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1917 Bayview Elementary School

1919 WWI ended with the Treaty of Versailles

1919 The pogo stick invented

1920 Women allowed to vote

1926 Minor High School

1930 Scotch Tape introduced

1936 Gone With the Wind published

1938 Highland Plaza

1941 Citizen Kane premieres

1946 MOMA gives Charles Eames a one man showing of his furniture designs

1948 Shades Valley High School

1948 The LP (album) is invented

1948 Velcro invented

1954 The Tonight Show debuts

1958 Hula Hoop invented

1958 Stringfellow Memorial Hospital

1962 Beatles invade America

1965 St. Louis Arch completed

1967 Surgeons complete the first heart transplant

1969 Haley Center

1969 Neil Armstrong becomes the first man to walk on the moon

1970 Monday Night Football kicks off

1977 Star Wars captures the public's fancy

1978 Ridgecrest Baptist Church

1980 Mount St. Helens erupts

1981 MTV explodes onto popular culture

1983 Stringfellow Memorial Hospital Addition

1983 Sally Ride becomes the first woman in space

1984 The world is introduced to the Apple computer

1987 The space shuttle Challenger explodes on takeoff

1989 I.M. Pei's pyramid is completed at the Louvre

1989 The world watches the standoff at Tiananmen Square

1990 Sun Valley Elementary School

1991 The Soviet Union falls

1992 Johnny Carson retires from The Tonight Show after 30 years

1993 Toni Morrison wins the Nobel Prize for literature, the first black woman so honored

1994 The Channel Tunnel (Chunnel) opens under the English Channel, uniting France and England

2003 The Odyssey arrives in orbit around Mars

2004 Lance Armstrong wins a record sixth consecutive Tour de France

2004 Summer Olympics returns to Athens, Greece

2006 Bryant-Denny Stadium

 

 

 

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Firm History

Davis Architects was born in 1912. Since then, we've created masterplans and seen them brought to fruition 50 years later; we've renovated schools we designed decades before. Time passes. Davis Architects endures.