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| caption = The Copper Shop, first building of the Roycroft Campus to be restored
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| location = Main and South Grove St., [[East Aurora, New York|East Aurora]], [[New York (state)|NY]]
| location = Main and South Grove St., [[East Aurora, New York]]
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'''Roycroft''' was a reformist community of [[craft]] workers and artists which formed part of the [[Arts and Crafts movement]] in the United States. [[Elbert Hubbard]] founded the community in 1895, in the village of [[East Aurora, New York]], near [[Buffalo, New York|Buffalo]]. Participants were known as '''Roycrofters'''. The work and philosophy of the group, often referred to as the '''Roycroft movement''', had a strong influence on the development of American architecture and design in the early 20th century.
'''Roycroft''' was a reformist community of [[craft]] workers and artists which formed part of the [[Arts and Crafts movement]] in the United States. [[Elbert Hubbard]] founded the community in 1895, in the village of [[East Aurora, New York]], near [[Buffalo, New York|Buffalo]]. Participants were known as '''Roycrofters'''. The work and philosophy of the group, often referred to as the '''Roycroft movement''', had a strong influence on the development of American architecture and design in the early 20th century.
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==History==
==History==
[[Image:Roycroft printing press.jpg|left|thumb|[[Golding Pearl]] letterpress used by the Roycrofters]]
[[Image:Roycroft printing press.jpg|left|thumb|[[Golding Pearl]] letterpress used by the Roycrofters]]
The name "Roycroft" was chosen after the printers, Samuel and Thomas Roycroft, who made books in [[London]] from about 1650–1690. And beyond this, the word ''roycroft'' had a special significance to Elbert Hubbard, meaning ''King's Craft''. In [[guild]]s of early modern Europe, king's craftsmen were guild members who had achieved a high degree of skill and therefore made things for the King. The Roycroft insignia was borrowed from the monk [[Cassiodorus]], a 13th-century bookbinder and illuminator.
The name "Roycroft" was chosen after the printers, Samuel and Thomas Roycroft, who made books in [[London]] from about 1650–1690. The word ''roycroft'' had a special significance to Elbert Hubbard. Hubbard believed "''roycroft"'' meant "''king's craft"'' in French.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Elbert G. Hubbard: Roycroft Arts and Crafts by John H. Martin |url=https://www.crookedlakereview.com/books/saints_sinners/martin15.html |access-date=2022-04-03 |website=www.crookedlakereview.com}}</ref> In [[guild]]s of early modern Europe, king's craftsmen were guild members who had achieved a high degree of skill and therefore made things for the King. The Roycroft insignia was borrowed from the monk [[Cassiodorus]], a 13th-century bookbinder and illuminator.


Elbert Hubbard had been influenced by the ideas of [[William Morris]] on a visit to England. He was unable to find a publisher for his book ''Little Journeys'', so inspired by Morris's [[Kelmscott Press]], decided to set up his own [[private press]] to print the book himself, founding '''Roycroft Press'''.
Elbert Hubbard had been influenced by the ideas of [[William Morris]] on a visit to England.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Koch |first=Robert |date=January 1967 |title=Elbert Hubbard's Roycrofters as Artist-Craftsmen |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/495764 |journal=Winterthur Portfolio |volume=3 |pages=67–82 |doi=10.1086/495764 |s2cid=162706305 |issn=0084-0416}}</ref> He was unable to find a publisher for his book ''Little Journeys'', so inspired by Morris's [[Kelmscott Press]], decided to set up his own [[private press]] to print the book himself, founding '''Roycroft Press'''.


His championing of the Arts and Crafts approach attracted a number of visiting craftspeople to East Aurora, and they formed a community of printers, furniture makers, metalsmiths, leathersmiths, and bookbinders. A quotation from [[John Ruskin]] formed the Roycroft "creed":
His championing of the Arts and Crafts approach attracted a number of visiting craftspeople to East Aurora, and they formed a community of printers, furniture makers, metalsmiths, leathersmiths, and bookbinders. A quotation from [[John Ruskin]] formed the Roycroft "creed":
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The inspirational leadership of Hubbard attracted a group of almost 500 people by 1910, and millions more knew of him through his essay ''[[A Message to Garcia]]''.
The inspirational leadership of Hubbard attracted a group of almost 500 people by 1910, and millions more knew of him through his essay ''[[A Message to Garcia]]''.
[[File:A door of the Chapel, Roycroft Campus.jpg|thumb|A door of the Chapel (not a religious building but a guild hall]]
[[File:A door of the Chapel, Roycroft Campus.jpg|thumb|A door of the Chapel (not a religious building but a guild hall)]]
The Roycroft Press is also credited for publishing partner publications, such as Carl Lothar Bredemeier's The Buffalo Magazine for Arts in 1920.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Publications, Volume 24|last=|first=|publisher=Buffalo Historical Society|year=1920|isbn=|location=Buffalo, NY|pages=384}}</ref>
The Roycroft Press is also credited for publishing partner publications, such as Carl Lothar Bredemeier's ''The Buffalo Magazine for Arts'' in 1920.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Publications, Volume 24|publisher=Buffalo Historical Society|year=1920|location=Buffalo, NY|pages=384}}</ref>


In 1915 Hubbard and his wife, noted [[suffragist]] [[Alice Moore Hubbard]], died in the sinking of [[RMS Lusitania|RMS ''Lusitania'']], and the Roycroft community went into a gradual decline. Following Elbert's death, his son Bert took over the business. In attempts to keep his father's business afloat, Bert proposed selling Roycroft's furniture through major retailers. Sears & Roebuck eventually agreed to carry the furniture, but this was only a short lived success.<ref name="Roycroft_Hubbard">{{cite web |url=http://roycroft.org/elbert-hubbard.html |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140729162105/http://roycroft.org/elbert-hubbard.html |title=Elbert Hubbard - The Man. |website=Roycroft.org |archivedate=July 29, 2014 |author= |accessdate=December 17, 2015}}</ref>
In 1915 Hubbard and his wife, noted [[suffragist]] [[Alice Moore Hubbard]], died in the sinking of [[RMS Lusitania|RMS ''Lusitania'']], and the Roycroft community went into a gradual decline. Following Elbert's death, his son Bert took over the business. In attempts to keep his father's business afloat, Bert proposed selling Roycroft's furniture through major retailers. Sears & Roebuck eventually agreed to carry the furniture, but this was only a short lived success.<ref name="Roycroft_Hubbard">{{cite web |url=http://roycroft.org/elbert-hubbard.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140729162105/http://roycroft.org/elbert-hubbard.html |title=Elbert Hubbard - The Man. |website=Roycroft.org |archive-date=July 29, 2014 |access-date=December 17, 2015}}</ref>


Fourteen original Roycroft buildings are located in the area of South Grove and Main Street in East Aurora. Known as the "Roycroft Campus", this rare survival of an [[art colony]] was awarded [[National Historic Landmark]] status in 1986.<ref name="nhlsum"/><ref name="nrhpinv">{{cite web|url={{NHLS url|id=74001236}} |title="Roycroft Campus", July 1985, by Carolyn Pitts (National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination)|format=pdf|date=July 1985|publisher=National Park Service}}</ref><ref name="nrhpphotos">{{cite web|url={{NHLS url|id=74001236|photos=y}} |title=Roycroft Campus--Accompanying 3 photos, exterior, from 1973. (National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination)|format=pdf|date=July 1985|publisher=National Park Service}}</ref>
Fourteen original Roycroft buildings are located in the area of South Grove and Main Street in East Aurora. Known as the "Roycroft Campus", this rare survival of an [[art colony]] was awarded [[National Historic Landmark]] status in 1986.<ref name="nhlsum"/><ref name="nrhpinv">{{cite web|url={{NHLS url|id=74001236}} |title="Roycroft Campus", July 1985, by Carolyn Pitts (National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination)|format=pdf|date=July 1985|publisher=National Park Service}}</ref><ref name="nrhpphotos">{{cite web|url={{NHLS url|id=74001236|photos=y}} |title=Roycroft Campus--Accompanying 3 photos, exterior, from 1973. (National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination)|format=pdf|date=July 1985|publisher=National Park Service}}</ref>
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===Roycroft Inn===
===Roycroft Inn===
[[File:Roycroft Inn, Lobby bar, Roycroft Campus.jpg|thumb|Roycroft Inn, Lobby bar, Roycroft Campus]]
[[File:Roycroft Inn, Lobby bar, Roycroft Campus.jpg|thumb|Roycroft Inn, Lobby bar, Roycroft Campus]]
Part of the Roycroft Campus, the Inn is a hotel with a restaurant and lobby bar across the street from the primary buildings. It first opened for visitors in 1905 and in 1986, as part of the Roycroft Campus, became a [[National Historic Landmark]]. A nine year restoration was completed in 1995, with funding from the Margaret L. Wendt Foundation; the total cost was $8 million. At that time, the facility re-opened. The Salon area contains restored murals by Roycroft artist [[Alexis Jean Fournier]].<ref>https://roycroftinn.com/our-history/, Our History</ref>
Part of the Roycroft Campus, the Inn is a hotel with a restaurant and lobby bar across the street from the primary buildings. It first opened for visitors in 1905 and in 1986, as part of the Roycroft Campus, became a [[National Historic Landmark]]. A nine year restoration was completed in 1995, with funding from the Margaret L. Wendt Foundation; the total cost was $8 million.<ref>{{Cite web |last=SCHULMAN |first=JAMES HEANEY AND PAUL CARROLL, PAUL CARROLL, PAUL CARROLL AND GENE WARNER, PAUL CARROLL AND SUSAN |title=RESTORED ROYCROFT INN TO REOPEN E. AURORA LANDMARK REBORN IN $8 MILLION RENOVATION |url=https://buffalonews.com/news/restored-roycroft-inn-to-reopen-e-aurora-landmark-reborn-in-8-million-renovation/article_bddc59c5-6179-5967-994d-c869f3ec5423.html |access-date=2022-04-03 |website=Buffalo News |date=April 30, 1995 |language=en}}</ref> At that time, the facility re-opened. The Salon area contains restored murals by Roycroft artist [[Alexis Jean Fournier]].<ref>https://roycroftinn.com/our-history/, Our History</ref>


===Gallery===
==Gallery==
<gallery mode="packed" heights="170">
<gallery mode="packed" heights="170">
Image:Visitor Center, Roycroft Campus, East Aurora, NY.jpg|Visitor Center, June 2019
Image:Roycrofttownhall.JPG|Front of the Town Hall building
Image:Aurora Town Hall - former Roycroft Chapel - Dec 2008 - 01.jpg|Front of the Chapel
Image:Roycroftrestaurant.JPG|Roycroft Inn & Restaurant
Image:Roycroftrestaurant.JPG|Roycroft Inn
Image:RoycroftTownHall.JPG|Side of the Town Hall building
Image:RoycroftCrest.jpg|Crest of the Roycroft
Image:Aurora Town Hall - former Roycroft Chapel - Dec 2008 - 02.jpg|Side of the Chapel
Image:RoycroftCampusWelcome.jpg|Roycroft Campus welcome sign
Image:RoycroftCrest.jpg|The Roycroft Renaissance Logo
Image:RoycroftCampusWelcome.jpg|Roycroft Campus welcome sign from the 1990s
Image:RoycroftSign.JPG|Sign about Elbert Hubbard
Image:RoycroftSign.JPG|Sign about Elbert Hubbard
Image:Roycroftsign2.jpg|Sign with Roycroft crest and lettering
Image:Roycroftsign2.jpg|Sign with Roycroft crest and lettering
Image:Portrait of Elbert Hubbard, Roycroft Campus Visitor Center.jpg|Portrait of Elbert Hubbard at the Visitor Center
</gallery>
</gallery>


==Famous Roycrofters==
==Famous Roycrofters==
*Arthur H. Cole (1899–?), coppersmith
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*[[William Wallace Denslow]] (W.W. Denslow) illustrated ''[[The Wonderful Wizard of Oz]]'' and had a distinctive Roycroft-inspired "logo".
*[[Jerome Connor]] (1874–1943), sculptor of Elbert Hubbard statue, North Wind on the Roycroft Chapel, and others.
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*[[Dard Hunter|William Joseph "Dard" Hunter]] was an American authority on making paper by hand, as well as printing using handmade type. He published a number of books on traditional, pre-industrial, techniques for making paper.
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*[[William Wallace Denslow]] (1856–1915), illustrator of ''[[The Wonderful Wizard of Oz]]''.
*[[Alexis Jean Fournier]] (1865–1948), American painter, including 20 murals at the Roycroft Inn.
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*[[Dard Hunter|William Joseph "Dard" Hunter]] (1883–1966), American authority on making paper by hand, as well as printing using handmade type. He published a number of books on traditional, pre-industrial, techniques for making paper.
*Walter Jennings, coppersmith and jeweler
*Karl Kipp (1882–1954), worked in the bindery in 1908 and later established the Roycroft Copper Shop.
*Fredrick Kranz, created find leather goods.
*Victor Toothaker (1882–1932), coppersmith
*Samuel Warner (1871–1947), book designer, artist and illustrator for many Roycroft books.


==See also==
==See also==
* [[American craft]]
* [[American craft]]
* [[Arden, Delaware]]
* [[Arden, Delaware]]
* [[Byrdcliffe Colony]]
* [[Elbert Hubbard]]
* [[Frank Lloyd Wright]]
* [[Frank Lloyd Wright]]
* [[Gustav Stickley]]
* [[Gustav Stickley]]
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==Further reading==
==Further reading==
*{{cite web |last=Beyer |first=Rachael A. |title=`You must make it the fashion:' selling utopia in Roycroft and Arden, 1895-1915 |website=Iowa State University Digital Repository |date=2013-06-21 |url=https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/etd/13025 |access-date=2018-03-20 |oclc=880379261}}
*{{cite journal |last=Beyer |first=Rachael A. |title='You must make it the fashion:' selling utopia in Roycroft and Arden, 1895-1915 |website=Iowa State University Digital Repository |date=2013-06-21 |url=https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/etd/13025 |access-date=2018-03-20 |oclc=880379261}}
* Cathers, David M. (1981) ''Furniture of the American Arts and Crafts Movement: Stickley and Roycroft Mission Oak'' New American Library, New York, {{ISBN|0-453-00397-4}}
* Cathers, David M. (1981) ''Furniture of the American Arts and Crafts Movement: Stickley and Roycroft Mission Oak'' New American Library, New York, {{ISBN|0-453-00397-4}}
* Champney, Freeman (1968) ''Art & glory; the story of Elbert Hubbard'' Crown Publishers, New York, [http://worldcat.org/oclc/274494 OCLC 274494]
* Champney, Freeman (1968) ''Art & glory; the story of Elbert Hubbard'' Crown Publishers, New York, [http://worldcat.org/oclc/274494 OCLC 274494]
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==External links==
==External links==
{{commons category|Roycroft}}
{{commons category|Roycroft}}
* [http://www.roycroftcampuscorporation.com Roycroft Organization]
* [http://www.roycroftcampuscorporation.com Roycroft Organization]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070312042831/http://www.roycroftinn.com/inn/inn_history.htm Roycroft Inn, East Aurora]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070312042831/http://www.roycroftinn.com/inn/inn_history.htm Roycroft Inn, East Aurora]
* [http://www.stickleyera.info/ Roycroft shop marks and related historical furniture maker details]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20160319104038/http://www.stickleyera.info/AmericanMakersR-Ste.htm Roycroft shop marks and related historical furniture maker details]
* [http://www.arts-crafts.com/archive/hdavis.shtml The Roycroft Community 1894-1938 by Hilary Davis]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20161109075520/http://www.arts-crafts.com/archive/hdavis.shtml The Roycroft Community 1894–1938 by Hilary Davis]
* [http://www.arts-crafts.com/archive/ehubbard.shtml The Arts & Crafts Movement: People: Elbert Hubbard]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20101124213821/http://www.arts-crafts.com/archive/ehubbard.shtml The Arts & Crafts Movement: People: Elbert Hubbard]
* [http://freenet.buffalo.edu/bah/a/archsty/a-c/roy/hp/index.html The Roycroft Campus]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070210063221/http://freenet.buffalo.edu/bah/a/archsty/a-c/roy/hp/index.html The Roycroft Campus]
* [http://www.ralaweb.com Roycrofters At Large Association]
* [http://www.ralaweb.com Roycrofters At Large Association]
*[http://findingaid.winterthur.org/html/HTML_Finding_Aids/COL0254.htm The Winterthur Library] Overview of an archival collection on the Roycrofters
*[http://findingaid.winterthur.org/html/HTML_Finding_Aids/COL0254.htm The Winterthur Library] Overview of an archival collection on the Roycrofters
*Roycrofters Collection: Books published at the Roycrofter colony founded by Elbert Hubbard, (97 items). From the [https://www.loc.gov/rr/rarebook/ Rare Book and Special Collections Division at the Library of Congress]
*Roycrofters Collection: Books published at the Roycrofter colony founded by Elbert Hubbard, (97 items). From the [https://www.loc.gov/rr/rarebook/ Rare Book and Special Collections Division at the Library of Congress]
* [http://www.trovestar.com/ac_antique/index.php?Manufacturer=Roycroft Furniture Items from the 1906 Roycroft Catalog ]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20150707090929/http://www.trovestar.com/ac_antique/index.php?Manufacturer=Roycroft Furniture Items from the 1906 Roycroft Catalog ]


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{{Registered Historic Places}}
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Latest revision as of 00:56, 18 February 2024

For the surname, see Roycroft (surname).

Roycroft Campus
The Copper Shop, first building of the Roycroft Campus to be restored
LocationMain and South Grove St., East Aurora, New York
Nearest cityBuffalo
Coordinates42°46′04″N 78°37′04″W / 42.76778°N 78.61778°W / 42.76778; -78.61778
Built1895
NRHP reference No.74001236
Significant dates
Added to NRHPNovember 8, 1974[1]
Designated NHLFebruary 26, 1986[2]

Roycroft was a reformist community of craft workers and artists which formed part of the Arts and Crafts movement in the United States. Elbert Hubbard founded the community in 1895, in the village of East Aurora, New York, near Buffalo. Participants were known as Roycrofters. The work and philosophy of the group, often referred to as the Roycroft movement, had a strong influence on the development of American architecture and design in the early 20th century.

History

[edit]
Golding Pearl letterpress used by the Roycrofters

The name "Roycroft" was chosen after the printers, Samuel and Thomas Roycroft, who made books in London from about 1650–1690. The word roycroft had a special significance to Elbert Hubbard. Hubbard believed "roycroft" meant "king's craft" in French.[3] In guilds of early modern Europe, king's craftsmen were guild members who had achieved a high degree of skill and therefore made things for the King. The Roycroft insignia was borrowed from the monk Cassiodorus, a 13th-century bookbinder and illuminator.

Elbert Hubbard had been influenced by the ideas of William Morris on a visit to England.[4] He was unable to find a publisher for his book Little Journeys, so inspired by Morris's Kelmscott Press, decided to set up his own private press to print the book himself, founding Roycroft Press.

His championing of the Arts and Crafts approach attracted a number of visiting craftspeople to East Aurora, and they formed a community of printers, furniture makers, metalsmiths, leathersmiths, and bookbinders. A quotation from John Ruskin formed the Roycroft "creed":

A belief in working with the head, hand and heart and mixing enough play with the work so that every task is pleasurable and makes for health and happiness.

The inspirational leadership of Hubbard attracted a group of almost 500 people by 1910, and millions more knew of him through his essay A Message to Garcia.

A door of the Chapel (not a religious building but a guild hall)

The Roycroft Press is also credited for publishing partner publications, such as Carl Lothar Bredemeier's The Buffalo Magazine for Arts in 1920.[5]

In 1915 Hubbard and his wife, noted suffragist Alice Moore Hubbard, died in the sinking of RMS Lusitania, and the Roycroft community went into a gradual decline. Following Elbert's death, his son Bert took over the business. In attempts to keep his father's business afloat, Bert proposed selling Roycroft's furniture through major retailers. Sears & Roebuck eventually agreed to carry the furniture, but this was only a short lived success.[6]

Fourteen original Roycroft buildings are located in the area of South Grove and Main Street in East Aurora. Known as the "Roycroft Campus", this rare survival of an art colony was awarded National Historic Landmark status in 1986.[2][7][8]

The Elbert Hubbard Roycroft Museum, housed in the George and Gladys Scheidemantel House, in East Aurora is the main collection and research centre for the work of the Roycrofters.

Roycroft Inn

[edit]
Roycroft Inn, Lobby bar, Roycroft Campus

Part of the Roycroft Campus, the Inn is a hotel with a restaurant and lobby bar across the street from the primary buildings. It first opened for visitors in 1905 and in 1986, as part of the Roycroft Campus, became a National Historic Landmark. A nine year restoration was completed in 1995, with funding from the Margaret L. Wendt Foundation; the total cost was $8 million.[9] At that time, the facility re-opened. The Salon area contains restored murals by Roycroft artist Alexis Jean Fournier.[10]

[edit]
  • Visitor Center, June 2019
    Visitor Center, June 2019
  • Front of the Chapel
    Front of the Chapel
  • Roycroft Inn
    Roycroft Inn
  • Side of the Chapel
    Side of the Chapel
  • The Roycroft Renaissance Logo
    The Roycroft Renaissance Logo
  • Roycroft Campus welcome sign from the 1990s
    Roycroft Campus welcome sign from the 1990s
  • Sign about Elbert Hubbard
    Sign about Elbert Hubbard
  • Sign with Roycroft crest and lettering
    Sign with Roycroft crest and lettering
  • Portrait of Elbert Hubbard at the Visitor Center
    Portrait of Elbert Hubbard at the Visitor Center

Famous Roycrofters

[edit]
  • Arthur H. Cole (1899–?), coppersmith
  • Jerome Connor (1874–1943), sculptor of Elbert Hubbard statue, North Wind on the Roycroft Chapel, and others.
  • William Wallace Denslow (1856–1915), illustrator of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
  • Alexis Jean Fournier (1865–1948), American painter, including 20 murals at the Roycroft Inn.
  • William Joseph "Dard" Hunter (1883–1966), American authority on making paper by hand, as well as printing using handmade type. He published a number of books on traditional, pre-industrial, techniques for making paper.
  • Walter Jennings, coppersmith and jeweler
  • Karl Kipp (1882–1954), worked in the bindery in 1908 and later established the Roycroft Copper Shop.
  • Fredrick Kranz, created find leather goods.
  • Victor Toothaker (1882–1932), coppersmith
  • Samuel Warner (1871–1947), book designer, artist and illustrator for many Roycroft books.

See also

[edit]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
  2. ^ a b "Roycroft Campus". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. September 18, 2007. Archived from the original on September 11, 2009.
  3. ^ "Elbert G. Hubbard: Roycroft Arts and Crafts by John H. Martin". www.crookedlakereview.com. Retrieved April 3, 2022.
  4. ^ Koch, Robert (January 1967). "Elbert Hubbard's Roycrofters as Artist-Craftsmen". Winterthur Portfolio. 3: 67–82. doi:10.1086/495764. ISSN 0084-0416. S2CID 162706305.
  5. ^ Publications, Volume 24. Buffalo, NY: Buffalo Historical Society. 1920. p. 384.
  6. ^ "Elbert Hubbard - The Man". Roycroft.org. Archived from the original on July 29, 2014. Retrieved December 17, 2015.
  7. ^ ""Roycroft Campus", July 1985, by Carolyn Pitts (National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination)" (pdf). National Park Service. July 1985.
  8. ^ "Roycroft Campus--Accompanying 3 photos, exterior, from 1973. (National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination)" (pdf). National Park Service. July 1985.
  9. ^ SCHULMAN, JAMES HEANEY AND PAUL CARROLL, PAUL CARROLL, PAUL CARROLL AND GENE WARNER, PAUL CARROLL AND SUSAN (April 30, 1995). "RESTORED ROYCROFT INN TO REOPEN E. AURORA LANDMARK REBORN IN $8 MILLION RENOVATION". Buffalo News. Retrieved April 3, 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  10. ^ https://roycroftinn.com/our-history/, Our History

Further reading

[edit]
  • Beyer, Rachael A. (June 21, 2013). "'You must make it the fashion:' selling utopia in Roycroft and Arden, 1895-1915". Iowa State University Digital Repository. OCLC 880379261. Retrieved March 20, 2018.
  • Cathers, David M. (1981) Furniture of the American Arts and Crafts Movement: Stickley and Roycroft Mission Oak New American Library, New York, ISBN 0-453-00397-4
  • Champney, Freeman (1968) Art & glory; the story of Elbert Hubbard Crown Publishers, New York, OCLC 274494
  • Hamilton, Charles Franklin (1973) As Bees in Honey Drown: Elbert Hubbard and the Roycrofters A.S. Barnes, South Brunswick, ISBN 0-498-01052-X
  • Rust, Robert et al. (2000) The Roycroft Campus (Images of America series) Arcadia Publishing, Charleston, SC, ISBN 0-7524-1344-9
  • Turgeon, Kitty and Rust, Robert (1998) The Arts and Crafts Home Friedman/Fairfax Publishers, New York, ISBN 1-56799-455-5
  • Via, Marie and Searl, Marjorie (eds.) (1994) Head, Heart, and Hand: Elbert Hubbard and the Roycrofters University of Rochester Press, Rochester, N.Y., ISBN 1-878822-43-8
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