Kenneth Franzheim

[1] Upon graduation from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Franzheim was employed by the Boston architect, for whom he worked until 1917.

He served the United States Army Air Corps during World War I at Ellington Field, in the Houston area.

It had six floors before it was expanded to nine in 1957, and included windowless retail space suspended at street level above a first-floor window-wall and canopy with a streamlined interior by famed industrial designer Raymond Loewy.

There are plans to add oral interviews with both Zemanek and Werlin in which they discuss Franzheim’s influence to the digital library at the University of Houston.

It originally housed offices of the Prudential Insurance Company, before becoming a part of the MD Anderson Cancer Center.