Henry De Wit Collection, 1956-1986 | Heritage Hall, Hekman Library

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Box and Folder Listing

Series 1: Long-Range Planning --- 1957-1974

Box 1

Folder 1: Calvin College master plans --- 1957-1959

Folder 2: Blueprint of Calvin's future --- 1960

Folder 3: Long-Range Planning Committee --- 1957-1968

Folder 4: Long-Range Planning Committee --- 1969-1974

Folder 5: Inter-office memorandum conference --- 1957-1962

Folder 6: Conference memorandum --- 1957-1963

Folder 7: Long-Range Planning material --- 1960-1964

Folder 8: Conference memorandum, master plan changes --- 1966-1967

Folder 9: Long-Range Planning material --- 1964-1966

Folder 10: Long-Range Planning, college bookstore --- 1965

Series 2: Construction Contracts --- 1956-1974

Box 2

Folder 1: Soil testing results --- 1956-1957

Folder 2: Conference memorandum --- 1968-1973

Folder 3: Electric work --- 1974

Folder 4: Student apartment housing --- 1968

Folder 5: Projected costs of buildings --- 1964-1965

Folder 6: Cost estimates --- 1960,1961,1964

Folder 7: Filing memorandum, forms --- 1963

Folder 8: US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, documents --- 1971

Folder 9: Heating and electrical systems --- 1960-1964

Folder 10: Owner-architect contracts, instructions --- 1966

Folder 11: Percentage completion report --- 1963

Folder 12: Perkins and Will billings --- 1964-1966

Folder 13: Perkins and Will review --- 1964-1965

Series 3: Correspondence --- 1956-1974

Box 3

Folder 1: Correspondence, master plan --- 1958-1964

Folder 2: Correspondence, landscaping plans --- 1958-1964

Folder 3: Correspondence, master plan evaluations --- 1959-1962

Folder 4: Correspondence, commons building and residence halls, long range --- 1964

Folder 5: Correspondence, varia --- 1965

Folder 6: Correspondence, developments on Knollcrest Campus --- 1966

Folder 7: Correspondence, plant list --- 1966

Folder 8: Correspondence, property line change --- 1967

Folder 9: Correspondence with J. C. Miller --- 1956-1958

Folder 10: Correspondence with Gerald Ford --- 1959-1972

Box 4

Folder 1: Correspondence, long-range planning --- 1966-1973

Folder 2: Correspondence, long-range planning --- 1968

Folder 3: Correspondence, objectives --- 1969

Folder 4: Correspondence, design development --- 1969-1974

Folder 5: Correspondence --- 1969-1974

Folder 6: College Center Bulletins --- 1972-1974

Folder 7: College Center certificate of payment --- 1972-1974

Series 4: College Center Material --- 1965-1975

Box 5

Folder 1: College Center color schedule --- 1972-1973

Folder 2: College Center correspondence --- 1966

Folder 3: College Center correspondence --- 1966-1969

Folder 4-5: College Center correspondence --- 1969

Folder 6: College Center correspondence --- 1970

Folder 7: College Center correspondence --- 1971-1972

Box 6

Folder 1: College Center correspondence --- 1970-1971

Folder 2: College Center construction documents --- 1970-1971

Folder 3: College Center correspondence --- 1971

Folder 4: College Center correspondence --- 1972-1974

Folder 5: College Center, Gezon Auditorium --- 1975

Folder 6: College Center grounds --- 1973

Folder 7: College Center progress meetings --- 1972-1973

Folder 8: Calvin College Auditorium correspondence --- 1966

Folder 9: Calvin College Auditorium, Music and Speech Building --- 1965

Folder 10: Calvin Auditorium --- 1965-1966

Series 5: Auditorium and Library Buildings --- 1958-1970

Box 7

Folder 1: Calvin Auditorium, Music and Speech Building --- 1965-1966

Folder 2: Fine Arts Center (FAC) color schedule --- 1965-1966

Folder 3: Auditorium correspondence --- 1964-1965

Folder 4: Program for Auditorium, Music and Speech Building, H. Geerdes Committee --- 1963

Folder 5: Calvin Auditorium music classroom, correspondence --- 1965

Folder 6: Library addition, contract order, certificate for payment --- 1969-1970

Folder 7: Library furnishings --- 1962

Folder 8: Library color schedule --- 1962

Folder 9: Library construction papers --- 1961

Folder 10: Library correspondence --- 1958-1961

Folder 11: Library correspondence --- 1960-1961

Series 6: Library and Commons --- 1960-1967

Box 8

Folder 1: Library Classroom Building correspondence --- 1961-1962

Folder 2: Library interoffice memos --- 1961-1962

Folder 3: Library correspondence, color charts --- 1962

Folder 4: Library building correspondence, Van Raalte window frame --- 1961-1962

Folder 5: Library color and furnishings

Folder 6: Library sketches and design --- 1960

Folder 7: Library sketches --- 1960

Folder 8: Library statutes and ordinances --- 1963

Folder 9: Commons, program for Commons building --- 1965

Folder 10: Commons boiler plant --- 1967

Folder 11: Commons, food service, certificates of payment --- 1967

Folder 12: Commons color schedule --- 1967

Folder 13: Commons correspondence --- 1964-1966

Series 7: Commons and Library Addition --- 1964-1974

Box 9

Folder 1: Commons correspondence, conference on Commons building --- 1964-1966

Folder 2: Commons correspondence --- 1965-1974

Folder 3: Knollcrest Campus and faculty offices --- 1971-1973

Folder 4: Contract change orders, certificates for payment --- 1969-1970

Folder 5: Library addition correspondence --- 1966-1967

Folder 6: Library addition correspondence --- 1966-1968

Series 8: Library Addition, Auditorium, and Commons --- 1965-1971

Box 10

Folder 1: Library addition correspondence --- 1968

Folder 2: Library addition correspondence --- 1969-1971

Folder 3: Library addition contract change orders, certificate for payment --- 1968-1970

Folder 4: Library addition correspondence --- 1968-1970

Folder 5: Auditorium solicitation program --- 1965

Folder 6: Auditorium, Music and Speech Building correspondence --- 1964

Folder 7: Auditorium progress report --- 1965-1966

Folder 8: Commons correspondence --- 1966-1968

Folder 9: Commons correspondence --- 1967

Series 9: Physical Education Building --- 1960-1975

Box 11

Folder 1: PE Building preconstruction --- 1962-1963

Folder 2: PE Building train shed, tennis courts --- 1958-1961

Folder 3: PE Building utilities --- 1960-1961

Folder 4: PE Building athletic facilities, site development --- 1959

Folder 5: PE Building payment requests --- 1964

Folder 6: PE Building miscellaneous reports --- 1964

Folder 7: PE Building mechanical construction --- 1964

Folder 8: PE Building landscape area --- 1961-1966

Folder 9: PE Building bleachers, certificate for payment --- 1965

Folder 10: PE Building general construction --- 1964-1965

Folder 11: PE Building electrical construction --- 1964-1965

Folder 12: PE Building Natatorium color schedule --- 1973

Folder 13: PE Building color schedule --- 1964

Folder 14: PE Building Natatorium contractors, correspondence --- 1973

Folder 15: PE Building Natatorium general construction, correspondence --- 1974

Folder 16: PE Building Natatorium, client correspondence --- 1972-1974

Folder 17: PE Building Natatorium, certificates of payment, Pioneer Construction Co. --- 1973-1975

Series 10: Calvin College Drives, Natatorium --- 1963-1975

Box 12

Folder 1: General correspondence on college plans --- 1964-1971

Folder 2: Campus drives and parking --- 1963-1969

Folder 3: Campus drives correspondence --- 1970-1972

Folder 4: Parking lot documents, map, bidding information --- 1969

Folder 5: Natatorium estimated costs --- 1972

Folder 6: Natatorium contracts --- 1973

Folder 7: Natatorium agencies, Fire Marshal, Public Health --- 1972-1973

Folder 8: Natatorium interoffice correspondence --- 1972-1974

Folder 9: Natatorium miscellaneous correspondence --- 1972

Folder 10: Natatorium federal assistance applications --- 1972

Folder 11: Natatorium project budget, scheduling --- 1972

Folder 12: Natatorium studies and reports --- 1972

Folder 13: Natatorium conference notes, memos --- 1972

Folder 14: Natatorium agreements --- 1972

Folder 15: Natatorium advertisement and plan issue --- 1973

Folder 16: Natatorium associate architects --- 1972-1975

Series 11: Auditorium and Commons --- 1963-1969

Box 13

Folder 1: Auditorium preconstruction memorandum

Folder 2: Auditorium sketches --- 1963

Folder 3: Auditorium, FAC, miscellaneous --- 1964-1965

Folder 4: Auditorium construction memorandum --- 1965-1966

Folder 5: Commons certificates for payment --- 1966-1969

Folder 6: Commons, results of student questionnaire --- 1965

Folder 7: Commons heating unit --- 1967

Folder 8: Commons bulletins, certificates for payment --- 1966-1967

Series 12: East Beltline, Drives and Parking --- 1959-1974

Box 14

Folder 1: East Beltline study --- 1968

Folder 2: East Beltline correspondence --- 1969

Folder 3: East Beltline correspondence --- 1968-1969

Folder 4: East Beltline correspondence --- 1968-1969

Folder 5: Drives and parking --- 1959-1965

Folder 6: Drives and parking --- 1966-1969

Folder 7: Drives and parking --- 1970-1974

Series 13: Science Building Material --- 1965-1969

Box 15

Folder 1: Science Building contract orders, certificates of payment --- 1967-1969

Folder 2: Science Building certificates of payment --- 1967-1968

Folder 3: Science Building certificates of payment --- 1967-1968

Folder 4: Science Building color schedule --- 1967-1968

Folder 5: Science Building correspondence --- 1965-1966

Folder 6: Science Building preconstruction correspondence --- 1966-1967

Folder 7: Science Building correspondence --- 1967

Folder 8: Science Building correspondence --- 1967-1969

Series 14: Science and Seminary Buildings --- 1956-1972

Box 16

Folder 1: Science Building miscellaneous matters --- 1965-1968

Folder 2: Science Building correspondence --- 1968-1970

Folder 3: Science Building observatory --- 1970-1971

Folder 4: Science Building planning --- 1965

Folder 5: Science Building addition --- 1972

Folder 6: Seminary Building budget costs --- 1960-1961

Folder 7: Seminary Building conference memos

Folder 8: Seminary Building preconstruction correspondence --- 1956-1958

Folder 9: Seminary Building preconstruction --- 1958-1959

Folder 10: Seminary Building construction correspondence --- 1959-1960

Folder 11: Seminary Building correspondence --- 1958-1959

Folder 12: Seminary Building correspondence --- 1958-1961

Folder 13: Seminary Building correspondence --- 1959-1961

Folder 14: Athletic facilities bids --- 1959-1960

Series 15: Seminary Building --- 1959-1975

Box 17

Folder 1: Seminary site plans, sketches --- 1959-1960

Folder 2: Seminary furnishings --- 1960-1961

Folder 3: Seminary color schedule, correspondence --- 1960

Folder 4: Seminary electrical fixtures --- 1960

Folder 5: Seminary instructions to bidders --- 1960

Folder 6: Seminary miscellaneous correspondence --- 1961, 1967

Folder 7: Seminary prints --- 1959

Folder 8: Seminary stained glass --- 1960

Folder 9: Seminary landscaping --- 1960

Folder 10: Seminary expansion --- 1963-1973

Folder 11: Seminary addition --- 1975

Folder 12: Seminary addition correspondence --- 1975

Folder 13: Seminary alterations and additions correspondence --- 1974-1975

Folder 14: Seminary furnishings

Series 16: Residences --- 1959-1967

Box 18

Folder 1: Sketches and buildings, Perkins and Will --- 1960

Folder 2: Residences sketches --- 1960

Folder 3: Certificates of payment --- 1965-1967

Folder 4: Residences, sketches and photos --- 1961, 1967

Folder 5: Residences, correspondence --- 1959-1961

Folder 6: Residences --- 1961-1964

Folder 7: Residences, correspondence --- 1961

Folder 8: Residences, dining halls --- 1962

Folder 9: Residences, progress reports --- 1961-1962

Folder 10: Residence halls, furnishings --- 1962

Folder 11: Residences project report --- 1964

Folder 12: Residences, equipment, furnishings, correspondence --- 1960-1961

Series 17: Residences and Dining Facilities --- 1957-1973

Box 19

Folder 1: Dining halls, programming food service --- 1960

Folder 2: Dining halls specifications --- 1961

Folder 3: Residences, dining facilities --- 1964-1966

Folder 4: Residences building contracts --- 1957-1962

Folder 5: Residences, sketches --- 1960

Folder 6: Residences, correspondence --- 1960

Folder 7: Residences, correspondence --- 1959-1961

Folder 8: Residences, sketches --- 1961-1962

Folder 9: Dining hall addition --- 1964

Folder 10: Residence Hall No. 6 color schedule --- 1968

Folder 11: Dining hall color schedule --- 1962

Folder 12: Residence Hall No. 6 and dining hall electricity --- 1967-1968

Folder 13: Residence Hall No. 6 and dining room addition --- 1968

Folder 14: Residence Hall No. 6, dining hall correspondence --- 1967

Folder 15: Residence Hall No. 6, dining hall plumbing and heating --- 1968

Folder 16: Noordewier Hall addition --- 1973

Series 18: Residence Halls Nos. 1-6 --- 1962-1970

Box 20

Folder 1: Residence Halls Nos. 1 and 2, color schedule --- 1962

Folder 2: Residence Halls Nos. 3 and 4, planning --- 1964-1966

Folder 3: Residence Halls Nos. 3 and 4, correspondence --- 1964-1966

Folder 4: Residence Hall No. 5, correspondence --- 1967-1970

Folder 5: Residence Hall No. 5, certificates for payment and contract change orders --- 1970

Folder 6: Residence Hall No. 5, correspondence --- 1968

Folder 7: Residence Hall No. 5, correspondence --- 1969

Folder 8: Residence Hall No. 5, correspondence --- 1970

Folder 9: Residence Halls Nos. 5 and 6, correspondence --- 1967

Folder 10: Residence Halls, correspondence and reports

Series 19: Residence Housing --- 1959-1977

Box 21

Folder 1: Residence Halls Nos. 5 and 6, correspondence --- 1968

Folder 2: Residence Halls No. 5 and 6, correspondence --- 1967-1968

Folder 3: Residence halls --- 1959-1962

Folder 4: Residence halls, Calvin housing correspondence --- 1960-1975

Folder 5: Calvin housing, Knollcrest East, addition plans --- 1975-1977

Folder 6: Calvin housing, Knollcrest East plans --- 1977

Folder 7: Statement and principles of administration at Calvin College --- 1966

Series 20: Miscellaneous --- 1959-1990

Box 22

Folder 1: Henry De Wit, vita

Folder 2: Henry De Wit, "Verses," coffee breaks, travel notes

Folder 3: Henry De Wit paper, "The Planning and Utilization of Instructional Facilities," conference proceedings --- 1960

Folder 4: Henry De Wit memos to the Calvin staff, sampling (2 copies) --- 1959-1986

Folder 5: Specifications for J. C. Miller Residence - Jackson House on Burton (moved in 1999) --- 1952

Folder 6: Correspondence re: Holland Home --- 1973

Folder 7: "Remembering - Ten Yers (1957-1966) of 'Ford' Bonus Payments" --- 1990