• Burnham and Root (architectural firm)
• Peter Brooks (client)
• Burnham and Root (draughtsman)
• Shepherd Brooks (developer)
• Shepherd Brooks (client)
• Owen Franklin Aldis (real estate agent)
• Peter Brooks (developer)

Monadnock Building, Chicago: Jackson Street elevation and sections through front piers and division walls for the sixteen-storey steel frame project and partial plan for chimney stack and middle bay window piers for the sixteen-storey steel frame project

1889

• design drawings
• permit drawing

Graphite with pink wash; verso: graphite

sheet: 87.2 x 109.0 cm

DR1986:0767:014 R/V

• line drawings
• mechanical drawing (tool-aided drawing)

• plan (drawing)
• sections (orthographic drawings)
• elevation (drawing)

• general views
• partial views
• exterior views

- Sheet is dirty and creased throughout, especially at the edges, which also have tears and losses.

inscribed and numbered - by the draughtsman, in graphite, b.: with title, drawing titles, architectural firm's name and "20" [within a circle; drawing number]; c. and r.: with floor numbers; and throughout: with dimensions stamped - in purple ink, c.: "The construction of this Building must con- / form in all respects to the City Ordinance, / [illeg. signature] / COMMISSIONER OF BUILDINGS" inscribed - by an unknown hand, in graphite, verso, u.r.: "Old drawings / Monadnock"; and throughout: with drawing titles, dimensions and notes concerning design

• architecture

• walls
• chimney stack
• masonry piers (supporting elements)