Architecture Archives

Database Name: ARCHNEW2

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Repository	Carnegie Mellon University Architecture Archives
Record Group	Hornbostel Collection
Title/Folder Name
Architect/Creator	Hornbostel, Henry / Eric Fisher Wood & Company
Project Name	German Evangelical Protestant (Smithfield) Church
Project Location	Smithfield Street and Strawberry Way, Pittsburgh, PA
Project type	church
Project Client	German Evangelical Protestant (Smithfield) Church / Dr. Carl A. Voss
Description	2 renderings, pastel? on tracing paper mounted [d3] / 15 blueprints [dO] / 1 b&w photograph [b1] / 1 scrapbook with 38 sketches [d5]
Date of Origin	1924-1925, 1934
Notes	One rendering was exhibited in "Henry Hornbostel/Michael Graves," Emory University Museum of Art and Archaeology, Atlanta, GA, 1985. One rendering gift of Henry Hornbostel Estate to Department of Architecture, c. 1963. One rendering transferred from Torrington Historical Society, 2003. Blueprints gift of City of Pittsburgh Bureau of Building Inspection, 1989. Scrapbook and photograph gift of Ms. Nancy Ross Purdy, 2007. Photograph shows stained glass windows. Scrapbook includes sketches that were made in 1924 and personally assembled into a scrapbook by Hornbostel in 1934. Hornbostel executed a lengthy dedication to Dr. Carl A. Voss on the cover. Corrugated cover inserts have been discarded. Scrapbook conserved by Wendy Bennett Fine Art Paper Conservation, 2011.