Part of:

People:

Lloyd Wright (draughtsman)
Lloyd Wright Architect (architectural firm)
Lloyd Wright (architect)
Lloyd Wright (author)
Lloyd Wright (correspondence writer)
Arthur Erickson (client)
Franklin W. Jones (client)
Daniel De Jonghe (client)
Ralph Jester (client)
Alfred Erickson (client)
Mabel Ellen De Jonghe (client)

Title:

Wayfarers' Chapel fonds: Architect's project files, including correspondence, contractual and construction documents, publicity materials and some drawings, photographs and reprographic copies

Date:

1946-1977

Description:

- The architect's project files have been reorganized into two groupings totalling 205 files. General files are organized by document type and construction files are organized according to five building phases: the chapel proper, unit I of construction, 1952-1952; the campanile, berm walls and walks, unit II of construction, 1953-1955; the parish house, cloister and refectory, unit III of construction, 1955-1957; the work shed and yard, also known as the service building addition, unit IV of construction, 1957-1958; and a final group of smaller projects -- restrooms, baptismal fount and auditorium addition -- executed between 1960 and 1977. A copy of the finding aid is in the object file; it includes a description of the current contents of each file and of their organization as received.

Form:
drawings
textual records
graphic materials
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
205 file(s)

Stage and Purpose:

contract drawings
conceptual drawings
preliminary drawings
technical drawings
detail drawings
structural drawings

Technique and media:

Drawings include graphite, coloured pencil and ball-point pen on wove paper and tracing paper reprographic copies include diazotypes and blueprints on wove paper visual documents include relief halftones, offset lithographs, photolithographs and photogravure on wove paper, calendered wove paper and pasteboard textual documents include typescripts, carbon copies of typescripts, graphite, pen and blue ink, ball-point pen, mimeograph copies, offset printing, letterpress printing and various photomechanical processes on onionskin paper, wove paper, calendered wove paper and pasteboard photographs include gelatin silver prints, chromogenic colour prints and one negative

Dimensions:

sheet (smallest): 5,1 x 8,9 cm sheet (largest): 60,9 x 91,2 cm comp. (smallest): 5,2 x 8,3 cm comp. (largest): 19,2 x 23,5 cm

Reference number:

DR1987:0869:001-205

Drawing Type:

line drawings
mechanical drawings (tool-aided drawings)
finished drawing
freehand drawings
sketches
tracings

Document Type:

clippings
architect's statement
articles
business cards
catalogues
correspondence
postcards
drafts (documents)
journals (accounts)
notes
notices of completion
permit
publications
reports
scripts (documents)
sheet music
speech
project files
checklists
contract documents
specifications
administrative records
progress reports
progress schedules
bidding documents
financial records
church records

Method of Projection:

perspective drawings
isometric drawings
plans (drawings)
site plans
landscaping plan
sections (orthographic drawings)
elevations (drawings)
sketch elevations (drawings)
sketch plans (drawings)
sketch sections (orthographic drawings)

Point of View:

general views
partial views
aerial views
exterior views
interior views

Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

- All objects are stored in standard legal and letter sized files. Some objects, in particular the reprographic copies, were folded to fit in the file. Some photographs are on postcard stock. All newspaper clippings and many of the folders and dividers were replaced with photocopies.

Inscription:

inscribed, signed, dated and numbered - see object for complete inscription

Location:

United States

Subject:

architecture
interior design
engineering

Subject Descriptive Terms:

theatre

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

Copyright: