14 Facts About Fiske Kimball

Sidney Fiske Kimball was an American architect, architectural historian and museum director.

Fiske Kimball was educated at Harvard University, where he took both his bachelor's and master's degrees in architecture.

Fiske Kimball was awarded a Sheldon Fellowship for travel to Europe in 1911 and passed his assistantship in the library to his sister Theodora Fiske Kimball Hubbard during his absence.

Fiske Kimball then taught at the University of Illinois and the University of Michigan, receiving a Ph.

In 1919, Fiske Kimball was appointed to head the newly formed department of art and architecture at the University of Virginia.

In 1923, Fiske Kimball left the University of Virginia to establish the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University.

Fiske Kimball was a consultant on numerous other restoration projects, including Monticello, Gunston Hall, Stratford Hall, and Colonial Williamsburg.

Fiske Kimball was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1943.

Fiske Kimball designed his own home, Shack Mountain, in Albemarle County, Virginia, not from far Monticello.

Fiske Kimball used Jefferson's architectural principles as the basis of his design of Shack Mountain, short for Shackelford Mountain, the surname of a branch of Jefferson's descendants.

Fiske Kimball died in Munich, Germany, on August 14,1955.

Fiske Kimball is commemorated by the Fiske Kimball Fine Arts Library at the University of Virginia.

Fiske Kimball married, in June 1913, Marie Christina Goebel, the half Dutch, half German daughter of Julius Goebel, a professor of Germanic languages at the University of Illinois.

Fiske Kimball eventually was the recipient of two Guggenheim Fellowships and served as Monticello's first curator.