Draft:Southeastern Architectural Archive

Merge to Howard-Tilton Memorial Library

The Southeastern Architectural Archive is at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. It was founded in 1979. It was modeled after Columbia University’s Avery Archive. It is available at Jones Hall, 6801 Freret Street, by appointment.

The collection includes records for architects including the city's pre-Civil War architects James Gallier, and Henry Howard, late 19th century architects James Freret and Thomas Sully and modernists such as work Curtis and Davis, Freret and Wolf, and James Lamantia. The collection also includes insurance company maps of the city, funerary monument designs from the Albert Weiblen Marble and Granite Company, and Frank Lotz Miller's architectural photographs. Documents include many collected by Sylvester Labrot Jr.. These include drawings by James Gallier and his son James Gallier Jr. (as well as their various partners) and drawing by New Orleans architects James H. Dakin, W. L. Atkinson, and [[Albert Diettel. Other items in the collection include field notebooks, chain of title research, auction announcements, and correspondence. It includes documents from Dominick E. Seghers (Dominique Édouard Seghers) 1849–1911) surveying business.

It has hosted exhibits. It hosted the exhibit "The Organic Modernism of Albert C. Ledner" accompanied by the documentary film "Designing Life: The Modernist Architecture of Albert C. Redner" about Albert C. Ledner. It has also posted blog articles.