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The Architects' Roster, 1946-53

 
The AIA Archives has Architects Roster Questionnaires for over a thousand firms. All have been scanned (including low-resolution copies of photos if they exist). The list below is arranged by state and city. Not all AIA chapters participated in the program. To view the questionnaires, click on the firm name, then click on Architects' Roster Questionnaire under Archival Holdings in the firm's record.

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Alabama    Arizona    Arkansas    California    Colorado    Connecticut    Delaware    District of Columbia    Florida    Georgia    Hawaii
Illinois    Indiana    Iowa    Kansas    Kentucky    Louisiana    Maine    Maryland    Massachusetts    Michigan    Minnesota    Mississippi    Missouri
Montana    Nebraska    Nevada    New Hampshire    New Jersey    New Mexico    New York    North Carolina    North Dakota    Ohio    Oklahoma    Oregon
Pennsylvania    Rhode Island    South Carolina    Tennessee    Texas    Utah    Vermont    Virginia    Washington    West Virginia    Wisconsin
Canal Zone    Puerto Rico    Mexico

About the Architects' Roster


Established in 1946 on the recommendation of the AIA Committee on Architect and Government Relations, the "Architects' Roster and/or Register of Architects Qualified for Federal Public Works" was intended to help the private architect get federal work. Questionnaires were sent to all registered architects in the United States, and review committees were established to judge the qualifications of those answering the questionnaires. The qualified list was available to government agencies involved in building programs.
 
Almost immediately, in 1947, the "Register" was abandoned in favor of a simple "Roster," maintained as "an accurate record of the background and achievements of the members of the architectural profession." Individuals or firms wishing to do federal work could check the appropriate blank of the questionnaire, but the Committees of Review would no longer judge the qualifications of the architects, only substantiate the accuracy of statements made on the form.
 
By the time of the 1953 roster this attempt, too, had been abandoned, and forms carried the disclaimer, "The American Institute of Architects assumes no responsibility for the accuracy of statements made in this questionnaire. The obligation to maintain this record as a current description of an architectural firm rests with the firm..."
 
The portions of the Roster which survive in the AIA Archives are a valuable source of documentation for the profession prior to 1953.
 
    --by Tony Wrenn, HAIA, former AIA Archivist, text from 1982 exhibit catalog
 
 

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Alabama

   Auburn

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District of Columbia

   Washington (see also Maryland; Virginia)
      M. Leroy Bagley (firm)     1946
      David Baker, Registered Architect (firm)     1946, 1953
      Harry Barrett (firm)     1946
      Berla and Abel (firm)     1946
      Building Research Advisory Board (firm)     1953
      Victor Eberhard (firm)     1946
      Faulkner, Kingsbury and Stenhouse (firm)      1946
      Philip M. Jullien & Co. (firm)     1946
      Justement, Elam & Darby (firm)     1953
      Office of Louis Justement (firm)     1947
      McGaughan and Johnson (firm)     1953
      Murphy and Locraft (firm)      1946
      Porter and Lockie (firm)     1946
      Milton J. Prassas (firm)      1946
      Brown Rolston (firm)     1946
      Ronald S. Senseman (firm)      1946, 1953
      Delos H. Smith (firm)     1946
      Albert S. J. Stephens (firm)     1946
      Francis P. Sullivan (firm)     1946
      Harvey Warwick, Architect and Ernest Stevens, Associate (firm)     1946
      Nathan C. Wyeth (firm)     1946

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Puerto Rico

   San Juan
      Henry Klumb     1953

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Mexico

      Robert S. Engelking (firm)     1953