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Administration Group for The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois: Administration Building (3.5452)
Date: September 26 1934Creator: Holabird & Root
Type: Map
Description:Sheets are numbered 1-12, construction plans, and M1-M3, utility installation drawings.
Sheet 12 (71 cm x 45 cm) has date Oct. 29, 1934.
Extent: 15 sheets
Farm residence, Mr. Thos. Slusser (3.5480)
Date: September 17 1935Creator: 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: 1930sCreator: 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 1934Creator: 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
Tiling Map of the South Field, Mark Morton's Burdale Farm (3.5586)
Date: 1930sCreator: Steinbrecher, Harold F.
Type: Map
Description:Area shown lies in the northwestern corner of the Arboretum.
Extent: 1 sheet
[Open-air Tour Bus Design] (3.5634)
Date: February 4 1937Creator: Schukraft and Company
Type: Plan
Extent: 1 sheet
35 [i.e. Thirty-five ] Passenger Open-top Buss [sic] (3.5635)
Date: January 5 1937Creator: Voltz Brothers, Inc.
Type: Plan
Extent: 1 sheet
Administration Building [Wiring] (3.6369)
Date: December 13 1934Creator: Holabird & Root
Type: Map
Description:Sheets labeled 1E, 2E, 3E.
Extent: 3 sheets, stapled
Proposed Leanto for Morton Arboretum (3.6854)
Date: 1931 – 1932Creator: 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 1939Creator: 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