Records, 1920-[ongoing].

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Records, 1920-[ongoing].

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This Record Group contains correspondence, financial information, documents, photographs, and architectural drawings related to the design, construction, and maintenance of the several buildings which constitute the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

5.0 linear feet of processed materials plus.16.0 linear feet of unprocessed additions.Architectural drawings: 300 items.

Hirsch Library Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

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Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Office of Building and Grounds.

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Completed in 1924, the central architectural core of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston was the first major public building designed by the Boston architect William Ward Watkin (1886-1952). Watkin had come to Houston as an associate of the firm of Cram, Goodhue, and Ferguson to supervise construction of early structures at the Rice Institute (now Rice University), where he became first chairman of the department of architecture in 1916. Watkin began work on his designs for the Museum building as e...

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

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Watkin, William Ward, 1886-1952

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Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, 1886-1969

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German born architect. From the description of Manuscript fragment (n.d.) and letter, 1962 Nov.30. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 82217577 Architect. From the description of Reminiscences of Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe : oral history, 1961. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122631918 Architect. Born in Aachen, Germany (1886). From the description of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe collection, 1929-1969....