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

Kearsarge Building, Chicago: Partial fourteenth floor plan

printed 1890-1892

- This drawing is for the floor plan and furnishings for fourteenth floor offices at the southwest corner of the Kearsarge Building, probably for the Wickes Refrigeration Company. The signature at the lower right of the original probably indicates the future tenants' approval of the layout and furnishings.

• contract drawing
• design development drawing
• furniture layout

Blueprint with revisions in graphite

sheet: 37.1 x 30.0 cm

DR1986:0767:423

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

• furniture plan
• floor plan

• partial view

- Sheet has tears and losses at the edges. Perforations at the l. edge indicate that sheet was formerly bound with other sheets.

inscribed - by the draughtsman, on the original, b.: with title; t. and c.r.: with compass directions; and throughout: with dimensions, functions of spaces, building components and offices furnishings signed and inscribed - by the client/tenant, on the original, l.r.: "OK / Wickes Refrigeration Co./ Geog. [?] Brown Jr / Secr." [signature apparently indicates approval of drawing] signed and inscribed - by an unknown hand, on the reprographic copy, in graphite, l.r. and c.l.: "OK / ASN"

• architecture
• design d'intérieur

• offices