Robert A. Pritzker Science Center (Chicago, Ill.)

Organization

Staff Only

Biography

The Robert A. Pritzker Science Center was designed by Illinois Tech alumnus Myron Goldsmith of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. The classroom building was originally known as the Life Sciences building from its construction in 1966 until its rededication as the Robert A. Pritzker Science Center in 2016.

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

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

Found in: Paul V. Galvin Library. University Archives and Special Collections

Life Science Building, 1962

Item

Content Description From the Collection:

This collection includes drawings, plans, blueprints, and other materials stored in the East Map Case. These materials are not all from the same source, nor are they a coherent collection by any factor other than that they are all stored together. See folder listings for an inventory of the items in this collection.

Dates: 1962

Found in: Paul V. Galvin Library. University Archives and Special Collections / East Map Case Materials collection, 1892-1988 / Life Sciences Building

Life Sciences Building, November 6, 1964, November 19, 1964, December 11, 9164

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Dates: November 6, 1964; Modified: November 19, 1964; Modified: December 11, 9164

Found in: Paul V. Galvin Library. University Archives and Special Collections / East Map Case Materials collection, 1892-1988 / Life Sciences Building

Life Sciences Building blueprints, 1965

Collection

Identifier: 037.02.49

Description of the Collection Blueprints produced by the Browne-Morse Company of Muskegon, Michigan (outfitters of buildings with laboratory furniture and equipment of their own manufacture and design) of proposed work for the Life Sciences Building at the Illinois Institute of Technology (under dates September 16 through December 29 of 1965). Drawings bear numbers 61634 through 61803 (with some numbers covering multiple sheets), for 179 sheets total. The drawings include not only floor plans from the Life Sciences...

Dates: 1965

Found in: Paul V. Galvin Library. University Archives and Special Collections

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

Found in: Paul V. Galvin Library. University Archives and Special Collections