Drawing, Architectural

Title:

Storage Building for R&D

Object Name:

Drawing, Architectural

Object ID:

2009.026.206

Creator:

Soule, George C. (1914-2008)Artist

Place of Origin:

Manchester, NH

Date:

1987

Description:

Architectural drawing, R&D storage building, 49 High Street, by George C. Soule (1914-2008), 1987. Blueprint, with black and white crayon. View of a one-story storage building with flat roofs and a surrounding fence, two figures directly in front of a storage metal door and two figures walk on a sidewalk in the lower left corner, forested background. Sign on building: "49 HIGH". Titled, lower right, "PERSPECTIVE STUDY / Storage Building for R&D 5/ /87". Unframed.

Material:

Paper

Dimensions:

H-13.1 W-19.3 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, Storage facilities