Drawing, Architectural

Title:

Condos for Bradgate, Heritage Commons, Auburn, MA

Object Name:

Drawing, Architectural

Object ID:

2009.026.182

Creator:

Soule, George C. (1914-2008)Artist

Place of Origin:

Manchester, NH

Date:

1970-1985

Description:

Architectural drawing, Heritage Commons Condominiums, Auburn, MA, by George C. Soule (1914-2008), 1970-1985. Blueprint, with black and white crayon. Aerial view of two story complex of three idenitical structures with two attached parking garages on the left and right of complex, four parked cars in upper right corner and no distinct background. Titled, lower right, "Perspective Study B / Condos for 'Bradgate' / 'HERITAGE COMMONS' Auburn MA". Unframed.

Material:

Paper

Dimensions:

H-10.9 W-17 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, Condominiums, Housing developments