Guide to the Leland W. King papers M2055

Gurudarshan Khalsa
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
2021
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford 94305-6064
specialcollections@stanford.edu


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

Scope and Contents

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,

Biographical / Historical

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.

Conditions Governing Use

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.

Conditions Governing Access

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.

Preferred Citation

[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

Box 1, Folder 1

Whitefish Bay High School 1927-1931

Box 1, Folder 2

Wyatt Clinic and Research Building, Tucson, Arizona 1934-1935

Box 1, Folder 3

Miscellaneous projects 1935-1973

Box 17, Folder 4

Miscellaneous projects

map-folder 19

Miscellaneous projects

map-folder 20

Miscellaneous projects

map-folder 21

Miscellaneous projects

map-folder 22

Miscellaneous projects

Box 1, Folder 4

Foreign Buildings Operations - Correspondence 1947-1953

Box 1, Folder 5

Foreign Buildings Operations - Leland W. King interim reports to Fritz Larkin 1947-1948

Box 1, Folder 6

Foreign Buildings Operations - Leland W. King interim reports to Fritz King 1949

Box 1, Folder 7

Foreign Buildings Operations - Leland W. King letters to Fritz Larkin 1950

Box 1, Folder 8

Foreign Buildings Operations - Leland W. King letters to Fritz Larkin 1950-1951

Box 2, Folder 1

Foreign Buildings Operations - Leland W. King letters to Fritz Larkin 1951

Box 2, Folder 2

Foreign Buildings Operations - Fritz Larkin correspondence with Leland W. King 1947-1948

Box 2, Folder 3

Foreign Buildings Operations - Fritz Larkin letters to Leland W. King 1947-1948

Box 2, Folder 4

Foreign Buildings Operations - Fritz Larkin letters to Leland W. King 1949

Box 2, Folder 5

Foreign Buildings Operations - Fritz Larkin letters to Leland W. King 1950-1951

Box 2, Folder 6

Foreign Buildings Operations - Budgets 1953-1954

Box 2, Folder 7

Foreign Buildings Operations - Exhibit 1951

Box 2, Folder 8

Foreign Buildings Operations - Inspection trip 1953

Box 2, Folder 9

Foreign Buildings Operations - Contracts 1951-1953

Box 2, Folder 10

Foreign Buildings Operations - Efficiency ratings memo 1953

Box 2, Folder 11

Foreign Buildings Operations - Sub-Committee for Appropriations for the Department of State 1953-1955

Box 2, Folder 12

Foreign Buildings Operations - Newspaper clippings 1951-1953

Box 2, Folder 13

Foreign Buildings Operations - Design standards for construction of permanent family housing for federal personnel 1953

Box 3, Folder 1

Foreign Buildings Operations - Notes on physical organization of a typical small embassy 1953

Box 3, Folder 2

Foreign Buildings Operations - Transcript of proceedings, committee of appeal in the matter of Frank B. Harrison (1 of 3) 1953

Box 3, Folder 3

Foreign Buildings Operations - Transcript of proceedings, committee of appeal in the matter of Frank B. Harrison (2 of 3) 1953

Box 3, Folder 4

Foreign Buildings Operations - Transcript of proceedings, committee of appeal in the matter of Frank B. Harrison (3 of 3) 1953

Box 3, Folder 5

Foreign Buildings Operations - Correspondence 1953-1961

Box 17, Folder 1

Foreign Buildings Operations of the Department of State 1952

Box 18, Folder 1

Examples of projects 1947-1950. Foreign Buildings Operations

Box 17, Folder 6

Life Magazines 1953

Box 17, Folder 5

Look Magazine 1953

Box 3, Folder 6

U.S. embassy 1951-1960

Box 18, Folder 2

UNESCO - preliminary project 1953

Box 3, Folder 7

Pereira & Luckman 1956-1958

Box 3, Folder 8

Pereira & Luckman

Box 18, Folder 3

William L. Pereira and Associates - binder of photographs of projects

Box 3, Folder 9

Symposium on on construction cost reduction through creative design and engineering 1957

Box 3, Folder 10

A treatise on seismic forces and their affect on structures 1958

Box 4, Folder 1

Ampex Corporation 1959-1963

Box 4, Folder 2

Post Office 1959-1969

Box 4, Folder 3

Current facilities planning data: Stanford-Redwood City 1961

Box 4, Folder 4

Report to the President by the Ad Hoc Committee on Federal Office Space 1962

Box 4, Folder 5

Stanford 1966-1978

Box 4, Folder 6

United States Postal Service (1 of 2) 1967-1975

Box 4, Folder 7

United States Postal Service (2 of 2) 1967-1975

Box 4, Folder 8

Memorex Corporation 1965-1971

Box 4, Folder 9

Memorex Corporation 1970-1972

Box 4, Folder 10

The role of aesthetics in plant design 1970

Box 4, Folder 11

Ramtek Corporation - facilities analysis 1973

Box 5, Folder 1

Unicom Systems, Rockwell International 1973

Box 5, Folder 2

The patrons and the professionals: the planning, design and construction of the Leland Stanford Junior Museum of Art 1973

Box 5, Folder 3

Riverside National Cemetery 1978

Box 5, Folder 4

King/Reif and Associates 1979-1983

Box 5, Folder 5

Tahrir Complex Project - MISR Development Company 1980

Box 18, Folder 4

Tahrir Complex Project - MISR Development Company

Box 5, Folder 6

KTKL Associates 2001

Box 17, Folder 2

ISS - Sperry - Univac, Consolidation Project, Santa Clara, California

Box 5, Folder 7

International Business Park, San Jose, California

Box 5, Folder 8

International Business Park, San Jose, California

Box 5, Folder 9

The Beach House, Bodega Bay

Box 5, Folder 10

Rudolph and Sletten, Inc.

Box 5, Folder 11

Ernest J. Kump Associates

Box 5, Folder 12

Proposed retirement center at Stanford

Box 17, Folder 3

Preliminary study - retirement facility at Stanford

Box 5, Folder 13

Raymond, Rado, Caddy & Bonington

Box 6, Folder 1

Architect registration 1925-1975

Box 6, Folder 2

Letters of recommendation 1930-1944

Box 6, Folder 3

American Institute of Architects 1933

Box 6, Folder 4

Treasury Department 1934-1935

Box 6, Folder 5

Civil Service application and resume 1934-1958

Box 6, Folder 6

Contracts and negotiations 1954-1998

Box 6, Folder 7

Leland W. King's personnel record from Booz, Allen & Hamilton 1959

Box 6, Folder 8

Carl Mills 1952-1957

Box 6, Folder 9

Professional correspondence 1952-1966

Box 6, Folder 10

Professional correspondence 1954-1962

Box 6, Folder 11

Professional correspondence 1957-1986

Box 6, Folder 12

Drew University 1967

Box 6, Folder 13

Punitive action regarding architects who violate the access standards 1980

Box 6, Folder 14

Professional correspondence 1986-1991

Box 6, Folder 15

Jane Loeffler correspondence 1992-1993

Box 6, Folder 16

Signatures 1937-1975

Box 6, Folder 17

Publications 1957-1996

Box 7, Folder 1

Partial manuscript about Lafayette Square 1963

Box 7, Folder 2

Research and manuscript on Lafayette Square

Box 7, Folder 3

Research on Lafayette Square

Box 7, Folder 4

A Guide to Washington Architecture, 1791-1957, Reinhold 1957

Box 7, Folder 5

Research on Lafayette Square

Box 7, Folder 6

Research on Lafayette Square 1962-1968

Box 7, Folder 7

Newspaper clippings about Lafayette Square 1962-1971

Box 7, Folder 8

Lafayette Square research 1962-1963

Box 8, Folder 1

Research on Lafayette Square 1962-1972

Box 8, Folder 2

Research on Lafayette Square

Box 8, Folder 3

Carl Warnecke 1996-1998

Box 8, Folder 4

The last ditch stand: how the art of politics and architecture saved the heart of the nation's capital in the 1960s. Warnecke Institute of Design 1994

Box 8, Folder 5

Manuscript and research on Dolly Madison 1965-1993

Box 8, Folder 6

Transcript of Hametia F. King speaking to the Stanford Historical Society meeting 1978

Box 8, Folder 7

Manuscript on medical electronics 1963-1964

Box 9, Folder 1

Personal correspondence 1936

Box 9, Folder 2

Personal correspondence 1940

Box 9, Folder 3

Personal correspondence 1942

Box 9, Folder 4

Personal correspondence 1943

Box 9, Folder 5

Personal correspondence 1944

Box 9, Folder 6

Personal correspondence 1945

Box 9, Folder 7

Personal correspondence (1 of 2) 1946

Box 10, Folder 1

Personal correspondence (2 of 2) 1946

Box 10, Folder 2

Personal correspondence 1948

Box 10, Folder 3

Personal correspondence 1949

Box 10, Folder 4

Personal correspondence 1950

Box 10, Folder 5

Personal correspondence 1951

Box 10, Folder 6

Personal correspondence 1952

Box 10, Folder 7

Personal correspondence 1953

Box 10, Folder 8

Personal correspondence 1954

Box 10, Folder 9

Personal correspondence 1955

Box 11, Folder 1

Personal correspondence 1959

Box 11, Folder 2

Personal correspondence March-May, 1963

Box 11, Folder 3

Correspondence 1938-1939

Box 11, Folder 4

Correspondence 1938-1952

Box 11, Folder 5

Correspondence 1946-1947

Box 12, Folder 1

Correspondence 1940

Box 12, Folder 2

Correspondence 1942

Box 12, Folder 3

Correspondence

Box 12, Folder 4

Letters to Louisa King 1947-1948

Box 12, Folder 5

Trips - Europe 1969-1979

Box 12, Folder 6

Trips - Portugal, France and Spain 1980

Box 12, Folder 7

Trips - Egypt 1980

Box 12, Folder 8

Travel ephemera 1950

Box 13, Folder 1

Passports 1942-1970

Box 13, Folder 2

Red and white ribbon from Recife, Brazil

Box 13, Folder 3

Golfing memorabilia 1960-1988

Box 13, Folder 4

Leland W. King humor 1964-1991

Box 13, Folder 5

Invitations 1948-1956

Box 13, Folder 6

Newspaper clippings and other materials 1930-1995

Box 13, Folder 7

Newspaper clippings

Box 13, Folder 8

Diplomas and certificates

Box 13, Folder 9

Leland W. King business cards

Box 13, Folder 10

Leland W. King nameplate

Box 13, Folder 11

Leland W. King memorial 2004

Box 13, Folder 12

Photographs

Box 14, Folder 1

Leland King, Architect - F.A.I.A. binder

Box 14, Folder 2

Binder of photographs, clippings and correspondence (1 of 2)

Box 14, Folder 3

Binder of photographs, clippings and correspondence (2 of 2)

Box 14, Folder 4

Binder of photographs of Foreign Buildings Operations projects (1 of 2)

Box 14, Folder 5

Binder of photographs of Foreign Buildings Operations projects (2 of 2)

Box 15, Folder 1

Photographs

Box 15, Folder 2

FAIA negatives

Box 15, Folder 3

Charles Osburn photographs

Box 15, Folder 4

Cosmos Club - List of Members 1992

Box 15, Folder 5

The American Institute of Architects College of Fellows, History and Directory 2000

Box 15, Folder 6

American Institute of Architects College of Fellows, a History and Directory of the College 1984

Box 15, Folder 7

American Institute of Architects fellowship 1970-1971

Box 15, Folder 8

American Institute of Architects, San Francisco Chapter - Directory 1989

Box 15, Folder 9

Northern California Chapter American Institute of Architects correspondence 1975

Box 15, Folder 10

Who's Who in America correspondence 1953-1971

Box 16, Folder 1

Architecture of diplomacy, thesis by Jane Canter Loeffler (1 of 4) 1996

Box 16, Folder 2

Architecture of diplomacy, thesis by Jane Canter Loeffler (2 of 4) 1996

Box 16, Folder 3

Architecture of diplomacy, thesis by Jane Canter Loeffler (3 of 4) 1996

Box 16, Folder 4

Architecture of diplomacy, thesis by Jane Canter Loeffler (4 of 4) 1996

Box 16, Folder 5

Architectural graphic standard. Charles George Ramsey and Harold Reeve Sleeper. John Wiley & Sons 1936