Wayne Weber Architectural Records Collection
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of 23 drawings, 213 color and black-and-white photographic slides, 41 photographic prints, 416 photographic negatives, and correspondence regarding buildings and covered bridges in Indiana.
Dates
- Creation: ca. 1957-1980
Creator
- Hamilton, Charles Eugene (Architect, Person)
- Weber, Wayne McClellan (Person)
- Houck & Hamilton (Architect, Organization)
- Houck, Charles Henry (Architect, Person)
Language of Materials
Materials entirely in English.
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research.
Copyright Notice
Legal title, copyright, and literary rights reside with Drawings and Documents Archive, Archives and Special Collections, Ball State University Libraries, Muncie, IN. All requests to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted to Drawings and Documents Archive.
Biographical Note
Wayne McClellan Weber, FAIA (1905-1984), was an accomplished architect, photographer, and lover of covered bridges. He practiced architecture under his own name to about 1956, then in partnership with John A. Curry as Weber and Curry, Architects, in Terre Haute, Indiana, from about 1956 to about 1965. Later he worked with Walter Scholer and Associates in Lafayette, Indiana (ca. 1965-1972). He also did business as an architectural photographer, including work for Indianapolis architectural firms Wright, Porteous and Lowe (ca. 1971-75) and Pecsok, Jelliffe and Randall (ca. 1972-73). He became a member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) in 1950 and was named a Fellow of the AIA in 1966.
Weber began systematically photographing Indiana’s covered bridges about 1957. That led to his long-time membership in the Indiana Covered Bridge Society and the publication of two books: Covered Bridges in Indiana (Midland, Mich., 1977) and The Covered Bridges of Parke County, Indiana (Indianapolis, 1980).
Extent
3.6 Cubic Feet (4 document cases, OVC box, wrapped boards)
Arrangement
The Wayne Weber Architectural Records Collection is arranged by location.
Custodial History
The Wayne Weber Architectural Records were received by Drawings and Documents Archive as a donation from Bruce M. Weber on 2006/2/21.
Accruals
No additions are expected.
Sources
Processing Information
Collection processing completed. Finding aid created 2007/5/24 byAndrew R. Seager; revised 2011/4/26 by Carol Street.
Genre / Form
- Architecture -- Designs and plans -- Working drawings
- Buildings, commercial
- Buildings, religious
- Documents
- Drawings, architectural (visual works)
- Photographs
- Slides (Photography)
Geographic
Style / Period
Topical
- Title
- Wayne Weber Architectural Records
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Created by Andrew R. Seager; revised by Carol Street.
- Date
- Created 2007/5/24; revised 2011/4/26.
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Andrew Seager Archives of the Built Environment Repository
Architecture Building, Room 120
Muncie IN 47306 USA
765-285-8441
765-285-3726 (Fax)
libarchives@bsu.edu
