Louise Hall Papers
Scope and Content
Hall earned a B.A. from Wellesley College in 1927, B.S. from MIT in 1930, Ph.D. from Radcliffe 1954. She was a long-time member of the North Carolina Chapter of the AIA, and served as its archivist. She taught art and architectural history at Duke University from 1931-1975 and mentored many architects and scholars, including Dr. Mary Woods at the School of Architecture at Cornell who recently published a history of the profession. The Hall collection contains papers from her teaching career, various jobs including architecture projects, drawings from an architecture class, diaries, maps, blueprints, scrapbooks and original artwork. It also includes old family letters and photographs (including glass negatives, cartes de visite, cabinet cards, and tintypes), genealogical research notes, and personal papers.
Dates
- Creation: 1893-1990, n.d.
Creator
- Hall, Louise (Person)
Access Restrictions
Collection is open for research.
Full Extent
102 Cubic Feet (67 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
At the time of the donation, the collection was organized by material type and, more loosely, by the subject matter of materials. It is unclear to what degree this arrangement reflects the original order imposed by the creator. In the interest of minimal interference, these broader categories have generally been retained. The arrangement detailed in this finding aid reflects a high-level description of content by box. A more detailed inventory is available on request.
Although Series I is loosely divided into personal and professional correspondence, the original order reflected notable inter-mixing between the two. In 2014, selected personal correspondence was organized in chronological order.
Subject
- Hall, Louise (Person)
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections, Virginia Tech Repository
Special Collections, University Libraries (0434)
560 Drillfield Drive
Newman Library, Virginia Tech
Blacksburg Virginia 24061 US
540-231-6308
specref@vt.edu