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Knight Library, University of Oregon (Eugene, Oregon)

Alternative Title
  • Library, University of Oregon (Eugene, Oregon)
  • University of Oregon (Eugene, Oregon)
Creator Display
  • Ernest Fanning Tucker, Jr. (architect, 1900-1976)
  • Ross B. Hammond (builder/contractor, 1889-1966)
  • Henry Abbott Lawrence (architect, 1906-1967)
  • Lawrence, Tucker & Wallmann (architecture firm, 1946-1960)
  • Frederick Stanley Allyn (architect, 1883-1963)
  • George Rudolf Wallmann, Jr. (architect, 1906-1984)
  • Ellis Fuller Lawrence (architect, 1879-1946)
  • Claire K. Hamlin (architect)
  • Lawrence, Holford & Allyn (architecture firm, 1933-1941)
  • B. King Martin (architect)
  • William Gordon Holford (architect, 1878-1970)
Creator
Photographer
Date
  • 1937
Description
  • This image is included in Building Oregon: Architecture of Oregon and the Pacific Northwest, a digital collection which provides documentation about the architectural heritage of the Pacific Northwest.
View
  • exterior; detail of the top of the facade with the cornice and two of the plaques representing academic displines, Natura and Societas
Temporal
  • 1950-1959
  • 1960-1969
  • 1930-1939
MODS Note
  • The building now known as Knight Library opened as the Library in 1937 based on the designs of Lawrence, Holford, & Allyn. Subsequent alterations and additions: first addition (Lawrence, Tucker & Wallmann, 1950); second addition (Hamlin & Martin, 1966); third addition (TBG Architects & Planners, Shepley Bulfinch Richardson Abbott, 1994)
Subject
Work Type
Style / Period
Location
Street Address
  • 1501 Kincaid Street
GPS Latitude
  • 44.043485
GPS Longitude
  • -123.077478
Rights Holder
  • University of Oregon
Identifier
  • pna_07978
Item Locator
  • Shellenbarger Collection; Box L Section 14; 99-06394
Source
  • Gift of Michael Shellenbarger
Provenance
  • Design Library, University of Oregon Libraries
Citation
Is Part Of
  • University of Oregon (Eugene, Oregon)
Institution
Conversion
  • This image is derived from a master TIFF (3000 x 5000 pixel, 16 bit) created by scanning a 35m slide which remains as the archival artifact. Digital editing may have included cropping, color correction, and removal of dust, scratch, or other artifacts reproduced in the scanning process.
Submission Date
  • 04/29/2015
Modified
  • 08/12/2022
Collections

APA

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MLA

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Chicago

Building Oregon, University of Oregon. "Knight Library, University of Oregon (Eugene, Oregon)" Oregon Digital. Accessed 2024-04-25. https://oregondigital.org/concern/images/df67n6550

Wiki

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Data Sources
Footer Number Term External URI
Hamlin & Martin Architecture http://opaquenamespace.org/ns/creator/HamlinandMartinArchitecture
Lawrence Holford & Allyn http://opaquenamespace.org/ns/creator/LawrenceHolfordandAllyn
Lawrence, H. Abbott http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88172720
Allyn, Frederick S. http://opaquenamespace.org/ns/creator/AllynFrederickS
Hammond, Ross B. http://opaquenamespace.org/ns/creator/HammondRossB
Tucker, Ernest F. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88172721
Martin, B. King http://opaquenamespace.org/ns/creator/BKingMartin
Lawrence, Ellis Fuller http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500063059
Hamlin, Claire K. http://opaquenamespace.org/ns/creator/HamlinClaireK
Wallmann, George R. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88172722
Holford, William http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500095201
12 Shellenbarger, Michael http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88672943
Architecture--United States http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85006693
Architecture, American http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85006700
15 libraries (buildings) http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300006824
16 universities (building complexes) http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300006617
17 architecture (object genre) http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300263552
18 exterior views http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300124515
19 built works http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300265418
20 views (visual works) http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300015424
21 panels (ornament areas) http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300010261
22 cultural centers (buildings) http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300005135
23 Beaux-Arts (style) http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300021433
24 eclecticism (artistic concept) http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300056522
Eugene >> Lane County >> Oregon >> United States https://sws.geonames.org/5725846/
Oregon >> United States https://sws.geonames.org/5744337/
Lane County >> Oregon >> United States https://sws.geonames.org/5735869/
United States https://sws.geonames.org/6252001/
12 University of Oregon http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80126183

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