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

Monadnock Building, Chicago: Fifth floor plan with details for the columns, lintels and lattice struts for the sixteen-storey steel frame project

1889

• design drawing
• permit drawing
• dessin de détail
• dessin de structure

Graphite with pink wash

sheet: 85.8 x 104.0 cm

DR1986:0767:138

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

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

• general view
• partial views

- Sheet is dirty and creased throughout, especially at the edges, which also have tears and losses. The u.r. corner has been torn off and is stored with the object.

inscribed - by the draughtsman, in graphite, l.r.: with title, architectural firm's name and "S" [within circles; drawing number]"; l.c.: with a note concerning the construction; throughout: with drawing titles, dimensions and building materials 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
• ingénierie

• columns (architectural elements)
• lintels
• steel structural frame
• braces (supporting elements)