George Englesmith Papers

Collection

Identifier: 2022-012

Staff Only

The collection contains architectural publications, project and personal photographs, correspondence, mortgage and property records, scrapbooks, vital records, newsclippings, Who’s Who in Art (book), drafts and notes of a self-published memoir, and Englesmith portrait by Sir Bernard Hailstone.

This collection is not yet processed. Contact the curator Vince Lee at velee@uh.edu to request access.

Dates

1939-1988

Creator

Englesmith, George, 1914-1998 (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is not yet processed. Contact the curator to request access.

Extent

3 linear feet

Additional Description

Biographical Note

Architect and industrial designer George Englesmith was born May 31, 1914 in Liverpool England and died July 27 1998 in Houston, Texas. Englesmith was a Professor of Architecture at the University of Toronto and the University of Houston. He was a project architect for the Manned Spacecraft Center (NASA) and an innovator of hospital design and the atrium office building concept.