A Guide to the Albert Thompson Papers ca. 1906-1947
A Collection in
The Special Collections Department
Accession number 11608
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Administrative Information
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The collection is without restrictions.
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Preferred Citation
The Albert Thompson Papers, ca. 1906-1947, Accession # 11608, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.
Acquisition Information
The papers were given to the University of Virginia Library by his grandchildren, Laura Logie, Charlottesville, Virginia, and Lawrence Uzzell, Director of the Keston Institute, Oxford, England, on April 1, 2000, through K. Edward Lay, Cary D. Langhorne Professor of Architecture, University of Virginia.
Scope and Content Information
This collection chiefly consists of the architectural drawings of the New York City architect, Albert Thompson ([1871?]-1952), ca. 30 items, ca. 1906-1947, and undated. Also present is Thompson's Architecture Diploma, a photograph of a building, and watercolor of a residence designed by Thompson. Thompson was the architect for the Seventy-first Regiment Armory in New York City, the Jamaica New York Children's Courthouse, homes in the Jamaica Estates area, and the old Queens Borough Hall on Hunters Point Avenue, Long Island. He was born in Ireland and immigrated to the United States when he was seventeen, married in 1900, and had three sons and one daughter, Mrs. William Uzzell (Tommie), presently of Charlottesville, Virginia.