Glenn Bickerstaff (1910-1993) Collection
Biography/History
Glenn Bickerstaff maintained a quintessential postwar practice of the 1940s and 1950s, based in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania, and focused on communities south and west of Pittsburgh. His projects included developer housing, gasoline stations (for the Royal Oil Company), automobile dealerships, motels, bowling alleys and commercial storefronts. Bickerstaff also designed numerous churches, including church prototypes for the boards of missions of the United Presbyterian Church and the American Lutheran Church that were presumably replicated in expanding postwar communities all over the country.
Scope and Content
Working drawings, renderings, photographs, and specifications document the full range of Bickerstaff's practice, though many individual church commissions have been excluded. A series of projects records life on Neville Island, from war memorial to dairy bar to trailer court. Many varieties of mission church prototypes are represented by drawings and renderings.
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August 20, 1998 -- http://www.library.cmu.edu/Research/ArchArch/bickers.html
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