Delos H. Smith Collection, ca.1940-ca.1959.

Access and use

Location of collection:
Colonial Williamsburg
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
P.O. Box 1776
Williamsburg, VA 23187
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Douglas Mayo
Phone: (757) 565-8521
Phone: (757) 565-8520
Fax: (757) 565-8528

Summary

Creator:
Delos H. Smith (Delos Hamilton), 1884-1963.
Language:
English

Background

Scope and content:

Materials in the collection include photographs, prints, architectural drawings, newspaper and magazine clippings, letters, scrapbooks, notebooks, maps, books, and periodicals. Major subject areas in the collection are colonial religious and secular architecture in the eastern United States, materials on British and other European origins of American colonial architecture, and art books as sources for architectural drawings.

Biographical / historical:

Delos H. Smith (1884-1963) was the architect and architectural historian of Alexandria, Virginia. Smith specialized in ecclesiastical work and practiced in Washington D. C. His projects included numerous churches, two low-rent housing projects, the Beltsville Farm Export Station, and the Capitol Building Prayer Room, on which he was a consulting architect. Smith also served as commander of the Civil Engineering Corps, U.S. Naval Reserve, from 1940-45, and as design superintendent of the Army and Navy Munitious Board at the Norfolk Navy Yard.

Acquisition information:
Gift, 1990.
Arrangement:

This collection has been organized into series:
Series 1. Photographs
Series 2. Correspondence
Series 3. Drawings
Series 4. Printed Materials
Series 5. Newspaper and Magazine Clippings
Series 6. Notebooks and Maps with Colonial Churches Marked
Series 7. Miscellaneous Materials arranged and labelled by D. H. Smith
Series 8. Washington (D.C.) and Surrounding Area Materials
Series 9. Reference/Research Cards
Series 10. Scrapbooks
Series 11 Oversize Drawings

Physical description:
.5 cubic feet.