Alumni Memorial Hall (Chicago, Ill.)
Organization
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
Alumni Memorial Hall blueprints, 1945
Collection
Identifier: 037.02.50
Description of the Collection
Three pages of blueprints (27 x 41") for the Navy Building (later, Alumni Memorial Hall) by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Holabird & Root. Drawings are identified as First Floor Framing, drawing S2; 2nd Floor Framing, S3; and Roof Framing Plan, S4. All are dated 5/17/1945 and are identified as revisions of commission number 7774.
Dates:
1945
Building Reference files, 1896-2013
Collection
Identifier: 037.06.01
Scope and Contents
The Building Reference Files collection consists of a mix of primary and secondary source material relating to the buildings and campuses of the Illinois Institute of Technology and its predecessor institutions. These files formerly served as "drop files" where archives staff collected clippings, ephemera, and photographs related to the buildings and campus, and as a result, many of the files consist wholly of secondary material (including photocopies and clippings from university...
Dates:
1895-2013
Buildings and Grounds Building Alteration files, 1945-1949
Collection
Identifier: 029.03.11
Description of the Collection
Collection appears to be the papers of W. J. Parduhn, Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds. Files contain work orders, memos and correspondence, financial schedules, and miscellaneous other materials related to renovations and maintenance of campus buildings. Both old (previously existing) and new (primarily Alumni Memorial Hall, Perlstein Hall, Wishnick Hall) buildings are included. Drawings of the project work are sometimes included. Records appear to concern only IIT academic...
Dates:
1945-1949; Majority of material found within 1947-1949
Gilbert Force correspondence, 1943-1948
Collection
Identifier: 030.01.04
Description of the Collection
This collection consists of correspondence by Gilbert A. Force, Illinois Institute of Technology Business Manager, concerning the financial and accounting matters under the responsibility of the business office during post-World War II campus "rehabilitation" period, circa 1943-1947. The correspondence is with Harvey E. Anderson, Business Manager, Walter J. Parduhn, Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds, and R. J. Spaeth, Treasurer. The collection includes materials...
Dates:
1943-1948
IIT Challenge Campaign CDs, 1997
Collection
Identifier: 032.02.16
Description of the Collection
CD-Rs containing media and executable files for IIT Challenge Campaign, a software program consisting of a 4-minute sound and video presentation of five Ludwig Mies van der Rohe-designed buildings on the campus of Illinois Institute of Technology. The buildings presented are those to be renovated as part of the multi-year "Mies Campus Project," the ultimate objective of which was to write a group National Register Nomination to include S. R. Crown Hall, Siegel Hall, Wishnick Hall, Alumni...
Dates:
1997
Naval ROTC program records, 1945-2000
Collection
Identifier: 015.01.03
Description of the Collection
Materials related to Illinois Institute of Technology's U.S. Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps, which IIT President Henry Heald was instrumental in helping establish during WW II.
Dates:
1945-2000; Majority of material found within 1980-2000
Richard J. Pavlicek collection, 1941-1948
Collection
Identifier: 037.02.59
Abstract
Blueprints of three Illinois Institute of Technology campus buildings designed by Mies van der Rohe: Metallurgical Research Building for Armour Research Foundation (later the south portion of the Materials and Metals Building), Navy Building, Chemical Engineering and Metallurgy Building (later Perlstein Hall).
Dates:
1941-1948
Space Use Reports, 1961-1980
Collection
Identifier: 029.03.05
Description of the Collection
Collection contains Space Use Reports concerning building statistics and campus space use at Illinois Institute of Technology, including the university's Crystal Lake, IL campus.
1. Pure Oil Co. Research Center (Crystal Lake, IL) site plan and building floor plans dated 1961. 2. Campus Space Inventory, being original hand-drawn measured scaled floorplans dated 1967, apparently for every floor of the following campus buildings: Hermann Hall, Alumni Memorial Hall; Civil...
Dates:
1961-1980
Additional filters:
- Subject
- College buildings 5
- Architectural drawings (visual works) 3
- Architecture--Designs and plans 2
- Campus planning 2
- College buildings--Planning 2
- Architecture 1
- Armed Forces--Equipment 1
- Blueprints 1
- Bronzeville (Chicago, Ill.) 1
- Clippings (information artifacts) 1
- College buildings -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
- College buildings--Design and construction 1
- College facilities 1
- Computer programs 1
- Computer-aided design 1
- Crystal Lake (Ill.) 1
- Disabled veterans--Rehabilitation 1
- Dormitories 1
- Fund raising 1
- Landscape architecture 1
- Minorities--Education (Higher) 1
- Photographs 1
- Universities and colleges--Employees 1
- World War, 1939-1945 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- War work -- Schools 1 ∧ less
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