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Clermont Huger Lee architectural drawings and negatives
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Clermont Huger Lee was the first professional private practicing female landscape architect in Savannah, Georgia. She was involved in designing several parks and gardens for Savannah's historic landmarks, including the Owens-Thomas House, the Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace, Fort Pulaski National Monument and the Isaiah Davenport House. In addition, she designed the renovations of four of Savannah's historic squares: Troup, Madison, Washington, and Warren. Born in Savannah in 1914, she attended Barnard College in New York City before transferring to Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. Following her graduation, she attended the Smith College Graduate School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture in Cambridge Massachusetts, where she obtained a master's of landscape architecture in 1939. Lee became an assistant to T.M. Baumgardener of the Sea Island Company during the Great Depression. In the 1940s she developed an interest in historic gardens. In 1944, she made measured drawings of ten Victorian gardens in Savannah for Laura Bell and the Georgia Historical Society. In 1949, Lee left the Sea Island Company to practice independently. From 1951 to 1972 Lee worked with Mills B. Lane Jr., the president of the Citizens and Southern Bank, and his wife to develop landscapes for renovated homes in the northeast section of Savannah. Lee was also responsible for working to found the Georgia State Board of Landscape Architects, a licensing board for landscape architects across the state. Lee died on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, in 2006. Excerpted from: Ced Dolder, Ray and Associates. 'Clermont Lee (b. 1914)' The New Georgia Encyclopedia
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The collection consists of 242 rolls of landscape architectural drawings dating from 1940 to 1996, the bulk of which are by Clermont H. Lee. Those not drawn by Lee were either sent to her for reference or review. Each roll is a separate project, with the exception of roll 162, which is comprised of multiple projects commissioned by Lane Enterprises, Inc. Projects include the Owens Thomas House, Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace, Isaiah Davenport House, Scarborough House, Fort Pulaski National Monument, Washington Square, Troup Square, Madison Square and Greene Square; all in Savannah, Georgia; and the Chief Vann Residence of Chatsworth, Georgia. Also included are private residences, offices, recreation facilities, schools, churches, hospitals, cemetery plots, industrial facilities, and parking areas in Savannah, Georgia and surrounding towns in Chatham County; Jacksonville, Florida; and Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.
Lee's original drawing/project numbers were retained. The first roll of drawings in this collection begins with number 12 and the last drawing numbered 291. Several numbers are either missing from this collection, or were never used by the creator. Four rolls were not numbered and were assigned numbers during processing (1480-uu1 through 1480-uu4). The collection also contains digital images of the drawings located on six CDs. The digital images are unprocessed as the image numbers assigned during scanning do not correspond to Lee's drawing numbers.
Negatives in the collection were taken by Clermont Lee on 28 February 1964 of ironwork in Laurel Grove Cemetery in Savannah, Georgia. Images include the following lots: Burroughs lot C; Freeland lot C; Ferguson lot; Hardee lot; Olmstead lot; unmarked lot; Taylor lot; Stegin lot; Wolber lot; D. Robertson lot; Dunwoody lot no. 260; William Thomas lot no. 225; F. Revitt lot no. 292; Lot no. 363; J. Cunningham lot no. 365; Esther Stewart lot no. 376; and Ralph Emms Elliott lot. Lots depicted all represent 19th century burials.
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Copyright has been assigned to the Georgia Historical Society. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Division of Library and Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Georgia Historical Society as the owner of the physical items and as the owner of copyright in items created by the donor. Although copyright was transferred by the donor, copyright in some items in the collection may still be held by their respective creator(s). For further information contact the Division of Library and Archives.
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GHS 1480, Clermont Huger Lee architectural drawings and negatives, 1940-1996. Georgia Historical Society, Savannah, Georgia.
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