tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57222815215907798802024-02-19T09:57:40.174-05:00Drawings + Documents ArchiveThe Drawings and Documents Archive at Ball State University Libraries is the only archive dedicated to preserving the history of Indiana’s built environment.Drawings + Documents Archivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13723305340890214537noreply@blogger.comBlogger203125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5722281521590779880.post-39493215671259006382017-05-03T10:49:00.001-04:002017-05-03T10:49:23.710-04:00Pierre & Wright's Fire Station #18 on the 10 Most Endangered List<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Indiana Landmarks recently published their 10 Most Endangered List for 2017 and Pierre & Wright's Fire Station #18 is featured prominently on the list. A stylish Art Deco fire station built in 1936 on Indianapolis' west side, the building served the Indianapolis Fire Department handsomely until it was replaced in 1994 and left vacant.<br />
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A few years ago, Edward Pierre's granddaughter donated a large collection of the architect's papers, photographs, and other materials he collected over his long career. In the papers, he cited Fire Station #18 as one of his favorite buildings he designed. He matched fashionable design elegantly with the utilitarian needs of men who needed efficiency in their race to save lives and property. Pierre was proud to live in Indianapolis and worked very hard throughout his career to make it a better city for its citizens. He was proud to design important buildings like the Indiana State Library, but also proud to design small, utilitarian buildings like Fire Station #18. From gas stations to libraries and office buildings, Pierre infused every project with the best design he could produce.<br />
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Today the former fire station at Washington Street and Tibbs Avenue sits ready for redevelopment to transform it into its next life. Perhaps a restaurant, a residence, or an office will find its new home there. No matter what, the building will serve its purpose with style and grace straight from one of the greatest architects in Indiana history.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Images: Fire Station #18 rendering by Leslie Ayres, 1936. Pierre & Wright Architectural Records, Drawings + Documents Archive, Ball State University.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Current photo by Evan Hale, Courtesy of Indiana Landmarks.</span>Drawings + Documents Archivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13723305340890214537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5722281521590779880.post-15347208713499238162016-07-01T14:26:00.001-04:002016-07-01T14:34:36.410-04:00Drawings + Documents Archive receives grant to digitize the Indianapolis Department of Parks and Recreation Drawings<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Drawings + Documents Archive was recently awarded an Institute of Museum and Library Services
Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant in the amount of $14,980 to
digitize the Indianapolis Department of Parks and Recreation Landscape
Architectural Drawings Collection held at the Drawings + Documents Archive in
the College of Architecture and Planning. The collection chronicles the
development of the extensive park and boulevard system in Indiana’s largest
metropolitan area from the 19th century to the mid-20th century, and provides
an unparalleled look into the creation of both major destination parks and
small neighborhood parks, as well as the tree-lined boulevards that transverse
the city thoroughfares. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The LSTA grant will provide funds to hire a project
assistant, purchase supplies, and digitize 3 damage assessment rolls, 1, 400
landscape, engineering, and architectural drawings and presentation boards, and
2,345 aperture cards for over 200 Indianapolis parks, parkways, golf courses,
bridges, boulevards, playgrounds, amphitheaters, stadiums, greenhouses, and
other public facilities managed by the Indianapolis Department of Parks and
Recreation from 1898 to 1988. The majority of the collection dates from
1900-1920. After over 100 years in storage, expect the collection to debut online in 2017.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #1f497d;">I<span style="font-size: x-small;">mages: Fall Creek proposed grade, bed stream drawing, 1914; Tarkington Park tennis courts site plan, 1959. Indianapolis Department of Parks and Recreation Drawings, Drawings + Documents Archive, Ball State University.</span></span></div>
Drawings + Documents Archivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13723305340890214537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5722281521590779880.post-56556580769782151362016-06-24T14:15:00.000-04:002016-06-24T14:20:20.729-04:00Art Moderne With a Bubbly Personality<br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Art Moderne commercial building at 2201 East 46th Street in Indianapolis is currently undergoing renovations that uncovered its original limestone facade with striking cursive font and delightful bubbles for Sutho Suds, a former Indy-based detergent brand that did frothy sales during WWII but was all washed up in the years following the war. Founded in 1943 by husband and wife team of Paul and Frances Towsley, the company quickly outgrew their factory at 1201 Cornell Avenue and began planning to double their factory space. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When the building was erected in 1945, the company was doing very well and had the capital for a much expanded space and even had plans to build a factory in Chicago. However, due to the rise in new competitors during the post war period, sales quickly spiraled down the drain and the company went into receivership just a few months after moving into their new building.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But the question on everyone's mind when Mark Dollase from Indiana Landmarks posted the Sutho Suds facade photographs to Facebook this week was: who was the architect who designed bubbles for limestone pilasters on this building? That architect was no other than Joseph Cezar, whose collection can be found at the Drawings + Documents Archive. He may be the greatest Indianapolis architect that no one knows about. The Sutho Suds drawings, however, were a mystery in the collection. Without an address or location on the drawings, we didn't know where the building was located. Because the sign was covered with a subsequent facade, no one else knew where it was, either. Thanks to inquisitive architecture fans and social media, we now have a complete record in our database and Indianapolis architecture fans now know a little bit more about Joseph Cezar's work!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Many thanks to Sharon Butsch Freeland who helped piece together this puzzle and graciously provided the newspaper clippings regarding Sutho Suds and the building.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Images: Sutho Suds building photograph by Mark Dollase, 2016; Sutho Suds building and signage drawings by Joseph O. Cezar, 1945; Sutho Suds advertisements from the Indianapolis Star, 1944, collected by Sharon Butsch Freeland, 2016.</span></div>
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Today has been a day rich with donations that we want to share. We had to pick where to begin and decided we should begin with the library, which also happens to be the oldest set of drawings among the donations. This lovely set of drawings for the library at Indiana State Normal School (now Indiana State University) in Terre Haute, Indiana, by architects J.F. Alexander and Son highlights the extraordinary center light well and elaborate Beaux-Arts details throughout the building. It was built for $150,000 in 1909, but the best news is that it is still standing on campus and undergoing a $16M renovation that will turn it into a student academic honors center.<br />
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Little seems to be known about architect John F. Alexander. What we do know is that he was trained in St. Louis, received a degree from the University of Toronto, and worked for a firm in Chicago before settling back in Lafayette, Indiana. According to the National Register of Historic Places nomination form for the Tippecanoe County Courthouse, Alexander "specialized in the use of stone in both public and domestic architecture and many of Lafayette's finest houses erected in this period were his work."<br />
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Just a few years prior to the Indiana State Normal School library project, he designed the Hoopeston Carnegie Public Library in Champaign, Illinois. It completed construction in 1904, and is a much smaller, one story masonry building.<br />
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He was also heavily involved in the Western Architects Association and then the American Institute of Architects after the two merged in 1889. He served on a number of committees and was given some small roles by the then-president Richard Morris Hunt at the 1891 AIA Convention in Boston.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Images: Library, Indiana State Normal School (Indiana State University), 1907, diazo reproductions, undated. Gift of RATIO Architects. Photographs by Carol Street.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Sources: J.F. Alexander and Son biographical file, Drawings + Documents Archive; Monica Giacomucci e-mail, 18 February 2016; Tippecanoe County Courthouse National Register of Historic Places nomination form, 1972.</span><br />
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The Society of American Archivists (SAA) recently checked in with Drawings + Documents Archive's archivist, Carol Street, to discuss the archive's latest outreach initiative. You can find the interview at <a href="http://archivesaware.archivists.org/2016/02/15/ball-state-university-drawings-document-archive-the-movie/" target="_blank">SAA's ArchivesAWARE! blog</a> and see the inspiration that led to our using LEGO to discuss architectural research.<br />
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The overwhelmingly positive response to our outreach video has been incredibly gratifying for everyone at the archive who worked on it. We hope the video shares our enthusiasm for archives and shows the world that archives and archival research can be fun, not dusty. Many thanks to SAA and others (even LEGO!) for showing our little video some love.Drawings + Documents Archivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13723305340890214537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5722281521590779880.post-10589637543152681962016-02-12T17:03:00.000-05:002016-02-12T17:04:13.179-05:00Brookside Park, ca. 1910<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The Richard G. Foltz Architectural Books Collection was
recently donated by Walter Foltz, the son of Indiana architect Richard Foltz who studied at
L’Ecole des Beaux-Arts in the early 20<sup>th</sup> century. The collection
contains eight extraordinary volumes of architectural history, including <i>Oeuvres
Choisies De J.B. Piranesi, Frontispsces, Compositions, Prisons, Trophees, Plan
et Vues De Rome, Dessines et Graves De 1746 A 1778</i>, which was published in
1913 and depicts 140 incredible etchings from the 18<sup>th</sup> century
Italian artist and architect, Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Other volumes in the
collection are <i>Jardins d’Espagne </i>(1926) and <i>Monuments antiques,
relevés et restaurés par les architectes pensionnaires de l'Académie de France
à Rome; notices archéologiques par Georges Seure</i> (1910-1912).<span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Images: A selection of images from the Richard G. Foltz Architectural Books Collection. Drawings + Documents Archive, Ball State University. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Interested in knowing more about architect Juliet Peddle? She is known for her Modern designs in her hometown of Terre Haute, Indiana, as well as her interest in preserving historic architecture. She created a series of holiday cards, one of which is above, to send to friends and clients, and also designed cards for others. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">A small collection of her work was donated recently, and has been digitized and made available in the <a href="http://libx.bsu.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/PddlJltArch" target="_blank">University Libraries' Digital Media Repository</a>. Below is a brief biographical sketch from the finding aid to the collection:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Juliet Alice Peddle was born
June 7, 1899 in Terre Haute, Indiana. Her father, John Peddle, worked as a professor
of machine design at Rose Polytechnic Institute in Terre Haute.<a href="file:///C:/Users/castreet/AppData/Local/Box/Box%20Edit/Documents/33813890533/53-Peddle_FindingAid_2014.doc#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> She
attended King Classical School during her formative years and began studying
architecture at the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1918. At
the University of Michigan, Peddle was friends with fellow student, Bertha Yerex
Whitman, who was the first female graduate from the architecture school when
she graduated in 1920. Whitman and
Peddle both belonged to the T-Square
Society, a club for female and engineering students established in 1915.<a href="file:///C:/Users/castreet/AppData/Local/Box/Box%20Edit/Documents/33813890533/53-Peddle_FindingAid_2014.doc#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Upon graduation in 1922,
Peddle followed Whitman to Chicago to work at the architecture firm Perkins, Fellows,
and Hamilton, which specialized in designing school buildings.<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"> <a href="file:///C:/Users/castreet/AppData/Local/Box/Box%20Edit/Documents/33813890533/53-Peddle_FindingAid_2014.doc#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></a></span> She
continued her education through courses at the Art Institute of Chicago, where
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Peddle received her license
to practice architecture in Illinois in 1926, and was one of only seven female architects
to receive licenses that year. In 1927, she embarked on a six-month sketching
trip through England, France, and Italy. She studied and sketched historical
buildings, views of canals, and other old world architecture. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">After her trip to Europe,
Juliet returned to Chicago and worked for Edwin H. Clark from 1927 to 1931.
During her time in Chicago, Juliet Peddle and Whitman, along with seven other
women architects, founded the Women’s Architectural Club of Chicago. The group
exhibited their work at the first Women’s World’s Fair in Chicago in 1927, and
later held exhibitions in the library and social hall of Perkins, Fellows, and
Hamilton. Peddle served as an editor at <i>The
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">After losing her job due to
the Depression, she began working for the Historic American Building Surveys
(HABS) program sponsored by the government. In 1935, she moved back to Terre
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">In 1928, she was prompted to
move closer to home when her father, with whom she was close, suffered a stroke.
In 1931, due to the Great Depression Juliet Peddle lost her job and began
working with the government sponsored Historic American Building Surveys (HABS).
During her employment with HABS, Juliet Peddle gained considerable knowledge in
the field of historic preservation and restoration, in part because she
attended a seminar in Colonial Williamsburg.<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/castreet/AppData/Local/Box/Box%20Edit/Documents/33813890533/53-Peddle_FindingAid_2014.doc#_ftn4" title="">[4]</a></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">She
headed back to Terre Haute and opened her own office in 1939. Juliet Peddle was
the first registered female architect in Indiana. She continued working and
remained in business until her death in 1979. Clients appreciated her modern
designs, but Peddle also appreciated the past and worked with the Virgo
Historical Society documenting the historic architecture buildings of her
community. She opened her office in the Grand Opera House and worked there for
the following years until her death on September 6</span><sup style="text-indent: 0.5in;">th</sup><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"> 1979.</span></div>
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The Indiana Architecture X 3D project has taken a decidedly seasonal turn with its latest building and detail. Introducing the charming and not at all spooky Indiana State Library building Rare Books and Manuscripts bookcase owls. Located on the original architectural drawings by architects Edward Pierre, George Wright, and Fran Schroeder in our Pierre & Wright Architectural Records collection, the owls have guarded books and researchers for over 75 years from their perch in the Rare Books and Manuscripts room. Now they have been 3-D modeled and reprinted on a MakerBot, and will be available for all soon on the University Libraries' Digital Media Repository. What color you choose to print them is yours, but we think they look amazing in glow-in-the-dark.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">The Ball State University Libraries has recently digitized the collection of Snider & Rotz Engineering Drawings and Papers. The collection contains engineering drawings, business records, and photographs from the Snider & Rotz Engineering firm, which was a consulting engineering firm based in Indianapolis. The firm worked with many local architectural firms to design the mechanical aspects of construction projects in and around Marion County. Led by Lewis A. Snider and John M. Rotz, the firm began in 1912 as J. M. Rotz Engineering Company and was in business until at least 1981. In the 1920s, their offices were located in the Merchants Bank Building in Indianapolis.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">John Martin Rotz, son of John and Anna Manhart Rotz, was born at Prairieton, Indiana, 12 July 1884. He attended grade school in Prarieton but went to high school in Terre Haute. In 1906, he graduated from Rose Polytechnic Institute (now Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology) in Terre Haute with a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical and civil engineering. Rotz worked as a civil engineer at the New York Central Rail Road Company, the Santa Fe Railway, and the Pennsylvania Rail Road Company until he opened his own firm, called J. M. Rotz Engineering Company, in 1912. He specialized in heating, ventilating, air-conditioning, power plant design, sanitary problems, and electrical distribution.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Drawings in the collection are mostly mechanical drawings for heating, ventilation, electrical wiring, and plumbing on many different kinds of projects from a variety of architectural firms. Types of buildings include schools, asylums, hospitals, infirmaries, stores, banks, residences, hotels, libraries, and restaurants. Architects and firms represented include Charles E. Bacon, Elmer E. Dunlap; Donald Graham; McGuire & Shook; J.E. Kope & Woolling; Evans Woollen; John G. C. Sohn; James Associates; Ewing Miller; Bohlen, Burns & Associates; Bohlen, Meyer, Gibson & Associates; Browning, Day, Pollack, Mullins; and Pecsok, Jelliffe, Randall and Nice Architects. A few unusual designs in the collection are an automatic bottle feeding machine (1912) and a publication selling machine (1913) built by United Metal Parts of Indianapolis.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Image: Indiana War Memorial lighting fixture engineering drawing, 1964. John G. C. Sohn, architect. Snider & Rotz Engineering Drawings and Papers Collection, Drawings + Documents Archive, Ball State University.</span></span><br />
<br />Drawings + Documents Archivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13723305340890214537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5722281521590779880.post-12668923514880354952015-08-27T09:27:00.001-04:002015-08-27T09:27:22.982-04:00College Dormitories and the Roaring Twenties<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The architecture firm Johnson, Miller, Miller & Yeager built this women's dormitory in 1924 for what was then known as the Indiana State Normal School in Terre Haute, Indiana. The photograph pictured above was spotted in one of the firm's photo books donated by architect Ewing Miller II, the son and nephew of the two Millers listed in the firm's name. What made this photograph stand out from the others are the people seen in front of the building. While most architecture photography of the era is devoid of people in the scene, this image depicts a large grouping of students in front of their dorm, book ended by cars of the era.<br />
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The photographs and manuscript materials were donated last year as an addition to the already existing Miller Family Architectural Records collection, which has been digitized and is available in the <a href="http://libx.bsu.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/JohnsMiller/id/1239/rec/1" target="_blank">University Libraries' Digital Media Repository</a>. Below is the elevation drawing for the same dormitory. You can see <a href="http://libx.bsu.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/JohnsMiller/id/1239/rec/1" target="_blank">more of the drawings</a> of the building, and many others the firm designed, online.<br />
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Ball State University students are moving into their campus dorm rooms this week and we're celebrating this monumental milestone toward adulthood with architectural depictions of dorms, both past and present. First up is an interior presentation drawing of Ball State University's Scheidler Apartments phase III plan from 1970. The university has many dormitories to house the 15,000+ undergraduates on campus, however Scheidler and Anthony Apartments offer one to three bedroom apartment units for upper-level students and students or faculty with families. </div>
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The interior presentation drawing, above, from the Muncie architecture firm Hamilton, Graham, Love, and Associates depicts a modern academic navigating the efficient apartment layout, while also directing attention beyond the sliding glass door where the exterior elevation of the neighboring apartment can be seen in the distance. The architecture and custom shelving, as well as the human figure, remain in black and white while plants, decorations, the puppy's bow, and the outside add color in a fairly restrained palette of green, blue, brown, and yellow. Due to the clever use of the outdoor scene, this interior drawing can also function as an exterior building drawing, as well.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Image: Ball State University Scheidler Apartments interior presentation drawing, 1970. Hamilton & Graham Architectural Records, Drawings + Documents Archive, Ball State University.</span>Drawings + Documents Archivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13723305340890214537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5722281521590779880.post-20648583529247987032015-07-28T09:17:00.000-04:002015-07-28T09:19:17.199-04:00Relax, it's still summer!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Despite the back-to-school sales seen cropping up at the stores, according to the calendar it's still July and nearly a month before students return to classes here at Ball State University. It's still summer! Spend some time outside in the hammock, on the Adirondack, or a really cool mid-century chair before tackling that shopping list of pencils and Trapper Keepers. <br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Images: Russell Walcott patio photograph by Jessie Tarbox Beals, ca. 1935, Trowbridge and Beals Photographs; O. C. Catterlin house photograph for Fran Schroeder, 1952, Fran Schroeder Architectural Records; Lawn chair design drawing by Joseph Cezar, 1943. Drawings + Documents Archive, Ball State University.</span><br />
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This summer, Drawings + Documents Archive intern Mitchell Knigga, an undergraduate in Public History and Historic Preservation at Ball State University, has been processing the extensive Wright, Porteous & Lowe Architectural Records collection. We will be posting images of many of his discoveries while he works his way through the collection. </div>
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Pictured above are presentation boards of the <i>A Master Plan Development </i>in downtown Indianapolis, Indiana. These include renderings of a project near the federal as well as a map depicting the location of the proposed site and other projects taking place in the city. Wright, Porteous & Lowe were the main architects for the City-County Building, which opened in 1962 and was very similar in design to the structure depicted in the renderings. </div>
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According to documentation in the collection, the allegory represented in the decorations of the Lincoln National Bank and Trust Company building in Fort Wayne, Indiana, refers to the energizing properties of the sun. Represented by the gold disc in the center of the lobby ceiling decoration, the sun radiates its energy into the natural elements depicted in the Art Deco terra-cotta molding, paintings, murals, bronze grills, and other decorative elements of the building. Above, you see examples of bronze fish, deer, birds, and other natural elements.<br />
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The bank also commissioned artist Paul Manship to create a sculpture depicting Abraham Lincoln during his boyhood in Indiana, shown above with his faithful canine companion. <i>Abraham Lincoln, The Hoosier Youth</i> has been on display at the headquarters since its dedication in 1932. Architect Benjamin Wistar Morris designed the base of the sculpture, which illustrates four characteristics attributed to Lincoln: charity, fortitude, justice, and patriotism. </div>
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The Lincoln National Bank building in Fort Wayne, Indiana, was designed by the firm Walker & Weeks from Cleveland, Ohio, and production drawings were done by the local Fort Wayne firm A. M. Strauss. Buesching & Hagerman Brothers were chosen as general contractors and construction began for the original tower portion of the project on October 29, 1929. The 22 story structure in downtown Fort Wayne was dedicated and open for public inspection on November 15, 1930. At the time of its construction it was the tallest tenanted building in Indiana.</div>
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Later 20th century Lincoln National Bank buildings in the area are depicted below.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Images: Lincoln National Bank documentation report, 1976. Documentation Collection [DOC 1976.002], Drawings + Documents Archive, Ball State University.</span>Drawings + Documents Archivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13723305340890214537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5722281521590779880.post-8567003853755304722015-07-01T15:16:00.003-04:002015-07-01T15:16:29.573-04:00Muncie Sesquicentennial:1925 City Hall<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The city of Muncie, Indiana, celebrates its sesquicentennial this year and the Drawings + Documents Archive is participating in an exhibit opening soon in Ball State University Libraries' Bracken Library. We will also devote much of the blog in the next few months to exploring the city's architectural heritage.</div>
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In 1874, Muncie built a brick structure for the city offices, such as mayor's office, city jail, jailer's residence, fireman's hall, courtroom, and city clerk's office. This building quickly proved inadequate after the explosive growth experienced during the area's gas boom. It was razed in 1924 for the building you see in these photographs. Above is a construction photograph of the 1925 Muncie City Hall that stood at 401 E. Jackson Street. It was designed by local architects Charles Houck and Smenner, whose firm was called Houck and Smenner. Other notable buildings by the firm include Tempel Beth-El (1922), Grace Maring Library (1929), McKinley Junior High School (1938), and the William H. Ball residence (ca. 1940).<br />
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Muncie City Hall was built in an Italian Renaissance Revival style with classical details. The facade was adorned with Greek Doric columns and broken pediments featuring urns. The building was made of light beige brick and trimmed in terra-cotta. The entrances, two-story pilasters, entablature, cornice, decorative urns, and corner eagles were all beige terra-cotta to match the brick.Total construction costs were $185,000.</div>
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While the exterior received few changes over the years, the interior experienced many damaging alterations in its lifetime. By the 1980s, city officials had found the historic building inadequate for their needs and the building was torn down in 1993.<br />
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In 1947, the makers of the iconic Ball canning jar, the Ball Brothers Company, hired local architects Hamilton & Graham to design a community canning center at their factory campus in Muncie, Indiana. The design was a simple, single story structure reminiscent of a military-style Quonset hut. The interior, however, was anything but simple. A complex of functional work stations built to accommodate specific tasks involved in canning--sorting, chopping, peeling, packing, scalding, steaming--fill the space and allow canners to migrate from sinks to tables in a logical work flow. Popular Midwestern produce such as tomatoes, green beans, and peaches are given distinct work areas and machines, as well as defined storage areas for the finished jars.</div>
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To assist with community members having enough produce to can at the new facility, the Ball Brothers Company also dedicated a significant area of land at the southern edge of their extensive factory. Over 100 garden plots are designated near the oil tank and coal pile near the railroad tracks that run through the property. The two site plans below depict the entire property and the layout of the garden plots.</div>
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<br />Drawings + Documents Archivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13723305340890214537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5722281521590779880.post-48613553424592851582015-03-13T09:45:00.001-04:002015-03-13T09:45:51.677-04:00Michael Graves, 1934-2015Michael Graves, who died yesterday at the age of 80, was born in Indianapolis and left to study architecture at the University of Cincinnati and Harvard University. He taught architecture at Princeton University for 40 years and is known as one of the most prominent architects of the latter 20th century.<br />
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He returned to Indiana numerous times to design buildings such as the Indianapolis Art Center (1996) in Broad Ripple and the NCAA Hall of Champions (1997) in Indianapolis. Graves visited Ball State University's relatively young College of Architecture and Planning in 1974 to give a lecture titled <a href="http://libx.bsu.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/CAPLectures/id/72/rec/1" target="_blank">"A Little of the Old In and Out,"</a> a recording of which resides in the Drawings + Documents Archive. In the lecture, available on the University Libraries' <a href="http://libx.bsu.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/CAPLectures/id/72/rec/1" target="_blank">Digital Media Repository</a>, Graves gives a fascinating discussion of his projects, concepts of how to look at space, and extensively discusses the paintings of Matisse, Picasso, and Cezanne in relation to his own work. He also discusses the work of other architects, such as Le Corbusier.Drawings + Documents Archivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13723305340890214537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5722281521590779880.post-22331559800413153072015-02-09T15:04:00.001-05:002015-02-09T15:04:50.365-05:00NEW! M. Carlton Smith Architectural Drawings Online<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Marion Carlton Smith (1905-1984) was an Indianapolis architect known for his residential designs, both modest and extraordinary. He graduated from Broad Ripple High School Smith in 1924 and while he never received a formal education in architecture, he gained practical knowledge in construction and carpentry from working with his father during summer breaks.<br />
<br />After high school he went to work at the Henry L. Simons Company, which was known for their exclusive residential building designs. Smith later worked for Edward James Associates before starting his own firm.<br />
<br />This <a href="http://libx.bsu.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/SmthCltnArc" target="_blank">online collection </a>in the University Libraries' Digital Media Repository contains examples of 241 different projects dating from 1932 to 1969. The drawings are mostly designs for private residences in Indianapolis; however there are some examples of commercial additions and remodeling jobs. Other drawing sets are for vacation cottages, a fraternity house, stadium, recreation center, Union Chapel Cemetery, and the Indianapolis Mirror Company. Most of the work is by Smith but a few projects are by architects Rollin Shuttleworth and Charles D. Ward.<br />
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The collection was donated to the Drawings + Documents Archive by Smith's son, Greg Smith, in 2012. <br />
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Images: <em>Mr. and Mrs. Gordon T. Kelly residence presentation drawing</em>, 1940; <em>M. Carlton Smith photographic portrait</em>, 1930s. M. Carlton Smith Architectural Drawings, Drawings + Documents Archive, Ball State University.<br />
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In this 1967 photograph from the College of Architecture and Planning's open house, an undergraduate student is showing his noel-themed design board to his mother. The word noel features prominently in all of the personal holiday cards that can be found in Dean Charles Sappenfield's own collection in the archives, so it's likely this design project was directed by Dean Sappenfield.</div>
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Architect Juliet Peddle (1899-1979) from Terre Haute, Indiana, created this charming block print of a house covered in snow that was likely destined for a Christmas card design. She was the first female architect registered in the state of Indiana. The Drawings + Documents Archive recently received this particular print in a donated collection of 60 sketches, prints, and architectural drawings by the architect. The collection spans from her early European sketches in 1928 to a residence built in 1967. </div>
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Peddle graduated from the University of Michigan in 1920 with a degree in architecture before going to work at the Chicago architectural firm Perkins, Fellows, and Hamilton. She had followed in the footsteps of her friend and former classmate at the University of Michigan, Bertha Yerex Whitman, who was the first female graduate in architecture from the school. They worked together at the firm and also founded, along with seven other women architect, the Women's Architectural Club of Chicago. The group exhibited their work at the first Women's World Fair in Chicago in 1927. Later they held exhibitions in the library and social hall of Perkins, Fellows, and Hamilton, and at other firms. Peddle served as the editor for the club's publication, <em>The Architrave</em>.</div>
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She returned home to Terre Haute in 1939 to open her own office, which she operated for over 30 years. She was known for her modern designs as well as her appreciation of historic architecture. A talented artist, she often drew local historic buildings and houses. Many of them appear to be houses destined to grace the fronts of holiday cards, such as this one.<br />
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You'll see more of these drawings in the next few posts, as we celebrate architects and the holidays with our annual series of holiday cards by architects.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Image: Merry Christmas cottage in snow, undated. Juliet Peddle Architectural Drawings, Drawings + Documents Archive, Ball State University</span>Drawings + Documents Archivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13723305340890214537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5722281521590779880.post-12032946454335689532014-11-21T09:11:00.001-05:002014-11-21T09:12:52.969-05:00Rediscovering Ringgold Avenue Playgrounds<br />
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the Ball State University College of Architecture and Planning students, practicing professionals, and researchers accessing Drawings
+ Documents Archive records are people working to thoughtfully reinvigorate
neglected spaces with historic roots. The <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Indianapolis
Parks Department Landscape Architectural Records 1898-1988</i> collection was
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of Indianapolis to discover more about the history
of a small city park within neighborhood borders. Members of the active Bates-Hendricks
neighborhood association have worked diligently in recent decades to rejuvenate disused
structures and spaces, some of which have been physically altered or have
demanded reshaping and creative reuse because of urban blight and the
disruption of the late 1960s-1970s interstate development. Seeking to connect
with and honor the past community and structures, neighborhood association
members often consult Sanborn fire insurance maps, city directories, and other invaluable
archival resources when undertaking new projects. A new park and playground,
recently transformed from a vacant lot with the help of <a href="http://www.kibi.org/" target="_blank">Keep IndianapolisBeautiful</a>, was named Baumann Park for the German immigrant family who
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hearing from long-term neighborhood residents about the stark contrast between
Ringgold Park before and after I-65 was built, neighborhood leadership became
interested in learning more about the original park footprint and elements. The
current park, a small triangular swath of land abutting I-65, leaves much to be
desired. Attracting families and creating safe play space for children is a
priority for any residential area, and well-maintained green space is
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detailed 1936 ink-on-vellum drawing of the playground on Ringgold Avenue was discovered in the <a href="http://www.bsu.edu/libraries/dda/index.php" target="_blank">Drawings + Documents collection catalog</a> (now available online). This information about 1936 park features,
along with Sanborn maps and City of Indianapolis aerial photography, is being
used by Bates-Hendricks leadership to generate interest and spark discussion among
residents regarding how the current physical space can be improved, while referencing
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for scholars and students. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The archive
is uniquely poised to serve as a rich resource for residents and organizations
working to revitalize city neighborhoods. By rediscovering the history of land
use and footprints of past development, stakeholders wishing to make thoughtful
changes to an area or recreate elements of the past are able to do so with a
little additional digging.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-family: Times;">The Bates-Hendricks neighborhood, on the near south side of Indianapolis, is an old city neighborhood with some great architectural gems and historic public spaces. The very interstates that serve as neighborhood borders, I-70 and I-65, pose challenges, as well as create opportunities, for revitalization.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">The area is named for the striking Bates-Hendricks house and was platted and developed primarily from the 1890s to the 1920s by German immigrant communities. Residential buildings range from late 19th century working-class homes to 20th century American Four Squares. Most of the historical commercial buildings, including the first Hook's Drugstore, no longer grace the East Street corridor. However, several early 20th century churches, as well as the </span><a href="http://libx.bsu.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/VnBnArcRec/id/278/rec/1" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">South Side Turnverein</span></a><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> designed by architects Vonnegut & Bohn, punctuate the clapboard siding building-scape with their red brick facades. For more information about the neighborhood, visit </span><a href="http://bateshendricks.org/"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">bateshendricks.org</span></a><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></span><br />
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a Bates-Hendricks resident and professional archivist in Indianapolis. She enjoys
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Trendler, Amy, and Carol Street. "Harnessing the Power of 3D Technologies for Library and Archives Collections." <i>ARCHSEC</i>. Art Libraries Society of North American Architecture Section, 15 Oct. 2014. Web. 29 Oct. 2014. </span><a href="http://archsec.arlisna.org/?p=296"><span style="font-family: inherit;">http://archsec.arlisna.org/?p=296</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><br />
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It's the perfect time of year to discover this decorative paper sheet with spiders and their webs bound in the Struco Slate architectural trade catalog from 1930. Judging from the rest of the collection, using decorative paper was relatively unusual in trade catalogs, which were targeted advertisements directed toward those in the building professions. The expense of a beautiful, finely crafted blank sheet of paper would seem superfluous to many companies, but perhaps the designers at the Strucural Slate Company felt it distinguished their catalog from the others. </div>
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The leaf is a translucent white. We placed orange paper behind the delicate paper to highlight the intricate webbing details and the spider at the center of its web. </div>
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