (1971) 3. Prospects - Seymour Golden (1971) 4. Eberson Swimming Pool. Stamford, Connecticut 5. Barbizon Plaza Auditorium. New York, New York 6. Wentworth Residence. Greenwich, Connecticut 7. Miscellaneous Prospects (1969-1970) 8. Wallingford Prospect 9. Stamford Drive-In Theatre Prospect 10. Prospect Trans-Lux Corp. Pensacola, Florida (1967) 11. Twin Theatres for Consolidated Business Men Inc. (1972)

Box O-21 1. Riverside, Connecticut Harbor Point Association Correspondence (1954-1960) 2. Riverside, Connecticut Harbor Point Association Correspondence (1954-1960) 3. Riverside, Connecticut Harbor Point Association Correspondence (1954-1960) 4. Riverside, Connecticut Harbor Point Association Correspondence (1954-1960) 5. Miscellaneous Pamphlet 6. Unidentified Theatre Designs

Box O-22 (Flat Box) 1. Styrofoam Wall Panel Sample. 5x12. 2. Mineral and Fiber Board Product Sample. 6x12. 3. Tempered Glass Product Sample. 6x6. 4. Tempered Glass with Urethane Foam Product Sample. 6x6. 5. Tempered Glass Product Sample. 4x6. 6. "R" Letter Sample. 5x6. 7. "Dryvit" Thermafoam Product Sample. 6x6. The John And Drew Eberson Architectural Records Archive Finding Aid, page 28

Photographic Material Contains ten linear feet of project-related photographs including publicity shots of finished buildings and construction progress photographs. John Eberson’s work is heavily represented, documenting a great deal of his early career up to the late career of Drew Eberson. Box P-1 1. Lewis J. Warner Memorial Theatre, Project #125 2. New Palace Theatre, Project #406 3. Hippodrome Theatre, Project #480 4. Strand Theatre [Folder #1], Project #487 5. Strand Theatre [Folder #2], Project #487

Box P-2 1. Majestic Theatre, Project #525 2. York Rite Masonic Temple, Project #552 3. Grand Riviera Theatre Building [Folder #1], Project #557 4. Grand Riviera Theatre Building [Folder #2], Project #557 5. Grand Riviera Theatre Building [Folder #3], Project #557

Box P-2A 1. Palace Theatre, Project #559 2. Neils Esperson Building [Folder #1], Project #563

Box P-2B (Album, Flat Box) 1. Grand Riviera Theatre Building [Folder #4], Project #557

Box P-3 1. Neils Esperson Building [Folder #2], Project #563 2. Tampa Theatre and Office Building [Folder #1], Project #571 3. Tampa Theatre and Office Building [Folder #2], Project #571 The John And Drew Eberson Architectural Records Archive Finding Aid, page 29

4. Tampa Theatre and Office Building [Folder #3], Project #571

Box P-4 1. Riviera Theatre [Folder #1], Project #574 2. Riviera Theatre [Folder #2], Project #574 3. Riviera Theatre [Folder #3], Project #574 4. Riviera Theatre [Folder #4], Project #574 5. Palace Theatre, Project #575

Box P-4A 1. Riviera Annex Theatre [Folder #1], Project #580 2. Riviera Annex Theatre [Folder #2], Project #580

Box P-4B (Album, Flat Box) 1. Riviera Theatre [Folder #5], Project #574

Box P-5 1. Riviera Annex Theatre [Folder #3], Project #580 2. State Theatre [Folder #1], Project #581 3. State Theatre [Folder #2], Project #581 4. State Theatre [Folder #3], Project #581 5. Stanley Theatre, Project #583 6. Capitol Theatre, Project #589

Box P-5A (Flat Box) 1. Riviera Annex Theatre [Folder #4], Project #580

Box P-6 1. Universal Theatre, Project #595 2. Uptown Theatre, Project #600 The John And Drew Eberson Architectural Records Archive Finding Aid, page 30

3. Loew's Theatre, Project #601 4. Loew's Paradise Concourse Theatre, Project #605 5. Loew's Theatre [Folder #1], Project #607 6. Loew's Theatre [Folder #2], Project #607

Box P-7 1. Valencia Theatre [Folder #1], Project #610 2. Valencia Theatre [Folder #2], Project #610 3. Valencia Theatre [Folder #3], Project #610 4. Valencia Theatre [Folder #4], Project #610 5. Valencia Theatre [Folder #5], Project #610

Box P-8 1. Majestic Theatre [Folder #1], Project #612 2. Majestic Theatre [Folder #2], Project #612 3. Loew's Civic Theatre, Project #613 4. John P. Harris Memorial Theatre, Project #627

Box P-8A (Flat Box) 1. Theatre and Office Building for Midwest Enterprise Co. [Folder #1], Project #630

Box P-8B (Flat Box) 1. Theatre and Office Building for Midwest Enterprise Co. [Folder #2], Project #630

Box P- 9 1. Harris Theatre, Project #632 2. Warner Theatre, Project #638 3. R.K.O. Theatre [Folder #1], Project #646 4. R.K.O. Theatre [Folder #2], Project #646 5. R.K.O. Theatre [Folder #3], Project #646 The John And Drew Eberson Architectural Records Archive Finding Aid, page 31

Box P-10 1. R.K.O. Theatre [Folder #4], Project #646 2. Madison Warner Theatre, Project #654 3. Penn Theatre, Project #1313 4. Sheridan Theatre, Project #1321 5. Calvert Theatre, Project #1325

Box P-11 1. State Theatre, Project #1344 2. Silver Spring Shopping Center [Folder #1], Project #1384 3. Silver Spring Shopping Center [Folder #2], Project #1384 4. Perry Theatre, Project #1385 5. Beverly Theatre, Project #1391 6. Kennedy Theatre Building, Project #1403 7. Oswego Theatre, Project #1405

Box P-11A (Flat Box) 1. Theatre Building for the Schine Theatre Enterprises [Folder #1], Project #1374

Box P-11B (Flat Box) 1. Theatre Building for the Schine Theatre Enterprises [Folder #2], Project #1374

Box P-12 1. Hyattsville Theatre, Project #1413 2. State Theatre and Store Building, Project #1414 3. Mellie Esperson Building [Folder #1], Project #1422 4. Mellie Esperson Building [Folder #2], Project #1422 5. Astor Theatre, Project #1425 The John And Drew Eberson Architectural Records Archive Finding Aid, page 32

Box P-13 1. Farragut Theatre, Project #1435 2. Colony Theatre, Project #1436 3. Daytona Theatre [Folder #1], Project #1445 4. Daytona Theatre [Folder #2], Project #1445 5. Malverne Theatre [Folder #1], Project #1451 6. Theatre and Store Building for Malverne Theatre Corp. [Folder #2], Project #1451 7. Cheverly Theatre, Project #1498 8. Alex/Amir Theatre, Project #1502 9. Palace Theatre, Project #1523 10. Balboa Theatre [Folder #1], Project #1533 11. Balboa Theatre [Folder #2], Project #1533

Box P-14 1. Celina Theatre, Project #1549 2. Lewisohn Stadium, Project #1560 3. Lancaster Drive-In, Project #1592 4. Cinema and Medical Arts Building, Project #1612 5. West Point Laundry Building, Project #1628 6. Grand Central Theatre, Project #1647 7. Messena Inn for Schine Hotels [Folder #1], Project #1650 8. Messena Inn for Schine Hotels [Folder #2], Project #1650 9. Rockland Drive-In, Project #1653 10. Edificio La Constancia, Project #1666 11. Indoor/Outdoor Theatre, Project #1669 12. Twentieth Century Fox Cinema Building, Project #1676 13. Pennsylvania Avenue Drive-In, Project #1706 14. Theatre Center for Amalgamated Cinemas, Project #1713 15. Warner Theatre (Broadway) New York, New Yorks, Project #1724 The John And Drew Eberson Architectural Records Archive Finding Aid, page 33

16. Warner Theatre and Stores, Project #1724 17. Endicott National Bank, Project #1726 18. Trans-Lux Theatre East, Project #1730 19. Park Lane Building, Project #1738 20. Theatre at Cheltenham Shopping Center, Project #1740 21. Strand Theatre, Project #1741 22. Osborn House [Folder #1], Project #1747 23. Osborn House [Folder #2], Project #1747 - Finished Project, Photographic Negatives 24. La Mirada Theatre, Project #1775 25. Mount Kisco Theatre, Project #1789

Box P-15 1. Spring Valley Theatre, Project #1788 2. Bergen Mall Playhouse Theatre, Project #1792 3. Sands Pointe Theatre, Project #1795 4. College Theatre, Project #1797 5. Endicott National Bank, Vestal Branch, Project #1802 6. Wayne Theatre, Project #1806 7. Summit Theatre (Cass Theatre Remodel), Project #1807 8. Stanley Warner Theatre [Folder #1], Project #1815 – King of Prussia, PA 9. Stanley Warner Theatre [Folder #2], Project #1815 10. Topanga Theatre, Project #1848 11. North Clairemont Plaza Theatre, Project #1854 12. Olmstead Theatre, Project #1860 13. South Hills Village Theatre, Project #1861 14. McKinley Theatre, Project #1865 15. Summit Theatre, Project #1866 16. Trans-Lux Theatre, Project #1877 17. Westchester Theatre, Project #1879 18. Trans-Lux Theatre [Folder #1], Project #1880 The John And Drew Eberson Architectural Records Archive Finding Aid, page 34

19. Trans-Lux Theatre [Folder #2], Project #1880 20. Manahawkin Drive-In Theatre, Project #1882 21. Fox Twin Theatres, Project #1889 22. Octtaviano House/Lumber Yard, Project #1883/1897 23. Loew's Theatre, Project #1898 24. Scarsdale Medical Arts Building [Folder #1], Project #1899 25. Scarsdale Medical Arts Building [Folder #2], Project #1899 26. Loew's Theatre [Folder #1], Project #1900 27. Loew's Theatre [Folder #2], Project #1900 28. Trans-Lux Sunshine Theatre, Project #1911 29. Trans-Lux Theatre Corp. Facilities, Project #1917 30. Martinique Drive-In [Folder #1], Project #1921 31. Martinique Drive-In [Folder #2], Project #1921 32. Binishell Theatre, Project #1939 33. Scottish Rite Masonic Temple, Project #1953 34. National General Theatre, Project #1955 35. Oakdale Tavern, Project #1957 36. Canal Street Theatre, Project #1960 37. Brookfield Drive-In Theatre [Folder #1], Project #1967 38. Brookfield Drive-In Theatre [Folder #2], Project #1967 39. Trans-Lux Theatre, Project #2002-A 40. Trans-Lux Theatre, Project #2002-C 41. Quad Theatre [Folder #1], Project #2017 42. Quad Theatre [Folder #2], Project #2017 43. Dr. William Frackelton Residence, Project #1905

Box P-16 1. Orpheum Theatre. Wichita, Kansas (1921-1922) [Folder #1] 2. Orpheum Theatre. Wichita, Kansas (1921-1922) [Folder #2] 3. Majestic Theatre. Dallas, Texas, Project #109 (1921-1924) The John And Drew Eberson Architectural Records Archive Finding Aid, page 35

4. Commodore Perry Hotel and Theatre. Akron, Ohio ( 1921) [Folder #1] 5. Commodore Perry Hotel and Theatre. Akron, Ohio. (1921) [Folder #2] 6. Loew's Century Theatre. Baltimore, Maryland (ca. 1921) [Folder #1] 7. Loew's Century Theatre. Baltimore, Maryland (ca. 1921) [Folder #2]

Box P-17 1. Loew's Valencia. Baltimore, Maryland (ca. 1925) 2. Capitol Theatre. Grand Island, Nebraska (1926) 3. Avalon Theatre, Project #561 (1920-1930) 4. Mi-Mundi Apartments (1920-1930) 5. Unidentified Outdoor Night Scene, Washington, D.C. (1939) [TD1991.160.41] 6. The Breakers Club (1928) 7. Paradise Theatre. Chicago, Illinois (ca. 1928) [Folder #1] 8. Paradise Theatre. Chicago, Illinois (ca. 1928) [Folder #2] 9. Paradise Theatre. Chicago, Illinois (ca. 1928) [Folder #3]

Box P-17A (Flat Box) 1. Paradise Theatre. Chicago, Illinois (ca. 1928) [Folder #4]

Box P-18 1. Majestic Theatre. San Antonio, Texas, Project number unknown (date unknown) 2. Central National Bank. Richmond, Virginia (1929) 3. Stanley Theatre. Jersey City, New Jersey (1930) 4. RKO Theatre. Schenectady, New York (1931) [Folder #1] 5. RKO Theatre. Schenectady, New York (1931) [Folder #2]

Box P-19 1. Newsreel Theatre. Newark, New Jersey (ca. 1933) [Folder #1] 2. Newsreel Theatre. Newark, New Jersey (1960-1970) [Folder #2] 3. Alene Theatre. Kentucky (1930-1940) The John And Drew Eberson Architectural Records Archive Finding Aid, page 36

4. Anacostia Theatre. Washington, D.C. (ca. 1933) 5. Boro Theatre. Bethesda, Maryland (1937) 6. State Theatre. Washington, Pennsylvania (1939) 7. RKO Theatre. Cincinnati, Ohio (1939-1940) 8. Forum Theatre. Akron, Ohio (1940) 9. Unidentified Theatre. Dallas, Texas (1935-1950) 10. The Americas Trade and Travel Center (1945) 11. Prospect Trans-Lux Corporation. Pensacola, Florida (ca. 1950-1960) 12. Teatro Junin. Caracas, Venezuela (1946) 13. Bruno Pagliai Residence (1946-1947) [Folder #1] 14. Bruno Pagliai Residence (1946-1947) [Folder #2] 15. Strand Theatre. Ogdensburg, New York (ca. 1940)

Box P-20 1. Theatre and Shopping Center. Alexandria, Virginia (1940-1950) 2. Tiered Outdoor Seating (1940-1955) 3. King Theatre. Lancaster, Pennsylvania (1930-1950) 4. Warner Brothers Film Exchange. Mexico City, Mexico (ca. 1951) 5. Edificio Rafael Meza Ayau. San Salvadore, El Salvador (ca. 1945-1960) 6. Drive-In Theatre. Massillon, Ohio (ca. 1945-1950) 7. Design Model for Large Building (ca. 1960) 8. Motion Picture Studio. Miami, Florida (ca. 1945-1965) 9. Colony Theatre. Union City, New Jersey (ca. 1957) 10. Savoy Theatre and Commercial Building. New York, New York (ca. 1940-1950) 11. All Weather Drive-In Theatre/Wonderland Amusement Park (ca. 1950-1960) 12. Brookhaven Theatre (ca. 1950) 13. Proposed Office Tower. Mexico City, Mexico (ca. 1945-1970) 14. Design Drawing of Office or Warehouse (ca. 1955-1970) [TD1991.160.42] 15. Prudential Smithtown All-Weather Drive-In Theatre. Smithtown, New York (ca. 1960) The John And Drew Eberson Architectural Records Archive Finding Aid, page 37

16. Chapel Addition to Agudath Shalom Temple. Stamford, Connecticut (ca. 1960-1970) 17. Telecity Theatre. New York, New York (ca. 1960-1970) [TD1991.158.50] 18. Memorial Theatre. Houston, Texas, Project #1863 (ca. 1965) 19. United Artists Theatre. Santa Ana, California (ca. 1965-1975)

Box P-20A (Flat Box) 1. National Film Board. Montreal, Canada, Project #1658 (1952-1955) [TD1991.154.24.2] Drawings The vast majority of the collection is represented in 288 linear feet of drawing files that include rolled drawings in telescoping boxes. Groups of project records are separated onto individual rolls and may be placed in boxes with other projects. The drawings typically present all stages in the development of an Eberson building, including initial sketches, revised drawings, posters, etc. Eberson also provided consultant work on various projects and several other architects are represented.

Box D-1 1. New Theatre Building for W.S. Butterfield, Commission #47 [TD1991.87.3] Box D-2 1. New Majestic Theatre Building for Interstate Amusement [TD1991.87.5.1, TD199187.36.4] Box D-3 1. New Majestic Theatre Building for Interstate Amusement [TD1991.87.5.1, TD1991.87.36.4] Box D-4 1. New Majestic Theatre Building for Interstate Amusement [TD1991.87.4] Box D-5 1. Lewis J. Warner Memorial Theatre at Worcester Academy, Project #125 [TD1991.158.17.1] Box D-6 1. Remodeling of Victoria Theatre, Project #391 [TD1991.206.35] Box D-7 1. New Palace Theatre, Project #406 The John And Drew Eberson Architectural Records Archive Finding Aid, page 38

Box D-8 1. Hippodrome Theatre, Project #410 Box D-9 1. Majestic Theatre, Project #418 Box D-10 1. Victoria Theatre, Project #445 Box D-11 1. Convention Hall and Theatre, Project #480 Box D-12 1. Neils Esperson Building, Project #483 Box D-13 1. Alterations to Strand Theatre, Project #487 Box D-14 1. New Majestic Theatre, Project #525 [TD1991.87.14.1] Box D-15 1. New Majestic Theatre, Project #525 [TD1991.87.14.2] Box D-16 1. Hotel and Theatre for Warner Bros., Project #534 [TD1991.156.45.3] 2. Esperson Burial Lot, Project #541 [TD1991.160.6] Box D-17 1. Esperson Burial Lot, Project #541 [TD1991.160.6] Box D-18 1. Orpheum Theatre, Project #548 [TD1991.87.16] Box D-19 1. York Rite Masonic Temple, Project #552 [TD1991.87.13.1] Box D-20 1. Grand Riviera, Project #557 [TD1991.87.17.1] Box D-21 1. Grand Riviera, Project #557 [TD1991.87.17.2] Box D-22 The John And Drew Eberson Architectural Records Archive Finding Aid, page 39

1. Theatre for Paramount Enterprises Inc. (Olympia Theatre, later named Gusman Center for the Performing Arts), Project #558 [TD1991.87.18] Box D-23 1. New Palace Theatre Project, #559 [TD1991.87.19.1] Box D-24 1. Niels Esperson Building, Project #563 [TD1991.87.20.1] Box D-25 1. Niels Esperson Building, Project #563 [TD1991.87.20.1] 2. Ypsilanti Theatre, Project #564 [TD1991.157.8] Box D-26 1. Niels Esperson Building, Project #565 [TD1991.87.20.3] Box D-27 1. Ritz Theatre, Project #569 [TD1991.87.21] Box D-28 1. Tampa Theatre and Office Building, Project #571 [TD1991.87.22.1] Box D-29 1. Theatre and Commercial Building, Project #574 [TD1991.87.23.1] Box D-30 1. Theatre and Commercial Building, Project #574 [TD1991.87.23.1] Box D-31 1. Palace Theatre, Project #575 [No TD number] Box D-32 2. Palace Theatre, Project #575 [No TD number] Box D-33 1. Riviera Annex Theatre, Project #580 [TD1991.87.1.1] Box D-34 1. State Theatre, Project #581 [TD1991.87.26.1] Box D-35 1. State Theatre, Project #581 [TD1991.87.26.1] 2. Alteration Stanley, Theatre Project #583 [TD1991.155.34.4] The John And Drew Eberson Architectural Records Archive Finding Aid, page 40

Box D-36 1. Niels Esperson Building, Project #586 [TD1991.87.27] Box D-37 1. Capitol Theatre, Project #589 [TD1991.87.28.1] Box D-38 1. Masonic Temple, Project #590 [TD1991.87.28.1] Box D-39 1. Capitol Theatre for Bijou Theatre Enterprises, Project #591 [TD1991.87.29] Box D-40 1. New Universal Theatre, Project #595 [TD1991.87.30.1] Box D-41 1. Uptown Theatre, Project #600 [TD1991.87.31.1] Box D-42 1. Loew's Theatre and Office Building, Project #601 [TD1991.87.32.1] Box D-43 1. Globe Theatre, Project #604 [TD1991.155.21] Box D-44 1. Loew's Concourse, Project #605 [TD1991.87.33.1] Box D-45 1. Loew's Concourse, Project #605 [TD1991.87.33.2] Box D-46 1. Loew's Theatre, Project #607 [TD1991.87.34.1] Box D-47 1. Valencia Theatre, Project #610 [TD1991.35.1] Box D-48 1. Valencia Theatre, Project #610 [TD1991.35.1] Box D-49 1. Valencia Theatre, Project #610 [TD1991.35.1] Box D-50 The John And Drew Eberson Architectural Records Archive Finding Aid, page 41

1. New Majestic Theatre, Project #612 [TD1991.87.36.1] Box D-51 1. New Majestic Theatre, Project #612 [TD1991.87.36.4] Box D-52 1. Loew's Theatre, Project #613 [TD1991.87.47.1] Box D-53 1. Theatre Building for Harris Brothers Amusement, Project #627 Box D-54 1. Theatre and Office Building for Midwest Enterprise Company, Project #630 [TD1991.38.1] Box D-55 1. Theatre and Office Building for Harris Amusement Company, Project #632 [TD1991.87.39.1] Box D-56 1. Nashville Paramount Theatre, Project #633 [TD1991.87.40.1] Box D-57 1. Theatre and Garage Building for Stanley Company of America, Project #638 [TD1991.87.41.1]

Box D-58 1. Warner Theatre, Project #640 [TD1991.87.42] Box D-59 1. Paramount Theatre, Project #641 [TD1991.87.43.1, TD1991.87.43.2] 2. Warner Theatre, Project #642 [No TD number] Box D-60 1. Remodeling of Rivoli Theatre, Project #643 [TD1991.154.49] 2. Remodeling of Palace Theatre, Project #644 [TD1991.206.8] Box D-61 1. Oriental Theatre, Project #645 [TD1991.87.55] 2. Theatre and Commercial Building for Fabian Securities, Project #646 [TD1991.87.2.4] Box D-62 1. Theatre and Commercial Building for Fabian Securities, Project #646 [TD1991.87.2.4] Box D-63 1. Theatre and Commercial Building for Norken Inc., Project #648 [TD1991.87.54.1-3] The John And Drew Eberson Architectural Records Archive Finding Aid, page 42

2. Paramount Theatre, Project #649 [TD1991.87.45.1] Box D-64 1. Paramount Theatre, Project #649 [TD1991.87.45.2] Box D-65 1. Store and Loft Building for Warner Brothers Pictures, Project #654 [TD1991.156.45.2] Box D-66 1. F.W. Woolworth Company, Project #765 [TD1991.156.45.2] 2. Penn Theatre, Project #1313 [TD1991.156.48.3] Box D-67 1. Sheridan Theatre, Project #1321 [TD1991.156.44.1] 2. Residence of J.M. Seider, Project #1322 [TD1991.159.20] Box D-68 1. Warner Theatre, Project #1323 [TD1991.155.46] 2. Calvert Theatre, Project #1325 [TD1991.154.10.3] Box D-69 1. Theatre and Commercial Building for Queens 73rd St. Corp., Project #1328 [TD1991.156.42.1] Box D-70 1. Teaneck Theatre, Project #1335 [TD1991.155.27.1-2] Box D-71 1. Yeadon Theatre, Project #1336 [TD1991.158.20.1] 2. Chatham Theatre, Project #1338 [TD1991.154.19] 3. State Theatre, Project #1344 [TD1991.87.49.1] Box D-72 1. Theatre and Stores for Modor Realty Corp., Project #1346 [TD1991.206.34] 2. New Mainline Theatre for Philadelphia Suburban Terminal, Project #1347 [TD1991.155.43] Box D-73 1. Theatre Building for Mt. Lyric Real Estate, Project #1348 [TD1991.155.2] Box D-74 1. Shaker Square Theatre, Project #1353 [TD1991.155.30] Box D-75 1. Teatro Edificio Urdenta Plaza Urbanizacion, Project #1357 [TD1991.158.2] 2. Alteration to Kent Theatre, Project #1358 TD1991.155.40 The John And Drew Eberson Architectural Records Archive Finding Aid, page 43

Box D-76 1. State Theatre, Project #1359 [TD1991.154.13] 2. Theatre and Commercial Building for Samuel A. Wyvill, Project #1361 [TD1991.154.17] 3. Theatre for Ridgefield Playhouse, Project #1368 [TD1991.155.48] Box D-77 1. Westboro Theatre and Store Building, Project #1373 [TD11991.155.41] 2. Theatre Building for Schine Theatre Enterprises, Project #1374 [TD1991.158.40.1] Box D-78 1. Niels Esperson Building Air-Conditioning, Project #1380 [TD1991.87.20.3] 2. Theatre and Stores for Hotels Statter Company, Project #1382 [No TD number] Box D-79 1. Theatre and Stores for Homack Construction, Project #1383 [TD1991.154.7.2] Box D-80 1. Silver Spring Shopping Center, Project #1384 [TD1991.159.17.1] Box D-81 2. Theatre Building for Perry Theatre Company, Project #1385 [TD1991.156.47.1] Box D-82 1. Apartment House for J.M. Seider, Project #1386 [TD1991.206.4] Box D-83 1. Theatre for Newsreel Theatres Inc., Project #1387 [TD1991.157.2.1] 2. Store Building Hotels Statler Company, Project #1388 [TD1991.160.4.1] Box D-84 1. Theatres and Stores, Project #1391 [TD1991.154.22] 2. Alteration to the Cameo Theatre for Warner Brothers, Project #1393 [TD1991.155.28] Box D-85 1. Theatre Building for the Bridge and Second Street. Realty Corp., Project #1405 [TD1991.158.35] 2. Theatre Building for Prudential Playhouses, Project #1406 [TD1991.154.18.1] Box D-86 1. Theatre Building for Globe Amusement, Project #1413 [TD1991.155.23.2] 2. State Theatre and Store, Project #1414 [TD1991.154.47] 3. Pastime Theatre, Project #1415 [TD1991.155.31] The John And Drew Eberson Architectural Records Archive Finding Aid, page 44

Box D-87 1. Exhibit for the Iraqi Government, Project #1416 [TD1991.160.2.2] 2. Theatre Building for William N. Skirball, Project #1417 [TD1991.154.5] Box D-88 1. Theatre and Store Building for Mrs. Jane Taft and Mrs. Louise Taft Semple, Project #1420 [TD1991.154.22] 2. Theatre and Store Building for William N. Skirball, Project #1421 [TD1991.154.11] Box D-89 1. Mellie Esperson Building for Esperson Building Corp., Project #1422 [TD1991.161.1.1] Box D-90 1. Times Theatre and Store Building, Project #1424 2. Theatre and Store for North Eastern Theatres Inc., Project #1425 [TD1991.155.35] Box D-91 1. Theatre and Building for Fairlawn Amusement Company, Project #1427 [TD1991.154.21.2] Box D-92 1. Theatre for Center Amusement Corp., Project #1430 [TD1991.154.23.2] Box D-93 1. Waller Estate Theatre, Project #1434 [TD1991.155.39] 2. Alteration to the Farragut Theatre, Project #1435 [TD1991.155.29] Box D-94 1. Theatre for the Robud Corp., Project #1436 [TD1991.158.10] 2. Theatre Building for Theatre Corporation, Project #1440 [TD1991.156.16] Box D-95 1. Daytona Theatre for W.R. Lovett, Project #1445 [TD1991.157.38.2] 2. Theatre and Store Building for Malverne Theatre Corp., Project #1451 [TD1991.156.36.1] Box D-96 1. Alvin Theatre Building and Alterations, Project #1452 [TD1991.156.25] 2. Theatre and Store Building for the Belpik Corporation, Project #1453 [TD1991.156.188] Box D-97 1. Theatre and Store Building for Schine Realty, Project #1455 [TD1991.206.40] 2. Greenway Theatre for Congressional Amusement Corporation, Project #1457 [TD1991.156.38] Box D-98 1. Theatre Building for Farmingdale Theatre Inc., Project #1459 [TD1991.157.25] The John And Drew Eberson Architectural Records Archive Finding Aid, page 45

2. Freight Terminal for New England Transportation Company, Project #1461 [TD1991.206.31] Box D-99 1. Alterations to the Capitol Theatre, Project #1462 [TD1991.157.6] 2. Embassy Theatre, Project #1467 [TD1991.156.32] Box D-100 1. Theatre and Store Building for Citibank Farmers Trust Company, Project #1472 [TD1991.157.16.1] 2. Theatre and Building for the Fairlawn Amusement Company, Project #1476 [TD1991.156.24] Box D-101 1. Theatre Building for College Park Shopping Center, Project #1481 [TD1991.154.32] 2. Theatre and Store Building for Neighborhood Theatre Inc., Project #1482 [TD1991.160.18] Box D-102 1. Alteration to Premises Located at 132 West 43rd Street, Project #1483 [TD1991.160.17] Box D-103 1. Theatre for Mr. Joseph Barshop, Project #1485 [TD1991.156.35] 2. Theatre for Neighborhood Theatre Inc., Project #1486 [TD1991.156.37] Box D-104 1. Alterations and Completions for Theatre Building for Valley Enterprises, Project #1488 [TD1991.157.43] 2. Alterations to Roger Sherman Theatre, Project #1490 [TD1991.157.18] Box D-105 1. Theatre Building for Cheverly Theatre Company, Project #1498 [TD1991.156.34] Box D-106 1. Theatre Building for Interstate Circuit Inc., Project #1501 [TD1991.157.22] Box D-107 1. Theatre Building for International Theatre Corp., Project #1502 [TD1991.161.44.1] Box D-108 1. Theatre Building for Robud Corporation, Project #1505 [TD1991.156.2] 2. Theatre Washington Kass Realty Company Inc., Project #1506 [TD1991.156.41] Box D-109 1. Alterations to Premises for 561 Melrose Inc., Project #1512 [TD1991.157.24.1] 2. Theatre Building for Islip Theatre, Project #1516 [TD1991.156.33.1] The John And Drew Eberson Architectural Records Archive Finding Aid, page 46

Box D-110 1. Apartment and Theatre Building for Joseph H. Stearns, Project #1518 [TD1991.156.15] Box D-111 1. Theatre Building for the K. and R. Company, Project #1520 [TD1991.156.29] 2. Embassy Theatre, Project #1521 [TD1991.156.32] Box D-112 1. Theatre and Commercial Building for Park Center Realty Corp., Project #1523 [TD1991.158.12] Box D-113 1. Alteration to Allerton Theatre for Combine Bronx America Corp., Project #1526A [TD1991.158.13] 2. Drive-In Theatre for Fabian Theatre Enterprises Inc., Project #1527 [TD1991.156.46.3] Box D-114 1. Theatre and Stores for Kaufman and Steiner Properties, Project #1529 [TD1991.156.20] Box D-115 1. Hillray Corporation Theatre, Project #1532 [TD1991.156.23] Box D-116 1. Ocean Picture Theatre, Project #1533 [TD1991.161.49.1] 2. Theatre and Commercial Building for Warner Brothers, Project #1536 [TD1991.156.21] Box D-117 1. Theatre Building for the Basay Realty Corporation, Project #1539 [TD1991.154.27] 2. Alterations and Additions to the Colonial Theatre, Project #1542 [TD1991.156.19] Box D-118 1. Plaza Theatre, Project #1548 [TD1991.156.39.1] Box D-119 1. Theatre Building Chakeres-Dwyers Theatre Company, Project #1549 [TD1991.157.17.1] 2. Theatre Building for Theatre-Company, Project #1556 [TD1991.156.22] Box D-120 1. Cine Variedades for Sr. Manuel Espinosa Iglesias, Project #1557 [TD1991.154.16] 2. Alterations to Albemarle Theatre for the Anwell Amusement Corp., Project #1563 [TD1991.155.7] Box D-121 1. Alteration to the Playhouse for Fairchester Theatre Company, Project #1574 [TD1991.160.20] The John And Drew Eberson Architectural Records Archive Finding Aid, page 47

2. Alterations to Hotel Windsor for the Schine Enterprises, Project #1579 [TD1991.156.14] Box D-122 1. Residence for Mr. and Mrs. Morris Seider, Project#1583 [TD1991.206.24] Box D-123 1. Theatre Building for Mr. Harry Chertcoff and Alterations to Chertcoff Offices, Project #1590 2. Hollow Brook-In Theatre, Project #1591 [TD1991.157.28] Box D-124 1. Skyview Drive-In Theatre for Mr. Chertcoff, Project #1592 [TD1991.156.31] 2. Alteration to Northport Theatre, Project #1596 [TD1991.154.48] Box D-125 1. Theatre Building for Vaughan B. Connelly, Project #1597 [TD1991.156.27] Box D-126 1. Alex Cinema for Twentieth Century Fox Corp., Project #1610 [TD1991.154.44] 2. Smithtown Drive-In, Project #1615 [TD1991.206.16] Box D-127 1. Cinema and Office Building for Twentieth Century Fox, Project #1611 [TD1991.155.37] Box D-128 1. Cinema and Medical Arts Building for Twentieth Century Fox, Project #1612 [TD1991.158.1] 2. Reconstruction of Farmingdale Theatre, Project #1621 [TD1991.156.28] Box D-129 1. West Point Laundry, Project #1628 [TD1991.161.3.1] Box D-130 1. Drive-In Theatre for Mr. Harry Appleman, Project #1646 [TD1991.155.26] Box D-131 1. Massena Inn for Schine Hotels, Project #1650 [TD1991.159.5.1] Box D-132 1. Drive-In Theatre, Project #1653 [TD1991.154.43] 2. Drive-In Theatre for Eastern Union Theatre Corp., Project #1663 [TD1991.154.40] Box D-133 1. Alteration to Trans-Lux Theatre, Project #1664 Box D-134 The John And Drew Eberson Architectural Records Archive Finding Aid, page 48

1. Edificio Para La Constancia S.A., Project #1666 [TD1991.159.27.1] Box D-135 1. Babylon Drive-In Theatre, Project #1669 [TD1991.161.42.1] Box D-136 1. Residence for Mr. and Mrs. C. Crawford Eadie, Project #1672 [TD1991.159.6] Box D-137 1. Andres Boulton Residence, Project #1673 [TD1991.159.9] Box D-138 1. Woodside Homes, Project #1674 [TD1991.159.14] Box D-139 1. Rockland Shopping Center, Project #1679 [TD1991.160.25] Box D-140 1. Pine Island Drive-In Theatre for Jamestown Amusement Company, Project #1683 [TD1991.154.46] 2. Drive-In Theatre, Project #1691 [TD1991.154.15] Box D-141 1. Elmsford Drive-In Theatre for Park-In Theatres, Project #1692 [TD1991.154.33] 2. Residence for Mrs. Dorothy Vollmer, Project #1696 [TD1991.206.6] Box D-142 1. Residence for Edward Riley, Project #1697 [TD1991.159.25] Box D-143 1. Grand Union Store in Van Wyck Shopping Center, Project #1702 [TD1991.159.1] Box D-144 1. Drive-In for Mr. Lee Newbury of Arcadia Theatre, Project #1708 [TD1991.154.1] Box D-145 1. Drive-In Theater for Mr. George Levitin, Project #1709 [TD1991.154.30] Box D-146 1. Conference Offices for U.S. Steel, Project #1712 [TD1991.159.7] Box D-147 1. Crossroad Theatre for Amalgamated Cinemas Ltd., Project #1713 [TD1991.154.26.1] The John And Drew Eberson Architectural Records Archive Finding Aid, page 49

Box D-148 1. Fine Arts Theatre, Project #1714 [TD1991.154.29] 1. Mahopac Drive-In for Mr. A Casagrande, Project #1717 [TD1991.154.3] Box D-149 1. Factory for Spanish Town MFG, Project #1718 [TD1991.206.27] 2. Drive-In Theatre for Jamaica Theatres Ltd., Project #1718 [TD1991.154.14] Box D-150 1. Roxbury Swimming Club, Project #1720 [TD1991.159.13] Box D-151 1. Theatre and Commercial Building for Northern Cinemas Ltd., Project #1723 [TD1991.155.15] Box D-152 1. Endicott National Bank, Project #1726 [TD1991.160.5.1] Box D-153 1. Branch Bank Building for Endicott National Bank, Project #1737 [TD1991.160.10.4] Box D-154 1. Park Lane Building, Project #1738 [TD1991.159.8.1] Box D-155 1. Cheltenham Theatre, Project #1740 [TD1991.161.13.1] Box D-156 1. Strand Theatre, Project #1741 [TD1991.161.22.1] Box D-157 1. Maypen Theatre, Project #1742 [TD1991.157.11] 2. Drive-In Theatre for Hy-Way Limited, Project #1743 [TD1991.155.3] Box D-158 1. Residence for Mr. and Mrs. E.B. Osborn, Project #1747 [TD1991.206.26] Box D-159 1. 25 Nesconset Drive-In Theatre, Project #1765 [TD1991.157.21] Box D-160 1. 25 Nesconset Drive-In Theatre, Project #1765 Box D-161 1. Prototype Theatre Sketches for Universal Pictures, Project #1770 [TD1991.154.6] The John And Drew Eberson Architectural Records Archive Finding Aid, page 50

Box D-162 1. La Mirada Theatre, Project #1775 [TD1991.157.30.1] Box D-163 1. Alteration to Roger Sherman Theatre, Project #1779 [TD1991.154.42] Box D-164 1. Spring Valley Theatre, Project #1788 [TD1991.161.21.1] Box D-165 1. Mount Kisco Theatre, Project #1789 [TD1991.157.36] Box D-166 1. Oyster Bay Theatre, Project #1790 [TD1991.157.12] Box D-167 1. Skouras Theatre, Project #1791 [TD1991.157.41] Box D-168 1. Bergen Mall Theatre, Project #1792 [TD1991.161.29.1] Box D-169 1. Theatre for Stanley Warner Management, Project #1794 [TD1991.158.7] Box D-170 1. Sands Point Theatre, Project #1795 [TD1991.156.30]

Box D-171 1. Drive-In Theatre, Project #1797 [TD1991.157.48] Box D-172 1. Theatre for Airport Plaza Inc., Project #1801 [TD1991.206.43] Box D-173 1. Endicott National Bank, Project #1802 [TD1991.160.10] Box D-174 1. Theatre for Mutual Company, Project #1804 [TD1991.154.39.1] Box D-175 1. Preakness Theatre for Wayne Shopping Center, Project #1806 [TD1991.158.4] Box D-176 The John And Drew Eberson Architectural Records Archive Finding Aid, page 51

1. Cass Theatre Remodeling, Project #1807 [TD1991.157.34] Box D-177 1. North Hills Theatre, Project #1808 [TD1991.155.16] Box D-178 1. Capitol Court Theatre, Project #1814 [TD1991.206.42] Box D-179 1. Theatre for Stanley Warner, Project #1815 [TD1991.155.10.1] Box D-180 1. United Artists Theatre in Lefrak City, Project #1818 [TD1991.157.5] Box D-181 1. White City Theatre, Project #1826 [TD1991.157.46] Box D-182 1. Trans-Lux Theatre, Project #1836 [TD1991.157.19] Box D-183 1. Riverdale Plaza Shopping Center, Project #1844 [TD1991.160.23] Box D-184 1. Colony Theatre, Project #1846 [TD1991.157.20] Box D-185 1. Topanga Plaza, Project #1848 TD1991.155.9] Box D-186 1. Route 4 Theatre, Project #1850 [TD1991.159.31] Box D-187 1. Route 4 Theatre, Project #1850 [TD1991.159.31] Box D-188 1. North Clairemont Plaza Theatre, Project #1854 [TD1991.161.34.1] Box D-189 1. Theatre for Stanley Warner Company, Project #1857 [TD1991.155.4] Box D-190 1. Theatre at North Olmstead Shopping Center, Project #1860 [TD1991.160.28.1, TD1991.160.28.2] The John And Drew Eberson Architectural Records Archive Finding Aid, page 52

Box D-191 1. Theatre at South Hills Shopping Center, Project #1861 [TD1991.157.39] Box D-192 1. McKinley Plaza Shopping Centre Theatre, Project #1865 [TD1991.155.44] Box D-193 1. Trans-Lux Theatre, Project #1877 [TD1991.161.37.1] 2. Loew's Theatre in Westchester Shopping Center, Project #1879 [TD1991.157.29.1] Box D-194 1. Trans-Lux Theatre for Food Fair Properties, Project #1880 [TD1991.161.31.3] Box D-195 1. Residence for J.E. Ottaviano, Project #1883 [TD1991.159.26.1] Box D-196 1. Residence of Mr. and Mrs. Drew Eberson, Project #1886 [TD1991.156.10] Box D-197 1. Fox Lansing Theatre, Project #1889 [TD1991.155.12.1] Box D-198 1. Fox Lansing Theatre, Project #1889 [TD1991.155.12.1] Box D-199 1. Forum Theatre, Project #1895 [TD1991.157.15] Box D-200 1. Loew's Theatre in South Shore Mall, Project #1900 [TD1991.157.37.1] Box D-201 1. Trans-Lux Theatre, Project #1904 [TD1991.161.24.1] Box D-202 1. Facilities for the American Film Institute, Project #1909a Box D-203 1. Auto-Parcs Cinema, Project #1909b [TD1991.154.8] Box D-204 1. Auto-Parcs Cinema, Project #1909b [TD1991.154.8.1] The John And Drew Eberson Architectural Records Archive Finding Aid, page 53

Box D-205 1. Trans-Lux Sunshine Theatre, Project #1911 [TD1991.161.23.1] 2. Elmwood Theatre Corp., Project #1912 [TD1991.156.8] Box D-206 1. Extension to Grand Union Store, Project #1916 [TD1991.160.3] Box D-207 1. Cinema en Plein Air, Project #1921 [TD1991.155.45] Box D-208 1. Amity Road Shopping Center Theatre, Project #1926 [TD1991.158.9] 2. Embassy Theatre, Project #1927 [TD1991.156.32] Box D-209 1. Waterman Residence, Project #1938 [TD1991.160.21] Box D-210 1. Minitek Theatre, Project #1942 [TD1991.156.13] 2. United Artist Theatre, Project #1943 [TD1991.155.17] Box D-211 1. Minitek Theatre, Project #1948 [TD1991.156.3] Box D-212 1. Gemini Theatre, Project #1950 and 2048 [TD1991.156.6.1] Box D-213 1. Gemini Theatre, Project #1950 and 2048 [TD1991.156.6.1] Box D-214 1. Torrington Parkade and Theatre, Project #1951 [TD1991.155.11] Box D-215 1. Torrington Shopping Parkade, Project #1954 [TD1991.155.1] Box D-216 1. Perakos Theatre Bergen Mall, Project #1958 [TD1991.158.6] Box D-217 1. Brookfield Drive-In Theatre, Project #1967 [TD1991.155.8.1] Box D-218 1. Parkchester Theatre and Store Alteration, Project #1970a [TD1991.206.46] The John And Drew Eberson Architectural Records Archive Finding Aid, page 54

Box D-219 1. Trans-Lux Theatre, Project #1970b [TD1991.156.9.1] Box D-220 1. Drive-In Theatre Martinique, Project #1971 [TD1991.155.47] Box D-221 1. Trans-Lux Theatre, Project #1983 [TD1991.157.27] Box D-222 1. Proposed Tennis Club, Project #1988 [TD1991.160.16] Box D-223 1. Mercantile Building, Project #1992a [TD1991.160.7] Box D-224 1. Proposed Cinema Oakland Shopping Center, Project #1992b [TD1991.206.47] 2. Proposed Twin Theatres, Project #1995 [TD1991.156.1] 3. Quadruple Theatres, Project #1996 [TD1991.155.50] Box D-225 1. Twinning of Trans-Lux Theatre, Project #2002-A [TD1991.206.13] Box D-226 1. Twinning of Trans-Lux Theatre, Project #2002-C [TD1991.206.9.1] 2. Twinning of Trans-Lux Theatre Huntsville, Alabama, Project #2002-D [TD1991.206.12] Box D-227 1. Proposed Twinning Richmond, Virginia, Project #2002E [TD1991.206.14] 2. Proposed Twinning New Orleans, Louisiana, Project #2002F [TD1991.206.10] Box D-228 1. Community Theatre, Project #2009 [TD1991.206.48] Box D-229 1. Proposed Theatre, Project #2020 [TD1991.160.11.1] Box D-230 1. Danbury Theatre Twinning, Project #2027 [TD1991.206.19] Box D-231 1. State Theatre, Project #1231 [TD1991.156.12] The John And Drew Eberson Architectural Records Archive Finding Aid, page 55

Box D-232 1. Carnegie Hall, Project number unknown [TD1991.206.33] Box D-233 1. Alterations to Stanley Theatre, Project number unknown [TD1991.158.19, TD1991.158.16] Box D-234 1. Palace Theatre, Project number unknown [TD1991.154.20] 2. Alterations and Additions to Amityville Theatre, Project number unknown [TD1991.154.25] Box D-235 1. Rivoli Theatre, Project number unknown [TD1991.154.9] 2. Theatre for Mr. Max Aronson, Project number unknown [TD1991.157.3] 3. Sag Harbor Theatre, Project number unknown [TD1991.154.34] Box D-236 1. Schine Theatre, Project #1357 [TD1991.155.32] 2. Newsreel Theatre and Store Building, Project number unknown [TD1991.157.2.2] 3. Kennedy Theatre, Project number unknown [TD1991.155.33.1] Box D-237 1. US Government Buildings, Project number unknown [TD1991.160.2.1] Box D-238 1. Glove Theatre, Project #1340 [TD1991.154.4] Box D-239 1. Theatre Building at Atlantic Street, Project #1489 [TD1991.155.25] 2. Kaywood Theatre, Project number unknown [TD1991.154.45] Box D-240 1. World Trade Center, Project number unknown [TD1991.160.8.1] Box D-241 1. Bruno Pagliai Residence, Project number unknown [TD1991.159.15.1] Box D-242 1. Residence for Sr. Ferro Pagliai, Project number unknown [TD1991.159.15.2] Box D-243 1. Concert Stage, Project number unknown [TD1991.161.28.1] 2. Alterations and Additions for Mr. U. Hollingsworth Theatre, Project #1546 [TD1991.156.17] Box D-244 The John And Drew Eberson Architectural Records Archive Finding Aid, page 56

1. Residence for Mr. and Mrs. Drew Eberson, Project number unknown [TD1991.159.12.1] Box D-245 1. Palacio Deportivo, Project number unknown [TD1991.159.19.2] 2. Palacio Deportivo, Project number unknown [TD1991.159.19.1] Box D-246 1. Film Exchange Building, Project number unknown [TD1991.206.2] 2. Edificio Teatro, Project number unknown [TD1991.155.36] 3. Sag Harbor Theatre Building, Project #1575 [TD1991.206.41] Box D-247 1. Centre de Culture et de Recreation, Project number unknown [TD1991.154.37] 2. Coral Gables Theatre, Project number unknown [TD1991.206.38] Box D-248 1. Municipal Building and Cinema, Project number unknown [TD1991.154.36] 2. Alteration to 202 East 44th Street, Project number unknown [TD1991.206.5] Box D-249 1. National Film Board of Canada, Project number unknown [TD1991.154.24.1] Box D-250 1. Addition to Roxbury Community Association, Project number unknown [TD1991.159.3, TD1991.159.2] 2. White House Motion Picture Theatre, Project number unknown [TD1991.156.50] Box D-251 1. Rainbow Studios, Project number unknown [TD1991.206.3] Box D-252 1. Theatre for Twentieth Century Fox, Project #1643 [TD1991.157.44] 2. Queensway Theatre for Twentieth Century Fox, Project #1686 [TD1991.158.3] Box D-253 1. Casablanca Theatre, Project #1677 [TD1991.154.41] 2. Aviation Country Club, Project #1705 [TD1991.206.7] 3. Alteration to Colony Theatre, Project #1711 [TD1991.158.41.1] Box D-254 1. Resort Hotel Proposed for Prospect Beach, Ltd., Project #1727 [TD1991.206.25] Box D-255 1. Alterations to Residence for Sr. Andres Boulton, Project number unknown [TD1991.159.24] The John And Drew Eberson Architectural Records Archive Finding Aid, page 57

2. Palace Theatre, Project #1736 [TD1991.154.31] 3. Music Fair, Project number unknown [TD1991.154.28] Box D-256 1. Theatre and Bowling Alley, Project number unknown [TD1991.206.39] 2. Sketch of Plaza with Fountain, Project number unknown [TD1991.206.44] Box D-257 1. Alteration to Appleton Theatre, Project number unknown [TD1991.154.35] 2. Rosenzweig Residence, Project number unknown [TD1991.160.24] Box D-258 1. House for Mr. C.J. Latta, Project number unknown [TD1991.159.10] 2. Riverdale Theatre, Project number unknown [TD1991.155.5] Box D-259 1. Elmsford Drive-In Alteration, Project number unknown [TD1991.155.18] 2. Proposed Route 4 Twin 2 Theatre, Project number unknown [TD1991.154.50] Box D-260 1. United States Post Office, Project #1884 [TD1991.159.30] 2. United States Post Office, Project #1884 [TD1991.159.30] Box D-261 1. Theatre in Plainville Shopping Center, Project #1902 [TD1991.155.6.1, TD1991.155.6.2] Box D-262 1. Summit Mall Theatre, Project number unknown [TD1991.159.22] Box D-263 1. Residence for Dr. William H. Frackelton, Project #1905 [TD1991.160.30] 2. Legitimate Theatre, Project number unknown [TD1991.154.38.1] Box D-264 1. Offices and Assembly Plant for Trans-Lux Corp., Project #1917 [TD1991.160.26.1] Box D-265 1. Tentative Plan, Edgemont Branch Post Office, Project #1899 [TD1991.160.27.1] Box D-266 1. Drive-In Theatre for Mr. Terry Onassis, Project number unknown [TD1991.206.1] 2. East 59th Street Stores, Project number unknown [TD1991.160.15] Box D-267 The John And Drew Eberson Architectural Records Archive Finding Aid, page 58

1. Proposed Drive-In for Mr. John Perakos, Project number unknown [TD1991.157.33] 2. Woodway Country Club, Project #1923 [TD1991.160.14] Box D-268 1. Embassy Theatre, Project number unknown [TD1991.206.45] 2. 800 Seat Theatre, Project number unknown [TD1991.157.14] 3. Proposed Theatre and Commercial Building, Project number unknown [TD1991.156.11.2] Box D-269 1. Professional Building, Retail Stores, Theatre, Garage, Project number unknown [TD1991.159.23.2] 2. Theatre for Maurice Swergold, Project #1932 [TD1991.206.21] Box D-270 1. Triangle Theatre, Project number unknown [TD1991.157.50.1] Box D-271 1. Trans-Lux Theatres Pylon Sign, Project number unknown [TD1991.206.11] 2. Cross Bay Commercial Complex, Project #1929 [TD1991.159.23.1] Box D-272 1. Property of Mr. Nathan Platovsky, Project number unknown [TD1991.159.11] 2. Binishell Theatres, Project #1939 [TD1991.157.31] Box D-273 1. New Theatre for Melvin Miller, Esq., Project number unknown [TD1991.206.18] Box D-274 1. Scottish Rite Cathedral, Project #1953 [TD1991.160.13.1] Box D-275 1. Theatre at National General Building, Project #1955 [TD1991.160.1] Box D-276 1. Times Theatre, Project #1952 [TD1991.157.1]

Box D-277 1. Alteration to Existing Hangar "C" International Aviation Industries, Project number unknown [TD1991.160.29] 2. Theatre and Commercial Building, Project number unknown [TD1991.206.20] Box D-278 1. Route 9 Sayerville Shopping Center Theatre, Project number unknown [TD1991.156.2] The John And Drew Eberson Architectural Records Archive Finding Aid, page 59

Box D-279 1. Twin Theatres for Consolidated Business Men Inc., Project number unknown [TD1991.156.4.1] Box D-280 1. Twinning of Trans-Lux Sunshine Mall, Project #1911 [TD1991.161.23.3] Box D-281 1. Theatres #1 and #2 Lumberton Shopping Center, Project number unknown [TD1991.206.23] 2. Proposed Fireplace for Mr. and Mrs. Milton Stern, Project number unknown [TD1991.206.28] Box D-282 1. Clearview Expressway Picnic Shelter and Comfort Station, Project #1813 [TD1991.159.28] 2. Design drawings for Roadside Signs, Project number unknown [TD1991.206.17] Box D-283 1. Unidentified Atmospheric Theatre Elevation and Section, Project number unknown [TD1991.206.37] Box D-284 1. Building for the Mamaroneck Playhouse Holding Group, Project number unknown [TD1991.206.36] Box D-285 1. Tennis House Perspective Study, Roxbury Swimming Club, Project number unknown [TD1991.206.29] Box D-286 1. National General Building, Project #1955 [TD1991.160.1] Box D-287 1. Unidentified Drive-In Theatre Drawing Box D-288 1. Moultrie Manufacturing Corporation Gates and Fences Designs

Series II. Drew Eberson Materials, ca. 1920s to 1988 (inclusive), 1950-1980 (bulk) Approximately nine linear feet, boxes, and flat files. The series consists of the following six subseries: A. Personal Papers, B. Photographs, C. Professional Papers, D. John Eberson, E. Theater History, Preservation, Restoration, and Rehabilitation, and F. Films.

The John And Drew Eberson Architectural Records Archive Finding Aid, page 60

Subseries A. Personal Papers, ca. 1945-1978 The small number of personal papers in the Eberson collection document Drew Eberson’s life outside of his career to a limited degree. The categories for the Personal Papers Subseries are Address Lists, Automobiles, Correspondence, Financial Records, and Obituaries. Most of the materials in this subseries were filed separately by Drew himself as personal files; these date from the late 1960s and 1970s. The address lists in this subseries differ from those in other subseries in that they represent contacts made outside of Drew’s business concerns, comprising fraternity members, University of Pennsylvania alumni, and military contacts. The few letters to and from family members were found interspersed in the office files; these were pulled and organized into the Personal Papers Subseries. Also found in the office files were letters about an Eberson family car, a Duesenberg, which included photographs of family members, friends and the car, dating from the late 1920s and early 193os. The correspondence on the car was moved to the Personal Papers Subseries, and the photographs now reside in the Photographs Subseries, together with photocopies of the relevant correspondence. Box 1 1. Address List - Military contacts, date unknown 2. Address List - University of Pennsylvania Alumni, 1947-1948 & date unknown 3. Address List - Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity, University of Pennsylvania, 1956-1959 4. Automobiles - Duesenberg, 1974 (photographs removed to Subseries B, box 2.2) 5. Automobiles - Rolls Royce, 1960-1971 6. Correspondence - Family - Eberson, Peggy (Latta), 1973 7. Correspondence - Family - Kyle, Elsa (Eberson), 1965-1978 8. Correspondence - Family - Latta, C. J., 1971-1972 9. Correspondence - Family - Mohr, Lora (Eberson), 1972-1973 10. Correspondence - General - B Miscellaneous, 1965-1973 11. C Miscellaneous, 1970-1972 12. D Miscellaneous, 1968-1971 13. Hall, Sidney, 1968 14. I-K Miscellaneous, 1970-1971 15. M Miscellaneous, 1973 16. R Miscellaneous, 1971 17. Financial Records - General, 1969 & date unknown 18. Financial Records - Accountant, 1962-1972 The John And Drew Eberson Architectural Records Archive Finding Aid, page 61

19. Financial Records - J. Halperin & Co., Inc., 1962-1972 20. Financial Records - Insurance, 1966-1973 21. Financial Records - Investments - Jamaica Theatres Limited, 1961-1971 22. Real Estate - Rose Hall Limited, Jamaica, ca. 1950-1960 23. Obituary - Eberson, Beatrice Lamb, 1954

Subseries B. Photographs, ca. 1920s-1970s The Photographs Subseries comprise loose photographs unrelated to specific architectural projects. The majority are commercial portraits of Drew Eberson taken for publicity purposes. The earliest portrait of Drew appeared in an article on atmospheric theaters written by John Eberson for the Motion Picture News issue of December 30, 1927 (see Subseries D, Writings). Some of the portraits of Drew in military dress are photographers’ proofs, and thus cannot be exposed to light without harm. These are restricted from photocopying, exhibit, and flash photography. Drew’s short career in motion pictures in the 1930s is represented by publicity portraits of actresses, most of which are inscribed with personal messages and signatures. The portrait of Drew and an unidentified woman on horseback appears also to date from Drew’s Hollywood period. An assortment of snapshots and one transparency depict leisure activities that might have been associated with travel overseas for military or business purposes. The only picture of John Eberson in the Drew Eberson series resides in the Duesenberg car file in the Photographs Subseries. Oversize portraits comprise a group portrait of Drew’s fraternity at the University of Pennsylvania in 1922, and a standard color print matted oversize, taken at an event in the 1960s. There are a few other photographic materials in the Drew Eberson series that are not organized into the Photographs Subseries. These were kept in their original contexts, with correspondence and other materials, to retain their original function and meaning. See the Drive-In material in Subseries C, and the material on the Avalon Theatre in Subseries E. Box 2 1. Duesenberg car, family & friends, ca. 1929-1932 2. Drew Eberson - Portraits, ca. 1920s-1940s 3. Drew Eberson - Portraits, ca. 1950s-1960s 4. Drew Eberson - Portraits, ca. 1960s-1970s 5. Drew Eberson – Portraits - Proofs, ca. 1940s [restricted access] 6. Group military portraits with Drew Eberson, ca. 1940s 7. Drew Eberson & unidentified woman on horseback, ca. 1930s 8. Publicity portraits of actresses, ca. 1930s-1940s The John And Drew Eberson Architectural Records Archive Finding Aid, page 62

9. Snapshots & transparency, ca. 1930s-1950s 10. Miscellaneous portraits

Oversize (Print Files) 3PF13_I Group portrait of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, Iota Chapter, University of Pennsylvania, 1922 3PF13_I Color portrait of Drew Eberson and others at an event sponsored by Town & Country, ca. 1960s 3PF13_I Photograph Placemat and postcard, Teatro Junin, Caracus, Venezuela

Subseries C. Professional Papers, ca. 1929-1988 (inclusive), 1950-1980 (bulk) The Professional Papers Subseries represents the bulk of the Drew Eberson series. All but the materials on the John and Drew Eberson Archive in this subseries were originally filed alphabetically in office cabinet file drawers that belonged to Drew Eberson. Documentation of the Archive resulted from Drew’s custodial management of the Eberson firm project records and architectural drawings. Toward the end of Drew’s life, these records were stored in his home basement in Stamford, Connecticut sometime after the closure of the firm’s New York office in 1973. The list of projects, index card system, guide to the locations of drawings, and other notes on the Archive served to assist Drew in managing the material for his own access and to assist others in their research. The last items in the section on the Archive document its disposition between 1984 and 1986 to the University of Pennsylvania and the Max Protetch Gallery. They also include notes taken by or for architectural historian Jane Preddy in preparation for an exhibition of Eberson theater drawings and photographs at the Hunter College art gallery in 1988. The exhibition resulted in an illustrated catalog entitled Temples of Illusion: The Atmospheric Theaters of John Eberson. The other major categories of the Professional Papers Subseries are Office Correspondence, Drive-In Theaters, Interior Decorating, Publicity, Surveys, Construction, and Architectural Certificates and Licenses. These chiefly reflect Drew Eberson’s management of the architectural firm following his father’s decline and death in 1954. In the Rennald Wacht correspondence file the researcher will find documentation of Drew Eberson’s tenure in the New York City office from 1961-1973, including Drew’s sketches for the configuration of the interior work spaces. The Interior Decorating material includes invoices, a few fabric samples, and a complete schedule of hardware for the Boulton residence in Caracas. Peggy Latta Eberson, Drew’s wife, was an interior decorating consultant for the firm from about 1958 to 1972.

The John And Drew Eberson Architectural Records Archive Finding Aid, page 63

In the Publicity material the researcher will find texts for most of the speeches written and presented by Drew Eberson in the collection. In these speeches Drew reflected on the movie theaters of his father’s era and discussed then-current movie theater design and construction and its probable future. For the text of a 1971 speech by Drew on the Paradise Theatre in the Bronx, see the subseries on Theater History, Preservation, Restoration, and Renovation. Box 3 1. Partial list of projects ca. 1984 - Card index to archive, date unknown 2. New York 3. Connecticut, New Jersey 4. California, Texas 5. Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania 6. District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia, Florida 7. Delaware, Wisconsin, Tennessee, Kentucky, Kansas, South Carolina, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Indiana, Massachusetts, New Hampshire 8. International projects 9. Envelopes for index cards 10. List of drawings at the Eberson home, date unknown 11. Architectural Archives, University of Pennsylvania, 1984-1986 12. Max Protetch Gallery, 1986 13. Notes on loans, transfers, & other activities, 1982-1988

Box 4 1. Address lists, 1972 & date unknown 2. Adler Silhouette Letter Company, 1951-1970 3. Air Force Consultants - paid bills, 1951-1952 4. American Institute of Architects, 1966-1973 5. Architects - foreign, 1952 6. Architectural presentation firms, date unknown 7. Associated British Pictures Corporation, 1959-1966 8. Ateshoglou, A. D., 1962-1973 The John And Drew Eberson Architectural Records Archive Finding Aid, page 64

9. Atkinson, William Knox, 1976 10. Ayers, Theodore, 1949-1979 11. A Miscellaneous, 1970-1978 12. Bank of New York, 1972-1973 13. Benjamin & Flack, 1963-1964 14. Brandt, Richard, 1958-1972 15. B Miscellaneous, ca. 1953-1960

Box 5 1. B Miscellaneous, 1961-1968 2. B Miscellaneous, 1969-1984 3. Callahan, Peter, 1975-1977 4. Callender, John Hancock, 1937-1960 5. Chapman, R. W., 1969-1975 6. Christmas lists, 1937-1967 7. Cinerama, Inc., 1963-1967 8. Consulting Engineers, 1973 9. Contractors, 1966-1968 10. da Costa, Norman, 1961-1964 11. Cowan, Lester, 1957 12. Coxe Brothers, 1959 13. Crosier, Paul (mechanical engineer), 1951-1963 14. Cushman & Wakefield, Real Estate & Insurance, 1959-1963

Box 6 1. C Miscellaneous, 1961-1973 2. C Miscellaneous, 1957-1963 3. Daraio, Anthony (structural engineer), 1962-1963 4. Designs: Arthur A. Kober Company, Inc. - brochure, date unknown 5. Digges, Sam & Carol, 1966-1967 The John And Drew Eberson Architectural Records Archive Finding Aid, page 65

6. Dullum & Lyons U-Drive Cars, 1959-1961 7. Dun & Bradstreet, Inc., 1954-1966 & date unknown 8. D Miscellaneous, 1954-1972 9. Eberson Real Estate Improvement Corporation, 1973 10. Establissement Eberson, 1952-1956 11. E Miscellaneous, 1972-1973 12. F Miscellaneous, 1971-1977 13. Greenberg, Nathan (accountant), 1965-1971 14. G Miscellaneous, 1971-1973 15. H Miscellaneous, 1972-1975 16. Insurance (John T. Ostheimer Agency), 1969-1975 17. I Miscellaneous, 1967-1975

Box 7 1. Kimel Associates, 1971 2. K Miscellaneous, 1971-1973 3. L Miscellaneous, 1972-1979 4. Minitek Inc., ca. 1969 5. M Miscellaneous, 1970-1978 6. N Miscellaneous, 1971-1973 7. O Miscellaneous, 1977 & date unknown 8. Pearson & Rowden, Architects, 1962-1964; - Eberson, Pearson, & Wuesthoff, 1964-1965 - Pearson, Perry, 1966-19739. Personnel File, ca. 1969-1973 10. Personnel File, ca. 1967-1977 11. Prospects, 1977 12. P Miscellaneous, 1967-1976 13. Rainbow Studios, 1954 14. R Miscellaneous, 1969-1974 15. Services, date unknown The John And Drew Eberson Architectural Records Archive Finding Aid, page 66

16. Settle, Robert, 1970-1973 17. Skouros Theatre Corporation, 1938-1967 18. Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers, 1966-1970 19. S Miscellaneous, 1970-1973

Box 8 1. Trans-Lux Corporation, 1966-1971 2. T Miscellaneous, 1963-1975 3. Unidentified sketch, date unknown 4. United Artists Theatre Circuit, 1969-1976 5. Union Trust Company, 1970-1971 6. U Miscellaneous, 1979 7. Variety Club International Convention, 1971-1972 8. Variety Club of New York, Tent 35, 1970-1973 9. Wacht, Rennald, 1961-1973 10. World’s Fair, New York, 1960-1961 - West African Visiting Committee 11. W Miscellaneous, 1971-1975 12. X, Y, Z Miscellaneous, 1971-1972

Box 9 1. Drive-In Theaters - General Information, ca. 1953-1963 2. Drive-In Theaters - Correspondence & Photographs, ca. 1950s-1960s 3. Drive-In Theaters - Writings & Presentations, 1956-19584. Drive-In Theaters – Prints: electrical layouts, screen towers, ca. 1949-1968 5. Drive-In Theaters – Prints: electrical layouts, screen towers, ca. 1949-1968 6. Drive-In Theaters – Equipment: brochures, ca. 1950s-1960s 7. Drive-In Theaters – Equipment: brochures, ca. 1950s-1960s The John And Drew Eberson Architectural Records Archive Finding Aid, page 67

8. Drive-In Theaters – Equipment: brochures, ca. 1950s-1960s

Box 10 1. Interior Decorating - Completed orders, 1955-1956 2. Interior Decorating - Completed orders, 1955-1956 3. Interior Decorating - Completed orders, 1955-1956 4. Eberson, Peggy (Latta), 1958-1962 5. Eberson, Peggy (Latta), 1963-1965 6. Eberson, Peggy (Latta), 1966-1972 7. Drapery suppliers, date unknown

Box 11 1. Publicity Advertising, 1949 2. Publicity Material, ca. 1960s 3. Publicity Correspondence, ca. 1963-1972, date unknown 4. Theater Openings, Clippings, 1929-ca. 1940s 5. Theater Openings, Clippings, ca. 1960-1966 6. Theater Openings, Brochures, ca. 1961-1966 7. Theater Openings, Orfeon Theatre, Mexico, 1948 6. Publicity: Speeches, 1963-1971, date unknown

Box 12 1. Construction Companies Correspondence, 1959-1972 2. Construction Companies Brochures, 1969 & date unknown 3. Construction Companies Brochures, date unknown 4. Cost Estimates, 1947-1971 & date unknown 5. Cost Estimates, 800 & 1100-seat theaters, 1959-1961 6. Standard Details, 1947-1954 & date unknown 7. Standard Details - publications, 1945-1953 The John And Drew Eberson Architectural Records Archive Finding Aid, page 68

8. Standard Specifications, date unknown 9. Permits, 1970

Box 13 1. National Council of Architectural Registration Boards, 1950-1980 2. National Council of Architectural Registration Boards, 1965-1980 3. Architectural license test for California, ca. 1962 4. California, 1962-1977 5. Connecticut, 1948-1979 6. District of Columbia, 1944-1976 7. Florida, 1954-1979 8. Illinois, 1954-1972

Box 14 1. Massachusetts, 1966-1979 2. Michigan, 1946-1971 3. New Hampshire, 1956-1957 4. New Jersey, 1945-1981 5. New York, 1945-1982 6. Ohio, 1963-1971 7. Pennsylvania, 1959-1981 8. Texas, 1965-1972 9. Wisconsin, 1963-1969 10. Licenses - expired, 1937-1964

Box 15 1. Stanley Warner Corp. Leases 2. Stanley Warner Corp. Leases 3. Stanley Warner Corp. Leases 4. Stanley Warner Corp. Leases The John And Drew Eberson Architectural Records Archive Finding Aid, page 69

5. Office Space Planning National General Corporation 6. Kottcamp Invoices Miscellaneous

Box 16 1. Miscellaneous Product Catalogs (1960-1970) 2. Miscellaneous Product Catalogs (1970-1979) 3. Miscellaneous Product Catalogs (1970-1979) 4. Miscellaneous Product Catalogs (1970-1979)

Box 17 1. Miscellaneous Product Catalogs (1970-1979) 2. Miscellaneous Product Catalogs (1970-1979) 3. Miscellaneous Product Catalogs (1970-1979) 4. Miscellaneous Product Catalogs (1970-1979) 5. Miscellaneous Product Catalogs (1970-1979) 6. Miscellaneous Product Catalogs

Subseries D. John Eberson, 1927-ca. 1947 Very little material originating with John Eberson exists in the Drew Eberson series. It is organized into the John Eberson Subseries, consisting of a Christmas card list with short poems as texts for each recipient, two published articles and one interview, a prospectus for the unrealized Silver Mask Building, club membership certificates, and one patent dated 1931. The 1927 illustrated article on atmospheric theaters has been scanned and saved as a PDF. The published articles and interview are valuable sources on John Eberson, his atmospheric theater concept and execution, and his adaptation to the business environment for theater architects during the Great Depression in America. Copies of two letters written by John Eberson can be found in the correspondence file for Theodore Ayers in the Professional Papers Subseries. Box 18 1. Christmas card list & texts, ca. 1947 2. Writings, 1927 & 1931 3. Published interview, 1939 The John And Drew Eberson Architectural Records Archive Finding Aid, page 70

4. Club Membership Certificates, 1927 5. Silver Mask Building prospectus, ca. 1934 6. Patent, 1931 Subseries E. Theater History, Preservation, Restoration & Rehabilitation, ca. 1920s-1988 (inclusive), 1970-1985 (bulk) The materials on theater history, preservation, restoration, and rehabilitation compiled by Drew Eberson were organized to facilitate access in the following categories: General Theater History and Preservation, Theatre Historical Society of America, John Eberson Theaters—History and Preservation, and John Eberson Theaters—Restoration and Rehabilitation. This is a particularly rich subseries for the history of theaters and the preservation movement in America. From 1969 to 1977 the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) corresponded heavily with Drew, requesting copies of drawings and photographs to document Eberson theaters. Drew eagerly complied, and his copies along with HABS documentation remain in the collections at the Library of Congress. The correspondence file includes six reproductions of design drawings made for the Grand Riviera Theatre in Detroit. While the Riviera was demolished in 1999, twenty-eight other Eberson theaters in the United States were on the National Register of Historic Places by 2008. The Ebersons’ 1932 Rex Theater in Paris, still operating, was named a French historic monument by the Minister of Culture in 1981. Much of the Theatre Historical Society of America’s correspondence with Drew Eberson and its publications in the collection are concerned with the history and preservation of Eberson theaters. Drew Eberson loaned photographs and drawings to writers for several of the Marquee issues and annuals published by the Theatre Historical Society (THS). In 1975 Drew contributed the Foreword to the illustrated THS annual devoted to the Paradise Theatre in the Bronx, New York. For a 1989 annual, Jane Preddy authored Glitz, Glamour and Sparkle: The Deco Theatres of John Eberson. While the photographs for this annual were drawn from a private collection, Preddy’s access to the Eberson Archive provided her with important historical information. In particular, Preddy’s points about standardization in Eberson theater architecture in the Art Deco era rely heavily on four 1930 sketches drawn by John Eberson for Warner Brothers, found in the Eberson Archive after its transfer to the Max Protetch Gallery. A number of other authors, scholars, and a filmmaker benefited from Drew Eberson’s experience in the Eberson firm, and from his generosity in making available copies of drawings and photographs from the project records in the archive. The correspondence in the John Eberson Theaters—History & Preservation section reflect that activity, from 1972 to 1985. Finally, in the material for John Eberson Theaters—Restoration & Rehabilitation, the researcher will find correspondence, brochures, clippings and other resources on specific theaters. The earliest correspondence, from 1967, regards the preservation of the Paradise Theatre in the Bronx, between Drew Eberson and a community aide with the City of New York. The John And Drew Eberson Architectural Records Archive Finding Aid, page 71

Drew gave a speech on the history of his father’s atmospheric theaters with reference to the Paradise Theatre in 1971. That year the City of New York petitioned the City Planning Commission for funds to save the Paradise and declare it a landmark; Drew’s speech may have been given at the public meeting. The Paradise was made a New York City Registered Landmark in 1997. Drew Eberson was retained as a consultant for the restoration of two Eberson theaters: the Akron Civic Theatre and the Tampa Theatre, both operating as performing arts centers in 2008. Both of those preservation and restoration efforts began in about 1976. Drew’s report for the Akron Civic Theater included a copy of his father’s original cost estimates for the theater, dated 1929. Box 19 1. General Theater History & Preservation - Miscellaneous, 1973-ca. 1986 2. General Theater History & Preservation - Symposia, 1979-1980 3. National Park Service publication - “Cyclical Maintenance for Historic Buildings,” 1976 4. Theatre Historical Society of America – Conclaves, 1976, 1987 5. Theatre Historical Society of America - Correspondence, 1974-1986 6. Theatre Historical Society of America – Correspondence: Corsini, Andrew, 1970-1977 7. Theatre Historical Society of America - Cronican, Frank, 1970 8. Theatre Historical Society of America – Publications - Marquee issues, 1925-1988 9. Theatre Historical Society of America - Publications - Annuals, 1973-1987 10. Theatre Historical Society of America - Publications – 1974 Reprint of “Moving Telegraph” (New York), September 11, 1910 11. John Eberson Theatres, History & Preservation - Clippings, 1981-1984 & date unknown 12. John Eberson Theatres, History & Preservation - Correspondence - General, 1976-1985

Box 20 1. History & Preservation - Correspondence - Hamp, Philip, 1978-1979 2. History & Preservation - Correspondence - Preddy, Jane, 1984-1985 3. History & Preservation - Correspondence - Historic American Buildings Survey, 1969-1977 4. History & Preservation - Correspondence - Majestic Theatre, San Antonio, Texas, 1978-1982

5. Paradise Theatre, the Bronx, New York - Correspondence - Kohn, Tony, 1966-1971 The John And Drew Eberson Architectural Records Archive Finding Aid, page 72

6. Paradise Theatre, the Bronx, New York - Speech, ca. 1971 7. Paradise Theatre, Chicago, Illinois - Photograph with trace, ca. 1950s 8. Paradise Theatre, Chicago, Illinois - Clippings & copies of photographs, ca.1920s-1950s 9. Valencia Theatre - Jamaica, New York, 1977-1979 10. Akron Civic Theatre - Correspondence, 1976-1978 11. Avalon Theatre, Chicago, Illinois – Brochure & Color Photographs, ca. 1970-1987 12. Olympia Theatre & Office Building (later named Gusman Center for the Performing Arts), Miami, Florida, 1982-1984 13. Silver Springs Theatre & Shopping Center, Silver Springs, Maryland, 1968-1984 14. Tampa Theatre, Tampa, Florida - Correspondence - general, 1976-1986 & date unknown 15. Akron Civic Theatre, Report by Drew Eberson, 1976 16. History & Preservation - Correspondence - Authors, scholars, & filmmakers, 1972-1985 17. Tampa Theatre, Tampa, Florida - City of Tampa, ca. 1976-1983 18. Miscellaneous theaters, 1975-1984

Subseries F. Motion Picture Films, ca. 1950s-1960s A collection of twenty-two short, 16mm films were found in a file cabinet marked “C. J. Latta.” Latta was the father of Drew’s wife Peggy; the films appear to date from Latta’s career as a managing director of the Associated British Picture Corporation, London. Most of the film containers indicate that the films are newsreels produced during the 1950s and the 1960s by Associated British Pathé Limited. C. J. Latta was a founding member of Variety Clubs International in Great Britain, a branch of a children’s charity originally founded by United States film industry executives. Queen Elizabeth II named Latta a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for his service to the charity. Drew and Peggy Eberson were active in the Variety Club of New York and Variety Club International, as evidenced by files in the Professional Papers Subseries dating from the early 1970s. The films are closed pending preservation treatment and duplication. Box 21 1. “No Kidding” 16mm Film 2. “Circus Capers” 16mm Film 3. “Malta Ambulance” 16mm Film 4. “C.J.'s Diary” 16mm Film 5. “Kid Stuff” 16mm Film The John And Drew Eberson Architectural Records Archive Finding Aid, page 73

6. “A Nation Mourns” 16mm Film 7. “Chimp, Champ and Chumps” 16mm Film 8. “Pathe News 63-84” 16mm Film 9. “Who's Crazy” 16mm Film 10. “Mr. C.J. Latta and Family at the Show Biz. Awards” 16mm Film 11. “Look Back in Anger – Princess Margaret at Premiere” 16mm Film 12. “Party for Film Leaders” 16mm Film

Box 22 1. “Navy News Special R.N. - Party for Film Leaders” 16mm Film 2. “Twins – Babies 1 Year Later” 16mm Film 3. “Variety Club Special” 16mm Film 4. “Florida – Key West” 16mm Film 5. “State Opening of Parliament” 16mm Film 6. “Variety Founder Honored – Mr. C.J. Latta Receives C.B.E.” 16mm Film x2 Copies 7. “Malta Ambulance” 16mm Film 8. “Gemini XI in Deep Space: Link-up with Agena, Re-entry, splashdown and recovery” 16mm Film 9. “Heart of America” 16mm Film

The John And Drew Eberson Architectural Records Archive Finding Aid, updated September, 2011

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