David Adler (1882 - 1949) was an American architect revered for his creative use of historical style in the service of his clients. His traditional American architecture drew from many design vocabularies and the work was built primarily for Chicago clients in that city and it’s suburbs but also in interesting locations where Chicagoans had homes. Adler designed country houses for Chicago based or associated clients on New York’s Long Island (Marshall Field), Boston’s North Shore (Richard Crane), California’s Bay Area (Tobin Clark and Frances Elkins) and in Hawaii (Walter Dillingham). Much admired over the course of his architectural practice (1912 - 1947) Adler has also become a respected resource among a generation of architects building homes for modern Americans in traditional styles today. Several monographs exist describing David Adler’s architectural designs. An early monograph by Richard Pratt has long been out of print and that work has been supplemented by a passionate volume by Stephen Salny as well as a book edited by Richard Guy Wilson and Martha Thorne that accompanied an exhibit on the architect’s work at the Art Institute of Chicago in 2002.

The images scanned and presented here are for scholarly use. Any commercial user should track and investigate the holder of any copyright for these images. The David Adler Cultural Center holds an archive of David Adler’s personal papers which were scanned by Laura Graham and Erik Liederbach of Liederbach and Graham, Architects in the summer of 2014 so that the content of those papers might be preserved electronically in case of any damage to the physical material. These papers were collected by David Adler, mounted on shirt cardboards and organized into a reference file for his own personal use in serving his clients. It is a wonderful glimpse into the material that interested the architect and which formed a part of his working library. Anyone with a working knowledge of the operation of a traditional architectural practice will understand the value and use of such an archive. What is remarkable about this collection is the breadth of the architect’s interests.

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Location Box 1B Item 59 Window	Location Box 1B Item 6 Two Early Ninteenth-Century Doorways in Western New York	Location Box 1B Item 60 Window- Thomas Beals House, Canandaigua, New York 1825 Measured and Drawn by Benj. F. Betts	Location Box 1B Item 61 Doorway-1824 Casements Grouped with a door Early Philadelphia Door and Window groupings
Location Box 1B Item 62 Doorway of Zachariah Seymour House, Canandaigua, New York 1824 Measured and Drawn by Benj. F. Betts	Location Box 1B Item 63 Window Bryan House, New Bern, North Carolina Measured and Drawn by J. A. Altschuler	Location Box 1B Item 64 Page 1 Front Side Wheeler-Beecher House, Bethany, Connecticut Measured and Drawn by Myron Bement Smith David Hoadlev, Architect	Location Box 1B Item 64 Page 1 Back Side Wheeler-Beecher House, Bethany, Connecticut 1805 Measured and Drawn by Myron Bement Smith David Hoadley, Architect
Location Box 1B Item 64 Page 2	Location Box 1B Item 65 Wentworth Gardner House, Portsmouth, New Hampshire	Location Box 1B Item 65 Back Side Wentworth Gardner House, Portsmouth, New Hampshire Details of First and Second Floor Halls	Location Box 1B Item 66 Front Side Doorway, Bartlet-Atkinson House, Newburyport, Massachusetts 1805 Measured and Drawn by Gordon Robb