Documentation concerning prefabricated homes by A. Bentley and Sons Company, Contractors and Engineers.

Part of:

Fonds: Pierre Jeanneret fonds, 1870s-2011
Series: Documents personnels = Personal documents, 1883-1985
Sub-series: Dossiers de l'architecte documentant ses activités professionnels en France = Files of the architect documenting his professional activities in France, 1919-1964
Sub-series: Dossier documentaire, F.C. Luthi & Company, New York, et A. Bentley and Sons Company = Reference material(s), F.C. Luthi & Company, New York and A. Bentley and Sons Company, n.d.

People:

Pierre Jeanneret (archive creator)
A. Bentley and Sons Company (contractor)
A. Bentley and Sons Company (engineer)

Title:

Documentation concerning prefabricated homes by A. Bentley and Sons Company, Contractors and Engineers.

Date:

n.d.

Description:

Documentation concerning prefabricated homes by A. Bentley and Sons Company, Contractors and Engineers. File includes: 1 reference drawing showing plan, section, perspective and elevations for worker dwellings specifically adapted for industrial housing in Cuba prepared by A. Bentley and Sons Company. Drawing is titled "Plans for workman's dwelling specially adapted for industrial housing in Cuba." Also includes 2 circulars (correspondence) from the importing and exporting firm F.C. Luthi & Company to an unknown recipient attached to the blueprint provide contextual information. The typescript labelled "Circulaire 116-B" indicates that F.C. Luthi & Company was working in collaboration with A. Bentley and Sons Company to offer material for the construction of dwellings with two to five rooms. The blueprint shows the five room dwellings.

Form:
drawings

Quantity / Object type:
1 file(s)

Extent and medium:

1 drawing
0.01 l.m. of textual records

Technique and media:

Blueprint on paper

Dimensions:

records: 0,01 l.m.

Reference number:

ARCH267724

Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

- Correspondence was attached to the blueprint with a straight pin.

Location:

Cuba

Credit line:
Fonds Pierre Jeanneret
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Jacqueline Jeanneret/
Gift of Jacqueline Jeanneret

Folder Number:

156-003-35

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