037. Buildings and Campus

 Record Group
Identifier: 037

Staff Only

Found in 35 Collections and/or Records:

Theodore Cable slides, 1951

 Collection
Identifier: 037.02.61
Scope and Contents Fifteen 35 mm color slides of scenes around the campus of Illinois Institute of Technology, circa 1951. Original cardboard mounts read: Ansco Color/Processed by ColorLure Inc., Date/Chicago 36, Ill. Images are as follows: five slides of fraternities in the historic mansions on Michigan Ave. during Technorama, two slides of Chicago fire department vehicles near Michigan and 33rd Sts., two slides of historic Armour Institute of Technology/IIT buildings: Main Building, Amour...
Dates: 1951
Found in: Paul V. Galvin Library. University Archives and Special Collections

Lohan Master Plan collection, 1996-2003

 Collection
Identifier: 037.02.10
Description of the Collection

Office files from Mies van der Rohe Society related to the Lohan Master Plan and related activities.

Dates: 1996-2003
Found in: Paul V. Galvin Library. University Archives and Special Collections

The IIT Center Campus Development -- IIT 2000

 Collection
Identifier: 037.02.24
Description of the Collection Booklet: "The IIT Center Campus Development -- IIT 2000: Prepared November, 1979". 32pgs. Final report prepared for IIT by Schmidt, Garden & Erikson, Architects and Engineers. Color and black and white, with models, floor plans, landscaping, and campus schematics. Document proposes changes to landscaping, parking, and condos, and president's house to be built on IIT campus. No academic buildings addressed in proposal. Removal of Green Line El part of proposal. No further of this evidence...
Dates: 1979
Found in: Paul V. Galvin Library. University Archives and Special Collections

Alschuler Campus Plan brochures, 1940

 Collection
Identifier: 037.02.16
Description of the Collection

Printed brochure published by Illinois Institute of Technology showing the "Campus Plan" (buildings and grounds design) done by architect Alfred S. Alschuler. The campus development proposal included buildings to be used by IIT and Armour Research Foundation.

Dates: 1940
Found in: Paul V. Galvin Library. University Archives and Special Collections

Robert F. Carr Memorial Chapel of St. Savior collection, 1952-2007

 Collection
Identifier: 037.02.03
Description of the Collection

Two items related to the Robert F. Carr Memorial Chapel of St. Saviour: 1) Flyer with brief information about Carr Chapel; probably issued as a publicity piece shortly after the building was opened in 1952. 2) Article by Margaret M. Grubiak, "Educating the Moral Scientist: The Chapels at I.I.T. and M.I.T.," published in ARRIS: Journal of the Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians (volume 18, 2007) (entire volume on file; gift of Margaret Grubiak)

Dates: 1952-2007
Found in: Paul V. Galvin Library. University Archives and Special Collections

John Crerar Library blueprint, 1961

 Collection
Identifier: 037.02.19
Description of the Collection

Blueprint Sheet (31" x 47") by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill of first floor (i.e., upper level) plan of The John Crerar Library (later the Paul V. Galvin Library). Job number 5763; drawing number A-2. Scale 1/8" = 1'-0".

Dates: 1961
Found in: Paul V. Galvin Library. University Archives and Special Collections

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

Mies & Modernism: The IIT Campus Tour

 Collection
Identifier: 037.02.18
Description of the Collection Mies & Modernism: The IIT Campus Tour, a 57-page tour training manual for docents who provide walking tours of the Illinois Institute of Technology campus. The manual has general information about Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the architecture program at IIT, the campus master plan and landscaping, as well as detailed architectural information about specific buildings. Also included is information about architects other than Mies who designed IIT buildings, campus outdoor sculptures, a...
Dates: 2001
Found in: Paul V. Galvin Library. University Archives and Special Collections

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

Robert F. Carr Memorial Chapel of St. Savior, IIT

 Collection
Identifier: 037.02.01
Description of the Collection

Presentation-style book apparently prepared and published by the Mies van der Rohe Society of IIT under the title "Robert F. Carr Memorial Chapel of St. Savior, IIT," for presentation to donors supportive of the chapel's restoration. Contains ten pages of color photographs of the chapel's interior a brief history of the chapel. The final page reads "Thank you from the Mies van der Rohe Society and the IIT Community."

Dates: 2010
Found in: Paul V. Galvin Library. University Archives and Special Collections

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