Drawing, Architectural

Title:

Willey Creek Development Co., Exeter, NH

Object Name:

Drawing, Architectural

Object ID:

2009.026.129

Creator:

Soule, George C. (1914-2008)Artist

Place of Origin:

Manchester, NH

Date:

1970-1985

Description:

Architectural drawing, Willey Creek Development Co., Exeter, NH, by George C. Soule (1914-2008), 1970-1985. Blueprint, enhanced with black crayon. Two-story building with parked cars in front; a single figure standing by a car; another figure walking directly in front of building; flat roof with forested background. Pencil drawing at top right, aerial view of same building from a different angle, with parked truck behind and same forested surroundings; "Perspective Study". Map of location at top left, in pencil, depicting roads in Exeter following Squamscott River. Main drawing, at bottom, is titled, lower right, "WILLEY CREEK Development Co. / exeter, NH"; "Perspective Study", lower left. Unframed.

Material:

Paper

Dimensions:

H-20.15 W-16.55 inches

Provenance:

George C. Soule (1914-2008) of Manchester, NH, was an artist with the Civilian Conservation Corps in New Hampshire, 1935-1937. He was assigned to draw portraits of CCC workers and to document camp life in the 118th Company, CCC, East Jaffrey, NH. He later worked as an artist with the WPA until 1942, and then as a draftsman at the Manchester Army Air Base. He studied art at Yale and became an architect in Manchester. He operated the firm of Soule & Associates from the 1950s through the 1980s. He designed schools, churches, houses, and a wide variety of commercial buildings in southern NH and southern New England. The collection was donated by the children of George Soule.

Credit Line:

Gift of Patricia, Cynthia, and Peter Soule

People:

Soule, George C. (1914-2008)

Subjects:

Architectural drawings, Architecture, Architects, Commercial buildings