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Farm residence, Mr. Thos. Slusser (3.5480)

Date: September 17 1935
Creator: McConnell, J. L.
Type: Plan
Description:Includes red pencil markings.
Extent: 1 sheet

Residence for Mr. & Mrs. Raymond P. Fischer, Wheaton, Illinois (3.5487)

Date: 1930s
Creator: Fafenrodt, A. I.
Type: Plan
Description:Structure located on the Fischer tracts incorporated into the Arboretum, the northwest corner bordering in Leask Lane. Sheets showing specialized modifications, pencil drawings on vellum, laid in at sheets 5 and 6. Plumbing order sheet 1941 - filed in archives Early Building Records.
Extent: 6 sheets with 2 drawings laid in

Superintendent's Residence [Arbordale] (3.5544)

Date: September 26 1934
Creator: Holabird & Root
Type: Plan
Description:Plans have title: Administration group for the Morton Arboretum at Lisle, Illinois, Illinois: Superintendent's residence. The structure is currently located in Arbordale, northeast corner near the entrance cloverleaf.
Copy 4 (1993, 3.7206) is a photocopy of c.1 given to library by Ralph Grieco 03/19/14. Originally stapled together with copy of STRU: b II (c) 6, new roof and dormer windows.
Extent: 13 sheets

[Open-air Tour Bus Design] (3.5634)

Date: February 4 1937
Creator: Schukraft and Company
Type: Plan
Extent: 1 sheet

35 [i.e. Thirty-five ] Passenger Open-top Buss [sic] (3.5635)

Date: January 5 1937
Creator: Voltz Brothers, Inc.
Type: Plan
Extent: 1 sheet

[Planting] Plan of Administration Building Meadow, the Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois (3.5708)

Date: 1930s
Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Plan
Description:Shows the area presently occupied by Meadow Lake, Elm, and Tilia Collections. 
Extent: 1 sheet

[Planting] Plan of Administration Building Meadow, the Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois [with misc. identifications of proposed plantings] (3.5709)

Date: 1930s
Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Plan
Description:Shows the area presently occupied by Meadow Lake, Elm, and Tilia Collections. This version has misc. identifications of proposed plantings written in pen throughout.
Extent: 1 sheet

Preliminary Plan for Show Nursery and Vine Collection (3.5758)

Date: 1939
Creator: Kammerer, E. Lowell
Type: Plan
Description:Landscape plan and layout for a show nursery and vine collection located near the present South Farm area.

Note on back of plan: New Plan - Vine Coll., 1939, #11
Extent: 1 sheet

[Open-air Tour Bus Design] (3.5983)

Date: January 25 1937
Creator: Schukraft and Company
Type: Plan
Extent: 1 sheet

[Open-air Tour Bus Design] (3.5984)

Date: January 13 1936
Creator: Erlinder-Platt Sales Corp.
Type: Plan
Extent: 1 sheet

Proposed Leanto for Morton Arboretum (3.6854)

Date: 1931 – 1932
Creator: The Foley Greenhouse Mfg. Co.
Type: Plan
Description:Note on back: "Extension to Propagation House at S. Farm - made in Spring 1932." Eight sheets of pencil specifications and two sheets typed specifications are stapled to the blueprints. A second copy of the typed specifications is included.
Extent: 4 sheets, blueprints; 12 sheets, paper

Sketch for the 1940 Garden Club Show (3.6948)

Date: December 19 1939
Creator: Banse, Herbert
Type: Plan
Description:"For the Navy Pier Flower Show the Arboretum exhibited a small red barn...Mr. Godshalk's barn was built from the one used at the Flower Show." - Outline of Arboretum Development, 1940. Note on back: "CEG barn"
Extent: 1 sheet

[Bird Sanctuary Cottage] (3.7132)

Date: July 18 1939
Creator: Holabird & Root
Type: Plan
Description:Ink notes including: "This building is located on the old Puffer Farm on Ogden Ave. just east of the Puffer School." Building was moved to Puffer Marsh area.
Includes construction notes in ink.
Extent: 1 sheet

[Bird Sanctuary Cottage] (3.7133)

Date: July 31 1939
Creator: Holabird & Root
Type: Plan
Description:Includes Plan, Section, Fireplace-Elevation, Elevation X-X
Extent: 1 sheet

[Bird Sanctuary Cottage] (3.7134)

Date: August 2 1939
Creator: Holabird & Root
Type: Plan
Description:Revised version with stove pipe alterations. Ink sketch in upper left corner.
Extent: 1 sheet

[Drawing of Private Gardens of Joy Morton Residence] (3.7202)

Date: circa 1935
Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Plan
Description:Shows Pool, "Grass Panel," "Trial Garden," "Cut Flowers"
Extent: 1 sheet

planting plan (3.7225)

Date: 1931
Creator: Jensen, Jens
Type: Plan
Description:planting plan
Extent: 1 piece

planting plan (3.7266)

Date: 1938
Creator: Jensen, Jens
Type: Plan
Description:planting plan

Lincoln Memorial Garden (3.7299)

Date: 1935
Creator: Jensen, Jens
Type: Plan
Description:preliminary drawings (3 sheets); topography drawings (5 sheets and 1 blueprint); planting plan (3 sheets pencil on tissue) - "This plan is a composition of native plants, and as in all works of art, any changes in the composition will impair its artistic merits"; planting plan (2 blueprints); council ring (1 blueprint and 1 copy of blueprint)

Lincoln Memorial Garden (3.7300)

Date: 1935
Creator: Jensen, Jens
Type: Plan
Description:preliminary drawings (3 sheets); topography drawings (5 sheets and 1 blueprint); planting plan (3 sheets pencil on tissue) - "This plan is a composition of native plants, and as in all works of art, any changes in the composition will impair its artistic merits"; planting plan (2 blueprints); council ring (1 blueprint and 1 copy of blueprint)

Lincoln Memorial Garden (3.7301)

Date: 1935
Creator: Jensen, Jens
Type: Plan
Description:preliminary drawings (3 sheets); topography drawings (5 sheets and 1 blueprint); planting plan (3 sheets pencil on tissue) - "This plan is a composition of native plants, and as in all works of art, any changes in the composition will impair its artistic merits"; planting plan (2 blueprints); council ring (1 blueprint and 1 copy of blueprint)
Extent: 4 sheets

Lincoln Memorial Garden (3.7302)

Date: 1935
Creator: Jensen, Jens
Type: Plan
Description:preliminary drawings (3 sheets); topography drawings (5 sheets and 1 blueprint); planting plan (3 sheets pencil on tissue) - "This plan is a composition of native plants, and as in all works of art, any changes in the composition will impair its artistic merits"; planting plan (2 blueprints); council ring (1 blueprint and 1 copy of blueprint)

Lincoln Memorial Garden (3.7303)

Date: 1935
Creator: Jensen, Jens
Type: Plan
Description:preliminary drawings (3 sheets); topography drawings (5 sheets and 1 blueprint); planting plan (3 sheets pencil on tissue) - "This plan is a composition of native plants, and as in all works of art, any changes in the composition will impair its artistic merits"; planting plan (2 blueprints); council ring (1 blueprint and 1 copy of blueprint)
Extent: 6 sheets

Lincoln Memorial Garden (3.7304)

Date: 1935
Creator: Jensen, Jens
Type: Plan
Description:preliminary drawings (3 sheets); topography drawings (5 sheets and 1 blueprint); planting plan (3 sheets pencil on tissue) - "This plan is a composition of native plants, and as in all works of art, any changes in the composition will impair its artistic merits"; planting plan (2 blueprints); council ring (1 blueprint and 1 copy of blueprint)

Lincoln Memorial Garden (3.7305)

Date: 1935
Creator: Jensen, Jens
Type: Plan
Description:preliminary drawings (3 sheets); topography drawings (5 sheets and 1 blueprint); planting plan (3 sheets pencil on tissue) - "This plan is a composition of native plants, and as in all works of art, any changes in the composition will impair its artistic merits"; planting plan (2 blueprints); council ring (1 blueprint and 1 copy of blueprint)

Lincoln Memorial Garden (3.7306)

Date: 1935
Creator: Jensen, Jens
Type: Plan
Description:preliminary drawings (3 sheets); topography drawings (5 sheets and 1 blueprint); planting plan (3 sheets pencil on tissue) - "This plan is a composition of native plants, and as in all works of art, any changes in the composition will impair its artistic merits"; planting plan (2 blueprints); council ring (1 blueprint and 1 copy of blueprint)

Lincoln Memorial Garden (3.7307)

Date: 1935
Creator: Jensen, Jens
Type: Plan
Description:preliminary drawings (3 sheets); topography drawings (5 sheets and 1 blueprint); planting plan (3 sheets pencil on tissue) - "This plan is a composition of native plants, and as in all works of art, any changes in the composition will impair its artistic merits"; planting plan (2 blueprints); council ring (1 blueprint and 1 copy of blueprint)

Lincoln Memorial Garden (3.7308)

Date: 1935
Creator: Jensen, Jens
Type: Plan
Description:preliminary drawings (3 sheets); topography drawings (5 sheets and 1 blueprint); planting plan (3 sheets pencil on tissue) - "This plan is a composition of native plants, and as in all works of art, any changes in the composition will impair its artistic merits"; planting plan (2 blueprints); council ring (1 blueprint and 1 copy of blueprint)

Lincoln Memorial Garden (3.7309)

Date: 1935
Creator: Jensen, Jens
Type: Plan
Description:preliminary drawings (3 sheets); topography drawings (5 sheets and 1 blueprint); planting plan (3 sheets pencil on tissue) - "This plan is a composition of native plants, and as in all works of art, any changes in the composition will impair its artistic merits"; planting plan (2 blueprints); council ring (1 blueprint and 1 copy of blueprint)

Lincoln Memorial Garden (3.7310)

Date: 1935
Creator: Jensen, Jens
Type: Plan
Description:preliminary drawings (3 sheets); topography drawings (5 sheets and 1 blueprint); planting plan (3 sheets pencil on tissue) - "This plan is a composition of native plants, and as in all works of art, any changes in the composition will impair its artistic merits"; planting plan (2 blueprints); council ring (1 blueprint and 1 copy of blueprint)

Lincoln Memorial Garden (3.7311)

Date: 1935
Creator: Jensen, Jens
Type: Plan
Description:preliminary drawings (3 sheets); topography drawings (5 sheets and 1 blueprint); planting plan (3 sheets pencil on tissue) - "This plan is a composition of native plants, and as in all works of art, any changes in the composition will impair its artistic merits"; planting plan (2 blueprints); council ring (1 blueprint and 1 copy of blueprint)

Lincoln Memorial Garden (3.7312)

Date: 1935
Creator: Jensen, Jens
Type: Plan
Description:preliminary drawings (3 sheets); topography drawings (5 sheets and 1 blueprint); planting plan (3 sheets pencil on tissue) - "This plan is a composition of native plants, and as in all works of art, any changes in the composition will impair its artistic merits"; planting plan (2 blueprints); council ring (1 blueprint and 1 copy of blueprint)

Lincoln Memorial Garden (3.7313)

Date: 1935
Creator: Jensen, Jens
Type: Plan
Description:preliminary drawings (3 sheets); topography drawings (5 sheets and 1 blueprint); planting plan (3 sheets pencil on tissue) - "This plan is a composition of native plants, and as in all works of art, any changes in the composition will impair its artistic merits"; planting plan (2 blueprints); council ring (1 blueprint and 1 copy of blueprint)

Mahoney Park (3.7320)

Date: 1933
Creator: Jensen, Jens
Type: Plan
Description:wild flower preserves & bird sanctuary “Job no. 46B”
Extent: 3 pieces

Diversey Housing Project (3.7339)

Date: 1936
Creator: Jensen, Jens
Type: Plan
Description:Chicago Housing Authority - Diversey - North Damen - Clyborn - North branch of Chicago River. The Lanthrop Home Development
Extent: 3 sheets

Memorial University of Wisconsin (3.7359)

Date: 1938
Creator: Jensen, Jens
Type: Plan
Description:arboretum & wildlife refuge (plantings and stone work) (2 pieces)

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