Scope and Content Note The Verna Cook Garvan papers comprise family records that include materials pertaining to Garvan’s parents, Arthur Bacillius and Essie Bordis Cook; her sister, Dorothy Cook Baker; Alonzo Bernard Alexander and Francis Patrick Garvan, her first and second husband, respectively; personal correspondence; legal and financial materials; newspaper clippings; and handwritten notes. Contained also are the business records of A.B. Cook, Wisconsin and Arkansas Lumber, and Malvern Brick and Tile...

Scope and Content Note The collection represents the life and work of a highly creative and successful American architect during the last half of the twentieth century. In 1990 the American Institute of Architects awarded Jones the AIA Gold Medal and his most famous building, Thorncrown Chapel in Eureka Springs, Arkansas is included in the AIA list of the Top Ten Buildings of the Century. Thorncrown, the Jones’s own residence and the Dr. and Mrs. H.D Hantz residence in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and the...

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The collection consists of primarily of academic mechanical and architectural drawings completed by Jones as an undergraduate student before and after a stint in the Navy during World War II. Also included are a set of academic mechanical drawings completed by Mary Elizabeth(Gus) Jones, his wife.

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Students' project reports submitted to Architecture Professor Cyrus A. Sutherland in partial fulfillment of requirements for course 5483, Preservation and Restoration.

Cyrus (Cy) Arden Sutherland (1920-2008) was an Arkansas architect, historic preservationist, and University of Arkansas faculty member.

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Collection consists of undergraduate honors theses.

Scope and Content Note Materials include the professional papers of John Gilbert Williams. These relate to Williams' work as member of the faculty and an administrator at the University of Arkansas and as an architect and landscape architect. The academic materials include documentation courses taught, committee work, curricula, accreditation, scholarly research and professional affiliations. Extensive records of Williams' work as the Architectural Advisor to the University of Arkansas, helping shape the built...