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H. Kay Nicewanner Architectural Records Collection

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Identifier: DADA-011
Scope and Contents The collection includes drawings and related documents for 38 building projects in East Central Indiana, mostly in Muncie, ca. 1915-1951; also a business ledger, 1921-1963, and a few business records, 1920-1971. Nicewanner was the contractor for many or all of the buildings represented, and several were designed by him. Others whose work is represented include C. H. Houck, Macy G. Thompson, Cuno Kibele, Muncie Home Builders, Houck and Smenner, William Horatio Day (New York), Herbert F....
Dates: ca. 1915-1971

Hamilton and Graham Architectural Records Collection

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Identifier: DADA-026
Scope and Contents Collection contains 6,013 architectural working drawings, specifications, a firm commission list, photographs, negatives, and microfiche/microfilm dating from 1910-1988 for numerous building projects from the architecture firm of Graham, Love and Graham Architects, Inc. and predecessor firms. The earliest works of the collection were created by Charles Hamilton as a draftsman for Houck and Smenner Architects. Several records throughout the collection are commissions by other firms....
Dates: 1910 - 1988

Indiana Bridge Company Architectural Records Collection

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Identifier: DADA-020
Scope and Contents This collection contains records of the Indiana Bridge Company, iron and steel fabricators located in Muncie, Indiana. It covers the time period 1886 to approximately 1978. The bulk of the collection consists of shop drawings created by Indiana Bridge Company engineers and drafters for several thousand structures dating from about 1889 to about 1922 (catalog number 20-9). There are 200 rolls of drawings in the collection, covering Indiana Bridge Company contract numbers 222...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1889 - 1922; 1866-ca.1978

Jack Wyman Architectural Records Collection

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Identifier: DADA-055
Scope and Contents Spanning the period from 1965 to 2015, this collection comprises an extensive set of color slides documenting Wyman’s professional projects (both built and unbuilt); design work by Wyman’s students at Ball State University; educational field trips during Wyman’s tenure as a professor; and academic reference material used for lectures. The collection also includes several sets of working drawings and documents for Wyman’s professional projects, as well as substantial process work on tracing...
Dates: 1965 - 2011

Jay C. Bixby Architectural Records Collection

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Identifier: DADA-023
Scope and Contents Collection contains architectural and business records from the architectural office in Vincennes, Indiana, begun by John B. Bayard and continued by Rudolph W. Schucker and Jay C. Bixby, ca. 1910-1965. Included are architectural working drawings by the firm for 15 projects in southwestern Indiana (in Knox, Davies, Sullivan, Spencer, and Greene Counties). At least 17 additional projects are represented by specifications, photographs, newspaper clippings, contracts, and bills for architectural...
Dates: 1910 - 1965

John Bower and the Healthy House records and photographs

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Identifier: SPEC-061
Scope and Contents This collection includes papers, photographs, slides, videos, books, architectural drawings, correspondence, financial records, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, blueprints, manuscripts and scrapbooks from John and Lynn Bower in Bloomington, Indiana ranging from 1975 to 2001 regarding the Healthy House and John Bower`s personal life.Within the Healthy House photographs and slides series, photobooks 1-4 are photographs shot during construction of the Model Healthy House featured in...
Dates: predominantly 1978-2010; undated

Johnson and Miller Architectural Records Collection

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Identifier: DADA-024
Scope and Contents Architectural drawings from the offices of M. H. Johnson, Jr., Warren D. Miller, Ewing H. Miller, and Ewing H. Miller II, ca. 1908-1984. The firm was founded in Brazil, Indiana but moved at an early date to Terre Haute. A few projects by other firms are included as well.Includes drawings for 113 projects (102 by the Johnson and Miller firm, 11 by others), in 118 rolls. Drawings are grouped according to the name of the firm as recorded in the title block. For the Johnson and...
Dates: 1910 - 1984

Joseph O. Cezar Architectural Records Collection

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Identifier: DADA-021
Scope and Contents

Records for projects by Indianapolis architect Joseph O. Cezar dating from 1930 to 1979. Most of the projects are residential, but the collection includes some commercial and ecclesiastical work. Materials in the collection include approximately 1,000 sheets of architectural drawings (1930-1979), scrapbook material, mounted drawings, and the architect’s drawings for Christmas cards.

Dates: 1930 - 1979

Jules Frédéric Bouchet Engraved Plates Collection

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Identifier: DADA-013
Scope and Contents

Eight engraved plates from Compositions Antiques by Jules Frédéric Bouchet. Included are plates 1-3, 10, 11, 14-16. The title pages and text (14 p.) and eight additional plates are missing.

These plates are from the second edition, published by the author in Paris, 1851.

Dates: 1851 - 1851

Juliet Peddle Architectural Drawings Collection

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Identifier: DADA-053
Scope and Contents This collection consists of drawings, prints, sketch material, and Christmas card drawings from the corpus of Juliet Peddle. The material covers the period 1928-1967.Some of the sketches were completed during tours of England and France; others depict subjects in the U.S., including houses, a church, and a Civil War soldier’s memorial. The collection also contains two sets of architectural drawings for private residences; mechanical drawings of the Commercial Solvent Corporation;...
Dates: 1928 - 1967

Kibele and Garrard Architectural Records Collection

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Identifier: DADA-007
Scope and Contents This large and comprehensive collection is from the architectural firm founded by Cuno Kibele in Bluffton, Indiana, which Kibele moved to Muncie and which continued in Muncie under the names Kibele and Garrard, Garrard and Keely, and C. W. Garrard. The collection contains drawings for hundreds of buildings designed by the firm, most of them located in the east central and northeast parts of the state. The great majority of buildings designed by this prolific and locally...
Dates: 1891 - 1975

Landplus West Landscape Architectural Records Collection

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Identifier: DADA-017
Scope and Contents This collection consists of landscape plans and development plans prepared by Landplus West, land planners and landscape architects, ca. 1976-1983. Many project types are represented, including housing complexes, health-care facilities, offices, factories, parks, hospitals, school and university facilities, streetscape improvements, a golf course, a post office, and a prairie restoration. The projects are located in Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, Tennessee, Connecticut, Ecuador, and South...
Dates: 1976 - 1983

Leslie F. Ayres Architectural Drawings Collection

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Identifier: DADA-052
Scope and Contents This collection consists of drawings, sketches, presentation drawings, photographs, and reproductions of drawings made by Leslie F. Ayres from 1926 to 1945. There are a number of undated drawings, but those were likely created within the same time period. The drawings are arranged chronologically.The earliest drawings and sketches depict his student work at Princeton University, possibly his work at the firm Pierre and Wright, and scenes around Indianapolis that caught his...
Dates: 1926 - 1948

Lester W. Routt Architectural Drawings Collection

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Identifier: DADA-035
Scope and Contents This collection consists of 302 project sets of drawings from the office of architect Lester W. Routt, Vincennes, Indiana. It covers the period 1912-1970.The drawings are for a wide variety of building types in southern Indiana, northern Kentucky, and eastern Illinois: residences, apartments, hospitals, factories, fraternal lodges, schools, courthouses, churches, and offices. Most of the work is by Routt but a few drawings are by a predecessor firm, Campbell and Osterhage,...
Dates: 1912 - 1970

Lloyd W. Scholl Architectural Records Collection

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Identifier: DADA-006
Scope and Contents

Drawings and prints for 73 projects (1946-ca. 1978) by Lloyd W. Scholl from offices in Indianapolis and (beginning in 1972) Phoenix, AZ. The majority of drawings are of residences. Also included are some area churches, commercial and office buildings, schools, and hotels.

Dates: 1946 - 1978

M. Carlton Smith Architectural Drawings Collection

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Identifier: DADA-048
Scope and Contents The collection contains 701 sheets of architectural drawings, sketches, and renderings by M. Carlton Smith, dating from 1932-1969. This collection includes 241 different architecture projects and five document files containing personal and professional papers. These include clippings about projects, a copy of Smith’s architecture license, portrait photograph, and business stationery. Also included are two 1990s reference materials written about houses designed by Smith, one with highlights...
Dates: 1932 - 1994

Marion Cordill Architectural Records Collection

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Identifier: DADA-031
Scope and Contents Architectural records from the office of Marion Cordill, design consultant, Indianapolis. Includes work by Cordill and firms with which he was associated (Cordill and Hannon; Hannon and Cordill; Hannon, Meek and Cordill; Hannon, Meek and Associates, Hannon, Meek, Cordill, and Flagg, and Hannon, Meek, Flagg, Cuppy, and Cordill), mostly in the Indianapolis area. Some other firms' drawings are included as well, and even a design by Cordill’s brother. The collection consists of about 1,100 rolls...
Dates: ca. 1929- 1983

Martindale Architectural Drawings Collection

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Identifier: DADA-043
Scope and Contents

The collection contains 370 sets of architectural plans for schools, churches, banks, funeral homes, commercial buildings, animal hospitals, theaters, recreation facilities, and fraternal lodges in northeast Indiana, by Martindale and Dahlgren and its subsequent firms, from 1950-1993.

Dates: 1950 - 1993

Masters of Science in Historic Preservation News, newsletter

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Identifier: RG-11-06-05
Scope and Contents

This collection includes newsletters from the Ball State College of Architecture and Planning Masters Program in Historic Preservation ranging from 1983 to 2005 regarding.

Dates: 1983-2005

McGuire and Shook Architectural Drawings Collection

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Identifier: DADA-028
Scope and Contents

The collection contains working architectural drawings for eleven projects by McGuire and Shook, Architects, from 1925-1950. Projects represented in the collection are located in Indianapolis, Speedway, Lafayette, Rockville, Versailles, and Putnam County, Indiana.

Dates: 1925 - 1950

Mox Pohlmeyer & Associates Architectural Drawings Collection

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Identifier: DADA-062
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of approximately 280 projects that are primarily hospitals, schools, commercial buildings, and parking garages. There are a couple of residential projects. The majority of the projects are from the 1970s and 1980s, though there is a significant number of projects from the 1950s and 1960s. In addition to 44 rolls of architecture drawings, some survey equipment was also donated.

Dates: Majority of material found in c. 1950s-1990s; 1884; 1926

Muncie building research files

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Identifier: MSS-294
Scope and Contents

This collection includes newspaper clippings, student papers and other documents related to buildings, homes, and streets in downtown Muncie, Indiana. Several neighboring communities are also included.

Dates: circa 1970-2000s

Muncie Masonic Temple Association records

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Identifier: MSS-356
Scope and Contents

This collection contains records from the Muncie Masonic Temple Association ranging from 1920 to 1940 and includes membership subscription record books, receipt books, and voucher books documenting donations to and payments from the organization to fund the construction of the third Masonic Temple building; architectural drawings for the Masonic Temple created by the Indiana Bridge Company; and an embossing press featuring the organization's logo.

Dates: 1920 - 1940

RATIO Architects Drawings Collection

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Identifier: DADA-056
Scope and Contents This collection consists of two projects designed by RATIO Architects (The Associate Group Headquarters and Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard). Two additional projects comprise this collection and were designed by other firms. One project is for the Indiana State Normal School Library (1907) by J.F. Alexander & Son, and the other is for the Circle Center Mall project by Ehrenkratz & Eckstut Architects and Melvin Simon & Associates. Projects designed by RATIO are located in...
Dates: 1990-1995; 1907

ReCap, magazine

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Identifier: RG-11-10-01
Scope and Contents

This collection includes newsletters from the College of Architecture and Planning regarding department news, events, and milestones. Issues date from 1977-2007.

Dates: 1977-2007

Richard E. Beaman and Associates Architectural Records Collection

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Identifier: DADA-029
Scope and Contents The collection contains 745 architectural drawings and one folder of correspondence related to projects by the firm from 1957-81. There are working drawings for projects by Philip C. Gardner, professional engineer (1 project, 1957), John P. Guyer (1 project, 1959), Richard E. Beaman and Associates, designers (35 projects, 1961-1969), and Beaman, Guyer and Associates, architects and engineers (19 projects, 1969-1981). The projects are mostly commercial buildings (offices,...
Dates: 1957 - 1981

Richard E. Bishop Architectural Records Collection

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Identifier: DADA-001
Scope and Contents This collection consists of drawings, specifications, reference material, a report, postcards, and scrapbook material from the office of Richard E. Bishop, Indianapolis architect. It covers the period 1924-1969.The drawings are mostly designs for parks and recreational facilities. Several sets are for inns and lodges at Indiana state parks. Several children’s camps are represented, too. Other drawing sets are for private residences, a fraternity house, and additions and...
Dates: 1924 - 1969

Richard G. Foltz Architectural Rare Books Collection

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Identifier: DADA-054
Scope and Contents

This online collection consists of several books detailing architectural contests conducted and architectural medals won at the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris from 1901 to 1924. Not every year between 1901 and 1924 is accounted for. Some books detail projects of the French Academy in Rome and have direct connections to the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts, while others are rare books about the history of architecture.

Dates: 1851

Richmond, Indiana Collection

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Identifier: DADA-064
Scope and Contents

This collection consist of approximately 500 documents and reports that support the comprehensive survey work that was completed in Richmond, Indiana.

Dates: Majority of material found in ca. 1970s–1990s; ca. 1920s

Rundell Ernstberger Associates Landscape Architectural Drawings Collection

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Identifier: DADA-060
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of landscape architectural drawings and sketches that pertain to approximately 400 projects spanning the period of 1979 to 2008.

Dates: 1979-2008