Advisory Architect records 1920-1965

University of Minnesota

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The West Bank Union at the University of Minnesota was established in 1967 to offer services to students. It took until 1980 for the union to have its own space in Willey Hall, including an auditorium and lounge spaces for students. Student services and facilities were established in the newly constructed West Bank Union skyway, which connected Willey and Blegen Halls. From the guide to the West Bank Union papers, circa 1970s-1980s, (University of Minnesota Libraries. University Arch...

Mann, Frederick Maynard.

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Close, Winston A. (Winston Arthur), 1906-1997

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Winston Close was a native of Appleton, Minnesota, and was graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He worked as a draftsman for several Minneapolis firms from 1927 until 1938 when he and Elizabeth Scheu married and began their partnership. Winston Close died in Minneapolis on June 15, 1997. Elizabeth Scheu was born in Vienna in 1912 and studied at the Wiener (Vienna) Technische Hochschule (1930) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1934-1935),...

University of Minnesota. University Grove.

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Jones, Roy Childs, 1885-1963.

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Roy Childs Jones was born in Kendallville, Indiana on June 22, 1885. He attended Purdue University and the University of Pennsylvania, obtaining a B.S. in architecture in 1908 and his M.S. in architecture in 1914. Following his undergraduate work, he was employed by Holabird & Root in Chicago and McKim, Mead and White in New York, and while pursuing graduate study he joined the University of Minnesota School of Architecture staff in 1913. Jones was head of the School from 1937 to 1953. From ...

Forsythe, James H.

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University of Minnesota. Advisory Architect.

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The role of the consulting or advisory architect was created by the Board of Regents on December 9, 1919. The minutes of this meeting appointed Professor James H. Forsythe as the consulting architect and was given the following duties: To assist the Board of Regents, the President, the Comptroller, and the Faculty in collecting and correlating information concerning all buildings to be erected under the ten year comprehensive building plan.To have charge of all matters dealing with general campu...