Drawing, Architectural

Title:

Honda Car Dealership

Object Name:

Drawing, Architectural

Object ID:

2009.026.186

Creator:

Soule, George C. (1914-2008)Artist

Place of Origin:

Manchester, NH

Date:

1970-1985

Description:

Architectural drawing, Honda car dealership, Methuen, MA, by George C. Soule (1914-2008), 1970-1985. Blueprint, with white crayon. View of a one-story building with flat roofs and glassed portion of the building, two rows of parked cars, first row surrounding perimeter of building and the second paralleling either side of the building, billowing clouds in background. Titled, lower left, "HONDA CAR DEALERSHIP". Sign on front of building: "HONDA". Pencil note on reverse: "B[?]lisle Honda / Methuen". Unframed.

Material:

Paper

Dimensions:

H-13.9 W-19.8 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, Automobiles, Automobile dealerships