Arthur Dickey papers
Scope and Content Note
Collection contains plans of residences and buildings designed by Arthur Dickey Architects, Inc.
Dates
- 1972-1999
Language of Materials
English
Restrictions on Access
Available for use in the Manuscripts Division reading room. Advance notice is requested.
Restrictions on Use
Please contact staff regarding copyright status of these materials. Researchers may quote from the collection under fair use provisions of the copyright law (Title 17, U.S. Code).
Biographical Note
Arthur Harold Dickey was born on December 7, 1928, in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and graduated from high school there in 1947. He entered the University of Nebraska in Lincoln and received his bachelor's degree in architecture in 1952. In 1951, he joined the firm of Davis and Wilson in Lincoln as a draftsman and, after graduation, moved to Minneapolis and was employed as a draftsman in the office of Shifflet, Backstrom & Carter. He started his own firm, Arthur Dickey Architects, in Edina in 1962. The firm won many architectural awards and was credited with designing more than three hundred residences and several fire stations in the Twin Cities.
Dickey died in Minneapolis on January 19, 2001.
Excerpt from Minnesota Architects: a biographical dictionaryby Alan K. Lathrop (2010).
Extent
2 boxes (3 linear feet)
Abstract
Collection contains plans of residences and buildings designed by Arthur Dickey Architects, Inc.
Arrangement
The collection is organized alphabetically by commission name.
Physical Location
High Bay
Acquisition
The collection was donated to the Archives in July, 2015.
Processing Information
The collection was processed and the finding aid written by Alex Hollub, January 2016.
- Title
- Arthur Dickey papers
- Date
- January 2016
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
Collecting Area Details
Contact The Northwest Architectural Archives Collecting Area
