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College buildings--Design and construction

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Architectural drawings and models collection

 Collection
Identifier: 76/8
Abstract

This collection consists of architectural drawings (floor plans, elevations, perspective views, construction details), and models; chiefly of buildings on the Evanston and Chicago campuses of Northwestern University. It includes buildings that were constructed (whether or not they survive), and buildings that were projected but never built.

Dates: 1866 - 2010

Architectural Drawings: Elevations, Floor Plans, and Details

 Collection
Identifier: 7/1/18
Abstract

This collection of architectural drawings of Northwestern University buildings, dating between 1932 and 1965 contains elevations, floor plans, alternate drawings, and measurement & detail alterations. The drawings represent most of the buildings present on the Northwestern campus around the mid 1950s, including houses.

Dates: 1932-1965

Records of the University Architect

 Collection
Identifier: 7/1/12
Abstract The records of the University Architect span the years 1926 to 1977. They incorporate a variety of materials, ranging from building space requirements and descriptions by University faculty members of their research and teaching space needs, to correspondence, minutes, and reports, contracts, specifications, proposals in response to bid requests, reports of on-site engineering tests (caissons, compression, et al.), and detailed records of expenses and payments. Not all these varieties of...
Dates: 1926-1977