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J.C. Niemeyer collection (N 82), Northwest Architectural Archives, University of Minnesota Libraries, Minneapolis.
James C. Niemeyer was born in St. Paul in 1890 and attended St. Paul parochial schools and the College of St. Thomas before entering the Royal Academy of Rome. He returned to St. Paul and briefly entered architectural practice before serving in World War I with the Ordnance Department as a designing engineer. After the war, Niemeyer came back to St. Paul and resumed his practice, also working as a commercial artist for some years. From 1929 to 1930, he was St. Paul City Architect. Niemeyer's practice included the design of churches, residences, apartment buildings, warehouses and stores. He died in St. Paul in 1957.
The collection contains a 6-hour student problem sketch in ink and gouache on paper, showing the Organization of American States Building in Washington, D.C. (n.d.). There is also a framed ink and gouache on paper drawing of a building designed for Lake Park Development Company, West 7th and 5th Streets, St. Paul (1933).
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