Monadnock Building, Chicago: Detail for bay window mullion connections

People:

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

Title:

Monadnock Building, Chicago: Detail for bay window mullion connections

Date:

after 1889

Form:
drawings

Quantity / Object type:
1 drawing(s)

Stage and Purpose:

design development drawing
detail drawing
structural drawing

Technique and media:

Graphite and blue and brown pencil

Dimensions:

sheet: 55.7 x 101.9 cm

Reference number:

DR1986:0767:224

Drawing Type:

line drawing
mechanical drawing (tool-aided drawing)

Method of Projection:

plan (drawing)

Point of View:

partial view

Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

- Sheet is creased, folded and torn at edges.

Inscription:

inscribed - by the draughtsman, in graphite, c.: "Let there be a 3" space at top connection / to allow for deflection"; b.: with title and "Note in one instance cast mullion comes on bracket / here bottom of mullion will be cast to fit top of bracket"; and throughout: with dimensions

Subject:

architecture
engineering

Subject Descriptive Terms:

bay window
joints (connections)
brackets (structural elements)

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

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