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Study of Penn Square, 1924 [without City Hall]

Architectural Work :

I. Student Work - Ecole Des Beaux Arts

• Lyon
  3.23; 3.30; 3.37; 3.48; 5.10 (?); 7(?).
• Paris
  3.49 - .51; 3.10; 3.36; 5.6(?).
• Other Work (non-designated location)
  3.1 - 3.9; 3.11 - 3.22; 3.24 - 3.29; 3.31 - 3.36; 3.28 - 3.47; 6.3; 6.5; 6.19 - 6.22, 8(?).

• Robert Fulton Memorial (1909)
  25.1 - .4
• Put-in-Bay Competition (1911)
  26
• Washington Memorial Hall (1911)
  27.1 - 27.4
• Valley Forge Arch (1912)
  94
• Indianapolis Public Library (1914)
  83
• Nebraska State Capitol (1919)
  106.1 - 106.2
• Detroit Institute of Art (1920)
  97.2 - 97.6; 105.1 - 105.11
• Kansas City War Memorial (1920)
  116.1 - 116.5
• Memorial to President Warren G. Harding (1925)
  165Y1 - 165Y4
• Scottish Rite Hospital (1925)
  165x1
• Hartford County Building (1926)
  173.1 - .3
• Milwaukee Courthouse (1927)
  198.1
• Providence War Memorial (1927)
  192, 192.1 - 192.9
• New Haven City Hall (1928)
  198x
• Chicago War Memorial (1929)
  202x
• George Rogers Clark Memorial (1930)
  256.1
• Hartford War Memorial (1931)
  227.1 - 227.10
• Eastman Memorial (1933)
  279x1- 279x9
• Additions to Chicago Art Institute (1934)
  293
• Federal Reserve Board Building (1935)
  302.1 - 302.2
• Smithsonian - Exhibition Building (1939)
  384x
• Fountain in Australia (No date)
  287
• Indiana State Library and History Building (No date)
  164 x1 - x3

• Chicago World's Fair of 1933 (1930)
  240.1 - 240.6
• Hall of Science (1931, 1933)
  240.7 - 240.8
• Competition for Chrysler Exhibition (1932)
  271x1 - 271x2

• Washington Arch (1912)
  94.1 - .12
• Rittenhouse Square (1913)
  98.1 - 98.2
• Quentin Roosevelt (1919)
  101; 101.1 - .5
• Rittenhouse Square Drinking Fountain (1920)
  107.1 - 107.2
• Washington Peace Carillon (1921)
  113
• Studies for Tribute Trees Tablet Logan Circle (1924)
  143.1 - 143.3
• Thayer Cross (1925)
  144
• Tablets for Penn. Historical Commission (1925- c. 1930)
  180 (Various Studies)
• Bushey Run Battlefield Memorial (1927)
  160
• Improvements to Rittenhouse Square (1928)
  98.5
• Historical Memorial Trail (1930)
  160
• Samuel Memorial (1932)
  259
• Gettysburg Peace Memorial (1937)
  
• Goethals Memorial, (1938)
  372.1 - 372.6
• Proposed Peace Memorial (1940)
  399.1 - 399.2
• Studies for Frazier Tombstone (1920?)
  39.2
• Frankford War Memorial (no date)
  112 (see also 180 and 165)
• Tablets to Henry C. Lea (no date)
  28.1 - 28.2
• Pedestal for Youthful Franklin, U. of Penn. (no date?)
  99.1 - 99.2
• Philadelphia Orchestra Tables (memorials?)
  104

• Barnes Foudation (1923)
  132.1- .2
• Philadelphia Art Alliance (1925)
  185.1- .3
• Rodin Museum (1928)
  176.1- .2
• Cincinnati Art Museum (1935)
  299.1- .2

• Pan American Union (1908)
  23.1- .6, 23.8- .11, 165.3
• Annex and Gardens (1911, 1912)
  24.1- .3
• Pan American Plaza (1943)
  465.1; 465.4

• University of Wisconsin (1913)
  96
• Indianapolis Library
• Competition and War Memorial (1913, 1929)
  34.2
• Brown University (1922)
  129.1- .2
• Institute of Fine Arts, University of Chicago (1929)
  239.1 - .5
• Folger Shakespeare Library (1931)
  226; 226.1 - .3
• American Philosophical Society (1932)
  181.1 - .3
• Southern Methodist University, Fondren Library (1936)
  317
• U.S. Naval Academy, Chapel Oregon (1938)
  363A
• State College Pennsylvania (1940)
  61

University of Pennsylvania, Buildings:

• School of Architecture (1906)
  17.1 - 17.10
• Women's Building (1920)
  103.1 - .2
• Franklin Statue (1925)
  157
• Franlkin Society Building (1931)
  Working Drawings 264
  Sheet # 1 - 8 (?)
• Chemistry Building (1940)
  Working Drawing 398
  Sheet #2 - 8; M-16 to M-22

University of Texas Buildings :

• University of Texas (1931)
  261 A1- A2
• University of Texas Campus Plan (1931, 1933)
  241, 241.2, 261
• Library (1932)
  261 A3
• Music Building (1934)
  261 U

• Philadelphia Parkway Study (1907)
  21.5
• Schuykill River Embarkments (1909, 1920)
  21.3, 109
• Plan of Sesquicentennial (1920- 23)
  122
• Study of Penn Square (1924)
  187.1 - .2
• Proposed Pennsylvania Rail Road improvements (1928)
  178
• Independence Memorial Park (1933)
  276
• Carnivora Barless Den - Philadelphia Zoo (1938)
  305
• Glennwood Project for Philadelphia Housing Authority (1938)
  359
• Plaza at end of Delaware River Bridge (no date)
  115.2

Non-Architectural Work :

• Investigation into use of Plexiglass
  400.1 - .8
• Trains
  278.1 -.5

VI. Miscellaneous Works

• Course drawings at University of Pennsylvania
  6; 6.16
• Criticism by Cret
  18; 18.1 - 18.2
• Photo of Lithograph
  6.28
• Sketches and Notes
  6.4; 6.19; 6.23; 6.25; 6.31
• Portraits
  6.1
• WWI Reconnaissance Drawings
  35.1- 35.5
• Unknown Building Study?
  
• American Legion Chapel
  228
• Cartoons of Paul Cret
  19

V. Sketchbook and Sketches

• Sketchbook of Pierre Bernard, from Paul Phillipe Cret Collection
  Folder # 1
• Sketchbook
  Folder # 2 - 5
• Sketches
  Folder # 6 - 9

VI. Medals Designed by Cret

• The Fencers Club of Philadelphia
• The Arthur - Spayd Brook Memorial Prize

VII. Medals

• Chambre de commerce de Lyon
  A.F.L.A. Sabers Championship
  Jean - Louis Pascal Architecte
  Conseil dea Anciens Constitution de L'an Trois
  FAF cuff link
• Philadelphia AIA
  Architecture League
  American Institute of Architects
• Societe des Architects
  Ill Congresso Pan American de Arquitectos
  Sequicentennial International Exposition
  Ecole Nationale Des Beaux Arts
• The Paul Phillipe Cret Prize
  The Arthur - Spayd Brooke Memorials Prize
  Thorton Oakley Medal
• Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts:
  Architecture Esquisse
  Architecture Concours Rougevin
  Architecture Rendu
  Architecture Concours Rougevin
  Architecture Rendu
• Ill Congresso Panamericano de Arquitectos
  Philadelphia Chapter of A.I.A.
  Aisne - Marne - Chateau Threary
  Societe des Amis des Arts de Lyon
• Ecole Nle. Des Bjeaux Arts de Lyon
  Societe d'en Encouragement a l'Art et l'Industrie
  Ecole Municipales de Dessin de la Ville de Lyon
  Philibert Delorme Architecte - gold
  Philibert Delorme Architecte - silver
  Louis XVIII Roi de France