Albert Farwell Bemis Foundation records

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Albert Farwell Bemis Foundation records

1926-1954

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Albert Farwell Bemis, 1870-1936, SB in civil engineering, 1893, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), was a businessman and authority on housing. He was a member of the MIT Corporation and was on several Institute visiting committees. Provisions in his will established the Albert Farwell Bemis Charity Trust in 1936 to fund research on housing. In 1938 the trust gave funds to establish the Albert Farwell Bemis Foundation at MIT. The foundation became a separate division within MIT, with its director reporting to the president. An advisory committee of architectural and building professionals and a member of the Bemis family guided the foundation, which remained a separate division of MIT until the dean of architecture assumed its direct administration in 1948. The Department of Civil Engineering and also the School of Architecture were the units of MIT most closely allied with the work of the foundation. The collection includes correspondence, reports, manuscripts of published works, notes, financial and personnel records, publicity material, course information, index cards, bibliographies, blueprints, plans, photographs, and printed material about housing, especially prefabricated housing. The foundation ceased in 1954; the bulk of the records span the period 1939 to 1953.

27.3 cubic feet; (27 record cartons, 1 manuscript box)

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