Oral History Signature Form Count

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  • Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture founded (ACSA)

    Classification: Professional/Eduaction

  • AIA Florida State Association established, Jacksonville, FL

    Classification: Professional

  • Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture founded (ACSA)

    Classification: Professional/Education

  • AIA Florida State Association established, Jacksonville, FL

    Classification: Professional

  • University of Miami

    Classification: Education. A group of citizens chartered the University of Miami (UM) in 1925 with the intent to offer "unique opportunities to develop inter-American studies, to further creative work in the arts and letters, and to conduct teaching and research programs in tropical studies". (White Co-ed) George Merrick donates 160 acres and $5 Million.
    President Arthur Bowman Ashe.

  • Freedom Tower

    Classification: Built Works. Schultze & Weaver

  • Dade County Courthouse

    Classification: Built Works. Period: 1925-1928. Dade County Corthhouse. (Miami Dade County Courthouse) 73 West Flagler Street. Albert Anthony Ten Eyck Brown, Architect of Record.

  • Bilmore, Coral Gables

    Classification: Built Works. Schultze & Weaver/ George Merrick.

  • Hurricane of 1926

    Classification: Environment.

  • Department of Architecture (1927-33) within the College of Liberal Arts

    Classification: Education. John Llewelyn Skinner (Professor and Chair) / Denman Fink / Phineas Paist, Instructors.

  • Pan American Airfield

    Classification: Transportation. Pan American Airfield/ Miami City Airport/ Wilcox Field/ MIA

  • Robert Fitch Smith

    Robert Fitch Smith, B. Arch becomes first alumnus to serve as architecture faculty as instructor.

  • The Great Depression

    Classification: Historic Event. Period: 1929-1939

  • Skinner and students visit Florida Architectural Association Convention.

    Skinner and students visit Florida Architectural Association Convention in Ft. Myers to apply for membership with ultimate goal of gaining admittance to Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture.

  • First UM Architecture Program Graduates

    Classification: Education. First University of Miami Architecture program graduates five students with Bachelor of Architecture degrees. George Clinton Gamble, Walter James Haring, Robert Fitch Smith, and Raymond De Weakley, Jr.

  • First Woman to Graduate with Bachelor of Architecture Degree.

    Classification: Education. Jewell Arthurine Harden