Preston M. Geren (1891-1969) Drawings, Selected buildings in Fort Worth, Texas including the Kimbell Museum 1937-1969

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Preston M. Geren (1891-1969) Drawings, Selected buildings in Fort Worth, Texas including the Kimbell Museum 1937-1969

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Geren was born in Sherman, Texas (1891), received a degree in architectural engineering from A&M College of Texas (1912), taught at Oklahoma A&M (1921-1923), was employed as chief engineer at the Fort Worth firm of Sanguinet, Staats and Hedrick (1923-1934), established his own architecture firm in Fort Worth (1934), worked actively in Fort Worth and throughout Texas on a variety of building types (schools, universities and colleges, office buildings, public housing projects, defense facilities)until his death in 1969. This record group consists of 462 architectural drawings produced between 1937 and 1969.

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Alexander Architectural Archive, University of Texas Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin.

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Geren, Preston M., 1891-1969

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Geren was born in Sherman, Texas (1891), received a degree in architectural engineering from A&M College of Texas (1912), taught at Oklahoma A&M (1921-1923), was employed as chief engineer at the Fort Worth firm of Sanguinet, Staats and Hedrick (1923-1934), established his own architecture firm in Fort Worth (1934), worked actively in Fort Worth and throughout Texas on a variety of building types (schools, universities and colleges, office buildings, public housing projects, defense faci...