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Series I: Faculty Papers
Series II: Lectures
Series III: Personal Papers

Walter Curt Behrendt papers, 1910-1945

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Series III: Personal Papers

contains two letters from the contractor W.H. Trumbull regarding the construction of Behrendt's house. It also contains a letter from J. F. Schoellkopf, Jr. regarding the National Recreation Association. The series also contains biographical information, which lists Walter Curt Behrendt's education, civil service work in Prussia and Germany, and his career after he emigrated to the US in 1934.


Box 01 Folder 01 Biographical Information, undated


Box 02 Folder 12 Correspondence, 1941-1942

Includes letters from a contractor regarding a house, a letter regarding the National Recreation Association and a letter containing a bibliography of books on the growth of Buffalo, NY


Box 02 Folder 13 Clippings, 1925-1944

Contains two reports from the American Institute of Architects, one on the Committee on Economics of Site-Planning and Housing and one on the Committee on Community Planning; and a pamphlet "Between Ourselves" issued by the Publicity Department of the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company