Available for use in the Manuscripts Division reading room. Advance notice is requested.
There are no restrictions on the use of materials in this collection. Copyright is retained by the copyright holders. Copies can be requested if the condition of the originals warrants it.
Robert Mack papers (N 182), Northwest Architectural Archives, University of Minnesota Libraries, Minneapolis.
The collection is organized alphabetically into three series:
Robert C. Mack is an adjunct assistant professor in the department of architecture at the University of Minnesota and a principal in the MacDonald and Mack Architects architectural firm, which specializes in historic preservation and restoration commissions.
The collection contains class papers for Arch 5142-5143,
An unpublished finding aid with detailed contents is available in the Manuscripts Division.
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.
The following section contains a detailed list of the materials in the collection.
Andersen Corporation
The History of an American Industrial Legend
The Development of the Modern Bathroom
The bungalows of the Twin Cities
Carr-Cullen Manufacturing Company
The Flour City Ornamental Iron Co.
Decorative Metalwork: Flour City Ornamental Iron Co.
The Style and Impact of Gasoline Stations from the 1920's to the 1930's
Gaytee Stained Glass
James J. Hill House
Ice Palaces
Building construction of Scandinavian Immigrants in Minnesota Rural Areas
History of Interior Design with references to Minneapolis
ASID and Interior Design: where has it been and where it is headed
The Modern American Kitchen: the evolution of modern kitchen design and standards
The Minneapolis Gaslight Company - the first fifty years
Murals of the Depression: defining a decade (1935-1945)
A Study in Terra Cotta: the ornamentation of Louis Sullivan and the Owatonna Bank
The History of NSP
"Life is Now too Convenient"
Evolution of the porch
Minnesota Prairie Restoration
Buffaloed and boomed
Sticks and stones: development of Sauna construction
Historic Space-saving Ideas in Residential Dwellings
Liebenberg and Kaplan's Hollywood Theater
Early movie theatre architecture
The Architects Small House Service Bureau
Edward Payson Bassford: pioneer Minnesota architect
John Scott Bradstreet
John Scott Bradstreet
Leroy S. Buffington and the Cloudscraper
Harvey Ellis: his life and legacy
Harvey Ellis: the legacy
The man behind the architect's name of Cass Gilbert
King of the Queen Anne
Dorothy Brink Ingemann: the training of an early woman architect
Elsa Jemne: a tribute to her work
Elsa Jemne's Federally sponsored murals
Clarence Howard Johnston: defying the "Lost Twin Cities"
Clarence Howard Johnston, Sr.
Harry Wild Jones, architectural chameleon
The significance of the work of Frederick Kees, architect
Augustus F. Knight
Jack Liebenberg: local Art Deco movie theatres
Jack Liebenberg: his theatres and their legacy
Long and Kees and the Richardsonian Romanesque
The Architecture of Edwin Lundie
Henry Chapman Mercer and his Arts and Crafts tiles
Bridging the Gap between Victorian and Progessive Ideologies: a discussion of Glenn L. Saxton's plan books
Monroe Sheire
Mr. Stebbins of Oak Grove
Louis Sullivan theories on architecture
Chaska Brick
Historic Brick
Reinforced brick masonry
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What is this thing called Chaska Brick
Reinforced concrete
Fifty years of Doorknobs: 1870 to 1920, changes in design and materials
Elevators
Soft hues: the gas lighting era
Window glass: types, uses and manufacturers
Structural pigmented glass
Tapestry glass: a product of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company
Glass blocks in architecture
Historic St Cloud Granite
Building granite from block to face
Minnesota Granite: early 20th century milling manufacturing and quarrying areas
A Brief History of Grates
Ornamental Iron Work
Ornamental Iron
Lightning rods and weathervanes: there [sic] influence on the American skyline
From Battleships to Board Rooms: natural linoleum
Linoleum
The History of Stamped Metal Ceiling and Wall Plates
A History of Metal Shingles and a Company that Made Them
Historic paint research: a sampling and analysis survey
Plaster and stucco ornamentation: some fabulous techniques of great atrisans [sic]
Ornamental Plasterwork 1920 - 1930
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19th Century Slate Roofing in the Eastern United States: quarrying and distribution
Tiffany windows
American Stained Glass: a historic perspective
Conservation and restoration of stained glass over 50 years old, with a Minneapolis exapmle given
Stained glass: the evolution to American residential homes
Stained glass: an art form which will not be lost
Stained glass
Early stone quarries
Stucco: the underlying strength of a timeless material
Terra Cotta: its production and use in Chicago and use in the Twin Cities
Architectural terra cotta: its history and use on some of California's finest buildings
Architectural terra cotta
Terra Cotta
American Terra Cotta and Ceramic Company, Terra Cotta, Illinois
Terazzo
Terrazzo
Wallpaper and wall treatments of the Arts and Crafts Movement in America
The wallpaper renaissance of the 1920's and 30's
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