J. Peter Monro landscape architecture collection

Collection

Identifier: Coll. 4292

Staff Only

Scope and Content note

This collection documents J. Peter Monro’s professional projects as a landscape designer and architect. Contents include landscape and architectural drawings, correspondence, contracts, reports, writings, news clippings, photographs, negatives, slides, and digital files. The collection reflects Monro’s work on residential, commercial, municipal, public, and conservation projects as a landscape designer, architect, and consultant, as well as trustee and advisor to non-profit public works.

Dates

1983 - 2009

Creator

Monro, J. Peter (Donor, Person)

Access

Unrestricted

Copyright

Access to collections at Maine Historical Society is not an authorization to publish. Rights and reproduction requests may be submitted in writing to the MHS Image Services Coordinator or Research & Administrative Librarian, subject to format.

Biographical note

Jonathan Peter Monro worked as a landscape designer and architect in Maine for decades. A graduate of Wesleyan University, Monro worked as a journalist and a homesteader before enrolling at the Conway School of Landscape Design in Massachusetts, where he earned a masters in 1986. In 1989, he founded Monro Associates in Portland, Me.

Monro is an advocate of public paths and a former board chair of Portland Trails. He also served on the Portland Parks Commission and as clerk for the Stewards of the Western Cemetery.

Extent

8 Linear Feet (7 boxes)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Arrangement

The collection is arranged in five series.

1. J. Peter Monro papers, 1986-2009
2. Residential and commercial projects, 1991-2006
3. Public projects, 1983-2006
4. Presentations and slideshows, 1986-2006
5. Portfolios and oversize drawings

Provenance

Gift of Peter Monro, June 2020 (acc. no. 2020.062).

Processing note

Files arrived arranged by project and organized by client name, whether personal, commercial, municipal, or non-profit. Series and folder arrangement and titles were retained, reflecting the original order established by the creator, despite some repetition.

Slides and negatives were sleeved, including those that arrived in slide carousels. Landscape and architectural drawings originally housed in portfolios or flat in large boxes were housed in an oversize box. Those that arrived folded or interfiled with project documents were left in place. Photographs were removed from film processing envelopes and any identifying information transferred to archival enclosures. When pertinent, negatives associated with specific packets of prints were labeled and identified. Digital files on thumb drive and CD were transferred to the MHS hard drive; original media was retained.