Rice University School of Architecture Alumni Archive

The collection consists of materials about the Rice University School of Architecture and materials created by its alumni over years from 1927 to 1990. Included are a booklet titled Rice Institute Department of Architecture 1928 and another titled The Rice Institute Traveling Scholarship in Architecture, 1928-32. A large part of the collection is drawings of the individuals who won this award in six years between 1953 and 1982. Also included are a folio from 1930 to 1932 of Frank Vesey, a 1932 Architecture 410 sketchbook from Walter Johnson, 1946 biographical sketch and traveling information of Milton B. McGinty, Guy Rollins’ memoirs of architecture school spanning 1963 and 1990, the 1973 student newspaper Intercourse, and weekly calendars for 1969 to 1972.

In the map case drawer are pen and ink drawings and watercolors by several individuals, some of them winners of particular awards. There are seven copies of pen and ink drawings of Rice University and transparencies of the same. An ink and watercolor on board titled Sacristy Santo Spirito by Milton McGinty is identified with the 1928 Rice Institute Traveling Fellowship in Architecture. There are eight pieces by Erik T. Sprohge: two pen and ink drawings with watercolor associated with the 1954 William Ward Watkin Traveling Fellowship; materials that won the Walsh Prize in 1953, sections, plans, rendering in ink and watercolor on board for A Theater for the Motion Picture Association of America; an undated watercolor on board, A Municipal Library; materials that won the 1952 Kenneth Murchison Prize, elevation, plans, sections, and rendering in pen and ink and watercolor on board for A Mission Chapel on a Barge; and three 1955 watercolor renderings. There is also an undated set of perspectives, elevations, plot plan, floor plans, and watercolor and pencil on board for An Office Building for a Pipe Fabricating Company.

Also included is a grouping of 18 items associated with Frank W. Vesey. These are comprised of pencil and ink, chalk and charcoal drawing, ink and watercolor, and watercolors that range in date from 1927 to 1982. There are four photocopies of shrimp boats, the Cathedral of Clermont-Ferrand, a European house, and Chartres Cathedral from the northwest.

Finally, there is an undated unidentified building rendering in pencil and colored pencil on paper by Ray Morris, Jr. of Wilson, Morris, Crain, and Anderson.