Comments on: Early Detroit Architecture Clubs http://criticaldetroit.org/early-detroit-architecture-clubs/ engaging local architecture Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:52:20 +0000 hourly 1 By: Jennifer Baross http://criticaldetroit.org/early-detroit-architecture-clubs/comment-page-1/#comment-7819 Jennifer Baross Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:52:20 +0000 http://criticaldetroit.org/?p=1182#comment-7819 Steve, thanks. I was beginning to think you forgot about me! Steve, thanks. I was beginning to think you forgot about me!

]]> By: Steve http://criticaldetroit.org/early-detroit-architecture-clubs/comment-page-1/#comment-7668 Steve Thu, 12 Aug 2010 23:04:03 +0000 http://criticaldetroit.org/?p=1182#comment-7668 Jennifer - I Received the following email, but don't know how to contact you. Please email me again (I changed the form to capture email addresses, sorry) so we can talk about this. -Steve While doing some research on the Thumb Tack Club, I found your article. I am very much interested in both the Thumb Tack Club and the Detroit Architectural Sketch Club. Good to know there is more information at the U of M libraries. I have been researching Corrado Parducci for quite some time now, which stemmed from a project through an art history course I had taken at the College for Creative Studies instructed by Dr. Thomas Brunk. In one of the largest Parducci resources, his interview with Dennie Barrie for the Smithsonian’s American Art Archives, he mentions a social club which he refers to a drawing class however; I believe that he may be speaking of either the Thumb Tack Club or Detroit Architectural Sketch Club. Would be willing to share any information which you have obtained that may not be in your article? Do you know of the dates of existence for either of these clubs? Please advise – I look forward to hearing from you. – Jennifer Jennifer – I Received the following email, but don’t know how to contact you. Please email me again (I changed the form to capture email addresses, sorry) so we can talk about this. -Steve

While doing some research on the Thumb Tack Club, I found your article. I am very much interested in both the Thumb Tack Club and the Detroit Architectural Sketch Club. Good to know there is more information at the U of M libraries.

I have been researching Corrado Parducci for quite some time now, which stemmed from a project through an art history course I had taken at the College for Creative Studies instructed by Dr. Thomas Brunk. In one of the largest Parducci resources, his interview with Dennie Barrie for the Smithsonian’s American Art Archives, he mentions a social club which he refers to a drawing class however; I believe that he may be speaking of either the Thumb Tack Club or Detroit Architectural Sketch Club.

Would be willing to share any information which you have obtained that may not be in your article? Do you know of the dates of existence for either of these clubs?

Please advise – I look forward to hearing from you. – Jennifer

]]> By: Bob Miller http://criticaldetroit.org/early-detroit-architecture-clubs/comment-page-1/#comment-7649 Bob Miller Thu, 05 Aug 2010 13:26:17 +0000 http://criticaldetroit.org/?p=1182#comment-7649 My grandfather, Ollivier J. Vinour, was a French Beaux Arts trained architect. He worked for C. Howard Crane from 1919-1921, and later designed the Fox Theatre in Atlanta. In his personal papers is a copy of a "Dramatis Personae" of a party the Thumbtack Club held in January 1920. It has an Egyptian motif. I am writing a biographical article about Vinour. Do you have anything in your records of my grandfather's involvement with the club? I would be glad to send you a pdf of the party program, if you would like. My grandfather, Ollivier J. Vinour, was a French Beaux Arts trained architect. He worked for C. Howard Crane from 1919-1921, and later designed the Fox Theatre in Atlanta. In his personal papers is a copy of a “Dramatis Personae” of a party the Thumbtack Club held in January 1920. It has an Egyptian motif.

I am writing a biographical article about Vinour. Do you have anything in your records of my grandfather’s involvement with the club? I would be glad to send you a pdf of the party program, if you would like.

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