Biographical Sketch
| Fiske
Kimball Biographical Sketch |
In
the Fall of 1912 Fiske joined the architecture faculty at the University
of Illinois. There he met Marie Goebel, daughter of professor
Julius
Goebel. They were married on June 7th, 1913. In the Fall of 1913 the
Kimballs moved to Ann Arbor where Fiske became an instructor at the
University
of Michigan Architecture School. This was a busy and productive period
for him: He earned his Ph.D. in Fine Arts from the University, he
produced, Thomas Jefferson Architect (1916), and A History of
Architecture
(1918). His tenure at Michigan (1913-1919) was interrupted by several
extended research leaves and led to his appointment, in the Spring of
1919,
to head the Department of Art and Architecture at the University of
Virginia.
Portraits of
Fiske Kimball and Marie Goebel Kimball, ca.
1915, courtesy
of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
