Monadnock and Kearsarge Building, Chicago: Elevation for elevators showing cars and hydraulic machinery

People:

Shepherd Brooks (client)
Peter Brooks (developer)
Standard Elevator Company (manufacturing company)
Standard Elevator Company (draughtsman)
Burnham and Root (architectural firm)
Peter Brooks (client)
Shepherd Brooks (developer)
Owen Franklin Aldis (real estate agent)
George A. Fuller Company (contractors)

Title:

Monadnock and Kearsarge Building, Chicago: Elevation for elevators showing cars and hydraulic machinery

Date:

printed after March 31 1891

Form:
drawings

Quantity / Object type:
1 reprographic copy(ies)

Stage and Purpose:

design drawing
technical drawing
mechanical drawing (building system drawing)

Technique and media:

Blueprint

Dimensions:

sheet: 76.2 x 58.5 cm

Reference number:

DR1986:0767:115

Drawing Type:

line drawing
mechanical drawing (tool-aided drawing)

Method of Projection:

elevation (drawing)

Point of View:

general view
interior view

Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

- Sheet has tears and losses at the edges and is folded at l.

Inscription:

dated and inscribed - by the draughtsman, on the original, c.r.: with title and architectural firm's name; and l.r.: "STANDARD ELEVATOR Co / CHICAGO ILL. / MARCH 31-91" stamped - on the reprographic copy, in purple ink, verso, c.: "Brewster Blue Print Co. / 155 Washington St. Room 58 / MANUF'RS AND DEALERS IN / Blue Process Paper / Blue Prints, Etc."

Subject:

architecture
engineering

Subject Descriptive Terms:

elevators
hydraulic elevators
passenger elevators

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

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