Wells Ira Bennett Papers 1916-1965

Fuller, R. Buckminster (Richard Buckminster), 1895-1983

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Architect, inventor, scientist, teacher, philosopher, creator of the geodesic dome and the Dymaxion car. From the description of Letter, 1958 Feb. 10, Clemson, S.C. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 33018576 Mark Burginer is a California-based architect, whose interest in Buckminster Fuller's synergetic geometry led to some correspondence between them during the early 1980s. From the description of Letters to Mark Burginger, 1980-1981. (Unknown)...

University of Michigan. College of Architecture and Design

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Kelsey, Francis W. (Francis Willey), 1858-1927

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Professor of classics and archeologist at University of Michigan. From the description of Francis Willey Kelsey papers, 1894-1928. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34421754 From the description of Francis Willey Kelsey papers, 1894-1928. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 83851247 Epithet: Professor at Michigan University British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000509.0x0003...

Hatcher, Harlan, 1898-1998

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Author. From the description of Harlan Hatcher papers, ca. 1930's. (University of Kentucky Libraries). WorldCat record id: 13514624 Historian of the Great Lakes, professor of English and vice president of Ohio State University, and president of University of Michigan, 1951-1967. From the description of Harlan Henthorne Hatcher papers, 1837-1998 (bulk 1891-1986). (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 84044751 Historian of the Great Lakes, professo...

Unistrut Corporation, Wayne, Mich.

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Company established by Charles Attwood who was inventor and developer of a system of precast metal frame construction that came to be known as the Unistrut system. The company was originally known as Deceleco. From the description of Unistrut Corporation photographs. 1930s-1960s (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 44460326 Deceleco, Inc., the predecessor company to the Unistrut Corporation, was established in 1924 by Charles At...

Bennett, Wells Ira, 1888-

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Architect, professor and dean of the College of Architecture and Design of the University of Michigan. From the description of Wells I. Bennett papers, 1916-1965. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 154302252 The career of Wells Ira Bennett, professor and Dean of the College of Architecture and Design at The University of Michigan, was divided throughout between the academic and the practical, the traditional and the contemporary. Although most of Benn...

Saarinen, Eliel, 1873-1950

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Architect; Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Came to U.S. from Finland. Taught design at the University of Michigan and was president of Cranbrook Academy of Art. From the description of [Louis Sullivan and Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue eulogy]. 1924. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122556982 ...

Michigan. State Board of Registration for Architects, Professional Engineers, and Land Surveyors.

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Gropius, Walter, 1883-1969

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Architect, educator. Studied architecture at the Universities of Charlottenburg-Berlin and Munich, Germany from 1903 to 1907. Founded and directed the Staatliches Bauhaus, Weimar in 1919, which Gropius moved to Dessau in 1925 and renamed "Bauhaus Dessau". Professor of Architecture in the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, 1937 and Chairman of the Department of Architecture from 1938 to 1952. Formed the Architects' Collaborative in Cambridge in 1946. For further information see James ...

Ruthven, Alexander Grant, 1882-1971

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President of University of Michigan, 1929-1951. From the description of Alexander Grant Ruthven papers, 1901-1961. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34423262 Epithet: President University of Michigan Ann Arbor British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001240.0x00010a Alexander G. Ruthven was born April 1, 1882 in Hull, Iowa. He received his BS degree in 1903 from Morningside ...

Bonnaud, A., Madame.

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University of Michigan.

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Outside of museum holdings, no comprehensive survey and inventory of campus artwork had been attempted since 1937. With support from the Michigan Commission on Art in Public Places, 1,076 items were inventoried during 1988-1990. Additional inventory work was undertaken in 1997-1998 for risk management purposed, but generated little new information. From the description of Inventory of University of Michigan-owned art, 1988-1990, 1997-1998. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id...

Moore, Charles, 1855-1942

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Charles Henry Moore (b. 1859) was the son of William James Moore, who had emigrated from Copiah County, Mississippi, to Nacogdoches, Texas in 1844. Moore was raised in Anderson County. From the description of Moore, Charles H., Reminiscences, 1932-1933 (University of Texas Libraries). WorldCat record id: 755804035 Moore was chairman of the National Commission of Fine Arts (1915-1937), served as overseer at Harvard University, and was author of works about George Washington. ...

Ferguson, Homer, 1888-1982

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Republican U.S. Senator from Michigan, U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines, and judge on the U.S. Court of Military Appeals. From the description of Homer Ferguson papers, 1939-1976. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34419354 Senator, judge. From the description of Reminiscences of Homer Ferguson : oral history, 1969. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122565301 Ferguson (1888-1982) graduated from the University...

Burton, Marion Le Roy, 1874-1925

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President of University of Michigan, 1920-1925. From the description of Marion LeRoy Burton papers, 1895-1925. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 80711269 From the description of Marion LeRoy Burton papers, 1901-1925. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34422205 M. L. Burton was president of the University of Minnesota from 1917 to 1920. From the description of M.L. Burton papers, 1917-1920. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). Wo...

Kimball, Fiske, 1888-1955

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Museum director, architect. Educated at Harvard (M.Arch. 1912) and University of Michigan (Ph.D. 1915). Founder and director of the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University (1923-1925). Director of Philadelphia Museum of Art (1925-1955). From the description of Papers of Sidney Fiske Kimball, 1918-1952 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 269301918 Sydney Fiske Kimball, b. Newton, Mass. Architect, architectural historian, professor of architecture and ...

Pavey, Ernest W.

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Hughes, Talmadge Coates, 1887-1963.

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Mendelsohn, Erich, 1887-1953

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German architect. From the description of Design, ca. 1924. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 81952229 Correspondence to Lewis Mumford from architect Eric Mendelsohn and his wife, Louise Mendelsohn. All letterheads and signatures by Mendelsohn in this file spell his first name as "Eric," not "Erich." From the description of Letters to Lewis Mumford, 1941-1975, n.d. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 122526818 German a...

Lorch, Emil, 1870-1963

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Dean of the College of Architecture and Design at University of Michigan. From the description of Emil Lorch papers, 1891-1963. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34422357 Emil Lorch was born in Detroit of German-American parentage on July 21, 1870. He attended schools in Detroit, including the Detroit Museum of Art School, then went to work for the city's architectural offices. He next studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1890-1892, ...