Ernest W. Young Collection
Content Description
Collection consists of architectural drawings by South Bend, Indiana architect Ernest W. Young, dating from 1918 to 1952. Materials include blueprints, ink and pencil on vellum and mylar, color pencil on paper, and carbon copy paper. Projects documented are primarily residential commissions in South Bend and surrounding communities, with additional commercial, educational, civic, and religious work. Notable commissions include the Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson Schools (1927), the Leeper Park Pavilion and Concert Theater (1931), and buildings for the South Bend Tribune and radio station WSBT.
Dates
- Creation: 1918-1952
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright status for collection materials is unknown. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.) beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.
Biographical / Historical
Ernest William Young was born August 12, 1883, in Kansas City, Missouri. He attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and received architectural training at the firm of Schmidt, Garden & Martin in Chicago. In 1904, Young moved to South Bend, Indiana, where he worked with both Walter W. Schneider and Rolland Adelsperger before establishing his own architecture firm. He helped write South Bend’s first building code, served on South Bend’s first Plan Commission, and was appointed to Indiana’s First Memorial Art Commission by Governor James P. Goodrich in 1920. Young lived and worked in South Bend until his death in 1959.
Full Extent
4 Linear Feet (11 folders)
Language of Materials
English
Processing Information
Titles derived from architectural drawing title blocks where possible. Residential drawings are arranged in alphabetical order by client last name.
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Architecture Archives Repository
150 Walsh Family Hall of Architecture
Notre Dame IN 46556