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Morton Arboretum Map (3.19481)
Date: 1943Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Map
Description:Detailed map of Arboretum grounds, showing roads, paths, landscaping, shelters, structures, enlargement of some specific features, hedge garden, some specific trees, and trails with markers numbered 1 - 42. Other features include a scale, a calendar, and a compass rose consisting of directions depicted with leaves. A highly ornamental border includes grid marks, as well as drawings of animal tracks and detailed drawings and labels of plants. Some replacement illustration and text has been adhered to the map. The Morton Arboretum encompassed 813 acres at time of map. One section is partially missing.
Extent: 1 sheet
[Route 53, entry road, parking lot, Meadow Lake area landscape plan] (3.31967)
Type: Plan
Extent: 1 sheet
[Route 53, entry road, parking lot, Meadow Lake area landscape plan - colored version] (3.31968)
Type: Plan
Description:Areas highlighted in color pencil on landscape plan
Extent: 1 sheet
Entry Road Landscape Plan (3.32000)
Date: April 22 2004Creator: Pelkonen, Peggy
Type: Plan
Description:Labeled "As-Built"
Sheets include the following titles: Entry Road Landscape Plan; Main Parking Lot Landscape Plan & Plant List; Picnic Area Landscape Plan & Plant List; Visitor Center Landscape Plan; Visitor Center Retail & Roof Garden Planting Plan; Staff Lot Landscape Plan & Plant List; Arbor Court & Maze Garden Overstory Landscape Plan; Arbor Court & Maze Garden Understory Landscape Plan.
Extent: 9 sheets
Site Improvement Plans for The Morton Arboretum Main Entrance / Main Road / Phase Two (3.32073)
Date: November 11 2003Creator: Christopher B. Burke, Engineering West, Ltd.
Type: Plan
Description:Overall plan including demolition, erosion and pollution prevention, grading, electrical, traffic plan, and planting plan.
Collection also includes a 48-page version with only the 2003-05-13 revisions.
Extent: 53 sheets
Entry Road Landscape Plan; Visitor Center Landscape Plan; Staff Lot Landscape Plan (3.36078)
Date: May 22 2003Creator: Hitchcock Design Group, Pelkonen, Peggy
Type: Plan
Description:L1.1 - Entry Road Landscape Plan - PP
L1.2 - Entry Road Landscape Plan - PP
L1.3 - Entry Road Landscape Plan - PP
L1.4 - Entry Road Plant List - PP
L2.1 - Visitor Center Landscape Plan - PP
L2.2 - Roof and Retail Gardens Landscape Plan & Section - PP
L2.3 - Visitor Center, Roof and Retail Garden Plant Lists - PP
L3.1 - Staff Lot Landscape Plan - PP
L3.2 - Staff Lot Plant List - PP
L4.1 - Planting Details - HD
PP - Drawn by Peggy Pelkonen
HD - Hitchcock Design
Extent: 11 sheets, stapled
Main Entrance/Main Road Phase Two Storm Sewer & Grading As-Built (3.47238)
Creator: Christopher B. Burke, Engineering West, Ltd.
Type: Plan
Description:As-built plan and topographical survey of the storm sewer and grading of the main road near the entrance in 2004.
"Project No. 00-927AA"
Extent: 1 Sheet
Main Entrance/Main Road Phase Two Storm Sewer & Grading As-Built (3.47239)
Creator: Christopher B. Burke, Engineering West, Ltd.
Type: Plan
Description:As-built plan of the storm sewer and grading and topographical survey of the main road near the main exit in 2004.
"Project No. 00-927AA"
Extent: 1 Sheet
Coord. Sketch for Park Blvd. Entrance & Parking (3.7097)
Date: June 26 2001Creator: Mehaffey, Scott A.
Type: Plan
Description:Circulation study for new entry road and relocated Forest Road through near East Side. Early concept for entry road and underpass realignment, with studies for Meadow Lake and Arbor Court S.M.
Extent: 1 sheet
Entry Road Landscape Plan/Visitor Center Landscape Plan/Staff Lot Landscape Plan (3.7127)
Date: February 2 2004Creator: Pelkonen, Peggy
Type: Plan
Description:Sheets 2, 3, and 4: Entry Road Landscape Plan
Sheet 5: Entry Road Plant List
Sheet 6: Visitor Center Landscape Landscape Plan
Sheet 7: Visitor Center Landscape Roof & Retail Gardens
Sheet 8: Visitor Center Landscape Plant List
Sheet 9: Staff Lot Landscape Plan
Sheet 10: Staff Lot Plant List
Sheet 11: Planting Details by Hitchcock Design
Extent: 11 sheets