Drawing, Architectural

Title:

The Yard Restaurant

Object Name:

Drawing, Architectural

Object ID:

2009.026.156

Creator:

Soule, George C. (1914-2008)Artist

Place of Origin:

Manchester, NH

Date:

1970-1985

Description:

Architectural drawing, The Yard Restaurant, Manchester, NH, by George C. Soule (1914-2008), 1970-1985. Blueprint, with white crayon. One story building with peaked roof and a glassed side, row of parked cars in front of building and a figure standing in the entrance to the building, five visable arched windows and one prominent tree in left center of the drawing in front of the building. Titled at bottom, "THE YARD RESTAURANT". Unframed.

Material:

Paper

Dimensions:

H-10.1 W-16.9 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, Restaurants