Dwellings--Remodeling
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Architectural Drawings and Building Plans Collection
Collection
Identifier: FA-49-ARCH
Scope and Contents
This collection contains architectural drawings related to the construction and renovation of Marjorie Merriweather Post's various properties owned over the course of her adult life.
Earliest drawings are of the apartments in New York City purchased in the late 1910s during her marriage to Edward B. Close. Subsequent plans are of properties in:-Battle Creek, Michigan
-Hillwood, Long Island
-Camp Topridge in the Adirondacks
-Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach,...
Dates:
1920-2024
David Palmer Close Papers
Collection
Identifier: FA-8-DPC
Scope and Contents
This collection contains documents and correspondence relating to legal services performed by David Palmer Close for Marjorie Merriweather Post and her daughter Eleanor Close Barzin, and to a lesser extent for Adelaide Brevoort Close. Close's legal work for Marjorie Merriweather Post included wills, codicils, trusts, bequests, financial transactions and her marriages to Joseph Davies ansd Herbert May. He also served as the purchasing agent for Post when she acquired Arbremont (later...
Dates:
1872-2004
Marjorie Merriweather Post Collection
Collection
Identifier: FA-6-MMP
Scope and Contents
The Marjorie Merriweather Post collection consists of materials created by Marjorie Post or those created as a result of activities during her lifetime. Materials were added to the collection on a regular basis as they arrived at Hillwood via gift or donation. Formats include textual documents, photographs and photograph albums, publications, 16mm films, architectural drawings and blueprints, object catalogues, awards and certificates, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, cards,...
Dates:
1887-1973