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Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research.

Preferred Citation

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Bertram Y. Kinzey, Jr., Papers, c. 1940-1955, Ms2023-057, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.

Source of Acquisition

The Bertram Y. Kinzey, Jr., Papers were donated to Special Collections and University Archives in October 2014.

Processing Information

The processing, arrangement, and description of the Bertram Y. Kinzey, Jr., Papers was completed in June 2023.

Biographical Note

Bertram York "Bert" Kinzey, Jr., was born to Bertram Y., Sr., and Gertrude Sampson Kinzey on September 25, 1921, in Holden, Massachusetts. He graduated from Virginia Polytechnic Institute (VPI) in 1942. He also completed his Masters in Architectural Engineering at VPI in 1943. He worked as a naval architect at the Norfolk Navy Yard for the rest of World War II. From 1947 to 1959, Kinzey was a progressor of architecture and architectural engineering at VPI. He then moved to Gainseville, Florida, to teach at the University of Florida, where he would eventually retire. In 2017, he received the Charles Paul Boner Medal from the National Council of Acoustical Consultants for his work in architectural acoustics.

Kinzey married Ellen Virginia Smith on November 24, 1944, and they had two sons, Bertram York, III, and Douglas W. In 2006, Kinzey returned to Blacksburg, Virginia, where he died on September 9, 2019.

External sources:

"Bertram York 'Bert' Kinzey, Jr.", findagrave.com, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/203047899/bertram-york-kinzey , accessed on June 14, 2023.

"Bertram Kinzey Obituary", Gainesville Sun, Sept. 15-16, 2019, https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/gainesville/name/bertram-kinzey-obituary?id=9261773 , accessed March 7, 2024.

Scope and Content

This collection contains architecural drawings, papers, publications, thesis, correspondence, and a sketchbook from Bertram Y. Kinzey, Jr., a student and faculty member at Virginia Polytechnic Institute's College of Architecture.

Arrangement

This collection is arranged chronologically.

Related Material

See also the online interview of Bertram Y. Kinzey, Jr., from July 2014 for the 50th anniversary of Virginia Tech's College of Architecture and Urban Studies.

Virginia Tech University Libraries also has several publications by Kinzey, which can be found in the online catalog, including Environmental technologies in architecture by Bertram Y. Kinzey, Jr., and Howard M. Sharp, Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, [1963] (call number TH6021 .K5).

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Architectural drawing -- 20th century
• Faculty and staff
• Local/Regional History and Appalachian South
• Students and alumni
• University Archives
• University History
• Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute (1896-1944)
• Virginia Polytechnic Institute. College of Architecture

Rights Statement for Archival Description

The guide to the Bertram Y. Kinzey, Jr., Papers by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 ( https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/ ).