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The Greene and Greene Archives, USC
(formerly the Greene & Greene Library) at the Huntington
Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens in San
Marino, California, is a research facility staffed by
one part-time archivist and a group of volunteers. It
contains architectural drawings, correspondence, photographs,
books, and other documents relating to the life and
work of architects Charles Sumner and Henry Mather Greene.
The collection began in 1966 with the gift of the Gamble
House and associated documentation from the Gamble family.
Additional large gifts of documents from the Greene
family as well as contributions from the families of
clients, later owners of Greene & Greene structures,
and many others have substantially enlarged the collection.
Documents in the Greene and Greene Archives are the
property of the University of Southern California, which
also operates the Gamble House through its School of
Architecture. This repository is not administered by
the Huntington Library, although it is housed there.
The Greene and Greene Archives, USC,
at the Huntington Library is used for scholarly research
and publications, for education, for renovations and
restorations to existing Greene & Greene structures
and for continuing education for curators and volunteers
preserving Greene & Greene structures as part of
their educational mission. It is open to the public
by appointment only.
The Greene and Greene Archives, USC,
at the Huntington Library is an eclectic collection
of Greene & Greene materials. Since its inception,
over four hundred donors have given a wide variety of
items to the collection, including original job files
containing client correspondence, original drawings,
copies of drawings from private collections and other
repositories, personal correspondence, specifications,
contracts, postcards, invoices, notes, building permits,
advertisements, philosophical writings, books, newspaper
and magazine articles about Greene & Greene or their
projects, memorabilia, sketchbooks, and scrapbooks.
These items have been divided into four groups: 1) original
documents and photographs from the firm of Greene &
Greene and from the Greene family, 2) documents and
photographs from the original clients and their descendants
(especially from the Gamble family), 3) materials from
later owners of Greene and Greene structures, and 4)
a reference collection of secondary materials. The reference
collection includes letters, photographs of the Greene
& Greene houses at various times, postcards, biographical
information on owners, published articles about the
houses and the Greene's work, and an array of miscellany
and ephemera that are organized by project. Generally,
only primary resource documents from the first two groups,
or those created by Charles or Henry Greene or the Greene
& Greene firm, have been included in the Greene
& Greene Virtual Archives website.
Greene and Greene Archives, USC
University of Southern California
The Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Telephone: 626-405-2232
Facsimile: 626-796-6498
www.gamblehouse.org/archives
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