Paul Philippe Cret Drawings (University of Texas at Austin campus), Photographic Material, and Papers 1930-1957

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Paul Philippe Cret Drawings (University of Texas at Austin campus), Photographic Material, and Papers 1930-1957

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Paul Philippe Cret, a Philadelphia architect who specialized in the design of public buildings, was born in Lyon, France in 1876, attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris (1897-1903), taught at the University of Pennsylvania (1903-1937), and was retained by the University of Texas at Austin as a consulting architect for the development of a master plan for the campus (1930-1945). The collection comprises drawings, floor plans, elevations, sections, details, landscape plans, diagrams and presentation renderings of Cret's work at the University of Texas at Austin (1930-1945). Among the buildings included are the following: Library, Architecture, Union Group and Auditorium, Home Economics, Littlefield Memorial, Yount House, Texas Memorial Museum and a number of dormitories.An addendum to this collection consists of archival material (photographic material, drawings, postcards, and papers) which accompanied the purchase of the library of Paul P. Cret in 2000.

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

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University of Texas.

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These slides were transferred to the Briscoe Center from the Harry Ransom Center in 2008. From the guide to the UT Color Slides Collection 2008-079., 1938-1965, (Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin) These images were used for UT’s 75th Anniversary presentations in 1958. Many are copies of photographs in the Briscoe Center’s collections and are dated much earlier than the reproductions in this collection. From the guide to ...

University of Texas at Austin. Main Building.

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Yount House (Austin, Tex.)

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Cret, Paul Philippe, 1876-1945

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Paul Philippe Cret (1876-1945) was born in Lyon, France. École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1903. Professor, University of Pennsylvania, and architect in Philadelphia, 1903-1937. Major works include Indianapolis Public Library, 1914-1917; Delaware River Bridge, Philadelphia, 1920-1926; Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, 1928-1932; Federal Reserve Board Building, Washington, 1935-1937. From the description of Pan American Union Building, Washington, D.C. : presentation, development an...

Texas Memorial Museum

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Littlefield Memorial Fountain (Austin, Tex.)

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Yount, M. F., Esq.

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