Frederick Gutheim was an urban planner

Urban planning

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 and historian, architect, and author. He is noted for writing The Potomac, a history of the Potomac River

Potomac River

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 and the 40th volume in the Rivers of America Series

Rivers of America Series

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, and Worthy of a Nation a history of the development of Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C.

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Career

Gutheim was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts

Cambridge, Massachusetts

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, and earned a bachelor's of arts degree from the University of Wisconsin

University of Wisconsin–Madison

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 in 1931, and did graduate work at the University of Chicago

University of Chicago

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. He served in the Army

United States Army

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 during World War II

World War II

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In addition to writing many books, Gutheim served as the staff director of the joint

Joint committee

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 congressional committee

United States Congressional committee

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 on Washington Metropolitan Problems and was the president of the Washington Center for Metropolitan Studies. He was also on the JFK's Advisory Council on Pennsylvania Avenue and the National Capital Regional Planning Council.

While serving on these committees, he wrote articles for the New York Herald Tribune

New York Herald Tribune

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, Progressive Architecture, Inland Architect and the Washington Post. Gutheim taught or held administrator positions as the University of Michigan

University of Michigan

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, Williams College

Williams College

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, George Washington University

George Washington University

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, and the Harvard Graduate School of Design

Harvard Graduate School of Design

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The pinnacle of his career may have been the photographic exhibition at the National Gallery of Art

National Gallery of Art

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 in Washington, D.C. that he created of American architecture to celebrate 100th anniversary of the American Institute of Architects

American Institute of Architects

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. The exhibition was heralded as an important landmark in American architecture, journalism, and academia.

Later in is career, in 1972, Gutheim was the national chairman of the Frederick Law Olmsted

Frederick Law Olmsted

Frederick Law Olmsted was an American journalist, social critic, public administrator, and landscape designer. He is popularly considered to be the father of American landscape architecture, although many scholars have bestowed that title upon Andrew Jackson Downing...

 Sesquicentennial Committee.