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Paul Philippe Cret drawings (N 141), Northwest Architectural Archives, University of Minnesota Libraries, Minneapolis.
Paul Phillippe Cret was born in Lyons, France on October 23, 1876, and educated at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Lyons and Paris. He came to the U.S. in the early 1900s, and enrolled at the University of Pennsylvania, earning a ScD. in 1913. He continued his education and received an M.A. from Brown University in 1929 and a Doctor of Arts from Harvard in 1940. He served as a professor of design at the University of Pennsylvania from 1903 to 1937 and, through the firm he also headed, was responsible for the design of many prestigious buildings throughout the U.S. and the world. He died in Philadelphia on September 8, 1945.
The collection comprises five ink and gouache, and pencil drawings, which originally formed part of a competition set submitted in the Kansas City (Missouri) Liberty War Memorial Competition, 1920. The drawings include an aerial view, one complete plan, one partial detailed plan and two elevations.
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