Monadnock Building, Chicago: Partial twelfth floor plan showing lighting fixtures with partial elevation and plan detail for interior partitions

People:

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

Title:

Monadnock Building, Chicago: Partial twelfth floor plan showing lighting fixtures with partial elevation and plan detail for interior partitions

Date:

printed 1890-1892

Description:

- This drawing is for the floor plan and furnishings for offices for the Wells and French Company on the twelfth floor of the Monadnock Building. It also shows the locations and types of lighting fixtures.

Form:
drawings

Quantity / Object type:
1 reprographic copy(ies)

Stage and Purpose:

contract drawing
design development drawing
mechanical drawing (building system drawing)
electrical drawing

Technique and media:

Hectograph with additions in pen and brown ink and graphite

Dimensions:

sheet: 63.2 x 90.4 cm

Reference number:

DR1986:0767:416

Drawing Type:

line drawing
mechanical drawing (tool-aided drawing)

Method of Projection:

plan (drawing)
floor plan
utility plan
electrical plan
elevation (drawing)

Point of View:

partial views

Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

- Sheet is dirty and creased throughout and has tears and losses at the edges. Perforations at the l. edge indicate that sheet was formerly bound with other sheets.

Inscription:

signed ? and inscribed - by the client/tenant, on the print, in graphite, l.l.: "O.K. / Aldis, Aldis & Northcote" [signature apparently indicates approval of drawing] inscribed - by the draughtsman, on the original, b.: with title and architectural firm name; c.: "Elevation of Glass Partitions" and one dimension; c.r.: "Section showing construction of post in connection / with doors and windows for further detail of door and etc. see Sheet 210 1/2"; and throughout: with building components and materials inscribed and numbered - by an unknown hand(s), on the print, in graphite and pen and brown ink, l.r.: "212" [drawing number ?]; l.c.: "Telephone & Coat Box / also one each in 1217 & 1218 the location / of which in last two rooms / is left to you"; and throughout: with room numbers/letters and building components

Subject:

architecture
interior design

Subject Descriptive Terms:

offices
partitions
lighting fixtures

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

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