Oral history interview with Gilmore David Clarke, 1959

Biographical Note

Landscape architect

Scope and Contents

Training at Cornell; early work on Bronx River Parkway; World War I; Westchester County park system; planning parks, parkways and expressways, 1930s through 1950s; housing projects, including Metropolitan Life Insurance Company; city planning in Portland, Oregon, and Nashville, Tennessee; National Commission of Fine Arts, 1932-1950; New York City traffic control report; New York World's Fair, 1939; College of Architecture, Cornell, 1935-1950; planning for New York State Power Authority, Naval Academy, Military Academy; United Nations headquarters; consulting services to universities and colleges

Subjects

• Architecture--United States--History--20th century.
• Benison, Saul, interviewer.
• City planning.
• Clarke, Gilmore D., 1892-1982.--Interviews.
• Express highways.
• Interviews.
• Landscape architects--Interviews.
• New York State College of Agriculture.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Public housing.
• Recreation areas.
• United States. Commission of Fine Arts.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1984