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Hunter-Grobe Architectural Drawings

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 3105

Scope and content

This collection contains architectural drawings from Hunter-Grobe and other building firms operating in the Fargo area from the 1960s-2000s. These architectural drawings in are in drawers 109-166. Each drawer contains multiple folders, and most folders contain multiple drawings.



While the plans are listed in the finding aid alphabetically by town, the physical locations of those drawings are not in any order correlating to location or year. In the finding aid the bracketed number is the number of pages in each set of drawings. Names in bold have folders correlated with items in the second series. The second series is corresponding photographs or the General Electrical and Mechanical specifications (specs). These are stored in MSS 3105 Boxes 1-7.

Dates

  • 1966-2012

Access

The collection is open under the rules and regulations of the NDSU Archives.

Copyrights

NDSU Archives owns the copyrights for drawings done by Hunter-Grobe and their associated firms.

History

Leo Grobe was born and raised in Fargo and graduated from Central High School and attended North Dakota Agricultural College (NDAC) from late 1950s to early 1960s, with military service interrupting his education. Vern Hunter was born and raised in Minot and attended one year of school at University of North Dakota before transferring to NDAC for architecture from 1954-1960s, also with military service during that time.



Hunter and Grobe met while working as draftsmen at Seifert & Stazko. In 1973 the two became partners and started Hunter-Grobe Architecture/Planning. Hunter-Grobe has projects in North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Arizona, the White Earth Ojibwe Reservation, and the Standing Rock Lakota Oyate & Dakota Oyate reservation.



The Hunter-Grobe firm primarily designed, renovated, and remodeled educational buildings for public and private institutions and all educational levels. The firm also worked with banks, individual residences, housing developments, retail spaces, hotels, churches, and municipal structures.

Extent

980 Items (980 sets of drawings )

Language of Materials

English

Abstract

Archicectural drawings of the Hunter-Grobe firm who primarily designed, renovated, and remodeled educational buildings for public and private institutions and all educational levels. The firm also worked with banks, individual residences, housing developments, retail spaces, hotels, churches, and municipal structures.

Provenance

Donated by Artekta Ind. – Architects, c/o Daryl Bachmeier (Acc.# 2015-062irs).

Property rights

The NDSU Archives owns the property rights to this collection.
Title
Finding Aid to the Hunter-Grobe Architectural Drawings
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the Institute for Regional Studies Repository

Contact:
West Building N
3551 7th Avenue North
Fargo North Dakota 58102 United States