Frederick E. Ruffini collection

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Frederick E. Ruffini collection

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Frederick Ernst Ruffini (1851-1885) was trained in architecture in Cleveland before moving to Austin in 1877 to become a partner to Jasper N. Preston for two years before continuing architectural practice on his own. His work included courthouses, jails, and buildings for institutions such as the Texas School for the Deaf and the University of Texas, for whom he designed the Old Main Building. The Frederick E. Ruffini collection consists of 47 drawings, 1 letterbook, 15 specifications, photographic prints.

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

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Ruffini, Frederick E., 1851-1885

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F. E. (Frederick Ernst) Ruffini, an architect based in Austin, Texas, was born in 1851 and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. His parents, Ernst Frederick Ruffini and Adelheit (Adelaide) Riehme, immigrated from Kamenz, Germany to Chicago in 1848 and then settled in Cleveland. Ruffini was apprenticed to an architect in Cleveland and worked in Indianapolis, New York, Boston, and Chicago before moving to Austin, Texas in 1877. He entered into a partnership with Jasper N. Preston which lasted t...

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Jails

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Specifications

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Photographs

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