Carl Feiss papers

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COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Papers include family and business correspondence, reports, published material, speeches, financial records, minutes and studies, primarily concerning various consulting jobs (largely in the South). Also, material concerning Feiss' participation in various national and international commissions and committees, including the American Institute of Planners; the American Institute of Architects; the Union of International Architects; the Society of Architectural Historians; the National Trust for Historic Preservation; the Historic American Buildings Survey; and the International Conference on Monuments and Sites; and his work for regional commissions such as the Tennessee Valley Authority; the Missouri Valley Authority; the Connecticut Development Commission; Historic Savannah Foundation; Historic Annapolis; the Central Florida Regional Planning Council: the Louisville, Kentucky Historic Homes Foundation; the Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council; the Mid-Cumberland Council of Governments; and the Society for the Preservation of Landmarks in Western New York, Inc. Also, family and personal correspondence of Carl, Paul and Julian Feiss; correspondence of Sir Raymond Unwin; and microfilm of Feiss' papers, 1946-1952, from the now defunct School of Architecture, University of Denver, Denver, Colorado.

Job files include material concerning Anheuser-Busch, Inc.'s Busch Gardens; Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council's Rookery Bay Project; Naples and Collier City; East Central Florida project; Vieux Carré, New Orleans; and the Rye-Oyster Bay Bridge Project.

Also, oral history interviews with Charles B. Hosmer, Jr. and Kermit C. Parsons (RESTRICTED).

Dates

[ca.1928]-1991.

Creator

Feiss, Carl. (Person)

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

Access Restrictions:

Access to oral Histories with Parsons and Hosmer in Box 66 restricted to permission of curator.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Educator, city planner and historic preservation consultant.--He received his Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1931; a Master of City Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1938; and studied at the Cranbrook Academy of Art under Eliel Saarinen from 1932-1935. Feiss taught at Columbia University School of Architecture from 1936 to 1941, where he became director of the Planning and Housing Division.

After serving as director for both the School of Architecture and the Department of Building Industry and Real Estate at the University of Denver from 1944 to 1950, he served on several planning commissions and boards of directors in Denver, as well as nationwide. Since 1971 he has worked in the University of Florida's Urban and Regional Planning Department. In addition to federal and municipal projects, he participated in the planning of the Denver Art Museum, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the University of Maryland, the University of North Carolina, the University of Denver and Cleveland College. He was also involved with the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

Extent

64.1 cubic feet. (64.1 cubic feet.)

Additional Description

Abstract

SERIES LIST

1. Books
2. Articles and Speeches
3. Reports

RELATED MATERIAL

Original papers from Carl Feiss' tenure at the University of Denver (ca.1946-1952), held by the University of Denver, Denver, Colorado, are available on microfilm.

Physical Description

Correspondence, reports, published material, speeches, financial records, minutes, studies, job files.

General

Contact Information:: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:: B.C. Beredo
Date completed:: July 2000
EAD encoding:: Peter Martinez, April 2002
Date modified:: RMC Staff, August 2018