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

Monadnock Building, Chicago: First and second floor plans for the sixteen-storey steel frame project

1889

• design development drawing
• permit drawing

Graphite with pink, orange and grey wash

sheet: 80.7 x 104.0 cm

DR1986:0767:134

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

• plans (drawings)
• floor plans

• general views

- Sheet is dirty and creased throughout and has tears and losses at the edges.

inscribed - by the draughtsman, in graphite, c.: with title; b. with title and architectural firm's name; l.r.: "1" [within circles; drawing number]; and in graphite and pen and brown ink, throughout: with dimensions and note concerning to the construction of the building 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

• architecture