Category: Architectural Renderings

Visions of a dream world that might or might not have ever been. All of these found in Frank Chouteau Brown and other architects’ 1910 work “Architectural Drawing and Lettering.” Published in Chicago Illinois by the American School of Correspondence.

Front cover. Image 1 of “Architectural Drawing and Lettering.” Frank A. Bourne, H.V. Von Horst, and Frank Chouteau Brown, authors. Published in 1910 by the American School of Correspondence, Chicago, Illinois. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/bwb_W7-DDB-713/mode/1up
DETAIL OF GREEK DORIC ORDER: an example of conventional shadows and rendering. Page 17, Image 18 of “Architectural Drawing and Lettering.” Frank A. Bourne, H.V. Von Horst, and Frank Chouteau Brown, authors. Published in 1910 by the American School of Correspondence, Chicago, Illinois. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/bwb_W7-DDB-713/page/n17/mode/1upg
Section Through Vaulted Ceiling, Showing Conventional Shadows and Method of Rendering. Page 56, Image 57 of “Architectural Drawing and Lettering.” Frank A. Bourne, H.V. Von Horst, and Frank Chouteau Brown, authors. Published in 1910 by the American School of Correspondence, Chicago, Illinois. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/bwb_W7-DDB-713/page/n56/mode/1up
Showing Difference in Rendering Stone and Metal. Page 60, Image 61 of “Architectural Drawing and Lettering.” Frank A. Bourne, H.V. Von Horst, and Frank Chouteau Brown, authors. Published in 1910 by the American School of Correspondence, Chicago, Illinois. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/bwb_W7-DDB-713/page/n60/mode/1up

Looking centuries old but only being from 1939. Drawings of detailing for the Student Union Building at the University of Arkansas. Haralson and Mott and Mann and Wanger, Architects.


Seahorse and Letters. Full Size Details of Letters and Ornament for Inscription Panel Main Entrance of Student Union Building, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Sheet number 118. Haralson and Mott and Mann and Wanger, Architects, Fort Smith, Arkansas. May 8, 1939. American. Pencil drawing on yellow tracing paper. Collections of and image credit the University of Arkansas Libraries. Fair use license. https://digitalcollections.uark.edu/digital/collection/Sesquicen/id/54/rec/2
Detail of Carved Stone Panels above Arched Windows of North Entrance. Student Union Building University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Sheet number 124. Haralson and Mott and Mann and Wanger, Architects, Fort Smith, Arkansas. June 24, 1939. American. Pencil drawing on yellow tracing paper. Collections of and image credit the University of Arkansas Libraries. Fair use license. https://digitalcollections.uark.edu/digital/collection/Sesquicen/id/57/rec/3
Full Size Tower Ornament (carved drops not required). Student Union Main Entrance Details. University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Sheet number 120. Haralson and Mott and Mann and Wanger, Architects, Fort Smith, Arkansas (lower image).May 22, 1939. American. Pencil drawing on yellow tracing paper. Collections of and image credit the University of Arkansas Libraries. Fair use license. https://digitalcollections.uark.edu/digital/collection/Sesquicen/id/67/rec/5
Quatrefoil Design repeated below Window Panels on the Student Union Entrance: Sills and Carved Panels for Windows C-131 to C-138 Inclusive: two carved ornaments as above for each window opening. University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Sheet number 107. Haralson and Mott and Mann and Wanger, Architects, Fort Smith, Arkansas (lower image).May 22, 1939. American. Pencil drawing on yellow tracing paper. Collections of and image credit the University of Arkansas Libraries. Fair use license. https://digitalcollections.uark.edu/digital/collection/Sesquicen/id/69/rec/6
Razorback Panel Detail. The Razorbacks being the name of the football team at the University of Arkansas. Detail from a drawing showing proposed details for the Main Entrance at the Student Union of the University of Arkansas Fayetteville. In the end they went with a more standard cornucopia panel, not this one. Haralson and Mott and Mann and Wanger, Architects, Fort Smith, Arkansas (lower image). January 30, 1939. American. Pencil drawing on yellow tracing paper. Collections of and image credit the University of Arkansas Libraries. Fair use license. https://digitalcollections.uark.edu/digital/collection/Sesquicen/id/77/rec/9
Carved Quatrefoil Design Panel below Window of Main Entrance. Student Union. University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Sheet number 105. Haralson and Mott and Mann and Wanger, Architects, Fort Smith, Arkansas. February 8, 1939. American. Pencil drawing on yellow tracing paper. Collections of and image credit the University of Arkansas Libraries. Fair use license. https://digitalcollections.uark.edu/digital/collection/Sesquicen/id/80/rec/10
Stone Details South Entrance: Classroom Building Stone Building at South Entrances. University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Sheet number 203. Haralson and Mott and Mann and Wanger, Architects, Fort Smith, Arkansas. June 26, 1939. American. Pencil drawing on yellow tracing paper. Collections of and image credit the University of Arkansas Libraries. Fair use license. https://digitalcollections.uark.edu/digital/collection/Sesquicen/id/106/rec/13

The Student Union at the University of Arkansas that these were part of was built as part of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal. The building is still there, now it is called Memorial Hall or Futrall Memorial Hall. The current Student Union was built in 1972. The 1939 building is on the National Register of Historic Places. It is the first photograph here https://livingnewdeal.org/sites/university-of-arkansas-futrall-memorial-hall-fayetteville-ar/

Gothic Revival imagery that may or may not still be around. Architectural renderings by Alexander Jackson Davis (1803-1892), most of these being in New York State but not all. All of these are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. There are lots more in the 37.6 linear feet’s worth Alexander Jackson Davis architectural drawing collection at the New York Historical Society. I found the finding aid but none of it appears to have been scanned.

BIBLIOTECHA, or Oriel Hall. Study for a library (front elevation). 1838. American. Watercolor, ink and graphite on paper. Alexander Jackson Davis, architect/artist (1803-1892). Signed and dated Alex. J. Davis 1838 on the lower right. Collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Artwork in the public domain. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/370120
House for William J. Rotch, New Bedford, Massachusetts (front elevation). American. Watercolor, ink and graphite. Alexander Jackson Davis, architect/artist (1803-1892). Signed and dated Alex. J. Davis 1836 on the lower left. Collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Artwork in the public domain. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/370117
American Institute, New York City (front elevation) with abstracted Egyptian Revival columns. 1834-1835. American. Watercolor, ink and graphite. Town and Davis, designers. Alexander Jackson Davis, artist (1803-1892). Collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Artwork in the public domain. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/377023
West Front and Principal Story Plan of John Munn House, Utica, New York (upper image detail). 1854. American. Ink and watercolor. Alexander Jackson Davis, artist (1803-1892). Signed ‘A. J. Davis 1854‘ on the lower right. Collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Artwork in the public domain. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/410168
Library – Chapel – University – Michigan (Ann Arbor) (front elevation). 1838-1839. American. Watercolor, ink, and graphite on paper. Alexander Jackson Davis, artist (1803-1892) Signed ‘A. J. Davis, architect, on the lower right. Collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Artwork in the public domain. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/338692
Design for a Double Townhouse (front elevation). Gothic Revival. ca. 1843. American. Watercolor and ink on paper. Alexander Jackson Davis, artist (1803-1892). Collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Artwork in the public domain. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/388435

Proposal for Raising by 15 feet, Alumni Hall, Yale College, New Haven, Connecticut (elevation of facade). 1881.
American. Pen and ink, wash and graphite on paper. Alexander Jackson Davis, artist (1803-1892). Collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Artwork in the public domain. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/394983 and a link to an article about Alumni Hall. https://lostnewengland.com/2019/07/alumni-hall-new-haven-connecticut/
Villa for David Codwise Esquire, near New Rochelle, New York (project; elevation and four plans, upper image). 1835. American. Pen and ink, watercolor, and graphite on paper. Alexander Jackson Davis, artist (1803-1892). Collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Artwork in the public domain. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/394998
Lyndhurst for George Merritt, Tarrytown, New York (west [rear] elevation and plan). 1865. American. Watercolor, ink, and graphite on paper. Alexander Jackson Davis, artist (1803-1892). Collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Artwork in the public domain. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/388433

The Metropolitan Museum has almost 6,000 items in their Alexander Jackson Davis collection, most of it not scanned.