Proposed Laundry Plant, Municipal Hospital, Welfare Department, Hartford
MakerMade by
John J. McMahon
American, 1875 - 1958
Date1933
MediumDrawings, blueprints; pencil, red, yellow, and green pencil, and cyanotype on paper and tracing paper
DimensionsSheet: 18 3/4 x 25in. (47.6 x 63.5cm) or smaller
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineGift of Paul R. McMahon, Jr.
DescriptionDesigns for a proposed laundry building for the city of Hartford include front elevations, end elevatios, cross sections, and plans of the laundry floor. Three plans are identified as rough drafts. Proposed building was to be constructed of brick, with standard steel sash, felt and slag or gravel roofs, hung ceilings, and ventilators. Plans include a washing, extracting and tumbling room, a room for ironing boards and presses, a sorting room, a locker room, a women's rest room, a women's toilet room, a women's wash room, a men's room, a men's toilet room, and a men's wash room, an office, a tunnel, and an elevator shaft.
Object number2003.29.21.1-.9
Inscribed2003.29.21.1-3 are inscribed in pencil, lower center: "PROPOSED LAUNDRY PLANT" "SCALE 1/8 INCH = ONE FOOT". Wrapper is inscribed: "LANDRY PLANT / MUNICIPAL HOSPITAL / WELFARE DPTMT / Abandoned Sketches." Other notations indicate dimensions and materials. On verso, lower right, in pencil, accession numbers.NotesSubject Note: Apparently this building was never constructed. Note on wrapper reads: "Abandoned Sketches." (Finlay 10/30/2003)
On View
Not on view
