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Joseph Bell DeRemer Papers, 1887-1986

Collection Overview

Title: Joseph Bell DeRemer Papers, 1887-1986

Predominant Dates:1887-1942

ID: OGLMC/744

Creator: DeRemer, Joseph Bell (1871-1944)

Extent: 13.5 Linear Feet

Date Acquired: 03/11/1982

Languages: English [eng]

Abstract

1871-1944; Prominent Grand Forks architect. Also includes items of his son, Samuel Teel DeRemer

Scope and Contents of the Materials

The Joseph Bell DeRemer Papers are from 1887 to 1986, although the bulk of the materials are from 1887 to 1942. The collection includes biographical information, architectural blueprints and drawings, newspaper clippings, and photographs. In addition, there are DeRemer's architectural tools, his tophat, and other artifacts. Various plans from Samuel T. DeRemer and his architectural firm of DeRemer, Harrie, and Kennedy Architects are included as well.

Administrative Information

Accruals:

Additional materials were donated by:

Joe B. DeRemer, East Grand Forks, Minnesota, March 25, 1982 (82-967)

Margery McCanna, McCanna, North Dakota, May 29, 1990 (90-1703)

William Harrie, Grand Forks, July 13, 1990 (90-1713) and February 6, 1992 (92-1809)

The Book Fair, Grand Forks (via Al and Alice Thureen, East Grand Forks), September 15, 1999 (99-2401) and October 3, 2000 (2001-2508)

Lee Furman, Grand Forks, June 6, 2000 (2000-2442)

Royce Yeater, National Trust for Historic Preservation, Chicago, IL, May 30, 2002 (2005-2782)

Sandy Slater, Grand Forks, June 2007 (2011-3145)

Mount St. Benedict Academy, Crookston, MN, June 2023 (2023-3481)

Access Restrictions: Open for inspection under the rules and regulations of the Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections.

Acquisition Source: Stanley Johnson, UND Art Department

Acquisition Method: Donation; 82-964

Separated Materials:

Several items from Joseph DeRemer's personal library were cataloged and added to Special Collections Stacks:

Josiah Allen's Wife. Samantha at the World's Fair. New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1893 (DeRemer gave this to his wife)

Palmer, Bertha Rachael. Beauty Spots in North Dakota. Boston: Richard Badger, 1928 (DeRemer's personal copy and signed by the author)

American Homes and Gardens volumes 1-2, 1905-1906

American Homes and Gardens volume 4, 1907

House and Garden volumes 8-20, 1905-1911

Indoors and Out volumes 3-5, 1905-1907

Preferred Citation: (Description of Item). Joseph Bell DeRemer Papers. OGLMC 744, Box #, Folder #. Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections, Chester Fritz Library, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks.

Finding Aid Revision History: Finding aid added to Archon in July 2015.


Box and Folder Listing

Box 1Add to your cart.
Folder 1: American Institute of Architects Certificate, August 1921Add to your cart.
Folder 2: Architecture class materialsAdd to your cart.
Folder 3: Biographical InformationAdd to your cart.
Folder 4: Blueprints - Tau Sigma Rho FraternityAdd to your cart.
Folder 5: Building specifications - McCanna Farming Company HouseAdd to your cart.
Folder 6: Building Surveys, 1981-1992Add to your cart.

625 Belmont Road (Joseph DeRemer residence)

511 Reeves Drive (Alexander Griggs residence)

United Lutheran Church

722 Belmont Road (E.J. Lander residence)

1518 Riverside Drive (Joseph DeRemer residence)

Folder 7: Class notes and certificate, 1896-1897Add to your cart.
Folder 8: Correspondence, 1926 and 1931Add to your cart.
Folder 9: Courthouse Renovations - Polk County, MN, and Grand Forks County, ND, 1938Add to your cart.
Folder 10: Doughboy Service Oil Company Advertisement DraftsAdd to your cart.
Folder 11: Drawings - Dwelling Schemes for Otto J. Eickhof, Crookston, MN and Assorted SketchesAdd to your cart.
Folder 12: Drawings - Eagles Building, Crookston, MN, new Ryan Hotel, Grand Forks, and St. Catherine's Church, Lomice, NDAdd to your cart.
Folder 13: Drawings - Wilshire Presbyterian Church, Los Angeles, CAAdd to your cart.
Folder 14: Drawings/Plans of Schools - Devils Lake, Hamilton, and Park River, NDAdd to your cart.
Folder 15: Drawings/Sketches - AssortedAdd to your cart.

Proposed home of Dr. P.W. Smith

Kelly & Palmer Filling Station

Merrifield Hall Tower

South Side Elementary School

Utzinger Grocery

Kenney Olson Glass Co. and Larson Bros. Painters

St. Vincent's Hospital, Crookston, MN (2)

Unidentified (3)

Folder 16: Financial records, 1906-1915Add to your cart.
Folder 17: Hariman Sanitorium, Grand ForksAdd to your cart.
Folder 18: Hariman Sanitorium, Grand Forks - George Hariman materialsAdd to your cart.
Folder 19: Joseph Bell DeRemer stationery and business advertisementsAdd to your cart.
Folder 20: Library Book Plate and EyeglassesAdd to your cart.
Folder 21: Mrs. Joseph Bell (Lizzie) DeRemer - Autograph book and newspaper articleAdd to your cart.
Folder 22: Loose scrapbook pagesAdd to your cart.
Folder 23: MiscellaneousAdd to your cart.
Folder 24: Mount Saint Benedict Academy, Crookston, MNAdd to your cart.
Includes a flash drive with image files of Mount Saint Benedict Monastery, proposed women's junior college, Mount Saint Benedict Academy, and St. Francis Hospital
Folder 25: National Register nomination - George B. Clifford House, 406 Reeves Drive, 1986Add to your cart.
Folder 26: Newspaper clippings - Houses and BuildingsAdd to your cart.
Folder 27: Oxford HouseAdd to your cart.
Folder 28: Photographs and Articles - Assorted Houses and BuildingsAdd to your cart.
Folder 29: PostcardsAdd to your cart.

St. Mary's Church and School, Grand Forks (7)

Houses along Belmont Avenue, Grand Forks

School, Cando, ND

Folder 30: Printing plates - assortedAdd to your cart.
Folder 31: Specifications - Teachers College Building (aka Woodworth Hall), UNDAdd to your cart.
Folder 32: The Improvement Bulletin, May 19, 1928Add to your cart.

Profile of three UND Fraternity and Sorority houses (p. 7)

Contracts for UND Liberal Arts Building (p. 31)

Folder 33: United Lutheran Church, Grand ForksAdd to your cart.

Drawings and plans

Dedication programs, 1932 and 1942

Item 1: Scrapbook, 1909-1955Add to your cart.
Box 2Add to your cart.
Folder 1: Joseph DeRemer's spatsAdd to your cart.
Folder 2: Lizzie DeRemer's beaded blouseAdd to your cart.
Folder 3: Lizzie DeRemer's black skirtAdd to your cart.
Box 3Add to your cart.
Item 1: Large Architectural ToolsAdd to your cart.
Box 4Add to your cart.
Item 1: Small Architectural ToolsAdd to your cart.
Box 5Add to your cart.
Item 1: Black tophatAdd to your cart.
Items 1-4: Framed sketches and drafting toolsAdd to your cart.

Item 1: Framed sketch of the Bellevue Apartments, J.A. Dinne Co. and Oscar C.G. Knudson, owners, ca. 1923

Item 2: Framed sketch of high-rise building by Samuel DeRemer, 1932

Item 3: Framed sketch by Samuel DeRemer of Joseph DeRemer's book plate, 1922

Item 4: Assorted architectural tools

Photographs 1-75Add to your cart.
Separated and placed in the Photograph File Cabinets.
Photograph 1: Joseph Bell DeRemer at work, undatedAdd to your cart.
Photograph 2: Jo’bel and Joseph Bell DeRemer, 1939Add to your cart.
Photograph 3: Joseph Bell and Elizabeth DeRemer, June 1942Add to your cart.
Photograph 4: Joseph Bell DeRemer at work, undatedAdd to your cart.
Photograph 5: Joseph Bell DeRemer and unidentified, undatedAdd to your cart.
Photograph 6: Joseph Bell DeRemer and his father, James, at the home in Montana, New Jersey, where Joseph was born in 1871Add to your cart.
Photograph 7: House on North 25th Street, by alley of sorority facing UniversityAdd to your cart.
Photograph 8: Samuel Teel DeRemer, undatedAdd to your cart.
Photograph 9: Samuel Teel DeRemer and grandmother, January 1951Add to your cart.
Photograph 10: Joseph Bell DeRemer at his desk, undatedAdd to your cart.
Photograph 11: Joseph Bell and Elizabeth DeRemer at their cabin, 1941Add to your cart.
Photograph 12: The DeRemer family, (Joseph and Elizabeth; Samuel Teel DeRemer and family), 1933Add to your cart.
Photograph 13: Joseph Bell and Elizabeth DeRemerAdd to your cart.
Photograph 14: Joseph Bell DeRemer's office, undatedAdd to your cart.
Photograph 15: Towner County Memorial Building (Joseph Bell DeRemer, architect), undatedAdd to your cart.
Photograph 16: F.W. Mann & Sons, Devils Lake, North DakotaAdd to your cart.
Photograph 17: St. Mary's Church and school, Grand Forks (postcard)Add to your cart.
Photograph 18: Grand Forks Deaconess Hospital (Samuel T. DeRemer, architect)Add to your cart.
Photograph 19: United Presbyterian Church (First Presbyterian), 308 S 5th, Grand Forks, undatedAdd to your cart.
Photograph 20: North Dakota State Building for Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California., 1915Add to your cart.
Photograph 21: McCanna Family Home, McCanna, North DakotaAdd to your cart.
Photograph 22: United Lutheran Church, Grand ForksAdd to your cart.
Photograph 23: United Lutheran Church, Grand ForksAdd to your cart.
Photograph 24: United Lutheran Church, Grand ForksAdd to your cart.
Photograph 25: United Lutheran Church, Grand ForksAdd to your cart.
Photograph 26: United Lutheran Church, Main Auditorium looking toward altar: Grand ForksAdd to your cart.
Photograph 27: Cando SchoolAdd to your cart.
Photograph 28: UnidentifiedAdd to your cart.
Photograph 29: UnidentifiedAdd to your cart.
Photograph 30: UnidentifiedAdd to your cart.
Photograph 31: UnidentifiedAdd to your cart.
Photograph 32: Architectural drawing: "Low cost dwelling scheme for West lot, Otto J. Eickhof, Crookston, Minnesota" by Sam T. DeRemerAdd to your cart.
Photograph 33: Architectural drawing: "Low cost dwelling scheme for East lot, Otto J. Eickhof, Crookston, Minnesota" by Sam T. DeRemerAdd to your cart.
Photograph 34: Cando SchoolAdd to your cart.
Photograph 35: Compiegne-L'Hotel de VilleAdd to your cart.
Photograph 36: Geo H. Olmsted Residence, Grand Forks (built in 1920)Add to your cart.
Photograph 37: Grand Forks Deaconess HospitalAdd to your cart.
Photograph 38: Joseph Bell DeRemer ResidenceAdd to your cart.
Photograph 39: Joseph Bell DeRemer ResidenceAdd to your cart.
Photograph 40: Joseph Bell DeRemer Residence - Flower GardenAdd to your cart.
Photograph 41: Joseph Bell DeRemer Residence - Reception HallAdd to your cart.
Photograph 42: Joseph Bell DeRemer Residence - Dining RoomAdd to your cart.
Photograph 43: Joseph Bell DeRemer Residence - Living RoomAdd to your cart.
Photograph 44: Joseph Bell DeRemer ResidenceAdd to your cart.
Photograph 45: Joseph Bell DeRemer ResidenceAdd to your cart.
Photograph 46: Joseph Bell DeRemer Residence - Mrs. DeRemer's Pitcher CollectionAdd to your cart.
Photograph 47: Ruettell Clothing CompanyAdd to your cart.
Photograph 48: Towner County MemorialAdd to your cart.
Photograph 49: Joseph Bell DeRemer Family, 1893Add to your cart.
Photograph 50: Samuel T. DeRemerAdd to your cart.
Photograph 51: Delores DeRemerAdd to your cart.
Photograph 52: Elizabeth DeRemerAdd to your cart.
Photograph 53: Elizabeth, Samuel, and Delores DeRemer, 1895Add to your cart.
Photograph 54: Samuel T. DeRemer, 1898Add to your cart.
Photograph 55: Four Generations: Grandma, Mamma, Lizzie, and Delores, 1899Add to your cart.
Photograph 56: Family Group at Aunt Alice's New Village, 1905Add to your cart.
Photograph 57: Samuel T. DeRemer, 1912Add to your cart.
Photograph 58: Elizabeth DeRemer on the day Delores was married, 1915Add to your cart.
Photograph 59: Joseph and Samuel DeRemer on the day Sam came home from war, 1918Add to your cart.
Photograph 60: Joseph DeRemer and C. Turner, 1926Add to your cart.
Photograph 61: Joseph DeRemerAdd to your cart.
Photograph 62: Joseph DeRemer in his officeAdd to your cart.
Photograph 63: Mr. and Mrs. Joseph DeRemer, taken by Dr. Barr of UND Art DepartmentAdd to your cart.
Photograph 64: UnidentifiedAdd to your cart.
Photograph 65: UnidentifiedAdd to your cart.
Photograph 66: UnidentifiedAdd to your cart.
Photograph 67: UnidentifiedAdd to your cart.
Photograph 68: UnidentifiedAdd to your cart.
Photograph 69: UnidentifiedAdd to your cart.
Photograph 70: UnidentifiedAdd to your cart.
Photograph 71: UnidentifiedAdd to your cart.
Photograph 72: UnidentifiedAdd to your cart.
Photograph 73: Joseph Bell DeRemer in his library, ca. 1905Add to your cart.
Photograph 74: R.B. Griffith and Joseph Bell DeRemerAdd to your cart.
Photograph 75: Joseph Bell DeRemer PortraitAdd to your cart.
Oversize Folder 1: Architecture School Drawings by Joseph DeRemer and Sketches by Samuel DeRemerAdd to your cart.

Six panels of plants and trees on one sheet, July 10, 1896

Six panels of plants and trees on one sheet, January 9, 1897

"A Naples" Plate VIII, July 28, 1896

"The Tuscan Order" Plate X, August 1, 1896

"Balusters and Balustrade" Plate XII, August 28, 1896

Four mounted sketches of high-rise buildings

Oversize Folder 2: Drawings and Floor PlansAdd to your cart.

Street Front of Proposed Building for Jacob Lampert, Chicago Bakery, Grand Forks (1 sheet)

Sketches of Joseph and Josie DeRemer with Poetry (1 sheet)

Proposed Administration Building, Grand Forks Municipal Airport (4 sheets)

Proposed New State Theatre, Red Lake Falls, MN (2 sheets)

Gymnasium (2 sheets - Ground and First Floor Plans)

Church (1 sheet - First Floor Plan)

Church (2 sheets - labeled A and B)

Oversize Folder 3: DrawingsAdd to your cart.

Project 702 - Lukkason Bar and Café, East Grand Forks, MN (4 sheets)

Gymnasium and Auditorium, Crookston, MN (2 sheets)

Polk County State Bank (1 sheet)

Proposed Modernizing Treatment for Hotel Crookston, Crookston, MN (1 sheet)

Crookston High School Auditorium - Interior Decorative Design (1 sheet)

Elks Lodge and Clubhouse, Thief River Falls, MN (3 drawings on 1 sheet)

Elks - Interior Treatments (1 sheet)

Hotel Francis, East Grand Forks, MN (3 sheets)

Oversize Folder 4: DrawingsAdd to your cart.

Color Schemes for First Presbyterian Church, Grand Forks (2 sheets)

Four Schemes for Redecorating Bobby's Cafe (1 sheet)

Decorative Scheme for United Lutheran Church, Grand Forks (1 sheet divided into 2 separate sections)

Possible Rock Garden at Sunnyrest Sanatorium for Mrs. James K. Anderson (1 sheet)

Home of L.M. Mondry (2 sheets)

Winship Elementary School, Grand Forks (2 sheets)

Dr. Pepper Bottling Plant, Grand Forks (1 sheet)

Proposed Gymnasium, Petersburg, ND (1 sheet)

Proposed Liberal Arts Building (Merrifield Hall), UND (1 sheet)

Sketch of Merrifield Hall Entryway, UND (1 sheet)

Proposed Fraternity House for Epsilon Kappa of Sigma Nu, UND (1 sheet)

Unidentified Building (1 sheet)

Oversize Folder 5: Drawings and Floor PlansAdd to your cart.

Goebel Motors, Grand Forks (1 sheet)

Public School, Enderlin, ND (2 sheets)

Nestor Tap Room, F.J. Hughes Owner, Fargo, ND (5 sheets)

Lealos (1 sheet)

Oscar's - similar to Lealos plan (1 sheet)

Proposed Memorial Building, Lakota, ND (1 sheet)

Proposed Building for Grand Forks Steam Laundry Co. (1 sheet)

Proposed Filling Station for Kelly and Palmer (1 sheet)

Unidentified Houses - Elevations and Floor Plans (7 sheets)

Oversize Folder 6: Building Sketches, probably by Samuel DeRemerAdd to your cart.

High-rise building sketches (9)

Interior Drawing - Fireplace and Bench (1)

Oversize Folder 7: BlueprintsAdd to your cart.

Proposed Administration Building, Grand Forks Municipal Airport (4 sheets)

Public School, Cando, ND (5 sheets)

Project 505 - McCanna Farming Company House (copies of blueprints), August 1920 (10 sheets consecutively numbered)

County Courthouse, Jail, and Sheriff's House, Grand Forks (9 sheets consecutively numbered)

Project 246 - House, September 1906 (3 sheets)

Crookston Hotel Cafe and Lounge, Crookston, MN (1 sheet)

Project 607 - St. Mary's School, Grand Forks, 1927? (7 sheets with 5 numbered 1S through 5S)

Project 520 - Grafton State School Dormitory, May 1922 (15 sheets)

Oversize Folder 8: Building Plans, 1904-1926Add to your cart.

Project 137 - Grand Forks Public Library, February 1904 (10 sheets)

Project 139 - Panovitz Furniture Building, 31 South 3rd Street, March 1904 (14 sheets)

Project 581 - Delta Gamma Sorority, March 1926 (9 sheets)

Oversize Folder 9: House Plans - 401 Reeves Drive, 1904-1955Add to your cart.

Project 165 - House of Robert H. McCoy, 401 Reeves Drive, September 1904 (14 sheets)

Project 218 - Garage at 401 Reeves Drive, October 1905 (1 sheet)

Interior remodeling of Leslie "Bill" Larson house, 401 Reeves Drive, October-December 1955 (11 sheets total with 5 larger sheets consecutively numbered and 6 smaller sheets)

Oversize Folder 10: Building PlansAdd to your cart.

YMCA Addition, Grand Forks, 1945-1946 (10 sheets plus 5 smaller sheets in a folder)

Project 125 – YMCA, October 1903 (14 sheets)

YMCA Repairs, July 1911 (1 sheet)

United Lutheran Church – Bulletin Boards, ca. 1950 (4 sheets)

United Lutheran Church (5 smaller sheets in folder)

United Lutheran Church (21 sheets of varying dimensions – some torn)

Project 131 - Whitey’s Café, East Grand Forks, September 1946 (5 sheets consecutively numbered)

Whitey’s Café, East Grand Forks (8 blueprint sheets, 7 of which are consecutively numbered)

Project 367 - Masonic Temple, January 1913 (20 sheets consecutively numbered)

Oversize Folder 11: Building PlansAdd to your cart.

Project 152 - Francis Hotel, East Grand Forks (19 sheets with 1-17 consecutively numbered)

Project 316 - First Presbyterian Church, March 1910 (13 sheets numbered 2-14)

Project 575 - Central High School Addition, February 1926 (15 sheets consecutively numbered with sheet 15 smaller than the rest)

Oversize Folder 12: Building PlansAdd to your cart.

Project 537 - Bellevue Apartments, June 1923 (18 sheets)

Project 639 – Williston High School (16 sheets consecutively numbered)

Oversize Folder 13: Building Plans - Mount St. Benedict Academy, Crookston, MNAdd to your cart.

Sketch - Mount St. Benedict Academy Addition, July 27, 1953 (1 sheet)

Plans - Revisions to Chapel, November 14, 1962 (1 sheet)

Proposed Addition and Remodeling, September 28, 1953 (8 blueprint sheets)

Proposed Addition and Remodeling, July 28, 1953 (2 sheets - plans and elevations)

Oversize Folder 14: Building Plans - Mount St. Benedict Academy, Crookston, MNAdd to your cart.

Colored, Mounted Drawing of MSB Campus, undated

Project 5914, 1958-1962 (20 sheets consecutively numbered, but with two sheets each numbered 2, 7, and 8 – 23 sheets total; 8 of the sheets are blueprints).

Oversize Folder 15: Building Plans - Mount St. Benedict Academy, Crookston, MNAdd to your cart.

Job 281 - Residence Hall Mechanical Plans, June 5, 1961 (5 sheets numbered M-2 through M-6)

Project 5914 - Residence Hall, May 29, 1961 (18 sheets numbered 3 through 20)

Job 302, Southwestern Engineering Co. – Aluminum Railings, November 1961 (4 sheets numbered 1A through 4A)

Fargo Food & Equipment Co. – Kitchen Plans, August-September 1961 (7 sheets consecutively numbered)

Job 4898, Northern Woodwork Co. – Shelving, doors, etc., 1962 (26 sheets numbered 1, D-1, then 2 through 25)

Miscellaneous Details, November 10, 1961 (1 sheet numbered 37)

Project 5914 - Residence Hall, May 29, 1961 (14 sheets numbered S-1 through S-14)

Residence Hall First Floor Slab (1 sheet labeled B-16)

Project 5914 - Residence Hall, May 29, 1961 (14 blueprint sheets numbered S-1 through S-14)

Oversize Folder 16: Building Plans, 1917Add to your cart.
Project 489 – Modesto High School, Modesto, CA, February 1917 (14 sheets numbered 0 through 13 plus 2 smaller, unlabeled sheets)