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Blueprints and architectural drawings

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Held at: Drexel University: Archives and Special Collections [Contact Us]W. W. Hagerty Library, 3300 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104

This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Drexel University: Archives and Special Collections. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.

Overview and metadata sections

Call Number:
03.017
Repository:
Drexel University: Archives and Special Collections
Extent:
28.0 linear feet
Language:
English
Date:
1930-2000 (inclusive)
Form:
Blueprints
Abstract:

This collection consists of approximately 5 c.f. of blueprints and other architectural drawings or surveys relating to the construction, renovation, or landscaping of various locations on Drexel University campus between 1930 and 2000.

Most well represented are the construction of campus libraries (Hagerty Library and what is today the Korman Center) and dormitories (Van Rensselaer Hall, Kelly Hall, Calhoun Hall, Caneris Hall); the collection also includes plans of renovations to the Main Building, the National Guard Armory, the Frank Furness-designed Centennial Branch of the Pennsylvania Bank (today the Paul Peck Alumni Center), and an Architecture Department studio; plans for construction of the Alumni Engineering Labs, Stratton Hall, Nesbitt Hall, the Educational Activities Center (MacAlister Hall), the Physical Education Center (Daskalakis Athletic Center), the General Service and Parking Facility, and the old student union and student dining hall buildings (no longer extant); and plans of campus landscaping, a water main, and an unidentified building described as "axonometric." Plans of two non-campus locations are also included: a senior-junior high school located in northeast Philadelphia, and the block to the northwest of 32nd and Race which was the subject of city condemnation proceedings.

The provenance of this collection is unknown.

Subject

Publisher
Drexel University: Archives and Special Collections
Finding Aid Author
Finding aid prepared by Shaun Kirkpatrick
Finding Aid Date
2009
Access Restrictions

The collection is open for research use.

Collection Inventory

National Guard Armory, 1964-1969. 5 items.
Drawer 1 Folder 3
Physical Description

5.0 items

Caneris Hall, 1998. 4 items.
Drawer 1 Folder 1
Physical Description

4.0 items

Disque and Stratton Halls, 1963. 3 items.
Drawer 1 Folder 1
Physical Description

3.0 items

Basic Science Building (Stratton Hall), 1953. 1 item.
Drawer 1 Folder 1
Physical Description

1.0 item

Dormitory for men (Kelly Hall), 1965.
Drawer 1 Folder
Architecture Dept. studio renovation, 1990. 2 item.
Drawer 1 Folder 4
Physical Description

2.0 item

Main Building: Suites 102, 103, 104, 1991. 4 items.
Drawer 1 Folder 4
Physical Description

4.0 items

Campus mall development, landscape planting, 1967. 2 items.
Drawer 1 Folder 5
Physical Description

2.0 items

Physical Education Center (Daskalakis Athletic Center), 1966. 21 items.
Drawer 1 Folder 2
Physical Description

21.0 items

Drexel Student Union, 3110 Market St, n.d.
Drawer 1 Folder
Plan of property, 32nd and Chestnut (Stratton Hall), 1964.
Drawer 1 Folder
Unidentified building ("axonometric" drawing).
Drawer 1 Folder
General Service and Parking Facility, 1968-1969.
Drawer 1 Folder 6
Drexel University Library (Hagerty Library), 1981-1983, n.d.
Drawer 2 Drawer 3 Drawer 4 Folder
Educational Activities Center (MacAlister Hall), c. 1973.
Drawer 5 Folder
Women's Residence Hall (Calhoun Hall), c. 1972.
Drawer 5 Folder
Plan made for the use of the Board of Viewers, condemnation proceedings (block NW of 32nd and Race), 1967-1968.
Drawer 5 Folder
New Laboratory Building (Alumni Engineering Labs), 1950.
Drawer 5 Folder
Frank Furness Building (formerly Centennial Branch, Pennsylvania Bank), 1973, 1978-1979, 1999-2000.
Drawer 5 Folder
Ductile iron water main, 1987.
Drawer 5 Folder
Sarah Drexel Van Rensselaer Dormitory for Women (Van Rensselaer Hall), 1930.
Drawer 5 Folder
Wilford Building renovation, 1988.
Drawer 5 Volume
Junior-Senior High School Building, Bustleton Avenue and Verree Road, 1960-1962.
Drawer 6 Folder
Students Dining Hall Building (between Market and Ludlow Streets), 1948.
Drawer 6
Korman Center (formerly University Library), 1957, 1986. 5 items.
Drawer 6
Physical Description

5.0 items

Home Economics Center (Nesbitt Hall), 1967.
Drawer 7 Folder

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