This collection contains the personal papers, photographs, and academic papers of Marian Scott Moffett. Documenting both her personal and professional life, the collection includes journals, correspondence, academic course files, and photographs of architecture.

The material is arranged into five series:

Series I, Personal Materials (1949-2004), includes items of a biographical nature which provide detail on several periods of her life. The materials begin with her childhood and largely document her own education. This series includes forms of identification, portraits, awards, grade reports, test scores, graduate school admission materials, curricula vitae, correspondence, news clippings, writings, and church leadership materials.

Series II, Academic and Professional Material (1883-2004), documents Moffett's academic and professional career. This series is further broken down into six topics categories. Sub-Series A, Teaching, illustrates her teaching career and contains academic course files, syllabi, and more. Sub-Series B, Research, documents her work on architectural education, TVA architecture, church buildings, cantilever barns, and planned towns. Sub-Series C, Writings and Publications, contains drafts and finalized versions of Moffett's published works including in articles, theses, and textbooks. Sub-Series D, Conferences and Professional Organizations, includes material from activity in service organizations, particularly the Southeastern Society of Architectural Historians (SESAH). Sub-Series D, Personnel Records, includes annual reports, faculty material, and evaluations. Lastly, Sub-Series E, Administration and University Service, contains files from her time with the School of Architecture, Faculty Senate, Academic Affairs, and other administrative activities at UT.

Series III, Photographs, Contact Sheets, and Negatives (1972-2004), contains photographs, many of them taken by Moffett for various architectural research projects, as well as negatives and contact sheets. Topics include cantilever barns, TVA dams, European architecture, and UT colleagues. Some of the pictured locations are East Tennessee, various other places in the United States, England, the Netherlands, France, Spain, Italy, Greece, Austria, Slovakia, Poland, Russia, and the Ukraine. This series also includes files of photographs intended for her textbooks.

Series IV, Appointment Books (1974-2003) includes Moffett's appointment books which contain the details of her daily schedule during her years at UT.

Series V, Oversize Prints and Drawings (1958-2004), contains all large format items from the collection.