Interview with Harry L. Siler, December 7, 2004
Project: Peace Corps: Returned Peace Corps Volunteers (Kentucky) Oral History Project
Interview Summary
Harry Siler (South Africa, 2001-2003; Education), in the first of two interviews, describes growing up in Williamsburg, Kentucky and graduating from the first class of the School of Architecture at the University of Kentucky in 1964. He discusses his career as an architect working with Eero Saarinen, helping design such museums as the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial under the St. Louis Arch and the Orientation Center at Gettysburg, and a second career as an architecture professor at Washington Tech and then Howard University in Washington, D.C. before retiring. Siler talks about joining the Peace Corps and returning to his hometown and the house he grew up in. He reflects on architecture, his own life, and his Peace Corps experience in South Africa and its impact on the way he views the world and his new desire to write.Interview Accession
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Siler, Harry L. Interview by Jack A. Wilson. 07 Dec. 2004. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Siler, H.L. (2004, December 07). Interview by J. A. Wilson. Peace Corps: Returned Peace Corps Volunteers (Kentucky) Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Siler, Harry L., interview by Jack A. Wilson. December 07, 2004, Peace Corps: Returned Peace Corps Volunteers (Kentucky) Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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