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

Monadnock Building, Chicago: Seventh and eighth floor framing plans

printed after 1889

- Twenty hectographs of the Monadnock Building were probably cut apart when the southern half, owned by Shepherd Brooks, became the Kearsarge Building in 1889 (DR1986:0767:120). The southern half of the building (DR1986:0767:466:001-042 and DR1986:0767:467:001-054) was cut out, leaving the northern half (DR1986:0767:048 - DR1986:0767:056, DR1986:0767:248 - DR1986:0767:257, and DR1986:0767:259). The hectographs were possibly divided so that two discrete sets of reprographic copies could be produced for the Monadnock and Kearsarge Buildings.

• dessins d'exécution
• dessin de structure

Hectograph

sheet: 91.5 x 122.2 cm

DR1986:0767:053

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

• framing plans

• general views

- The sheet has creases throughout and is dirty, especially at the edges. There are many tears and small losses at the edges. The perforations at the l. edge indicate that it was formerly bound. Two square portions of the sheet have been cut out at the u.c. and l.c. and the resulting holes have been patched with a sheet of paper on the verso. The cut out pieces are probably included with the 42 framing plans, DR1986:0767:468:001-042.

inscribed and numbered - by the draughtsman, on the original, l.r.: with title, architectural firm's name and "57 [within circles; drawing number] N [with arrow indicating compass points]"; and throughout: "Building line", "Street line", "Centre line" and with drawing titles, dimensions, pier letters, and column numbers

• architecture
• ingénierie

• steel structural frame