Thomas A. McConnaughey collection

DESIGNATION:

15-

SIZE:

COLLECTION DATES:

ca. 1927 - 1971

PROVENANCE:

Donated to the Archive in 1982 by Mrs. Esther McConnaughey, widow of Thomas A. McConnaughey.

RESTRICTIONS:

None

FINDING AIDS:

Preliminary inventory

Biographical Sketch

Thomas A. McConnaughey was born in 1907 near Hartford City, Indiana.  He attended Carnegie Institute of Technology and apprenticed with the firm of Houck and Hamilton in Muncie, IN. During the 1930s, McConnaughey teamed with Ivo Hemmert and opened their own office, McConnaughey and Hemmert, in Hartford City. During the war, they went their separate ways. McConnaughy went to Marion, where he associated with Gerald Guy.  Hemmert remained in Hartford City.  After the war they joined up again, this time as Hemmert and McConnaughy.  That firm split up around 1952.  Upon the dissolution of the firm, McConnaughey returned to Marion while Hemmert remained in Hartford City, practicing by himself until the late 1960s.  McConnaughey and Guy split up in 1964.  Both men stayed in Marion practicing individually.  McConnaughey died in 1968.

Scope and Content

58 rolls of drawings for projects by Thomas A. McConnaughey, Hemmert & McConnaughey, McConnaughey & Assoc., McConnaughey & Guy; also Houck & Hamilton, Hamilton and Graham, Walter Scholer & Assoc., C. R. Gollogly, Fleck Burkhart & Shropshire, Orus Eash, Louis C. Kingscott, McGuire and Shook, C. Daniel Zimmerman, E. Hill Turnock, R. W. Clinton, Houck & Smenner, and Everett & Eugene Brown; ca. 1927-1971 (?).

Mr. McConnaughey's work includes Parkside Elementary School, Hartford City, 1954, the first totally electric school, and many other Indiana schools, nursing homes, banks, churches and residences.