Purcell and Elmslie, Architects Firm active: 1907-1921 Minneapolis, Minnesota :: Chicago, Illinois Philadelphia, Pennsylvania :: Portland, Oregon

In reading Purcell's writings, whether in manuscript or publication, there are many references to important texts that are now very difficult to obtain. These pages accumulate those materials as PDF files as they become available. The downloads have been broken down into chapters, or groups of chapters, to keep file size manageable. Some of the files are in TIFF format. Also, new technologies are making available materials

• Houses and Gardens, by M. H. Baillie Scott (George Newnes, Ltd., 1906)

Referenced by Elmslie in correspondence with Purcell, and by Purcell in his Parabiographies.

The following PDFs are available at the Internet Archive.

• The Fourth Dimension (1912), by Charles Howard Hinton (PDF, 20 MB).
• The Beautiful Necessity : Seven Essays on Theosophy and Architecture (1910), by Claude Bragdon (PDF, 7.8 MB).
• Six Lectures on Architecture ([c1917]), filed under the name of Ralph Adams Cram for the iteration of Gothic art, but containing Organic Architecture and The Language of Form, by Claude Bragdon (PDF, 27 MB).
• Architecture and Democracy (1918), by Claude Bragdon (PDF, 25 MB).
• Successful Houses and How to Build Them (1912), by Charles E. White (PDF, 61 MB)
• Louis Sullivan: Prophet Of Modern Architecture (1935), by Hugh Morrison, whose volume inscribed with a dedication of the work George Elmslie remains in the Purcell Papers (PDF, 49 MB).
• Louis Sullivan As He Lived, The Shaping Of American Architecture: A Biography (1960), by Willard Connely, a volume to which Purcell contributed with correspondence and manuscripts also found in the Purcell Papers (PDF, 18 MB).
• The Testament Of Stone: Themes Of Idealism And Indignation From The Writings Of Louis Sullivan (1963), by Maurice English, and yet another monograph influenced by correspondence with Purcell (PDF, 17 MB).
• Kindergarten Charts Revised 1918 And Other Writings (1947, the Wittenborn reprint), by Louis Henri Sullivan (PDF, 35 MB).
• The Autobiography Of An Idea (1956, the Dover reprint), by Louis Henri Sullivan (PDF, 42 MB).
• On Architecture: Selected Writings 1894-1940 (1941), by Frank Lloyd Wright (PDF, 20 MB)
• The Living City (1958), by Frank Lloyd Wright (PDF, 32 MB)