Joseph L. Herndon papers

Collection

Joseph L. Herndon papers

• circa 1920s-2017 (Production)

18 linear feet (11 record storage boxes, 2 flat newspaper boxes, 1 archival audio-visual box, 3 rolled-up architectural plans in an oversized archival box, and 5 items in custom preservation boxes)

Joseph L. Herndon (1948-2021) was a historical preservationist who aided in several global restoration projects, including the Old Spanish Fort (1730) in Pascagoula, Mississippi; Qasr Ibrihim (1600's) in Hoffuf, Saudi Arabia; the Old Post Office (1897) in Washington, D.C.; The Rugby Colony (1880's) in Rugby, Tennessee; Union Station (1900) in Nashville, Tennessee; The Germantown neighborhood revitalization (1840's) in Nashville, Tennessee; The Biltmore Hotel (1926) in Miami, Florida. His papers include a large breadth of information and research pertaining to the Biltmore Hotel, the Panama Canal, Turkey, the Deering Estate, resorts, and other areas of interest to Joseph Herndon. Material types represented within include audio-visual materials (CD-ROMS, VHS, photographs, slides), print-outs, administrative files, financial files, travel brochures, ephemera, architectural plans, interior design samples, research files, reports, proposals, periodicals, and 3D objects.

This collection is unprocessed but open for research.

Portions of this collection are kept in an off-campus storage facility. Please contact Special Collections at asc.library@miami.edu with the boxes you are interested in prior to your visit, and allow up to 1 week for delivery of materials.

Joseph L. Herndon papers finding aid © 2022 University of Miami. All rights reserved. Requests to reproduce or publish materials from this collection should be directed to asc.library@miami.edu.

• anglais
• espagnol
• turc

Books and periodicals included in the donation have been removed and added to the library catalog.

• Citation: Joseph L. Herndon papers, Special Collections, University of Miami Libraries, Coral Gables, Florida.

Finding aid created by Yvette Yurubi, August 2022.

• Architecture -- Florida -- Coral Gables
• Architecture -- Florida
• Miami Biltmore Hotel & Country Club
• Buildings -- Repair and reconstruction
• Panama Canal (Panama)
• Turkey

• Photographies
• Slides (Photographs)
• Negatives (photographs)
• CD-ROMs
• Video recordings (physical artifacts) » Videocassettes » VHS
• Research (documents)
• Photocopies
• Architectural drawings (visual works)
• Architectural plans
• Résumés (personnel records)
• Périodiques
• Brochures
• Reports