George Smart
Museum
Why pick this one
George Smart started USModernist in 2007, a 501(c)(3) archive with 6 million downloadable architecture-magazine pages.
Best for
- Researching American Modernist houses and architects
- Accessing searchable, printable, downloadable architecture magazines
- Finding Modernist architecture tours and events
- Listening to interviews with architects, historians, and Modernist homeowners
- Donating modern art or midcentury furniture for rehoming
Look elsewhere if
- Seeking a conventional general-art museum collection
- Expecting unrestricted public access to privately owned Modernist houses
Specialties
- Modernist residential architecture documentation
- Modernist house archives
- Architecture magazine digitization
- Modernist architecture tours and events
- Modern art and midcentury furniture rehoming
Certifications
- 501(c)(3) nonprofit educational archive
What makes them different
- Open digital archive documenting 24,184 Modernist houses and 34,964 photographs
- Architecture media library offering more than 6 million downloadable pages
- Free public access without a login, library card, or travel
- Modernist Radio podcast with more than 480 episodes and guests including Jeanne Gang, Daniel Libeskind, and Kenneth Frampton
- Tours of significant Modernist buildings locally, nationally, and internationally
- Response time
- Volunteer inquiries are answered within 24 hours.
Distilled from this business's own website.
Contact & Location
- Address
- 5409 Pelham Rd, Durham, NC 27713-2533
- Website
- http://www.usmodernist.org/
- george@usmodernist.org
Services
- Digital architecture archive
- Architecture media library
- Research and search tools
- Architecture podcast
- Tours and events
- Keynote speaking
- Modernist architecture preservation advocacy
- Art and furniture donation matchmaking