Drawings and plans, 1925-1961.

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Drawings and plans, 1925-1961.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/40844690

The John Gaw Meem Drawings and Plans consists of architectural drawings, including floor plans, elevations, preliminary sketches, site surveys, and some details and perspectives. Designs for residences, churches, school buildings, and commercial structures are included, many of them fashioned in the Pueblo Revival and Territorial Styles that are popular in the Southwest. Among the projects are the Library and Administration buildings at the University of New Mexico, both Public Works Administration projects from the early 1930s. The majority of the projects represented in the collection are for buildings in New Mexico, but a few are located in Colorado, most notably the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. A few projects that were in preliminary stages when Meem left the firm, Meem, Holien, Buckley and Associates were completed by Holien and Buckley and are included with the Meem drawings and plans. Also includes drawings and plans designed by the various partners of Meem; Cassius McCormick, Hugo Zehner, Edward O. Holien, and William R. Buckley.

43 drawers (11.25 lin. ft.)

University of New Mexico-Main Campus

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SNAC Resource ID: 7430633

University of New Mexico-Main Campus

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Meem, Holien, Buckley and Associates.

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Zehner, Hugo

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University of New Mexico.

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The University of New Mexico was established by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of New Mexico in 1889. It was to be located in Albuquerque. Elias Stover was appointed the first president. The new institution opened in rented rooms as a summer normal school, June 15, 1892, beginning regular instruction on September 21st in the first building erected on the campus. In 1901 Dr. William G. Tight became president. He introduced the "Pueblo Style" architecture for the University buildings. U...

Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center

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Founded 1919 as the Broadmoor Art Academy by Mr. And Mrs. Spencer Penrose. The Academy became affiliated with Colorado College in 1926 and was reincorporated as the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center in 1936. From the description of Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center records, 1919-1983. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83209858 ...

Holien, Edward O. (Edward Obert)

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Meem & McCormick (firm)

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Buckley, William R.

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Edward Holien and William Buckley (firm)

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John Gaw Meem, Hugo Zehner and Associates.

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John Gaw Meem (firm)

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Meem, Zehner, Holien and Associates.

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Meem, John Gaw, 1894-1983

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The original objective of the interview was a survey of the early development of the Santa Fe art colony and the personalities who made it famous. The interviewer is unidentified. Interviewees include renowned architect, John Gaw Meem; Will Shuster, painter and founder of Los Cinco Pintores, Santa Fe's first modernist art group; and Karl Larsson, Swedish immigrant, silversmith, and painter-teacher. From the description of Oral history interview with John Gaw Meem, Will Shuster, and K...

McCormick, Cassius.

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