2 Columbus Circle: Bibliography
The Campaign to Preserve 2 Columbus Circle
Bibliography
Archives
Reviewed for this chronology
Committee for Environmentally Sound Development
Historic Districts Council
LANDMARK WEST! (includes files from New York City Economic Development Corporation, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani archives, New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission)
Manhattan Community Board 5
Municipal Art Society
New York Landmarks Conservancy
New York State Senator Thomas K. Duane
For Future Review
DOCOMOMO NY/Tri-State (maintained by Kathleen Randall)
Museum of Arts & Design, formerly American Crafts Museum
New York City Council Member Gale A. Brewer
American Institute of Architects/New York Chapter
New York City Department of City Planning
Press
New York Times, “Art Museum at Columbus Circle Planned by Huntington Hartford,” June 11, 1956
New York Times, “Architect Picked for Art Museum,” May 19, 1958
Architectural Record (July 1959)
Architectural Forum (March 1964)
New York Times, January 21, 1959
New York Times (February 1, 1959)
New York Times, November 20, 1960
New York Times, “Huntington Hartford’s Palatial Midtown Museum,” February 25, 1964
New York Times, March 20, 1964
Advertisement, possibly from the New York Times (March 15, 1964)
New York Times (March 17, 1964)
New York Times (March 18, 1964)
New York Times (March 21, 1964)
Progressive Architecture (April 1964)
New York Times (April 12, 1964)
Interiors, June 1964
Interior Design, June 1964
American Artist (February 2005)
Architecture International (1965)
New York Times, “Dali and His Art Attract Throng to Preview at Hartford Gallery,” December 18, 1965
New York Times, “Up for Grabs,” March 16, 1969
New York Times, “Huntington Hartford’s Museum is Given to Fairleigh Dickenson,” July 16, 1969
Wall Street Journal (July 26, 1974)
New York Times, September 8, 1975
New York Times (October 31, 1974)
New York Times (November 22, 1974)
New York Times (December 20, 1974)
New York Times (March 8, 1975)
New York Times (September 10, 1975)
New York Times, September 15, 1975
New York Times, September 26, 1975
New York Times, “Gulf & Western Gives New York A Culture Center,” December 9, 1975
New York Times, “Edward Durell Stone Dead at 76; Designed Major Works Worldwide,” August 7, 1978
New York, “The Buildings New Yorkers Love to Hate,” by Richard David Story, 1986
New York Times, “An Appraisal; Columbus Circle's Changing Face: More Than Geometry,” Muschamp, March 27, 1994
New York Times, David Dunlap, April 7, 1996
“The Short, Scorned Life Of an Esthetic Heresy” for the New York Times, Herbert Muschamp, July 31, 1996
The Westsider, January 2, 1997
New York Times, February 15, 1997
New Yorker, “Landmark Kitsch,” August 18, 1997
New York Observer, October 18, 1997
New Yorker, November 30, 1998
Manhattan Spirit, December 3, 1998
New York Times, March 7, 2000
New York Times, April 15, 2000
Resident, March 14, 2000
New York Times, April 2, 2000
New York Times, April 14, 2000
New York Observer, May 15, 2000
New York Observer, June 19, 2000
April 21, 2001, New York & Co., Philip Lopate radio show
West Side Spirit, May 31, 2001
Westsider, May 31, 2001
New York Post, May 15, 2002
New York Times, “Fate of 2 Columbus Circle Is Hidden Behind Marble Walls,” May 23, 2002
New York Times, “2 Columbus Circle Will Be a Museum Again,” June 21, 2002
Real Estate Weekly (July 3, 2002)
Art in America (September 2002)
New York Times, October 3, 2002
“An Architect Who Looked Both Forward and Back,” October 27, 2002
New York Times, November 5, 2002
New York Times, December 18, 2002
Editorials
Wall Street Journal, “Save the Columbus Circle Two,” March 8, 2000
New York Observer, April 24, 2000
Press Releases
Historic Districts Council, “New York Civic Group Is Sweet on Lollipop Building,” January 15, 1999
June 13, 2002, Mayor’s press release
November 4, 2002, MAD press release
Books
From Bauhaus to Our House
Whitney Guide, 20th Century American Architecture: A Traveler’s Guide to 220 Key Buildings by Sidney LeBlanc, 1996
Newsletters
“Dahesh Museum Bids to Preserve 2 Columbus Circle,” reports Dahesh Museum newsletter, Winter 1997
Spring 2000, The Dahesh Museum newsletter
September/October 2002, MAS Newsletter
DOCOMOMO Spring 2001 newsletter
Advocacy Letters and Responses
Ronda Wist to Frank Sanchis, June 1996
February 20, 1997, The Committee for Post-War Architecture letter
February 21, 1997, CB5 letter to Jennifer Raab
January 20, 2001, SHPO letter to HDC
February 21, 2002, elected officials letter to Bloomberg
Other Documents
1980 deed
1994 reversionary interest purchase
1994 Ned Kaufman memo
1996 RFP
July 11, 1997, Letter from Mayor’s Office to Gail Benjamin
April 17, 2000, MAS letter to Raab
EDC “Strategy for 2 Columbus Circle,”dated June 13, 2002
Press Conferences/Rallies
December 20, 1998, rally organized by The Committee for Environmentally Sound Development
April 14, 2000, New York Landmarks Conservancy, Historic Districts Council, and Municipal Art Society co-sponsor rally
Public Lectures, Panel Discussions, Presentations, Exhibitions
New York Landmarks Conservancy, “The Stern 35: 35 Modernist Buildings that Should Be New York City Landmarks, 1932-67,” October 22, 1996
March 13-May 8, 2002, The Urban Arts Committee of Miami Beach and the Municipal Art Society present the exhibit “Beyond the Box: Mid-Century Modern Architecture in Miami and New York,”
Public Hearings – Testimony, Resolutions, Transcripts
March 29, 2001, City Council oversight hearing
Advertisements
New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, RFP ad, March 3, 2000
New York Times ad, published by the Committee for Environmentally Sound Development, April 19, 2000
New York Observer, June 3, 2002
Meetings
May 9, 2002, LW! meeting
This publication was made possible with a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts