John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library,
Colonial Williamsburg
Descriptive Summary
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial
Williamsburg Foundation
Delos H. Smith Collection,
ca.1940-ca.1959.
MS 90.6
.5 cubic feet.
English
Delos H. Smith (Delos Hamilton),
1884-1963.
Administrative Information
Access
There are no restrictions.
Publication Rights/ Restrictions on Use
Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any
materials, permission must be obtained from the Special
Collections Librarian/ Associate Curator of Rare Books and
Manuscripts, and the holder of the copyright, if not the
Rockefeller Library at Colonial Williamsburg.
Preferred Citation
Delos H. Smith Collection, Manuscript MS 90.6, John D.
Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg
Foundation
Acquisition Information
Gift, 1990.
Biographical/Historical Information
Delos H. Smith (1884-1963) was the architect and
architectural historian of Alexandria, Virginia. Smith
specialized in ecclesiastical work and practiced in Washington
D. C. His projects included numerous churches, two low-rent
housing projects, the Beltsville Farm Export Station, and the
Capitol Building Prayer Room, on which he was a consulting
architect. Smith also served as commander of the Civil
Engineering Corps, U.S. Naval Reserve, from 1940-45, and as
design superintendent of the Army and Navy Munitious Board at
the Norfolk Navy Yard.
Scope and Content Information
Materials in the collection include photographs, prints,
architectural drawings, newspaper and magazine clippings,
letters, scrapbooks, notebooks, maps, books, and periodicals.
Major subject areas in the collection are colonial religious
and secular architecture in the eastern United States,
materials on British and other European origins of American
colonial architecture, and art books as sources for
architectural drawings.
Organization
This collection has been organized into series:
Series 1. Photographs
Series 2. Correspondence
Series 3. Drawings
Series 4. Printed Materials
Series 5. Newspaper and Magazine Clippings
Series 6. Notebooks and Maps with Colonial Churches
Marked
Series 7. Miscellaneous Materials arranged and labelled
by D. H. Smith
Series 8. Washington (D.C.) and Surrounding Area
Materials
Series 9. Reference/Research Cards
Series 10. Scrapbooks
Series 11 Oversize Drawings
Index Terms
Persons:
Smith, Delos
H. (Delos Hamilton), 1884- 1963.
Subjects:
Church
architecture--East (U.S.)
Church
history--East (U.S.)
Geographical Names:
Washington
(D.C.)
Contents List
Photographs.
1:1-3:6
Religious
Architecture (Churches).
1:1-3:3
Maine and Massachusetts.
1:1-1:2
New Hampshire and Vermont
1:3
Connecticut and Rhode
Island.
1:4
New York
1:5
New Jersey and Delaware.
1:6
Pennsylvania.
2:1-2:2
Maryland.
2:3-2:4
Washington, D.C.
2:5
Virginia.
2:6-2:7
North and South Carolina.
2:8
Georgia and Florida.
3:1
Miscellaneous Sites in U.S.
3:2
Photos Grouped by D. H.
Smith.
3:3
Secular
Architecture.
3:4
Miscellaneous sites
outside the U.S.
3:5
Miscellaneous Sites
Unidentified.
3:6
Correspondence.
3:7-4:4
Church History
Inquiries.
3:7-3:16
New Hampshire and Maine.
3:7
Massachusetts.
3:8-3:9
Connecticut and Rhode
Island.
3:10
New Jersey and New York.
3:11
Pennsylvania.
3:12
Maryland and Delaware.
3:13
Virginia and West Virginia.
3:14
North and South Carolina.
3:15
Mississippi and Louisiana.
3:16
General
Correspondence
4:1-4:4
Old Churches (Concerning the publishing
of a book).
4:1
Historical Data (Histories of churches
and houses).
4:2
Letters and Articles (unlabeled but
grouped by D. H. Smith).
4:3
Maryland and Delaware Churches (grouped
by D. H. Smith).
4:4
Drawings.
4:5-4:9
Religious
Structures.
4:5-4:6
Secular
Structures.
4:7
Miscellaneous
(Drawings grouped and labeled by D. H.
Smith).
4:8-4:9
English Origins.
4:8
Scotland.
4:9
Printed
Materials
5:1-5:12
Religious
5:1-5:6
New England.
5:1
New York.
5:2
Pennsylvania and Delaware.
5:3
Maryland and Virginia
5:4
South Carolina.
5:5
Miscellaneous sites in U.S.
5:6
Secular.
5:7-6:5
New England.
5:7
New York.
6:1
Delaware.
6:2
Maryland and Virginia.
6:3
South Carolina.
6:4
General.
6:5
Newspaper and Magazine
Clippings.
6:6-6:13
New England.
6:6
New York and New Jersey.
6:7
Pennsylvania and Delaware.
6:8
Maryland and Virginia.
6:9
North Carolina, South Carolina, and
Georgia.
6:10
Miscellaneous sites in U.S.
6:11
Miscellaneous sites outside
U.S.
6:12
Articles authored by D. H.
Smith.
6:13
Notebooks and Maps with
Colonial Churches Marked
6:14
Miscellaneous Materials
Arranged and Labeled by D. H. Smith.
6:15-9:9
Main and New Hampshire and
Vermont.
6:15
Massachusetts.
6:16-7:1
Connecticut.
7:2
Rhode Island.
7:3
New York.
7:4-7:5
New Jersey and Delaware
7:6
Pennsylvania.
7:7
Virginia (Northern Virginia, Prince
William County, and Fairfax County).
8:1
Virginia.
8:2-8:3
The Carolinas.
8:4
South Carolina.
8:5
Ohio-Kentucky-Western
Settlements.
6:6
Contains Measurements taken 1918-1930 not
drawn in ink.
8:7
Miscellaneous Houses.
8:8
Review of Church material
1963.
9:1
Old Church--Inventory
Material.
9:2
New and Old Churches Review
1963
9:3
Colonial--Details.
9:4
This File Grouped but not labeled by D. H.
Smith.
9:5
Old Church Book--1963.
9:6
Church--Synagogue.
9:7
English Origins for American
Colonial.
9:8
Glasgow--History.
9:9
Washington, D.C. and
Surrounding Area Materials.
10:1-10:20
Washington,
D.C.
10:1-10:14
Navy Yard.
10:1
Early Architects.
10:2
History--Printed Materials.
10:3-10:5
Architectural Drawings and
Pictures.
10:6
Buildings--Churches and
Public.
10:7
Delos Smith Writings and Lists of
Historic Buildings.
10:8
History and Notes.
10:9-10:10
Houses.
10:11-10:12
Georgetown.
10:13
General.
10:14
Surrounding
Area.
10:15-10:20
Fort Washington.
10:15
Maryland.
10:16
Virginia and Washington, D.C.
Area.
10:17
General.
10:18-10:19
Miscellaneous.
10:20
Reference/Research
Cards
11
Scrapbooks.
12
Oversize
Drawings.
13:1-13:7
New England.
13:1
New York, New Jersey, and
Delaware.
13:2
Maryland
13:3-13:4
Virginia and Washington, D.C.
13:5
Georgia.
13:6
Miscellaneous Unidentified.
13:7