Kenneth W. Brooks Papers, 1936-1992

The Kenneth W. Brooks papers include business records, correspondence, reports, journals, sketchbooks, architectural drawings, proposals, project files, photographic materials, and printed matter. This graphic, printed, and manuscript material relates to urban design, architecture, and city planning, primarily in Spokane, Washington, from 1947 to 1990.

Series 1 through 4 represent Brooks' architectural practice, professional involvement, periods of architectural study, and his journals, sketchbooks, and presentations. Series 5 and 6 include materials of very specific types: printed material (many items with Brooks' annotations) and photography. The final series, 7 through 9, consist large items such as drawings, maps, and mounted photographs.

Series 1: Architectural firm (Kenneth Brooks, Architect, and Brooks, Hensley, Creager), 1949-1992. Correspondence, memoranda, reports, and publications related to land-use planning, zoning and urban design issues. Includes documentation of projects contracted to Kenneth Brooks, Architect, and Brooks, Hensley, Creager.

Series 2: American Institute of Architects (AIA) and other professional societies, 1948-1990. Correspondence, reports, conference materials, and selected printed matter.

Series 3: European study tours, Francis Plym Fellowship, and general European architecture, 1941-1980 (chiefly 1975-1980). Records of Brooks' fellowship in Stockholm in 1948-1949, including correspondence, information files, and reports related to land use and building design in Sweden. Some items in Swedish. Similar material for study tour 1978-1979, and printed matter, reports, and photographs of architectural interest from Europe, with a sequence concerning sites of classical antiquity.

Series 4: Journals, Sketchbooks, Presentations, 1936-1991. Includes spiral-bound notebooks with comments, sketches, drawings, and notes about general observations, projects, presentations, trips, and plans. Also drafts or synopses of presentations or papers given at conferences of professional societies, and architectural and planning presentations.

Series 5: Printed and published material, circa 1950-1990. Copies, reprints, clippings and tear sheets from professional, technical, and popular periodicals, concerned with topics such as urban affairs, urban planning and design, building and architectural design, as well as other topics of interest to Brooks.

Series 6: Photography, exact dates uncertain (many 1975-1980). Mostly 35mm projection slides, some grouped together for presentations. Also some commercial retail photographs, including picture postcards. Many have limited or no identification. Most photographs are of architectural examples, primarily in Europe. Some relate to Brooks' architectural projects, such as the Coulee Dam project.

Series 7: Small Oversize materials.

Series 8: Oversize materials (1), circa 1955-1992. Large-scale drawings, prints, photographs, reports, and maps, related mainly to Brooks' projects.

Series 9: Oversize materials (2), circa 1955-1990. Larger sized items, similar to Oversize (1).