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Cameron Clark Architecture Collection
Collection, Ms B54
1935 – 1988
An exhibition of Cameron Clark drawings prompted the collection of these materials. Charles Cameron Clark (1887-1957), an architect and resident of Greenfield Hill, designed institutional and civic buildings in New York State and Connecticut, and residential structures in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. His best known work is the redesign of the Fairfield Town Hall in 1939. He was named to the American Institute of Architects and cited for outstanding achievement in design. His wife, Agnes Selkirk Clark, was a noted landscape architect.
The collection consists of biographical information, building specifications and other records related to design projects, and a substantial assemblage of architectural drawings. The materials are organized into three series. Biographical information, including copies of Clark's obituary, are arranged in Series A. Series B consists of information on projects designed by Clark, and are arranged alphabetically by client name. Clients include the Town of Fairfield, Greens Farms Congregational Church, and the Birdcraft Sanctuary. Research information and index to these items is a separate document appended to this finding aid. Included inn the drawings are copies of landscape plans by the New York firm of Innocenti & Webel and by Helen Swift Jones. Most of the drawings, along with a number that were lent to the Historical Society for copying, are also available on microfiche. An index of those drawings is also appended. The microfiche is shelved in the main reading room of the library and a computer database finding aid (Clarke, Cameron Microfilm) resides in the finding aid directory on the library computer.
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