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The collection includes material relating to the Hilltop Campus Architectural Competition of 1899, including background information and competition drawings.

Scope and Contents The Eugene J. Mackey, Jr. Papers consists of Mackey’s original sketches and impressions of France and Italy during six week trip to Europe during the summer of 1958 with his son Gene. As the companions traveled through Belgium, Germany, France and Italy, Mackey sketched his trip instead of using a camera. 55 years later, Gene Mackey organized Mackey’s drawings and published ...

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The collection includes material relating to the Mudd/Eliot Hall architectural competition of 1965, including background information and competition drawings.

Scope and Contents The Joseph. D. Murphy (JDM) Papers consists of Murphy’s architectural, teaching, research, personal, and other professional and business material. It includes architectural documents and drawings from his time as a student at Ecole des Beaux Arts and his time at Murphy & Mackey. Also included is work Murphy did for the St. Louis City Planning Commission, as a member of the Architectural Institute of America, and as a professor at Washington University. Materials include but are not...

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The collection includes material relating to the Olin Library architectural competition of 1956, including background information and competition drawings.

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This collection is comprised primarily of sound recordings, slides, and a transcript of a presentation given by Pickens detailing examples of architecture found on the Washington University campus. The material is arranged by material type.

Scope and Contents This collection contains material from 1925 to 2012. Awards were given every year except the following: 1926, 1934, 1941, 1943-1948, 1951-1952, 1955, 1975-1977, and 1989. After 1988 the Governing Committee decided to make the Fellowship biennial in order to provide more financial resources for the year of foreign travel. There was no winner awarded in 1926, the first year of the Competition, because the jury felt that the competitors failed to grasp the purpose of the program and had not...

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The collection consists of a number of bound volumes which describe Thias' life, teaching activities at Washington University, and architectural career. The collection also includes several folders of Thias' sketches and watercolors. These drawings depict buildings on the Washington University campus, St. Louis scenes, and Missouri scenes.