page_title: Earl Flansburgh
section_title: Early life and education
hierarchical_section_title: Earl Flansburgh / Early life and education
caption_attribution_description: English: The Cornell Store, built underground. Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. Architect: Earl R. Flansburgh, built 1969. Barnes Hall (1887) is the older building behind it, with the tower.
context_page_description: Earl R. Flansburgh was a Modernist architect known for his extensive work in the Boston area.
context_section_description: Flansburgh grew up in Ithaca, New York. His father was a professor at Cornell University.
  Flansburgh graduated from the Cornell Architecture School in 1954, where he was also a member of the Quill and Dagger society. While at Cornell, Flansburgh was manager of the freshmen's men orientation camp. In 1957, Flansburgh received a master's degree from MIT, and taught in London as a Fulbright scholar.
  Flansburgh and his wife Polly both had deep ties to Cornell University. Both their parents were professors there. Polly's grandfather was a member of the school's first graduating class of 1869, which makes their son Earl Cornell's first-ever fifth-generation Cornellian. From 1972 until 1987, he was a University trustee, serving as chairman of the Buildings and Properties Committee. He designed the school's Campus Store and Builder's Wall; the store was honored with a citation by Progressive Architecture magazine in January 1969.
caption: The Cornell Store, built underground (1971).
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