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Winfred Gustafson Records, Photographs and DrawingsAn Inventory of the Collection
Biographical NoteWinfred O. Gustafson was born in Manor, Texas to Wesley and Bella Gustafson in 1914. He attended public schools in Austin and received a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Texas in 1939. Prior to and during World War II Gustafson worked on the design and construction of several defense projects. In 1945, he and Emil Niggli formed the partnership of Niggli and Gustafson with offices located at 1313 South Congress. The partnership was dissolved in 1958 and Niggli died in 1961. Gustafson continued to practice until his death in 1985. In addition to his work as an architect, Gustafson had an avid interest in art and specialized in pastels, watercolors, pencil drawings as well as wood carving. He tended to focus on outdoor subjects such as old barns, houses, outbuildings, birds and animals. He rarely traveled without his camera so he could capture good subjects to use later in his artwork. Return to the Table of Contents Scope and ContentsThe Winfred Gustafson collection spans the years 1935 to 1983 and is arranged into two series: I. Professional Work and II. Personal Papers. The bulk of the collection lies in the Professional Work series (1941-1983), which includes 218 sets of architectural drawings, project files for a limited number of jobs, marketing materials and photographs. Drawings in this series include the following: Austin hotels such as the Terrace Motor Hotel, Austin Motel and the Wilshire Motor Hotel as well as hotels throughout the Southwest; Austin restaurants the Canary Hut, Holiday Houses, Chicken Shack, Lahala House on Town Lake, and Sandy's Hamburgers; commercial buildings Barton Village Shopping Center, Sea Arama (Galveston aquarium), Lakeway Resort Shopping Center, Austin Area Teachers Federal Credit Union, Lower Colorado River Authority and Peter Pan Mini Golf club house; churches the University Avenue Church of Christ and Highland Village Church of Christ; as well as many other educational, public, commercial and residential buildings. The majority of the Personal Papers series (1935, 1963-1974, undated) consists of photographs taken by Gustafson as inspiration for his artwork. Included are rural scenes in Central Texas of ranches, farms, houses, barns, outbuildings and businesses taken in the late 1960s and early 1970s and a small group of photographs taken in 1935 at Lake Don Martin in Mexico. Some of the Texas towns represented are: Stamford, Round Rock, Marble Falls, Fredericksburg, Smithville, Brackettville, Katy, La Grange, Hutto, New Sweden, Norman's Crossing and Llano. In addition to the photographs there is an undated (circa 1963) organizational chart of the volunteers working on the Water Parade for the Austin Aqua Festival. Return to the Table of Contents
Return to the Table of Contents RestrictionsRestrictions on AccessOpen to all users. Restrictions on UseNone. Return to the Table of Contents
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Return to the Table of Contents Administrative InformationCustodial HistoryDonated by the creator's family. Preferred CitationWinfred Gustafson Records, Photographs and Drawings (AR.2009.015). Austin History Center, Austin Public Library, Texas. Acquisition InformationDonor #: DO/1985/092 Donation Date: 1985, 1997 Processing InformationThe photographs taken for inspiration for artwork were originally housed in two binders in magnetic photograph sleeves. The photographs have been removed and sleeved in original order for preservation reasons. Finding aid created and encoded by Molly Hults in 2012. Return to the Table of Contents Detailed Description of the Collection
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