Sub-communities within this community
- Series I. Biographical , 1903-1953. [214 items]
- Series II. Architectural Career, 1910-1952. [239 items]
- Series III. Academic Career, 1914-1949. [79 items]
- Wilmer Waldo & the Rice Institute Tunnel System [64 items]
These papers detail the academic and architectural career of William Ward Watkin, first Supervising Architect for Rice University and later Chair of the Architecture Department. Included in the collection are personal information, business correspondence, construction photographs and architectural drawings of the early Rice Institute, and drawings of projects from his private architectural career.
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View the finding aid for the entire Watkin collection at the Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University.