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Edward Larrabee Barnes collection (N 127), Northwest Architectural Archives, University of Minnesota Libraries, Minneapolis.
Edward Larrabee Barnes was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1915. He earned his bachelor's and master's in architecture from Harvard University. After extensive travel through Europe, Barnes set up an architectural practice in New York in 1949. He was an instructor of architecture at Pratt Institute (New York) and Yale University and he served as vice-president to the American Academy in Rome. Barnes designed a wide variety of buildings, including civic, commercial and educational, and is noted for his clean designs. His firm designed the I.B.M. Headquarters in New York, the Dallas Art Museum and the original Walker Art Museum in Minneapolis. Edward Barnes died on September 21, 2004.
The collection comprises a proposal for the remodeling of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.
An unpublished finding aid with detailed contents is available in the Manuscripts Division.
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