Donated from her father’s library, the Ruth Falkenberg Library Collection focuses on various American and European architectural traditions, typography, and key texts useful to the practicing architect and builder. William Stevens Falkenburg was born in 1927 in Kansas City, Missouri and earned his Bachelor of Science in Architectural Engineering at the University of Colorado in 1949. Among other positions he was President of Falkenberg Construction Company in Denver from the 1950s through the 1980s and a development consultant.
| AUTHOR | TITLE | PUBLISHER | PLACE | DATE | ||
| The Students’ Edition of the Georgian Period: Colonial Details of Measured Drawings | UPC Book Company | New York | 1922 | |||
| Styles Regionaux: Collection Plaisir de France | Baschet & Co., Editeur | Paris | ||||
| Styles Regionaux: Collection Plaisir de France, Vol. 2 | Baschet & Co., Editeur | Paris. | ||||
| Maisons Traditionelles | Plaisir de France, Editeur | Paris | ||||
| Les Styles Français: Le Mobilier du Moyen Age à la Révolution | Éditions Plaisir de France | Paris | 1964 | |||
| La Decoration, Collection Connaissance des Arts | Hachette | 1963 | ||||
| Audsley, W & G | Designs and Patterns from Historic Ornament | Dover Publications | New York | 1968 | ||
| Baker, Earl P. and Harold S. Langland | Architectural Metal Handbook | National Association of Architectural Metal Manufacturers | 1952 | |||
| Barry, Joseph | The House Beautiful Treasury of Contemporary American Homes | Hawthorn Books Inc | New York | 1958 | ||
| Hamlin, Talbot | Architecture Through the Ages | GP Putnam Sons | New York | 1940 | ||
| Ishimoto, Kiyoko and Tatsuo | The Japanese House: Its Interior and Exterior | Crown Publisher, Inc | New York | 1963 | ||
| King, A. Rowden | Realtors’ Guide to Architecture | Prentice Hall | NY | 1954 | ||
| Krenov, James | The Fine Art of Cabinetmaking | Von Nostrand Reinhold | New York | 1977 | ||
| Laffont, Robert | Nouvelles réussites de la décoration française, 1960-1966, L’Interprétation modern des styles traditionnels | par les éditions condé Nast | 1966 | |||
| Lockwood, Luke Vincent | Colonial Furniture in America | Castle Books | New York | 1957 | ||
| Longyear, William | Type and Lettering | Watson-Guptill | New York | 1951 | ||
| Maass, John | The Gingerbread Age | Clark, Irwin & Company | Toronto | 1957 | ||
| Pickering, Ernest | Architectural Design | John Wiley & Sons | New York | 1941 | ||
| Porter, Francis Marion and James Thoburn Lendrum | Architectural Projections | John S. Swift, Co. | St Louis | 1942 | ||
| Pratt, Richard | The Second Treasury of Early American Homes | Hawthorn Books Inc | New York | 1954 | ||
| Russell, J.B., Compiler | Alphabets: Ancient and Modern | Padell Book Company | New York | 1945 | ||
| Schroeder, Franci de N. | Anatomy for Interior Designers | Whitney Publications | 1951 | |||
| Shipway, Verna Cook and Warren Shipway | The Mexican House Old and New | Architectural Book Publishing Company | New York | 1960 | ||
| Shipway, Verna Cook and Warren Shipway | Mexican Interiors | Architectural Book Publishing Company | New York | 1962 | ||
| Vitruvius, Morris Hicky Morgan, Translator | The Ten Books on Architecture | Dover Publications | New York | 1960 | ||
| Wallace, Philip B. | Colonial Ironwork in Old Philadelphia | Bonanza Books | New York | 1930 | ||
| Wallace, Philip B. and Joseph Hergesheimer | Colonial Houses: Pre-Revolutionary Period Philadelphia | Bonanza Books | New York | 1931 | ||
| Williamsburg Reproductions | Interior Design for Today’s Living | The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation | 1977 | |||
| Williamsburg Restoration Reproductions | A Selection from Craft House | Williamsburg | Virginia | 1960 | ||
| Yoshida, Tetsuro | The Japanese House and Garden | Frederick A. Preager | New York | 1955 | ||
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