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Medwin Peek
Gouverneur Medwin Peek was an American architect who practiced in Central Florida in the middle years of the twentieth century.〔A photo of Medwin Peek may be seen in the Steson University Archives: http://digital.archives.stetson.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/Photographs/id/2458/rec/1〕
==Early years and education==
Peek was born January 26, 1900, in Palatka, Putnam County, Florida, to Gouverneur Frank Peek and Rebecca Medwin Hyde. His father died the year after his birth.〔Boddington Family History: http://www.boddington-family.org.uk/wc05/wc05_245.htm〕 He and his mother lived with his maternal grandmother, Anne Elizabeth Copcutt Hyde in DeLand, and two other spinster Grand Aunts thereafter. Peek graduated with a bachelor of science degree from Stetson University in 1920. He then studied at Harvard University (Master in Architecture, 1924), his senior thesis being "A Casino at De Leon Springs."〔Harvard University. Reports of the President and the Treasurer of Harvard College; http://pds.lib.harvard.edu/pds/viewtext/2574586?op=t&n=6558&s=4〕 His Harvard education included two years of study in Italy.〔The Delta of Sigma Nu fraternity, Volume 39, p. 308〕 After serving as artist of record on an archaeological team at Deir el Baḥri, in Egypt (1924–1925),〔Excavations at Deir el Baḥri, by Herbert Eustis Winlock〕 Peek then returned to Florida to begin architectural practice in DeLand.〔Orlando Sentinel, December 3, 2000〕 He did the major design for the National Archives Building in Washington, D.C., when he worked for the John Russell Pope Architectural firm. He was commissioned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art to draw sketches of the King Tutankhamen digs, shortly after graduating from Harvard.
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