Records of the University Architect 1926-1977

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Records of the University Architect 1926-1977

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These records which fill 27 boxes, including one half-box and one legal-size box, and date between 1926 and 1977 have been divided into two major subseries: Building Programs (Boxes 1-11) and Construction Operations (Boxes 12-27). The records have been arranged within each subseries alphabetically by the current name of the respective building or group of buildings to which they certain. A small amount of records that did not fit this arrangement is filed following Box 26. The records incorporate a wide variety of materials ranging from building space requirements and descriptions by University faculty members of their research and teaching space needs, to correspondence, minutes, and reports, contracts, specifications, proposals in response to bid requests, reports of on-site engineering tests (caissons, compression, et al.), and detailed records of expenses and payments. Not all these varieties of documentation are found for each building represented in these records. All oversize architectural drawings have been removed and added to the University Archives' holdings of these materials.

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Northwestern university

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During World War II, Northwestern offered its facilities for use by the War Department. The Army, Navy, and Civil Aeronautics Administration operated eleven training programs at Northwestern in addition to the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps (N.R.O.T.C.) established in 1926: the Navy V-7, Naval Reserve Midshipmen's School; the Navy V-5, Naval Aviation Prepatory Program; the Navy V-1, Accredited College Program; the Naval Training School (Radio); the Army Signal Corps Officers Training Scho...

University Architect

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The University Architect was responsible for supervising institutional master planning and the design and construction of all new and remodeled buildings on the Evanston and Chicago campuses of the university. From 1926 to 1977 it was an informally held post. In 1978, Gabor Zsolnay was the first to be appointed as the official University Architect at Northwestern University. From the guide to the Records of the University Architect, 1926-1977, (Northwestern University Archives) ...