naa006 Charles A. Hausler papers Archives Staff University of Minnesota Libraries undated
University of Minnesota Libraries Minneapolis, MN 55455
EAD encoding by Karen Spilman, April 2005 English Hausler, Charles A. (Charles Albert), 1889-1971 Charles A. Hausler papers 1912-1954 University of Minnesota Libraries. Northwest Architectural Archives, Manuscripts Division [naa] 9.5 cubic feet Collection contains watercolor renderings, sketches, and photographs from Charles Hausler's private practice, documenting more than one hundred buildings, including civic and commercial structures, churches, residences, banks, hospitals, and schools. N 6 English Mezzanine; High Bay Administrative Information Restrictions on Access

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 Restrictions on Use

There are no restrictions on the use of materials in this collection. Copies can be requested if the condition of the originals warrants it.

Preferred Citation

Charles A. Hausler papers (N 6), Northwest Architectural Archives, University of Minnesota Libraries, Minneapolis.

 Biographical Note

Charles Hausler was born in 1889 in the West Seventh Street neighborhood of St. Paul. In his late teens, he apprenticed with Louis Sullivan in Chicago. When he returned to St. Paul, Hausler went into partnership with William Alban (1911-1913) and later with Percy Bentley (1914) and Ernest Hartford (1915-1916). He was St. Paul's first City Architect (1914-1923) and designed many St. Paul schools, branch libraries, fire stations, and park buildings, some in the Prairie School style. Hausler was elected to the State Senate in 1922. He retired after sixteen years' service and reestablished his architectural practice in 1939. Hausler's architectural career extended nearly to his death in 1971.

 Scope and Content Note

The collection contains watercolor renderings, sketches and photographs and tracings from Hausler’s private practice, documenting more than 100 buildings, including civic and commercial structures, churches, residences, banks, hospitals and schools. Among the notable buildings documented are the St. Paul Temple of Aaron (1954); Faribault (Minnesota) School for the Deaf (1931); pencil tracings for the Labor Temple (St. Paul) (1930); and photographs, tracings, and renderings for the Minnesota Building (St. Paul) (1928).

 Additional Finding Aid

An unpublished finding aid with more detailed contents is available in the Manuscripts Division; see below for a list of commissions represented in the collection.

 Index Terms

This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the University of Minnesota Libraries. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.

Hausler, Charles A. (Charles Albert), 1889-1971 -- Archives Architects -- Minnesota -- Saint Paul Architecture -- Minnesota -- History -- Sources Detailed Contents

The following section contains a detailed list of the materials in the collection.

Working drawings

The drawings in this collection represent a mix of original sketches and drawings and photographs aloong with photostats and other reproductions.

 Adrian and Montreal Apartment

Plans for an apartment No Date

Cleveland Apartments, Owner, FHA Project 092-42003

St. Paul, MN

Charles A. Hausler

Alverdes Hotel

No Date

St. Paul (?), MN

Charles A. Hausler

Photostat

Architecture and Sculpture Series

Exposition of 1900, Librarian and editor Armand Guernet of the Fauburg-St. Martin National Museum No Date

No Location

Charles A. Hausler

Bannon's

Department Store 1930

No Location

Charles A. Hausler

Photostat

Broon, Mr. and Mrs. A.

Lake Home 1945

Minn. (?)

Wm. B. Carson

Pencil

Central Bureau

Certificates of approval of a dwelling blank No Date

St. Paul-Minneapolis, MN

Charles A. Hausler

Blueprint

Charles, Mrs. E.

Dutch Colonial Home 1945

Minneapolis, MN

Wm. B. Carson

Pencil

Church of All Saints

1930

Minneapolis, MN

Charles A. Hausler

Photostat

Church of Immaculate Conception

1929

Osakis, MN

Charles A. Hausler

Color, Photostat

Church of St. Agnes - 1

Proposed High School Building 1929

Ashland, WI

Charles A. Hausler

Photostat

Church of St. Agnes - 2

No Date

Roscoe, MN

Charles A. Hausler

Photostat

Church of St. Bridget

Proposed Convent No Date

Minneapolis, MN

Charles A. Hausler

Watercolor pencil and ink

Church of St. Clara

1928

Clara City, MN

Charles A. Hausler

Photostat

Church of St. Elizabeth

No Date

Lefor, ND?

Charles A. Hausler

Photostat

Church of St. Francis of Assisi

1933

Brainerd, MN

Charles A. Hausler

Photostat

Church of St. James

1933

St. James, MN

Charles A. Hausler

Photostat

Church of St. Martin

Proposed Gymnasium No Date

St. Martin, MN

Charles A. Hausler

Photostat, Color

Church of St. Peter

School and Convent Buildings 1929

N. St. Paul, MN

Charles A. Hausler

Photostat

Consolidated School District 42

Additions to the Grade and High School Building No Date

Badger, MN

Charles A. Hausler

Photograph of pencil and ink

Deaf Gymnasium

State School No Date

Faribault, MN

Charles A. Hausler

Color

Eisenhardt, Mr. and Mrs. P.

Residence, Alternate Design No Date

Lake Johanna, MN

Wm. B. Carson (?)

Pencil

Farmington High School

No Date

Farmington, MN

Charles A. Hausler

Pen and ink, Photograph

Greenbush School

School, Additions to Grade and High School Building No Date

Greenbush, MN

Charles A. Hausler

Pencil and ink, Photostat

Hausler, Chas. A.

Biographical Portrait No Date

No Location

Jack Moranz

High School (?)

Kitchen-Domestic Science Room No Date

Bird Island, MN

Charles A. Hausler

Photograph

Independent School District 109

School Building 1941

Richfield, MN

Charles A. Hausler

Linen

Jewish Home for the Aged

No Date

St. Paul, MN

Charles A. Hausler

Photograph

Labor Temple

1930

St. Paul, MN

Charles A. Hausler

Pencil on paper

Lake Region Clinic

No Date

No Location

Charles A. Hausler

Color pencil

Lincoln School

1916

No Location

Charles A. Hausler

Watercolor

Loeb Arcade

1953

Minneapolis, MN

Charles A. Hausler

Watercolor, Photocopy, Pencil on paper

Maple Lake School

Addition No Date

Maple Lake, MN

Charles A. Hausler

Color pencil on paper, Photostat

Medical Tower

1929

St. Paul, MN

Charles A. Hausler

Watercolor and ink, Photostat

Minnesota Building

1928

St. Paul, MN

Charles A. Hausler

Photograph, Photostat

Minnesota Milk Co. (bldg.)

1932

St. Paul, MN

Charles A. Hausler

Pencil and Ink, Photostat

Modern Improvement, Inc.

Dwellings 1946.

St. Paul, MN

Charles A. Hausler

Blueprint, Pencil on paper

Morris National Bank

No Date

No Location

Charles A. Hausler

Photograph

Muhl High School

Swimming Pool No Date

No Location

Charles A. Hausler

Photograph of pencil and ink

Naytahwash School

Independent School District 29 1941, 1949

Mahnomen County

Charles A. Hausler

Linen, Plastic transparency

Nielsen, Knute

Residence No Date

Basement Floor Plan

St. Paul, MN

Charles A. Hausler

Blueprint, Pencil on paper

Nurses Building

No Date

No Location

Charles A. Hausler

Photostat

Our Lady of (Mount) Carmel

Proposed Church, Alternate Design, Interior Perspective of Proposed Church 1928

Opole, MN

Charles A. Hausler

Photostat, Color

Proposed Office and Lodge Building

Store, Office and Lodge floors No Date

Tracy, MN

Charles A. Hausler

Linen

Public School (St. Paul?)

1914

[St. Paul. MN?]

Percy D. Bentley and Charles A, Hausler

Watercolor

Ranch House

No Date

No Location

Charles A. Hausler

Charcoal

Rice Street State Bank

No Date

St. Paul, MN

Charles A. Hausler

Color, Photostat

Riverview Cmmercial Club

No Date

No Location

Charles A. Hausler

Photostat, Pencil on paper

Roman Catholic Church

Main Floor Plan No Date

St. Paul, MN

Ernest M. Hartford, Charles A. Hausler

Sacred Heart Church

1929

Robbinsdale, MN

Charles A. Hausler

Color

Saunders Apartments

1948

St. Paul, MN

Charles A. Hausler

Scott County

Court House No Date

Scott County, MN

Charles A. Hausler

Photostat

Servants of Mary

Convent of Our Lady of Sorrows, Alternate Design (?) No Date

Ladysmith, WI

Charles A. Hausler

Color, Photostat

Service Sheets

Vol. 1 1916-1920

Published by the Architectural Service Corp.

Philadelphia, PA

Charles A. Hausler

So. St. Paul, MN

General Hospital No Date

So. St. Paul, MN

Charles A. Hausler

Photostat, Pencil

St. Andrew's School

No Date

Fairfax, MN

Charles A. Hausler

Color

St. Boniface Church

No Date

Minneapolis, MN

Charles A. Hausler

Color, Photostat

St. Bridget's Church

No Date

Wilson, WI

Charles A. Hausler

Color, Photostat

St. Joseph Church

1928

Owatonna, MN

Charles A. Hausler

Photostat, Color

St. Joseph's School

1926

Montevideo, MN

Charles A. Hausler

Color

St. Mary's Church - 1

1929

Hague, ND

Charles A. Hausler

Photostat, Color

St. Mary's Church - 2

No Date

Phillips, WI

Charles A. Hausler

Photostat

St. Matthew's School

1928

St. Paul, MN

Charles A. Hausler

Photostat

St. Paul Federal Savings and Loan Building

No Date

St. Paul, MN

Charles A. Hausler

Photograph of pencil and ink

St. Paul Water Department

Main Building for Distribution Yard 1 No Date

[St. Paul, MN]

P. D. Bentley and C. A. Hausler

Watercolor

St. Stanislaus Church

Suggest Design, Interior 1934

St. Paul, MN

Charles A. Hausler

Photostat, Color

Starkey, Mr. and Mrs. V.

Residence 1945

Minneapolis, MN

Charles A. Hausler, Wm. B. Carson

Pencil

Strickler Estate, "Ethylglenne"

1913

St. Anthony, MN

Charles A. Hausler

Watercolor, Photograph

Sullivan

Residence No Date

St. Paul, MN

Alban and Hausler

Pencil tracing watercolor

Temple of Aaron and Bureau of Jewish Education

1954

St. Paul, MN

Charles A. Hausler

Blueprint, Working print

Tolversen, John S.

Study of Residence 1913, 1918, No Date

Fulda, MN

Charles A. Hausler

Pencil on paper, Pencil and ink

Unidentifed Church - 3

1913

No Location

Charles A. Hausler

Photograph of pencil and ink

Unidentified Building

No Date

No Location

Charles A. Hausler

Pen and ink, Photostat

Unidentified Building (School)

1913

No Location

Alban and Hausler

Photograph of watercolor

Unidentified Building Façade

No Date

No Location

Charles A. Hausler

Pencil and watercolor

Unidentified Church

No Date

No Location

Charles A. Hausler

Photostat

Unidentified Church - 1

No Date

No Location

Charles A. Hausler

Photostat

Unidentified Church - 2

No Date

No Location

Charles A. Hausler

Photograph

Unidentified Church - 4

1912

No Location

Charles A. Hausler

Photograph

Unidentified Church - 5

No Date

No Location

Charles A. Hausler

Photograph

Unidentified Church - 7

No Date

No Location

Charles A. Hausler

Pencil on paper

Unidentified Church- 6

No Date

Bird Island, MN?

Charles A. Hausler

Photograph

Unidentified Elevation

1915, 1917(?)

No Location

Charles A. Hausler

Pencil

Unidentified High School - 1

No Date

No Location

Charles A. Hausler

Photograph of pencil and ink

Unidentified High School - 2

Auditorium No Date

No Location

Charles A. Hausler

Photograph

Unidentified Hospital - 1

No Date

No Location

Charles A. Hausler

Photostat

Unidentified Hospital - 2

No Date

No Location

Charles A. Hausler

Unidentified House - 1

1945

St. Paul (?)

Charles A. Hausler

Pencil

Unidentified House - 2

No Date

No Location

Wm. B. Carson

Pencil

Unidentified House - 3

No Date

to by Buidt by Page and Hill Co. (of Minneapolis)

No Location

E. and W. Close

Pencil on paper, Photostat

Unidentified House - 4

No Date

(Lexington Ave.?)

[St. Paul, MN?]

Charles A. Hausler

Photograph

Unidentified House - 5

No Date

No Location

Charles A. Hausler

Watercolor

Unidentified House - 6

No Date

No Location

Charles A. Hausler

Watercolor

Unidentified Men's Club

No Date

No Location

Charles A. Hausler

Photograph

Unidentified Proposed Catholic Church

1913

No Locaiton

Alban and Hausler

Pencil and ink, Photostat

Unidentified School - 1

1912

No Location

Charles A. Hausler

Watercolor, Photostat

Unidentified School - 2

No Date

No Location

Alban and Hausler

Photograph

Unidentified School - 3

No Date

No Location

Alban and Hausler

Photograph

Unidentified School - 4

No Date

No Location

Alban and Hausler

Photograph

Unidentified Tract House Development

No Date

No Location

C.A. Hausler

Watercolor

Virginia (Minn.) Auditorium

No Date

No Location

Charles A. Hausler

Watercolor, Pencil

Weibezahn, C? T.

Residence No Date

St. Peter, MN

E.M. Hartford and C.A. Hausler

Watercolor

West End State Bank

No Date

W. 7th Street

St. Paul, MN

P.D. Bentley and C. A. Hausler

Watercolor and pencil

Winton School

No Date

No Location

Charles A. Hausler

Photograph