(ARCHITECTURE.) Goodhue, Bertram Grosvenor. Two ink drawings of Boston area churches (one initialed). Unsigned ink drawing titled "The New Church & The Old," 255x340 mm; 9 7/8x13 1/4 inches, on thick stock, tipped to mat, toned along edges (pencil note "Christ Church, Hyde Park" on verso); Signed image titled "The New East End of Emmanuel Church, Wakefield" and signed "Cram, Wentworth, & Goodhue Architects, Boston" lower left, with the firm's stamp on verso, 350x340 mm; 13 3/4x13 1/4 inches, on thick stock, tipped to mat, toned and with one small marginal spot. Boston, circa 1891-98
Goodhue and Ralph Adams Cram formed the firm Cram, Wentworth, and Goodhue, with fellow architect Charles Wentworth in 1891; after the latter's death, draftsman Frank Ferguson joined the firm. Goodhue was also a talented book and type designer. In 1896, he created the Cheltenham typeface for use by a New York printer, Cheltenham Press. This typeface came to be used as the headline type for The New York Times. Cram is well-known for St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City. The lot includes a large, folded printed plan of a neo-gothic church entrance with some hand-coloring, split along the folds, undated, but believed to be a project by the firm around the same time, though perhaps not for one of the churches in the drawings.
