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Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: Leland W. King papers
Creator:
King, Leland W.
Identifier/Call Number: M2055
Identifier/Call Number: 19332
Physical Description:
11 Linear Feet
(16 manuscript storage boxes, 2 flat boxes and 4 map folders)
Date (inclusive): 1925-2004
The Leland W. King papers are composed of personal and professional correspondence, plans, photographs, brochures, booklets,
reports, manuscripts and research. The materials document King's work with the post office, the State Department's Office
of Foreign Buildings Operations (FBO), restoration of Lafayette Square and other projects. The materials also include Hametia
Fielder King's manuscripts and research.. FBO,
Leland W. King was an architect who worked for the State Department, Ampex Corporation, Memorex Corporation and other projects.
Leland W. King was born on December 17, 1907 in Battle Creek, Michigan. After graduating from high school King attended the
Armour Institute of Technology in Chicago before graduating from the Georgia Institute of Technology with an architecture
degree.
He started practicing architecture in Tucson, Arizona where he met Hametia Fielder. The two married in November 30, 1934 in
Washington, D.C. where King served as an assistant architect for post offices and federal buildings.
In 1938 Leland King became the chief architect for the State Department's office of Foreign Buildings Operations. He oversaw
the building of embassies and other foreign buildings in 72 countries from 1938-1956 and was known for promoting modernist
designs. In 1956 he left the State Department, moved to Los Angeles and joined the architecture firm of Pereira & Luckman
as Vice President and Director of Architecture.
From 1959-1961 he served as the Corporate Architect for Ampex Corporation in Redwood City. In 1961 he formed Leland W. King
and Associates. He was selected in 1962, along with John Carl Warnecke, to work on the restoration of Lafayette Square in
Washington, D.C. Some of the other major projects Leland King worked on were the Memorex corporate headdquarters in 1968 in
Santa Clara, the Riverside National Cemetery in 1978 and the NASA Space Center Unit for Controlling Satellites in 1982 in
Sunnyvale.
Leland King's wife, Hametia Fielder King, was active with the Stanford Historical Society and wrote manuscripts on the Lafayette
Square project and other topics.
Leland King died in April 20, 2004 at his home near Bodega Bay, California.
While Special Collections is the owner of the physical items, permission to examine collection materials is not an authorization
to publish. These materials are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study. Any transmission or reproduction
beyond that allowed by fair use requires permission from the owners of rights, heir(s) or assigns.
Open for research. Note that material must be requested at least 36 hours in advance of intended use. Audiovisual & born-digital
materials are not available in original format, and must be reformatted to a digital use copy.
[identification of item], Leland W. King papers (M2055). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford
Libraries, Stanford, California.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Architecture, American
Embassy buildings
United States. Department of State. Office of Foreign Buildings Operations