Monadnock Building, Chicago: Partial fourteenth floor plan showing lighting fixtures

People:

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

Title:

Monadnock Building, Chicago: Partial fourteenth floor plan showing lighting fixtures

Date:

printed after 19 April 1892

Description:

- This drawing is for the revised floor plan and furnishings for the fourteenth floor offices on the east side 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:

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

Technique and media:

Hectograph with revisions in graphite

Dimensions:

sheet: 33.0 x 50.5 cm

Reference number:

DR1986:0767:428

Drawing Type:

line drawing
mechanical drawing (tool-aided drawing)

Method of Projection:

floor plan
utility plan
electrical plan

Point of View:

partial view

Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

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

Inscription:

dated and inscribed - by the draughtsman, on the original, b.: with title and date; and throughout: with dimensions, office furnishings, partition components and materials [with revisions in graphite] signed and inscribed - by an unknown hand(s), on the print, in graphite, t.: "Revised plan / OK ASN / [illegible signature]"; l.l.: "Bradley wants this filed with / hospitals / Austin"; and l.r.: "Vie [?] / File this with hospitals / Austin"

Subject:

architecture
interior design

Subject Descriptive Terms:

offices
lighting fixtures

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

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