How Do You Read Rail Road Archetect Plans?
By Bonnie Reed
Last spring I completed a review of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Iron Railway architectural drawings archived at the Texas Tech Southwest Collection. This research project was precipitated by a comment fabricated by a professor on the difficulty of locating architectural drawings for some historical structures. My original impression was that most of the drawings in this collection were of depots; however, I found drawings of a great diverseness of railroad and community structures, including the historical structure that initiated my research quest.
The charter for the Atchison Topeka Railroad was drafted in 1859. The visitor changed the name to the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway in 1863. As with the other railroads, train tracks were laid in wilderness areas or state settled by ranchers and farmers, whose homesteads were miles from each other. The depots allowed the ranchers and farmers to send their products to market place and for pioneers to obtain supplies. The railroad served as a reliable, convenient, and rubber method for travel beyond the continent.
From the railroad depots, small towns sprang upwardly. The depot of any given town served as a heart of activity, where news arrived past telegraph, and where locals and visitors traveled to and from the small town. Every bit the community grew around the train station, structures related to the maintenance of a railway were required. Businesses opened to reply the needs of the settlers in the towns and the travelers passing through. These towns soon required community structures, so hotels and general stores were built.
Equally expected, the AT&SF maintained depots strategically forth the main and secondary routes. For the rural towns, these depots were combination stations for both passengers and freight. Larger cities required separate passenger and freight structures.
The AT&SF architectural drawings offer an interesting glimpse into the types of structures required for running a railway throughout a largely unpopulated swath of land primarily in the Midwest and Southwest. The railway required structures for the foreman's office, file rooms, supply and lavatory buildings, locker rooms, blacksmith shops, welding shops, storage sheds, and buildings for the car inspectors and autobus cleaning. The AT&SF collection includes drawings for numerous types of power and boiler houses. Larger railroad compounds included round houses, large round structures with turntables used for repairing locomotives, in addition to automobile repair and motorcar shops, and engine houses. Drawings for other maintenance structures were designed for waste decline, water treatment, and paint and carpenter shops. Drawings included those for railroad platforms to receive passengers and the postal service. The AT&SF collection also includes an architectural drawing for an apprentice schoolhouse.
The headquarters for the AT&SF was in Chicago. The collection includes numerous drawings for the remodel and decorating of the vice president and executive offices within the Railroad Commutation Edifice. Additional drawings include 1000 office and storage facilities.
PANHANDLE, TEXAS COMBINATION DEPOT
The depot at Panhandle, Texas is a practiced instance a combination depot. The depot was designed by E. A. Harrison in Chicago, in June 1927. The floor plan shows the basic arrangement, with i side of the long structure restricted to freight, while the other side includes an office, luggage room, limited room, platform, and banality room (Sheet 1/7). This architectural drawing reflects the The states' history of racial prejudice and segregation. While at that place is a large general waiting room, in that location are divide waiting rooms with bath facilities for men, women, and African Americans (labeled Negro).
The elevations of the depot on Sheet 2/7 as well include both the front, back, and side elevations. This cartoon includes architectural details.
AT&SF & Community
The AT&SF was involved with a surprising number of structures non straight related to the daily operation and maintenance of the railroad. The structures supported the daily life of the workmen, as well as the passengers and the community. Some of the drawings are additions and/or alterations to existing buildings created past the visitor that required expansion. To support the growing number of settlers and travelers going West, these structures included bunk houses for the workmen, lunchrooms, reading rooms, commissaries, laundries, recreation halls, and hotels.
It is usually known that Fred Harvey and his descendants worked with the AT&SF to offer lunches served at the Harvey Houses by the Harvey Girls. Some of the drawings produced past the AT&SF were created for the Fred Harvey Company, including lunchrooms, creameries, hotels, and cafeteria-camper social club buildings. Architectural drawings of the Harvey Houses are included in the collection.
SLATON SANTA Fe READING ROOM
Within this collection are architectural drawings of buildings in a pocket-size town named Slaton, Texas, located just southeast of Lubbock. In May an compages professor and I took the short trip to accept lunch at the Slaton Harvey House. Nosotros received a bout with stories past the girl of a former Harvey Girl. While the AT&SF architectural drawing drove does non include the drawings for the Slaton Harvey House, the collection has drawings of the surrounding structures, including the reading room, heating firm, and round business firm. The Slaton Harvey House nevertheless stands, but the AT&SF structures for which nosotros have the drawings have long since been demolished.
The railway maintained reading rooms that served as the all-around resource for their workers at the end of the work shift, as a place to breast-stroke, slumber, read, and look for the next returning railroad train habitation. In add-on to magazines and books, the reading rooms offered exercise opportunities and wholesome amusement. The reading rooms likewise served as places for educational lectures and performance entertainment for the workers, their families, and sometimes the customs. Accordingly, each reading room was maintained past a librarian.
The Slaton Reading Room was designed by C.Y. Morse and congenital in 1912. The collection includes seven drawings of the structure. Architectural drawing includes both front end, rear, and side elevations, forth with interior details of the staircase and counter (Canvas 2/7).
The building flooring program (Sheet 1/seven) offers the arrangement of the first floor with rooms assigned to specific activities: billiards, cards and reading. The librarian'due south living quarters has a kitchen, chamber, and private stairs to the librarian's basement with a laundry tub. The basement as well has the public bath and boiler room. The second floor has eighteen possible bedrooms and two baths, one with laundry tub and a linen closet. Each floor includes a veranda that extends the length of the facade. The set includes five drawings of interior and exterior details, including windows, doors, and counters. The drawings were completed in Topeka.
Remainder HOUSE AT HERMIT'Southward RIM, M Canyon
Plans for the Residue House on Hermit's Rim at the Grand Coulee is a prepare of six architectural drawings produced in Chicago and dated May 9, 1914. The elevation for the structure includes both the facade and the fireplace (Sheet iii/6). In addition to the massive fireplace, flagman's cottage and kitchenette, the flooring plan includes the layout for the porch, pillars, and stone wall at the facade (Canvas ane/six). The unique quality of the construction tin exist seen in the roof fabricated of rock rock, concrete, and wood (Sheet 2, not seen here).
The drawings for the Rest House were created by AT&SF for the Fred Harvey Company. While the builder's name is not given on the drawings, it is known that Mary Colter worked for the Fred Harvey Visitor and that she is the architect of tape. The drawing includes additional elevations, sections, and details.
Other Harvey Facilities
In addition to newly designed structures, the collection includes drawings for alteration and additions to the Harvey House in Barstow, California, also every bit additions to the Harvey House in Gallup, New United mexican states, and alterations to the Harvey House in Amarillo, Texas. The collection includes drawings for the remodel of a Harvey House in Hutchison, Kansas. The AT&SF also prepared drawings for the Fred Harvey Company for a creamery in Las Vegas, New Mexico and a sandwich packing room in Newton, Kansas.
The AT&SF Railway too produced drawings for additions and/or alterations for hotels in Gallup, New Mexico and Williams, Arizona. In improver, the collection includes drawings for the amending, remodeling, and additions to the Alvarado Hotel in Albuquerque and plans for the dining room at the La Fonda Hotel in Santa Iron. For the Grand Canyon, there are drawings for a remodeling of the cafeteria-campers lodge building.
Summary
It is unknown how many structures were built from these drawings and if these drawings were the concluding version used to build or renovate existing structures. We do know that photographs of some of the architecture synthetic from these drawings may be found in athenaeum around the land. Photographs of buildings that were designed and synthetic for AT&SF, including those from architectural drawings in the Texas Tech Southwest Collection, can be found online at the Kansas Memory website: http://world wide web.kansasmemory.org/.
The Southwest Collection has just begun to digitize the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Atomic number 26 drove; a few drawings are currently bachelor for viewing at the following website: http://collections.swco.ttu.edu/handle/10605/69777
Bibliography
Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company: An Inventory of Its Records, 1905-1973. Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University. http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/ttusw/00134/tsw-00134.html
Berke, Arnold. Mary Colter: Architect of the Southwest. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2002.
Bray, Frank Chapin. "Social Centers for Railroad Men." The Chautauquan 39:four (June 1904) 865-867.
Bryant, Keith L. Jr. History of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Atomic number 26 Railway. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1974.
Grant, H. Roger and Charles W. Bohi. The Country Railroad Station in America. Boulder: Pruett Publishing Visitor 1978.
Kansas Memory website: http://www.kansasmemory.org/. (accessed 11.25.2014)
Latimer, Rosa Walston. Harvey Houses of Texas: Historic Hospitality from the Gulf to the Panhandle. Charleston: History Press, 2014.
Weigle, Marta Babcock, Barbara A. The Groovy Southwest of the Fred Harvey Company and the Santa Iron Railway. Phoenix: The Herd Museum, 1996.
Riskin, Marci L. The Train Stops Here: New Mexico'south Railway Legacy. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Printing, 2005.
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