Richard Joseph Neutra was born on April 8, 1892 in Vienna, which was then part of Austria-Hungary. He was born into an affluent Jewish family. Neutra studied architecture at the Vienna Institute of Technology, but his time there was disrupted by World War I. After the war, he worked as a landscape and city architect in Switzerland and Germany before immigrating to the United States in 1923. He was briefly under the tutelage of Frank Lloyd Wright before accepting an invitation to work with Rudolf Schindler in California. He came to be known for his geometric design and West Coast take on mid-century modern. He died on April 16, 1970.
Arthur James Mosby was born on October 20, 1888 in St. Paul, Minnesota. Mosby brought the first radio and television stations to Missoula, Montana. After receiving a license in 1930, he constructed a transmitter from a diagram and parts list in an amateur radio magazine. It worked, and KGVO took the air in 1931. In 1954, Mosby established KMSO-TV on Channel 13 in Missoula. Mosby also was instrumental in bringing the CBS Radio Network to Montana.
Mosby became inspired by Neutra's work while visiting his daughter in Los Angeles, commissioning the renowned architect in 1949 to build the first house in what would become the Farviews development in Missoula's South Hills. Mosby sold his interests in radio and television in the late 1950s and early 1960s to concentrate on real estate through Farviews Development Corporation.
Mosby married Ruth G. Greenough, daughter of Thomas L. Greenough, and they had two daughters. Mosby died on November 26, 1970 in Missoula, Montana.
This collection consists of a full-size set of architectural drawings and a box containing reduced-sized copies of the 1952 construction plans, specifications, and schedules for the Arthur J. Mosby residence at 103 Artemos Drive in the Farviews development in Missoula, Montana. The plans were done by architecht Richard J. Neutra, of Los Angeles, California. The home was donated to The University of Montana for a president’s residence after Mosby and his wife's deaths in the early 1970s, but it was since sold back to private owners.
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Richard Neutra Architectural Drawings of the Arthur James Mosby Residence, Archives and Special Collections, Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library, The University of Montana-Missoula.
The University of Montana Physical Plant held the drawings until they were transferred to the Mansfield Library Archives and Special Collections in 1989 and 2006. The complete chain of ownership of these drawings is unknown.
The University of Montana Physical Plant donated both the reduced-sized drawings in 1989 and the full-size set in 2006.
This collection was originally processed under the title: Arthur James Mosby Architectural Drawings. In 2024, it was revised to: Richard Neutra Architectural Drawings of the Arthur James Mosby Residence to follow
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