Papers, 1946-1972 (bulk 1952-1969). This
collection is comprised of the papers of landscape architect Alvin O. Hurst.
Items include business files and writings. The bulk of the material consists of
business records including correspondence, plans, reports and drawings,
relating to various projects from Mr. Hurst’s career as a landscape architect
for federal and state agencies primarily in the southwestern United States.
Collection Number:Insert collection number here
MS 424
Languages Represented
English
Repository:
University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections
University of Arizona
PO Box 210055
Tucson, AZ 85721-0055
Phone: 520-621-6423
Fax: 520-621-9733
URL: http://speccoll.library.arizona.edu/
Biographical Note
Alvin O. Hurst was born in 1919 in Illinois. He began college at the
University of Illinois- Urbana in 1939. From 1942 to1945, Mr. Hurst served in
the United States Army Air Corps as a pilot. After World War II, Mr. Hurst
returned to the University of Illinois- Urbana and completed his Bachelor of
Arts degree in landscape architecture in 1948. After graduation he joined the
staff of the National Park Service. Mr. Hurst worked on several projects and
surveys in the Eastern United States including the Natchez Trace Parkway in
Tupelo, Mississippi and the New England Interagency Committee in Boston,
Massachusetts.
In1955, Mr. Hurst transferred to Yuma, Arizona to become the supervisory
park landscape architect in charge of the Lower Colorado River Survey. From
1957 to 1959 Mr. Hurst served as secretary of the Recreation Subcommittee of
the Pacific Southwest Inter-agency Committee. In 1958 Mr. Hurst became a
recreation planner in charge of a portion of the National Park Service’s
National Recreation Plan based in New Mexico.
In 1962 he took a temporary assignment as a planning consultant to the
Secretary of the Interior's Land Use Advisory Committee at the Lower Colorado
River Land Use Office in Yuma, Arizona where he wrote the Lower Colorado River
Land Use Plan which was a landmark publication in land-use planning and was
approved by Secretary of the Interior, Stewart Udall. He briefly left the
Southwest from 1963 to 1964 to work as a Recreation Resources Planner in
Atlanta, Georgia. In 1964 he returned permanently to the Lower Colorado River
Land Use Office in Yuma, Arizona. Alvin Hurst was recognized for his ability to
accommodate a wide variety of recreational activities into recreational spaces
without an excessive amount of damage to the environment. He died in Yuma in
1974.
Scope and Content Note
Papers, 1946-1972 (bulk 1952-1969). This collection contains the papers
of Alvin O. Hurst relating to his career in landscape architecture in the
southwestern United States. The bulk of the material includes business records
that document Mr. Hurst’s career working with the National Park Service. The
majority of the materials relate to Mr. Hurst’s work at the Lower Colorado
River Land Use Office in Yuma, Arizona. Also included are writings which
consist of short essays by Mr. Hurst concerning different topics in landscape
architecture.
It is the responsibility of the user to obtain permission to publish
from the owner of the copyright (the institution, the creator of the record,the
author or his/her transferees, heirs, legates, or literary executors). The user
agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Arizona Board of Regents for
theUniversity of Arizona, its officers, employees, and agents from and against
allclaims made by any person asserting that he or she is an owner of
copyright.
Access Terms
Personal Name(s)
Hurst, Alvin- Archives.
Corporate Name(s)
American Society of Landscape Architects.
Lower Colorado River Land Use Advisory Committee.
Pacific Southwest Inter-agency Committee.
United States. Lower Colorado River Land Use
Office.
Arrangement: Alphabetical. This series contains business records
pertaining to Alvin O. Hurst’s career as a landscape architect including
correspondence with professional organizations, reports, project files,
speeches and committee files.
box
folder
1
1
American Society of Landscape Architects.
, 1957-1959
1
2
American Society of Landscape Architects- Annual Meeting.
, 1959-1961
1
3
American Society of Landscape Architects- Correspondence.
1
, 1962-196363
1
4
Arizona Association of Landscape Architects- Symposium.
, 1966-1971
1
5
California Division of Beaches and Parks.
, 1952-1957
1
6
California Fish and Game.
, 1952-1956
1
7
California Fish and Game.
, 1956-1957
1
8
Colorado River Channelization Project.
, 1957-1958
1
9
Correspondence.
, 1955-1956
1
10
Correspondence.
, 1957-1958
1
11
Correspondence.
, 1958-1962
1
12
Correspondence.
, 1963-1968
1
13
Correspondence- Arizona Game and Fish.
, 1956-1957
1
14
Correspondence- Fish and Wildlife Service (Imperial
Refuge).
, 1955-1958
1
15
Correspondence- Fish and Wildlife Service (Lake Havasu
Refuge).
, 1955-1958
1
16
Havasu Lake National Wildlife Refuge Plan.
, 1957
1
17
International Federation of Landscape Architects- Meeting.
, 1958
1
18
The Laguna Unit Plan.
, 1956
1
19
Louisiana Art Commission.
, 1959
1
20
Lower Colorado River District Office- Organization
Structure.
, 1972
1
21
Lower Colorado River Land Use Advisory Committee.
, 1959-1962
1
22
Lower Colorado River Land Use Office- Budget and
Compendium.
, 1965
1
23
Lower Colorado River Land Use Office- Reports.
, 1946-1958
box
folder
2
1
Lower Colorado River Land Use Office- Reports.
, 1964-1965
2
2
Lower Colorado River Land Use Office- Reports.
, 1966-1967
2
3
Lower Colorado River Land Use Office- Reports.
, 1968-1969
2
4-5
Lower Colorado River Land Use Office- Workshops.
, 1962
2
6
Lower Colorado River Land Use Plan.
, 1961-1962
2
7
Lower Colorado River Parkway.
, 1965-1969
2
8
Lower Colorado River Recreation Road System Plan.
, 1963-1967
2
9
Lower Colorado River Recreation Road System Plan.
, 1968
2
10
Lower Colorado River Survey: A
Recreation Land Use Plan.
, 1958
Arrangement: Alphabetical. This series contains a collection of
essays entitled “Outcroppings” by Alvin O. Hurst that he intended to have
published in Landscape Architect.
box
folder
3
8
Outcroppings I- On Land Use Planning.
, 1962
3
9
Outcroppings II- On Recreation- Some Influences.
, 1962
3
10
Outcroppings III- On Recreation- Some Factors.
, 1962
3
11
Outcroppings IV- On Society- Some Reflections.
, 1962
3
12
Outcroppings V- On Space and Planning.
, 1962
3
13
Outcroppings VI- On Planning- Some Considerations.
, 1962
3
14
Outcroppings VII- On Forcasting- Some Ruminations.
, 1962
