A Guide to the Stanislaw Makielski Architectural Drawings, 1928-1968, n.d.
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Accession Number 10768
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Preferred Citation
Stanislaw Makielski Architectural Drawings, 1928-1968, n.d., Accession # 10768, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.
Acquisition Information
These drawings were given to the Library by Ms. Jane Dandridge of Charlottesville, Virginia, on June 30, 1988.
Biographical/ Historical Information
Makielski, a member of the American Institute of Architects, was born in South Bend Indiana, in 1893 to Polish immigrants, Alexander and Elizabeth (Nadolni) Makielski. He attended Notre Dame for two and a half years but received his degree in architecture in 1922 from the University of Virginia. He served in the Aviation Service during World War I and became the first instructor in the new School of Architecture at the University of Virginia under Fiske Kimball in 1919, where he remained on the faculty until 1955. [This biographical information was taken from a biographical sketch by K. Edward Lay, October 1988, in the control folder.]
Scope and Content Information
This collection contains the architectural drawings of Charlottesville architect and member of the architecture faculty at the University of Virginia, Stanislaw John Makielski (1893-1969), and consists of 409 items, 1928-1968, and undated. These include drawings of central Virginia residences, churches, and businesses; University of Virginia buildings and renovations, such as the Bayly Art Museum (including the drawings by Edmund S. Campbell, 1933), the Cafeteria, Minor Hall, the Electrical Engineering Laboratories, and the Medical Records Storage Center; and normal schools in the South, including the St. Paul Normal & Industrial School, Lawrenceville, Virginia, and the Voorhees Normal & Industrial School, Denmark, South Carolina.
Other material found in the control folder includes: a letter from the Chief Fire Marshal concerning the Pantops Restaurant (1956 Feb 28); notes re Carter's Gun Works (1964); plot diagram of a lot belonging to Paul S. Coiner, Harold P. Johnson, and Lionel S. Key, Charlottesville (1949); specifications concerning the refectory building at St. Paul Normal & Industrial School, Lawrenceville, Virginia (1941); and a newsclipping re the new Greenwood Post Office [1965 ?].
Contents List
By Edmund S. Campbell & R.E. Lee Taylor, Architects
Includes Girl's Trade Building, Chapel, Kenwood Cottage, Practice Cottage, Teacher's Cottage, Girl's Dormitory, Boy's Dormitory.
Includes Plot Plan, Classroom Building (Massachusetts Building).
Drawings by Richard P. Fox, AIA, Newark, Delaware.
Drawings by Richard P. Fox, AIA, Newark, Delaware.
Drawings by Richard P. Fox, AIA, Newark, Delaware.
Drawings by Richard P. Fox, AIA, Newark, Delaware.
Drawings by Richard P. Fox, AIA, Newark, Delaware.
Drawings by Richard Philliips Fox.