Archive & Notable Collection

Sir Aston Webb (1849-1930), London architect, designed many large public commissions throughout England between 1875-1915; he worked with E. Ingress Bell and later with his son Maurice Webb. The collection consists of architectural drawings, photographs, and tearsheets from British architectural periodicals that document the career of Sir Aston Webb.

The Society for Commercial Archeology (SCA), founded in 1977, is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the advocacy and preservation of 20th century roadside architecture in North America. The collection documents the activities and business of the Society for Commercial Archeology, including SCA publications and tours. Record types include minutes, reports, publications, pamphlets, tour guides, postcards, and correspondence. The collection also contains slides and photographs documenting the commercial landscape and SCA events. Further accruals are expected.

Theo S. (born Theodore Stuart) Maffitt was born April 6, 1895 in Palestine, Texas, the city whose architecture he was later greatly to affect. His son, Theodore (Ted) S. Maffitt, Jr. joined his practice, renamed Theo S. Maffitt and Theodore S. Maffitt, Jr. in 1948. The collection includes architectural drawings of projects completed between 1919 and 1981, predominantly in Palestine and Anderson Counties.

Thomas A. Pressly, Jr., educated in Virginia and Texas, was head of the architectural firm Thomas A. Pressly, Jr. A.I.A. in San Antonio. After his retirement he devoted himself to professional painting. The Thomas A. Pressly, Jr. collection includes papers, and photographic prints.

Thomas M. Price (1916-1998) was Galveston's foremost modern architect. Price opened his own firm in 1947 where his designs included private residences, hotels, motels, schools, a social club, a beach house and commercial buildings. The collection documents Price’s architectural work in the Texas and beyond. Record types include architectural drawings and photographic material.

"Design Waller Creek: A Competition," was an international design competition sponsored by the Waller Creek Conservancy to develop urban parks along Waller Creek in Austin, Texas. The Waller Creek Conservancy is a non-profit organization whose mission is to create and maintain urban parks around Waller Creek. Records consist of competition entries, the competition manual, and a summary report.

Walter Rolfe (1900-1967) taught at the University of Texas School of Architecture and practiced architecture in Houston and Beaumont, Tex. The collection includes papers, correspondence, manuscripts, printed material, photographs, books, awards and medals, paintings and drawings that document Rolfe's life and work.

A selection of photographic prints, and one catalog document a small portion of the work of architectural photographer and American historian Wayne Andrews.

Wayne Bell is a historic preservation architect and a Professor Emeritus at The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture. In 1973, after working for the Texas State Historical Survey Committee and the Texas Parks and Wildlife department, Bell helped establish the master's degree in historical preservation program at the UT School of Architecture, one of only four in the country at the time. Concurrently with his UT work, Bell also was a founder and senior principal of Bell, Klein and Hoffman, an Austin architectural firm specializing in historic preservation.

The Weinreb Architectural collection represents a small selection of the inventory of antiquarian architectural bookseller Ben Weinreb (1912-1999). Sketchbooks of drawings and plans, architectural drawings, lithographs and other reproductions of largely European architecture constitute the Weinreb Architectural collection.