by Lynne Rostochil This is the second of four installments about Kamphoefner’s career. To read the first installment, go here. By the early 1940s, Henry L. Kamphoefner was one of the OU Architecture department’s most popular and prolific professors and his work was gaining a lot of national attention. In addition to his home being […]
by Lynne Rostochil Before Bruce Goff reigned supreme at OU, there was Henry L. Kamphoefner, who began his teaching career at OU in 1937 and became the chairman of the School of Architecture there in 1944. Kamphoefner arrived in Norman with an impressive academic pedigree. Born in 1907 in Des Moines, Iowa, he graduated from the […]
by Lynne Rostochil. Vintage photos credited below, current-day photos of house by Lynne Rostochil As soon as Courtney Manning announced on our Facebook page that this beauty in Yukon was for sale, a flurry of effusive posts began, all of them extolling the many virtues of the flagstone house in the woods along Garth Brooks […]
by Lynne Rostochil During his years as an architecture professor at OU, Dean Bryant Vollendorf also regularly contributed designs to the New Homes Guide, a bi-annual publication featuring all kinds of residential plans for potential buyers wanting to construct their own home. While many of the guide’s designs are pretty generic and sedate, Vollendorf’s are much […]
by Lynne Rostochil, current-day photos by author, vintage photos from Tim Brauer’s collection unless otherwise noted Awhile back, Robyn and I met up with Tim Brauer to tour Chickasha and see some of the work his dad, Leslie G. Brauer, designed during his 25 career in this small farming community 40 miles west of OKC. Considering […]
Recently, Tim Brauer posted an article about a 1946 Frank Lloyd Wright visit to OU — perhaps his first visit, from what I can tell. Tim’s dad, architect Leslie G. Brauer, and Tulsa architect Charles Ward were photographed with Wright for the article, which is likely why this bit of yellowed ephemera has been so well […]