Inventory to the Rutgers University Buildings and Grounds Collection

By Special Collections and University Archives

March 2018

Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries.

Finding aid encoded in EAD, version 2002 by Tara Maharjan, March 2018
Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University received an operating support grant from the New Jersey Historical Commission, a division of the Department of State.

Creator: Rutgers University. Special Collections and University Archives
Title: Rutgers University Buildings and Grounds Collection
Quantity: 5.6 cubic feet (14 boxes)
Abstract: A variety of clippings, letters, drawing and reports relating to the buildings and properties of Rutgers University. This collection does not include photographs.
Language: English
Repository: Rutgers University Libraries. Special Collections and University Archives

Scope and Content Note

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Arrangement Note

The Buildings and Grounds collection is arranged into 12 series:

Early Founding
College Ave
All Campuses
All New Brunswick
Busch
Camden
Cook
Cook/Douglass
Douglass
Livingston
Newark
Off Campus

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Related Material

For photographs related to Buildings and Ground please see the following collections:

Rutgers University Photograph Collection. See Inventory to the Rutgers University Photograph Collection

Rutgers University Photograph Collection - Douglass. See Inventory to the Rutgers University Photograph Collection - Douglass

Rutgers University Photograph Collection - Cook. See Inventory to the Rutgers University Photograph Collection - Cook

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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Rutgers University Buildings and Grounds Collection, Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries.

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Detailed Description of the Collection/Container List

This section provides descriptions of the materials found within each series. Each series description is followed by a container list, which gives the titles of the "containers" (for example, folders, volumes, or cassettes) and their locations in the numbered boxes that comprise the collection. The availability of any digital items from a container is indicated with a hyperlink.

EARLY FOUNDING
Box
1 Second Location of Queens College - “College Lot” (Livingston and George Streets)
COLLEGE AVE
Box
1 139 College Ave. (court documents re: property complaint)
Acquisitions, Construction & Gifts
Aerial Views
Alumni House/Old President’s House/Faculty Club
Ballentine Gymnasium
Bishop Dormitories
Bishop House
3 folders.
Bishop House - 1865 letter
Bleeker Place/Voorhees Mall
Boiler Room/Heating Plans
Brower Commons
Buildings & Grounds Handbook (1904)
Cannon (at Sage Library)
Cannon (at Old Queens) – General
Catholic Center
Ceramics Building/Graduate School of Social Work
2 folders.
Civic Square Building
College Ave Gymnasium
2 folders.
College Hall
Cook House
Delaware & Raritan Canal
Demarest Hall
Facilities Maintenance/Physical Plant Dept (Departmental Correspondence)
Box
2 Facilities Maintenance/Physical Plant Dept (Manuals & Plans)
Facilities Maintenance/Physical Plant Dept (Workers’ Clippings)
Ford Hall
Frelinghuysen Hall
General Campus Information (missing as of 10/2005)
Geology Hall (Hardenberg architect)
Graduate School of Education
Graduate Student Center (38 College Ave)
Grease Trucks
Grounds: Plants, Shrubbery, and Trees
Heating Plant/Smokestack
Hegeman Hall
Hurtado Health Center
International House (33 Remsen Ave)
John Livingston House
Kirkpatrick Chapel
Library: Alexander - Building Committee, 1953
Library: Alexander - Building Committee, 1954
Library: Alexander - Building Committee, 1955
Library: Alexander - Dedication, 1994
Library: Alexander - Proposal
Library: Alexander Library – NJ State Seal Medallion
Library: Alexander - New Jersey Gardens (list of native shrubs and trees, April 25, 1961) – MISSING
Library: Alexander - Mary Miss Sculpture, 1994
Library: Special Collections and University Archives - Dedication
Maps (Pre - 1954)
Box
3 Maps (Post - 1954)
Master Plans
Campus Plans
Mathematics House (172 College Ave)
Milledoler Hall
Murray Hall
Neilson Campus (Voorhees Mall)
2 folders.
Neilson Campus (Voorhees Mall) - Property Transfer
Neilson Field
New Jersey Hall – Nielsen Campus (Lease of land)
New Brunswick Theological Seminary
Old Queens Building MISSING
Old Queens Building (Alterations & Improvements)
Old Queens Building (Architect John McComb)
6 folders.
Box
4 Old Queens Building – General
Old Queens Building (Weston Room)
Old Queens Building - Letter John M.V. Harlingen to George Brinkerhof 5/9/1808
Old Queens Building - Details (floor plans, interiors, décor)
Old Queens Building - Various
Old Queens Building - Clippings found in fireplace.
Old Queens Campus
Old Queens Campus – General
Old Queens Campus - Early Buildings and Grounds Miscellaneous
Old Queens Campus - Deed Research
Old Queens Campus - Class of 1902 Gates
Old Queens Campus - Class of 1883 Gates
Quad/Neilson Dormitories (Ford Hall included)
Records Hall (Commons & Field House)
River Dormitories (Campbell, Frelinghuysen, Hardenbergh)
River Dormitories
Rutgers Club
Rutgers Preparatory School/Alexander Johnston Hall
Rutgers Student Center
Schank Observatory
3 folders.
School of Communication, Information and Library Science
University Center at Easton Ave
Van Dyke Hall
Van Nest Hall
Voorhees Hall
3 folders.
Box
5 Voorhees Hall - Voorhees Library
William the Silent (Voorhees Mall)
2 folders.
Winants Hall
3 folders.
Winants Hall - Postcard
General Campus Information - MISSING
Campus Plans – MISSING (But campus plans listed in Box 3)
ALL CAMPUSES
Box
5 Building Inventories
Capital Improvement Plans
Construction & Development
Construction & Development (Handicapped Accessibility)
ALL NEW BRUNSWICK
Box
5 Acreage
Building Inventories & Inspection Tours
Catalogue of the Portraits on Exhibit at Rutgers University MISSING (but also folder listed similarly in box 7)
Construction & Development
Master Plans
Box
6 Maps
3 folders.
Newspaper articles - Targum
Newspaper articles
Public Sculpture and Art
Route 18 Expansion, 1966
2 folders.
Route 18 Expansion, 1967
Route 18 Expansion, 1968
Route 18 Expansion, 1970, 1972, 1980
Route 18 Expansion, 1972
Box
7 Portraits on Exhibition
BUSCH
Box
7 Administrative Services Building
Center of Alcohol Studies
Construction & Development
Dedication - Fran Hall & Stephen & Lucy Chang Science Library
Engineering Building
Hill Center for the Mathematical Sciences
Hillside Campus (Trailer Park)
Johnson/Russell Apartments
Library of Science and Medicine
2 folders.
Library Storage Building #3846
2 folders.
Box
8 Richardson/Nichols Apartments
Maps
Busch/Livingston Maps
Marvin Apartments
Medical School
Nelson Biological Laboratories
Paul Robeson Cultural Center
Physics Complex (Nuclear Physics Lab, Serin Physics Lab, Physics Lecture Hall)
President’s House (1245 River Road)
Psychology Building
Rutgers Stadium
3 folders.
Rutgers Stadium, 1993-1994
Science Center (Wright-Reiman Chemistry Labs, Physics Labs, Engineering Building)
Science Center - Wright-Reiman Chemistry Labs
St. Michael’s Chapel
Box
9 Student Center
Visitors Center
Waksman Institute of Microbiology
2 folders.
William Levine Hall/College of Pharmacy
CAMDEN
Box
9 Construction & Development
Fine Arts Building
Gymnasium
Maps
Master Plans
Paul Robeson Library
Science Building
COOK
Box
9 Acquisitions & Development
Agricultural Science Building (Lipman)
Food Science Building
Food Science Building - Dedication, 1973
General Information
Institute of Management and Labor Relations
Kilmer Oak, 1932, 1961 and undated
Box
10 Kilmer Oak, 1963-1964 and 1971
Kilmer Oak (News Clippings)
4 folders.
Lipman Hall (Agricultural Science Building)
Lipman Hall (Agricultural Science Building) --Dedication, 1951
Maps
Martin Hall
Master Plans
Passion Puddle MISSING
Waller Hall
Westons Mill Pond
COOK/DOUGLASS
Box
10 Faculty Homes
Maps
Master Plans
DOUGLASS
Box
10 Acquisitions, Deeds & Development
Aerial Views
Box
11 Antilles Field
Arts Classroom/Office Building (with Little Theater and Music Auditorium), 1968
The Beehive
Catalogue of Buildings (1958)
Continuing Education Center
Cooper Hall (Dining Hall for Resident Students)
Douglass College Center
The Fine Arts Center
Gibbons Dormitories
Grounds, Buildings, and Courses (1918)
Hickman Hall
Little Theater (Dramatic Arts Building)
Mabel Smith Douglass Library
Maps
Music Building
Voorhees Chapel
Willets Health Center
Woodlawn
LIVINGSTON
Box
11 Acquisition & Development
Box
12 Application for Camp Kilmer Acquisition
Camp Kilmer (Richard P. McCormick Research)
4 folders.
Livingston College
Louis Brown Athletic Center
Lucy Stone Hall
Maps
Master Plans & Reports
2 folders.
Tillet Hall
NEWARK
Box
13 General Property Proposals
40 Rector Street
555 Mt. Prospect Ave.
Ackerson Hall
“Concrete Awards”
Conklin Hall
Dana Library
Development & Construction
General Information
Hill Hall
Maps
Paul Robeson Campus Center
Pharmacy Building
S. I. Newhouse Center for Law and Justice
Smith Hall
2 folders.
Box
14 Student Housing
OFF CAMPUS
Box
14 Canfield Residence
Industrial Reactor Laboratories, reports, 1966
Industrial Reactor Laboratories, reports, 1967-1998
Little Egg Lifeboat Station
Mettler’s Woods/Hutcheson Memorial Forest, 1953 and undated
Mettler’s Woods/Hutcheson Memorial Forest, 1954-1977
Sage Library, New Brunswick Theological Seminary
Survey of buildings used by Rutgers University in the vicinity of Washington Park, Newark
Van Harlingen House (Millstone, NJ)
Willowwood Arboretum & Industrial Reactor Laboratories