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Vanderbilt House is not part of the collection and to date has not been located. Other volumes including
2, 3, 4, 5, and Box 24 have numerous entries for fixtures made for Georges Glaenzer and several entries for
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, W.K. Vanderbilt, Ogden Codman, etc.
PORT WASHINGTON PUBLIC LIBRARY
The library has a collection of oral history interviews with estate employees on Long Island. The
collection is largely untranscribed and lacks a finding aid. It may contain material relevant to domestic
service.
PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF NEWPORT COUNTY
The manuscript collections include correspondence from various personal secretaries for Mrs. O.H.P.
Belmont to William Gilmour which suggest the relationship between estate owner and superintendent.
The collection also includes Gilmour's diaries. Various research reports by staff of the PSNC were also
useful. The architecture and interiors of the following related properties were also examined: The
Breakers, Chateau-sur-Mer, The Elms, Marble House, and Rosecliff.
PRIVATE COUNTRY HOUSES
The architecture and interior features and finishes of the Martha Codman House, a private home on
Bellevue Avenue in Newport, were examined; as were Wakehurst, Mrs. Van Alen's home in Newport now
owned by Salve Regina College, and Woodlea, Elliot and Margaret Vanderbilt Shepard's country estate in
Scarborough, New York, now owned by the Sleepy Hollow Country Club. None of the current property
owners listed above had archival material related to the houses. Woodlea retains many of its period
furnishings.
SHELBURNE FARMS ARCHIVES
This collection is the most comprehensive body of material relating to a single gilded-age country house
which has been examined in the course of the project. The manuscripts and ledgers relevant to the
management of estate staffing and finances are particularly important in comparison to surviving ledgers
from Hyde Park. The architecture and interiors at Shelburne Farms were also examined.
HISTORIC NEW ENGLAND, formerly THE SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF NEW ENGLAND
ANTIQUITIES
The Ogden Codman Collection does not have correspondence between the Vanderbilts and Codman
about Hyde Park but does have numerous letters between Frederick and Louise Vanderbilt and Codman
about 1025 Fifth Avenue. There are several references to the work at Hyde Park in Codman's letters to
his mother. The Codman Collection also contains Ogden Codman's appointment books, which shed
some light on when he was meeting with clients. These books are incomplete. The institution also holds
part of the A.H. Davenport collection, which contains mostly drawings of furniture. Unfortunately, the
earliest pieces of this collection date to circa 1930.
THE STRONG MUSEUM
The other repository containing Davenport papers is the Strong Museum's A.H. Davenport Collection.
There are no references to Hyde Park.
VANDERBILT MANSION NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE
The collections consulted include architectural drawings, the general files, historians' card files,
interpreters' files, ledgers and account books, NPS administrative and research reports, oral histories,
photograph collections, and the Shears' diaries in addition to room-by-room evaluation of collections,
decoration, fixtures, equipment, and alterations. Researchers also obtained information through
discussions with park staff including Harmon Simmons, Deborah Miller, Michelina Jurkowski, Craig
Jessup, and Henry Van Brookhoven.
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