Monadnock Building, Chicago: Section showing elevator machinery

People:

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

Title:

Monadnock Building, Chicago: Section showing elevator machinery

Date:

printed after 1889

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: 73.5 x 18.7 cm

Reference number:

DR1986:0767:372

Drawing Type:

line drawing
mechanical drawing (tool-aided drawing)

Method of Projection:

section

Point of View:

general view

Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

- Sheet has cracked along several fold lines and is now in three pieces. The t. edge is torn and perforated.

Inscription:

inscribed - by the draughtsman, on the original, r.: with floor numbers; and throughout: with dimensions and elevator components stamped - embossed, on the reprographic copy, u.r.: "... [cut off] HYDRAULIC / 189 LA SALLE ST / HALE ELEVATOR CO. / CHICAGO / ELEVATORS"

Subject:

architecture
engineering

Subject Descriptive Terms:

elevators
hydraulic elevators

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

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