MEMOIRS ABOUT MR. AND MRS. HERBERT HOOVER, WITH PARTICULAR EMPHASIS ON THE PLANNING AND BUILDING OF THEIR HOME ON SAN JUAN HILL

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Machine-readable finding aid derived from typescript by rekeying. Date of source: June 1970.Finding aid is written in English.Guide to the Birge Malcolm Clark. Lou Henry Hoover House Papers, 1921- 1949Collection number: SC 076BDepartment of Special Collections Stanford University Libraries Stanford, CaliforniaProcessed by: Susan RosenbergDate Completed: June 1970Encoded by: Patricia White

Descriptive SummaryBirge Malcolm Clark. Lou Henry Hoover House Papers, 1921-1949Stanford University Archives SC 076BClark, Birge Malcolm.25 linear ft.Stanford University. Libraries. Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives.Administrative InformationAccess Restrictions:

None.

Publication Rights:

Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To obtain permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives.

Provenance:

Gift of Birge M. Clark, 1970.

Preferred Citation:

[Identification of item] Birge Clark. Lou Henry Hoover House Papers, SC 076B, Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

BIOGRAPHY

Birge M. Clark (born 1893) was the son of Arthur B. Clark, who came to Stanford in 1892 as an Instructor in Drawing. Birge Clark received his A.B. from Stanford, 1914, and B.Arch from Columbia, 1917, and was an architect in Palo Alto. Both A. B. Clark and Birge Clark served as advising architects to Herbert and Lou Henry Hoover for their house on the Stanford campus.

SCOPE AND CONTENT

These papers consist primarily of correspondence between the Hoovers, Professor Clark, and Mr. Clark regarding planning and construction of the Lou Henry Hoover house; and sketches and specifications for the house. Part of the correspondence consists of copied materials from the Lou Henry Hoover papers in the Herbert Hoover Library (West Branch, Iowa), some of which concern Louis Mullgardt's plans for a house. Also included are materials used for and final edition of Mr. Clark's MEMOIRS ABOUT MR. AND MRS. HERBERT HOOVER, WITH PARTICULAR EMPHASIS ON THE PLANNING AND BUILDING OF THEIR HOME ON SAN JUAN HILL (Palo Alto: privately printed, 1969).

ADDED ENTRIESClark, Arthur BridgmanHoover, Lou HenryHoover, HerbertLou Henry Hoover HouseCONTAINER LIST11Correspondence, 1921-192612Correspondence, 1927-192813Correspondence, 1929-194914Miscellaneous materials

Material includes undated correspondence, sketches of portions of the house, "Specifications for the revised heating of the residence for Lou Henry Hoover. . .," xerox copies of newspaper clippings, and other assorted miscellany.

15Book: Memoirs about Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Hoover, with Particular Emphasis on the Planning and Building of their Home on San Juan Hill. By Birge M. Clark. March 1969,Palo Alto, California.16Material used in Memoirs: tracings of the Hoover House.17Material used in Memoirs: Letters and pictures appearing within the text.18Numbered letters referred to in text of Memoirs.19Unnumbered letters, most of which appear in back of book.21Correspondence [copied from Lou Henry Hoover papers], 1917 - Feb. 192022Correspondence [copied from Lou Henry Hoover papers], 1920 March - 192223Correspondence [copied from Lou Henry Hoover papers], 1923- 192924Correspondence [copied from Lou Henry Hoover papers], 193025Correspondence [copied from Lou Henry Hoover papers], 1931- 193326Correspondence re Mullgardt plan [copied from Lou Henry Hoover papers], 1917, 1960