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William Robert King DrawingsAn Inventory of the Collection
Biographical SketchWilliam Robert (Bob) King was born in San Benito, Texas in 1929, and grew up in Harlingen, Texas. He attended The University of Texas and graduated in 1951 with a bachelor of science in Architectural Engineering. He began his career in the early 1950s in Los Angeles, California as a structural designer for North American Aviation Corp. In 1954 King and his family returned to Austin, Texas where King re-enrolled in The University of Texas and graduated in 1956 with a Bachelor of Architecture. He was a member of several architectural firms before forming his own firm, King Engineering Group, Inc. In addition, he served as a lecturer for the University of Texas School of Architecture. Return to the Table of Contents Scope and ContentsThe William Robert King Drawings contain thirty-six architectural projects that were completed between the years 1956 and 1997. The projects are all located in Austin, Texas with the exception of one residence in Leander, Texas and a project in Bastrop State Park. King served as the structural engineer for all but one of the projects, additions to an apartment building in 1956 by King and Eppes Architects. For the majority of the projects the architect was the Austin architectural firm of Barnes Landes Goodman and Youngblood. In addition, King worked with architects Raymond Yin, Coffee Crier & Schenck and Paul Lamb. A variety of building types are represented in the collection, including residential, commercial, ecclesiastical, educational, industrial and public. Projects include the Austin State School Chapel for the Children, Railroad Commission Building, Brackenridge Professional Building, Covenant Presbyterian Church and the Bastrop State Park Golf Course Clubhouse. Return to the Table of Contents RestrictionsAccess RestrictionsOpen to all users Use RestrictionsThe Austin History Center (AHC) is the owner of the physical materials in the AHC collections and makes available reproductions for research, publication, and other uses. Written permission must be obtained from the AHC before any publication use. The AHC does not necessarily hold copyright to all of the materials in the collections. In some cases, permission for use may require seeking additional authorization from the copyright owners. Consult repository for more details. Return to the Table of Contents
Return to the Table of Contents Administrative InformationCustodial HistoryDonated by the family of the creator. Preferred CitationWilliam Robert King Drawings (AR.2016.023). Austin History Center, Austin Public Library, Texas. Acquisition InformationDonor #: DO/2016/027 Donation Date: 2016 Processing InformationArchitectural drawings processed by Toni Thomasson in 2016. Finding aid created and encoded by Molly Hults in 2017. Return to the Table of Contents Detailed Description of the Collection
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