Scope and Content Note

Oral history interviews conducted with E. Fay Jones at Providence, Rhode Island, on October 17, 1993, and with Mr. and Mrs. Fontaine Richardson at Carlisle, Massachusetts, on October 16, 1993, by George M. Goodwin on behalf of the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives at Taliesin West, Arizona. A summary transcript of the interviews is included in the collection inventory.

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...

Scope and Content Note

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.