January 23, 1980
Dr. Francis Ferguson
SUSQUEHANNA TIMES—Page 9
Dr. Francis L.
Ferguson, of
Maytown, receives
award for design of
New Town Nelson
Dr. Francis L. Ferguson,
a resident of Maytown and
Professor of Urban and
Regional Planning at Penn
State, Capitol Campus, has
received a Celebration of
Architecture award for his
design of the New Town of
Nelson, Pennsylvania.
Ferguson won among 73
entries for the award from
the 1000-member organizat-
ion, Pennsylvania Society of
Architects.
Ferguson designed the
New Town of Nelson, when
plans were made to build a
huge dam in Tioga County
that would flood the old
town of Nelson.
The new town designed
by Ferguson for high and
dry ground, preserved the
institutions of the old
community and encouraged
the growth of community
spirit by centering the new
community around a Village
Green.
Ferguson described the
opportunity for a planner to
design an entire community
is one that ‘‘comes only once
in a lifetime,’”’ according to
Ferguson.
He worked day and night
developing his plans, trying
to meet a very tight
schedule.
A graduate of Notre
Dame, Harvard, and Colum-
bia Universities, Ferguson
has degrees in both
architecture and urban
planning. He worked in both
fields in New York and Paris
before becoming a professor
at Columbia University’s
School of Architecture.
Dr. Ferguson directed the
planning of Villa Riva, a
town in the Dominican
Republic and collaborated in
the planning of New
Providence Island and the
City of Nassau in the
Bahamas.
He joined the Graduate
Program in Urban and
Regional planning at Capitol
Campus in 1971. A former
chairman of the department,
he is now Professor of
Environmental Design. A-
mong his publications is the
book, ‘‘Architecture, Cities
and the Systems Ap-
proach,” selected by the
Library of Urban Affairs
Book Club.
Dr. Ferguson lives with
his wife Eileen and their
children: Mike, Aimee, and
Jack, in Maytown.
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