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Frederick Hutchinson Porter papers, 1880-1975

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Porter, Frederick Hutchinson, 1890-1976.
Title
Frederick Hutchinson Porter papers
Dates
1880-1975 (inclusive)
1920-1965 (bulk)
Quantity
5 cubic feet (9 boxes)
Collection Number
00158
Summary
Repository
American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming
American Heritage Center
University of Wyoming
1000 E. University Ave.
Dept. 3924
Laramie, WY
82071
Telephone: 3077663756
ahcref@uwyo.edu
Access Restrictions
Access Restrictions

There are no access restrictions on the materials for research purposes, and the collection is open to the public.

Languages
English
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Historical Note

Frederick Hutchinson "Bunk" Porter (1890-1976) was an architect in Cheyenne, Wyoming, where he was associated with the firm Baerrensen & Porter (1915-1921), F.H. Porter (1921-1944), Porter & Bradley (1944-1961), and Porter, Porter & Graves (1961-1965). He designed residential, commercial and public buildings throughout Wyoming. Among these were the federal building in Cheyenne and 40 buildings on the University of Wyoming campus in Laramie, Wyoming. He was also a water color painter whose works won numerous awards at Cheyenne fairs and exhibitions.

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Content Description

The collection includes blueprints of numerous Wyoming buildings (1899-1965); architectural drawings; negatives; black and white photographs; 20 pieces of correspondence; biographical material; lists of buildings designed by Porter and his associates; scrapbooks related to his architectural projects; newspaper clippings; subject files; awards and certificates; and miscellaneous other materials.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

Copyright Information

The researcher assumes full responsibility for observing all copyright, property, and libel laws as they apply.

Preferred Citation

Preferred Citation

Item Description, Box Number, Folder Number, Collection Name, Collection Number, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming.

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Administrative Information

Related Materials

Related Materials

There are no known other archival collections created by Frederick Hutchinson Porter at the date of processing.

Acquisition Information

Acquisition Information

Processing Note

Processing Information

The finding aid was encoded by Krist Jessup in November 2020 and Jamie J. Greene in July 2021.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

Container List
  • Description: Pamphlet - "Architecture and Design" Vol. XIV by Frederic H. Porter and R. Watter Bradley
    Dates: April 1950
    Container: Box
  • Architectural drawings:

  • Addresses, essays, lectures, papers:

  • Articles and magazines:

    • Description: "Architects Meet for Regional Conference" - Rocky Mountain Construction
      Dates: October 15, 1958
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: "Calendar of Western Events" - Architectural Record
      Dates: October 1959
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: "Pencil Point"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: Pictures of University of Wyoming
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: Porter, Frederic Hutchinson "Bunk" "Idle Thoughts on Architecture" Rocky Mountain Construction
      Dates: December 23, 1964
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: Porter, Frederic Hutchinson "A Survey of Existing Colonial Architecture in Maine" - Architectural Review
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: "Thomas Hastings, 1860-1929" - Pencil Points
      Dates: December 1929
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: "Wyoming Architects Elect Officers at Regional Meeting" - Rocky Mountain Construction
      Dates: November 1, 1958
      Container: Box 2
  • Awards and certificates:

  • Biographical material:

    • Description: Biography of Frederic Hutchinson Porter
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: List of memberships of Frederic Hutchinson Porter and license numbers for Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska, Utah
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: Newspaper clippings regarding F.H. Porter
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: Newspaper clipping - "Architect Porter Donates Collection to State Library"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: Outline of biography of Frederic H. Porter
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 2
  • Blueprints:

    • Description: Pine Cottage - State Training School - Lander, Wyoming
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 6
    • Description: Service station for the Frontier Refining Company
      Dates: May 5, 1945
      Container: Box 6
    • Residences

      • Description: A.V. McIvor - Cheyenne
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 6
      • Description: Edward C. Bon - Cheyenne
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 6
      • Description: Walter Bell - Cheyenne
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 6
      • Description: Thurman Arnold - Laramie
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 6
      • Description: House no. 14, Minnehaha Gardens, Cheyenne
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 6
      • Description: W.H. Kleinke, Esq. - Cheyenne
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 6
      • Description: Fred Carlton - Cheyenne
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 6
      • Description: C. Howard Smith - Cheyenne
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 6
      • Description: R.S. Grier - Cheyenne
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 6
      • Description: Dr. F.A. Wilson - Cheyenne
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 6
      • Description: Dr. T.J. Henneberry - Cheyenne
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 6
      • Description: Ed. F. Murray - Cheyenne
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 6
      • Description: Dr. P.M. Cunningham - Cheyenne
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 6
      • Description: Mrs. John Connelly - Cheyenne
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 6
      • Description: F.C. Bliss - Cheyenne
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 6
      • Description: Paul H. Moore - Reality Co. - Cheyenne
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 6
      • Description: J.M. Garrett - Cheyenne
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 6
      • Description: Mr. C.G. Hancock - Cheyenne
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 6
      • Description: Max Davis - Cheyenne
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 6
      • Description: Mrs. Eva M. Guy - Cheyenne
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 6
      • Description: Mr. Herman Patternack - Cheyenne
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 6
    • Description: Memorial room and auditorium - Deming School - Cheyenne, Wyoming
      Dates: August 20, 1946
      Container: Box 6
    • Description: Grade school building - Ogallala, Nebraska
      Dates: July 20, 1946
      Container: Box 6
    • Description: Cheyenne Armory - Cheyenne, Wyoming
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 6
    • Description: Art Abbey Residence - Cheyenne, Wyoming
      Dates: May 1, 1965
      Container: Box 6
    • Description: High school gymnasium - Cheyenne, Wyoming
      Dates: May 10, 1948
      Container: Box 6
    • Description: Parco Grade School
      Dates: 1936
      Container: Box 6
    • Description: Thomas Jefferson Grade School - Green River
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box 6
    • Description: Additions to high school - Ogallala, Nebraska
      Dates: March 10, 1948
      Container: Box 6
    • Description: Post office and court house - upper floor plan
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 6
    • Description: Carbon County Court House - Rawlins, Wyoming
      Dates: 1939
      Container: Box 6
    • Description: Goshen County Jail - Torrington, Wyoming
      Dates: 1929
      Container: Box 6
    • Description: Mabel Fincher School - Cheyenne, Wyoming
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box 6
    • Description: Riverton High School - Riverton, Wyoming
      Dates: 1936
      Container: Box 6
    • Description: Carbon County Courthouse - Rawlings, Wyoming
      Dates: 1939
      Container: Box 6
    • Description: House for Duncan Investment, Co.
      Dates: June 1, 1924
      Container: Box 6
    • Description: New mantel in drawing room - Residence of Mrs. J.M. Carey - Cheyenne, Wyoming
      Dates: June 5, 1924
      Container: Box 6
    • Description: Unit storage shelving - Cheyenne Armory
      Dates: August 27, 1965
      Container: Box 6
    • Description: Carlson-Sloan
      Dates: April 28, 1928
      Container: Box 6
    • Description: Allison-Austin - Cheyenne, Wyoming
      Dates: February 8, 1929
      Container: Box 6
    • Description: Cottage for Fred Carlson - Cheyenne, Wyoming
      Dates: August 13, 1925
      Container: Box 6
    • Description: House for E.S. Sprague
      Dates: Janaury 21, 1937
      Container: Box 6
    • Description: Ingleside Grade School - Ingleside, Wyoming
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 6
    • Description: Sketches for high school building - Jackson, Wyoming
      Dates: June 13, 1929
      Container: Box 6
    • Description: Lander Grade School building - Lander, Wyoming
      Dates: November 9, 1935
      Container: Box 6
    • Description: Addition to residence for Mrs. Tracy S. McCraken
      Dates: May 24, 1937
      Container: Box 6
    • Description: Allison-Douglas House - Cheyenne, Wyoming
      Dates: May 11, 1929
      Container: Box 6
    • Description: Alterations to Scout Service Station - 16th and Warren, Cheyenne, Wyoming
      Dates: January 28, 1939
      Container: Box 6
    • Description: Community building - Worland, Wyoming
      Dates: July 30, 1935
      Container: Box 6
    • Description: School building - Shoshoni, Wyoming
      Dates: May 30, 1935
      Container: Box 6
    • Description: Floor plan - Alta Vista Grade School - Cheyenne, Wyoming
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 6
    • Description: Golden Prairie School - Golden Prairie, Wyoming
      Dates: 1936
      Container: Box 6
    • Description: Residence for Miss Sarah D. Carey - Douglas, Wyoming
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box 6
    • Description: Ahepa Lodge no. 211 - Cheyenne, Wyoming
      Dates: May 29, 1945
      Container: Box 6
    • Description: Alterations to opera house - block for J.M. Carey and Bros. - Wolders
      Dates: February 1, 1939
      Container: Box 6
    • Description: Alterations to roof - grade school - district 1 - Lusk, Wyoming
      Dates: July 3, 1946
      Container: Box 6
    • Description: Building for Rawlins Hotel Company - Rawlins, Wyoming
      Dates: November 10, 1947
      Container: Box 6
    • Description: Carbon County Court House - Rawlins, Wyoming
      Dates: 1939
      Container: Box 6
    • Description: Church building for Evangelical Lutheran Joint Synod - Orchard Valley, Cheyenne, Wyoming
      Dates: March 10, 1945
      Container: Box 6
    • Description: Deming School - additions - Cheyenne, Wyoming
      Dates: March 20, 1952
      Container: Box 6
    • Description: Kitchen remodeling - First Presbyterian Church - Cheyenne, Wyoming
      Dates: August 14, 1964
      Container: Box 6
    • Description: The Presidents Home - University of Wyoming
      Dates: December 1, 1948
      Container: Box 6
    • Description: Proposed Lodge I.O.O.F.
      Dates: March 9, 1962
      Container: Box 6
    • Description: Rhone apartments
      Dates: December 20, 1944
      Container: Box 6
    • Description: School building for District 18 - Encampment, Wyoming
      Dates: May 18, 1929
      Container: Box 6
    • Description: Weston County Memorial Hospital
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 6
    • Description: Additions to school building for District 18 - Carbon County, Encampment, Wyoming
      Dates: September 6, 1935
      Container: Box 6
    • Description: Proposed Lodge I.O.O.F.
      Dates: March 14, 1962
      Container: Box 6
    • Description: Cheyenne Armory - Cheyenne, Wyoming
      Dates: Janaury 4, 1965
      Container: Box 6
    • Description: Alterations to the bunkhouse - 1906 Bradley, Laramie, Wyoming
      Dates: January 3, 1958
      Container: Box 6
    • Description: Cheyenne Armory - Cheyenne, Wyoming
      Dates: June 14, 1965
      Container: Box 6
    • Description: Elementary school for School District One - Laramie County, Cheyenne, Wyoming
      Dates: January 25, 1964
      Container: Box 6
    • Description: Elementary school site - School District no. 1 - Cheyenne, Wyoming
      Dates: December 18, 1964
      Container: Box 6
    • Description: Shopping center - Cheyenne, Wyoming
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 6
    • Description: Liquor Warehouse - State of Wyoming - Cheyenne, Wyoming
      Dates: September 15, 1955
      Container: Box 6
    • Description: Scottish Rite Temple - Cheyenne, Wyoming
      Dates: August 15, 1946
      Container: Box 6
    • Description: Wyoming State Office Building - Cheyenne, Wyoming
      Dates: June 24, 1949
      Container: Box 6
    • Description: Alterations to house at 3210 Dillon Avenue
      Dates: November 8, 1965
      Container: Box 6
    • Description: Carbon County Court House - Rawlins, Wyoming
      Dates: September 10, 1938
      Container: Box 6
    • Description: Elementary school site - School District no. 1 - Cheyenne, Wyoming
      Dates: December 18, 1964
      Container: Box 6
    • Description: L.M. Baggs Elementary School - School District no. 1 - Cheyenne, Wyoming
      Dates: September 30, 1965
      Container: Box 6
    • Description: New security cell block - Wyoming State Penitentiary - Rawlins, Wyoming
      Dates: November 15, 1965
      Container: Box 6
    • Description: Post office and court house - Cheyenne, Wyoming
      Dates: 1961
      Container: Box 6
    • Description: USP and FO Office 8 - Adjutant Generals Office Building - Cheyenne, Wyoming
      Dates: November 15, 1967
      Container: Box 6
    • Description: Elementary school for School District One - Laramie County, Cheyenne, Wyoming
      Dates: Janaury 29, 1964 and February 3, 1965
      Container: Box 6
    • Description: Post office and court house - Cheyenne, Wyoming
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 6
    • Description: Addition to Johnson School Dist. #1 - Cheyenne, Wyoming
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 6
    • Description: Cheyenne Armory - E.O.C. addition
      Dates: November 1, 1964
      Container: Box 6
    • Description: Addition to First Presbyterian Church - Cheyenne, Wyoming
      Dates: September 1, 1960
      Container: Box 6
    • Description: Kitchen remodel - First Presbyterian Church
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 6
    • Description: Studio building for Cheyenne Little Theater Players, Inc.
      Dates: October 25, 1957
      Container: Box 6
    • Description: Alterations to house at 3210 Dillon Avenue for FHA
      Dates: November 30, 1965
      Container: Box 6
    • Description: School building - Bushnell, Nebraska
      Dates: May 25, 1955
      Container: Box 6
    • Description: Post office and court house
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 6
    • Description: Cheyenne Armory - Cheyenne, Wyoming by Larry R.
      Dates: March 3, 1964
      Container: Box 6
    • U.S. Public Building, 1899

      Container: Box 6

    • Description: Federal building US post office and court house
      Dates: January 14, 1963
      Container: Box 6
    • Description: Addition to Johnson School Dist. #1 - Cheyenne, Wyoming
      Dates: September 11, 1944
      Container: Box 6
    • Description: Doming Grade School and Alta Vista Grade School - Cheyenne, Wyoming
      Dates: 1937-1950
      Container: Box 6
    • Description: Fire station for City of Cheyenne, Wyoming
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 6
    • Description: Knights of Columbus Building and K.C. estimate
      Dates: 1962-1963
      Container: Box 6
  • Booklets, brochures, leaflets, pamphlets:

  • Correspondence:

    • Description: Dear little girl/Fred
      Dates: August 1, 1912
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: F.H. Porter, Jr./Willard Porter
      Dates: January, 17, 1921
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: Cheyenne Porters/Uncle Willard
      Dates: December 31, 1931
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: Mrs. F.H. Porter/Frederic
      Dates: April 16, 1944
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: Mr. Porter/Robert Russin
      Dates: December 13, 1947
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: Mrs. F.H. Porter/F.H. Porter (European trip)
      Dates: 1951
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: Gentlemen/Bunk Porter
      Dates: January 27, 1965
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: Dear Bill/Bunk
      Dates: May 13, 1965
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: To whom it may concern/John Andrew Fisher and Rosemary M. Martin (list of books given to Wyoming State Library)
      Dates: December 30, 1965
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: Mr. Porter/Lawson B. Knott, Jr.
      Dates: January 6, 1967
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: Mr. Porter/Lawson B. Knott, Jr.
      Dates: October 25, 1968
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: Frederic H. Porter/American Institute of Architects
      Dates: December 5, 1968
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: F.H. "Bunk" Porter/The Heels of Cheyenne Frontier Days
      Dates: May 19, 1969
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: Bunk/Wyoming State Board of Architects
      Dates: January 8, 1970
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: Mr. Porter/Mark Junge
      Dates: December 20, 1971
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: Mr. Porter/Mrs. Stan Hathaway
      Dates: January 13, 1972
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: Mr. Porter/Mark Junge
      Dates: March 8, 1972
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: Mr. Porter/Wm Seale
      Dates: May 12, 1972
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: Mr. Porter/E. Libby
      Dates: May 8, 1975
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: Mr. Porter/James T. Forrest
      Dates: February 20, 1976
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: Mr. Porter/J.T. Forrest
      Dates: June 1, 1976
      Container: Box 2
  • Description: File folder - theatres
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 2
  • Description: Illustrations, pencil drawings, prints (28 pieces)
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box 7
  • Lists:

    • Description: Porter and Porter - architects - alphabetical index - all jobs
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: Appraisal
      Dates: January 24, 1966
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: Porter, F.H. - architect - current commissions
      Dates: 1940-1960
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: Porter & Porter - architects - drawer index
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: Job index
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: List of architectural jobs, type of building, location, cost, date, completed, and resume
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: List of buildings
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: Porter and Porter - architects - numerical index - spiral notebook
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: A partial list of commissions from work of Frederick Hutchinson Porter
      Dates: 1920-1961
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: School District no. 1
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: Porter, F.H. - Wyoming Capitol Building
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: Frederick H. Porter - University of Wyoming
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: University of Wyoming Jobs by Porter
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3
  • Negatives:

    • Description: Unidentified negatives
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: Salem folks
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: The Bunkhouse and unidentified negatives
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: Early architecture
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: Maine
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: House in Maine
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: New Hampshire farm
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: On Lake Erie
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: Salem colonial
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: Salt Lake and earlier
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: Shaw's garden
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: Sparta, Ill.
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: Unidentified buildings
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: Unidentified buildings and doorways
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: Unidentified buildings and people
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: Unidentified house
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: Old main
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: Unidentified house (glass negative)
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: Child sitting under Christmas tree
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: Unidentified houses
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3
  • Newspaper clippings:

    • Description: "The Daily Journal"
      Dates: February 10, 1959
      Container: Box 4
    • Description: "The Wyoming Eagle"
      Dates: February 20, 1952
      Container: Box 4
    • Description: "Wyoming State Tribune"
      Dates: February 19, 1952 and May 5, 1952
      Container: Box 4
    • Description: Wyoming architecture
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 4
    • Description: F.H. Porter, Sr. and artistic work
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 4
    • Description: Porter family
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 4
  • Periodicals:

    • Description: The Architectural Review, vols. VI-XII
      Dates: 1918-1921
      Container: Box 4
    • Description: University of Wyoming, Alumus, vol. XXIV, no.1
      Dates: September-October 1976
      Container: Box 4
  • Photographs:

    • Description: Fred H. Porter, Sr.
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: All New England architecture
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Mrs. F.H. Porter, Sr. and son
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Unidentified man and woman (man in uniform)
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Earl Benton, Dr. Pierce, Fred Porter, Sr. and Fred Porter III
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: State courthouse and post office - Cheyenne, Wyoming
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: F.H. Porter, Sr.
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Mr. and Mrs. Fred H. Porter, Sr.
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Mr. and Mrs. Fred Porter (on left) and friend, color
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Fred Porter, Sr. and friends
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Unidentified boy and girl
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Sun dial, Miller's Falls
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: 2 different poses of Grace Wastfield Porter
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: First unit Memorial Hospital of Laramie County, Cheyenne
      Dates: 1921
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Geo E. Brimmer House, polaroid
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: The Bunkhouse, Porter Home
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Mrs. Fred H. Porter, Sr.
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Mr. and Mrs. Fred H. Porter, Sr.
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Unidentified and two women
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Mill Stones, Turner's Falls, Mass.
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Unidentified (probably F.H. Porter, Sr. as a young man)
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Views of unidentified house
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Mr. and Mrs. F.H. Porter, Sr. and great granddaughter
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Unidentified lady
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Mr. and Mrs. Fred Porter, Sr.
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Fred Porter, Jr.
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Picture including Mr. and Mrs. F.H. Proter, Sr.
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Unidentified man and woman
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Bunk Porter, friend and painting
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: F.H. Porter, Sr. and painting
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Mr. and Mrs. Fred Porter, Sr., Mr. and Mrs. Fred Porter, Jr.
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Mr. and Mrs. Fred Porter, Jr.
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Mrs. F.H. Porter, Jr.
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Photograph and painting
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Photograph of painting by F.H. Porter, Sr.
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Ross Hall
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Unidentified
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Cheyenne Frontier Days
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Mrs. F.H. Porter and first child (Willard)
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Porter home - The Bunkhouse
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Parking lot behind Wyo Hall, University of Wyoming
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Fred Porter, Jr. (as a small child)
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: McCracken House - 2 story house with shutters - Cheyenne, Wyoming
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Priscilla - Fred and mother at Whipple Hill - Danvers, MA - Porter's summer home
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Unidentified family
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: The Bunkhouse - F.H. Porter, Sr. home
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: F.H. Porter, Sr. residence
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Fred Porter, Jr. (as a child)
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Fred Porter, Sr. and Jr. (as child)
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Mrs. F.H. Porter, Sr. (bottom row, right side)
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Mrs. F.H. Porter, Sr. and son
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Mr. and Mrs. Fred H. Porter, Sr. and son
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: 3 generations of Porter family
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Grace Wastfield
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: F.H. Porter, Sr. (as a young man)
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Frederic Porter (3 years old)
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Priscilla's mother at eighteen
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Grace Wastfield (Porter)
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Mr. and Mrs. Fred Porter, Sr. (and children)
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: The Bunkhouse
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: F.H. Porter, Sr. at 1 1/2 years old
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: F.H. Porter, Sr. baby picture
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Unidentified, baby, young boy, and lady
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Unidentified young child
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Unidentified young woman
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Priscilla Lamson Porter and daughter Patricia
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Group photography (probably from European trip)
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Interior of Bunkhouse - F.H. Porter, Sr. residence - Cheyenne, Wyoming
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: The Bunkhouse - F.H. Porter, Sr. home
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: The Bunkhouse - residence of Frederic Hutchinson Porter - Cheyenne, Wyoming
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: The Bunkhouse - Cheyenne, Wyoming - residence of F.H. Porter, Sr.
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Emma Frances Porter
      Dates: 1910
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: F.H. Porter, Sr.
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Mrs. F.H. Porter, Sr.
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Fred H. Porter, Jr. (as a young man)
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Group photograph - Mrs. F.H. Porter, Sr.
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Group photograph - F.H. Porter
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Mrs. Porter and friend
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Bunk Porter's art display at art center
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Fred H. Porter, Sr.
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: F.H. Porter, Sr.
      Dates: January 1970
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Addie Burns Wastfield
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Frederic H. Porter, Jr. (as a child)
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Unidentified man
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Frederic H. Porter
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Walter Dan Wastfield
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: F.H. Porter, Sr.
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Group photograph - from Las Vegas - includes Bunk Porter
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: F.H. Porter, Sr.
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Group Photograph - includes Bunk Porter
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: A.I.A. Convention - Arizona - Mr. and Mrs. Fred H. Porter, Sr. and F.H. Porter Jr.
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Unidentified young boy and girl
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: European trip - arrival in Stockholm - F.H. Porter, Sr.
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: The Bunkhouse - Porter residence
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: European trip - F.H. Porter, Sr.
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: F.H. Porter, Sr.
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Mr. and Mrs. Fred H. Porter, Jr.
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Photograph of sculpture "Mail Walker" in Evanston, Ill. P.O. Robert Russin
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: First Presbyterian Church - Cheyenne, Wyoming
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Back view of bell tower at Presbyterian Church Center - Washington, D.C. - and looking over the roof of Parsonage Building
      Dates: April 23, 1974
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Banquet - Institute of Architects
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Board of Directors - American Institute of Architects
      Dates: January 28, 1960
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Breaking of ground ceremony - National Guard Armory - F.H. Porter
      Dates: July 26, 1967
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Building at Warren Airforce Base
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Cheyenne Frontier Days Committee - F.H. Porter, Sr.
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: College of Education Building, University of Wyoming, Laramie
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Dr. A. Bunten residence - Cheyenne, Wyoming
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Carbon County Courthouse - Rawlings, Wyoming
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: F.H. Porter, Sr.
      Dates: 1965
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: F.H. Porter, Sr. friend and one of Porter's paintings
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: F.H. Porter, Sr. friend and painting
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: F.H. Porter, Sr.'s office
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: F.H. Porter, Sr. and paintings
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Mrs. F.H. Porter, Sr.
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: F.H. Porter, Sr.
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Federal building US post office and court house - Cheyenne, Wyoming
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: G.D. Humphrey
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Geo E. Brimmer House
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Masonic temple - Cheyenne, Wyoming
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: The 2nd Nagel House - Cheyenne, Wyoming
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Rev. Pattison - First Presbyterian Church
      Dates: March 18, 1949
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Photograph of sculpture "Steel Workers of Conshohocken, PA" in Conshohocken P.O. Robert Russin
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Walter Bradley - partner of F.H. Porter, Sr. Architects
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: When F.H. Porter, Sr. received Fellowship Institute of Architects
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Window in First Presbyterian Church
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Red Cross volunteers, Mrs. F.H. Porter, Sr.
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: The Bunkhouse - Cheyenne, Wyoming - residence of Frederic H. Porter
      Dates: 1921
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: State Building (museum) - Cheyenne, Wyoming
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Tyrrell residence
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Ellis Hathorne Porter, Jr.
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: European trip - F.H. Porter, Sr.
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Richardson family home - razed
      Dates: September 1968
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: Cheyenne Frontier Days Committee - F.H. Porter, Sr.
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: Photograph of sketch of stained glass window 1st Presbyterian Church - Cheyenne - Bunk Porter
      Dates: November 1968
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: Carbon County Court House
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: Photograph of sculptures in front of P.O. - Denver
      Dates: 1936
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: Convent - Cheyenne, Wyoming
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 7
    • Description: Display - federal buildings of tomorrow
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 7
    • Description: Elks Home - Cheyenne, Wyoming
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 7
    • Description: I.C. Whipple House - Cheyenne, Wyoming
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 7
    • Description: L.C. Hinkle House - later Brimmer home
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 7
    • Description: Photograph of sketch of residence of E.W. Whitcomb - Cheyenne
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 7
    • Description: Photograph of sketch of residence of H.B. Kelly - Cheyenne, Wyoming
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 7
    • Description: Photograph of sketch of 1st Nagel house - Cheyenne, Wyoming
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 7
    • Description: Sanctuary of Presbyterian Church - Cheyenne, Wyoming
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 7
    • Description: Union Pacific Depot
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 7
    • Description: Hi Kelly house
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 7
    • Description: Cheyenne Club - Cheyenne, Wyoming
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 7
    • Description: Views of P.O. building - Cheyenne, Wyoming
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 7
  • Programs:

    • Description: "Cheyenne Little Theatre Players (Silver Anniversary)"
      Dates: September 28, 1955
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: "Cheyenne National Bank is pleased to present an Exhibit of Paintings by Frederic Hutchinson Porter"
      Dates: November-December 1971
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: "Commencement Exercises of the Cheyenne Senior High School, Sixteenth Annual program"
      Dates: June 9, 1938
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: "Dedication Ceremony - Federal Building United States Post Office and Court House"
      Dates: June 14, 1965
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: "Dedication of William Robertson Coe Library and School of American Studies Building, University of Wyoming"
      Dates: October 9, 1958
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: The Department of Drama of the College of Fine Arts of Drake University presents "Shadow and Substance" by Paul Vincent Carroll - Drake Auditorium
      Dates: April 1940
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: "First Presbyterian Church, Our 100th Year"
      Dates: May 25, 1969
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: "First Presbyterian Church, A Century of Service"
      Dates: June 8, 1969
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: "First Presbyterian Church, Centennial Banquet"
      Dates: June 13, 1969
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: "First Presbyterian Church"
      Dates: August 10, 1969
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: Little Theatre, Cheyenne, Wyoming, season
      Dates: 1975-1976
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: Little Theatre (play) A Christmas Carol
      Dates: 1976
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: "Official Program of the 71st Annual Cheyenne Frontier Days"
      Dates: 1967
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: "University of Wyoming Presents Wyoming Cowboys vs. Colorado State Bears"
      Dates: February 1, 1952
      Container: Box 3
  • Scrapbooks:

    • Description: A brochure of the work of Porter and Porter, Architectures - Cheyenne, Wyoming
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 7-8
    • Description: Newspaper clippings
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 7-8
    • Description: F.H. Porter, Sr.
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 7-8
    • Description: F.H. Porter, Sr. and architecture in Wyoming
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 7-8
    • Description: Architectural projects in Cheyenne and Frontier Days
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 7-8
    • Description: F.H. Porter's early days in architecture
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 7-8
  • Miscellaneous:

    • Description: Announcements of change of address for Porter and Bradley, architectures
      Dates: June 25, 1947
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: Blank form - Porter's Market - Emporium and Delicacies - Salem, Mass.
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: Calling card - Frederick Hutchinson Porter, architect
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: Christmas greeting card, with photo by Bunk Porter
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: Greeting card (wedding anniversary) from Grace and Fred
      Dates: October 28, 1914
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: Menu - The Treagle Wyoming State Tribune Eagle - football special
      Dates: October 7, 1950
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: National Register of Historic Places - inventory - nomination form - Union Pacific Depot - Cheyenne, Wyoming
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: National Register of Historic Places - inventory - nomination form - Atlas Theatre, Atlas Building - Cheyenne, Wyoming
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: National Register of Historic Places - inventory - nomination form - Wyoming State Capitol Building and grounds - Cheyenne, Wyoming
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: Picture postcards from Jackson Hole area
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: Postcards
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: Release form for oral history tapes - Wyoming State Art Gallery
      Dates: February 14, 1975
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: Report card of Addie Burns - Sparta Public School - high school dept.
      Dates: 1879-1880
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: Sketch of apartment house for Mr. M.A. Chapman - Cheyenne, Wyoming
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: Thank you card to Pops Bunk and Mama Grace from Rick and Elsie
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: Wedding announcements
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 3

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Subject Terms

  • Architecture -- Designs and plans.
  • Architecture -- Wyoming -- Cheyenne.
  • Architecture -- Wyoming -- Laramie.
  • Architecture -- Wyoming.
  • Architecture, Domestic -- Wyoming.
  • Architecture, Industrial -- Wyoming.
  • Public architecture -- Wyoming.
  • Public buildings -- United States.
  • Public buildings -- Wyoming.

Corporate Names

  • Baerrensen & Porter.
  • F.H. Porter (Firm)
  • Porter & Bradley.
  • Porter, Porter & Graves.
  • University of Wyoming -- Buildings.

Geographical Names

  • Cheyenne (Wyo.) -- Buildings, structures, etc.
  • Laramie (Wyo.) -- Buildings, structures, etc.
  • Wyoming -- History -- 1890-1918.
  • Wyoming -- History -- 1919-1945.
  • Wyoming -- History -- 1946-

Form or Genre Terms

  • Architectural drawings.
  • Blueprints.
  • Negatives.
  • Photographs.
  • Scrapbooks.

Occupations

  • Architects.
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