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This collection of original drawings, prints, and related manuscript materials and constitutes the corporate architectural archives of the Academy. Comprising of documentation for most, if not all, successive building and/or remodeling campaigns of the Academy from circa 1826 (representing the third location of the Academy) to 1937; including (besides major new construction, additions, or alterations) plans for a new roof; the retrofitting of mechanical systems; new exterior gates, window bars, and interior furnishings including book shelves and cases. The collection also includes a number of entries for the Academy’s architectural design competition held in 1837. Series 1, selected entries: (fd. 1) Samual Webb, architect (Phila., fl. 1817-1857) plan for the Academy building located in the old Swedenborgian church at Twelfth and George Streets (later Sansom Street), ca. 1826; (fd. 2) anonymous studies and plans for the new Academy building (first to be located on the existing site but later changed to Broad and Sansom Streets), ca. 1837; (fd. 3 and 4) Thomas U. Walter, architect (Phila., 1806-1887), competition entry for a new Academy, 1837; (fd. 5) Frederick Graff, engineer (Phila., 1775-1847), competition entry for a new Academy, 1837; (fd. 6) anonymous, addition to the Academy on Broad and Sansom Streets, ca. 1860; (fd. 7-11) James W. Windrim, architect (Phila., 1840-1919), plans for a new Academy building on Nineteenth and Race Streets, ca. 1868-72, and an addition ca. 1889-91; (fd. 14) Wilson Brothers and Company, engineers and architects (Phila., fl. 1876-1902), new building addition, ca. 1889-1891, 1900; (fd. 24-25, 28, 30-32) Wilson, Harris, and Richards, architects (Phila., fl. 1902-1910), alteration and addition to the existing buildings, ca. 1908; (fd. 33-34, 36) Wilson and Harris, architects (Phila., fd. 1911-1935), remodeling and repairs, 1911-1912; (fd. 39) Day and Zimmerman, engineers and builders (Phila.) alteration and additions, 1931; and (fd. 41) John W. Platt, architect (Phila., b.1892), alteration and addition, 1936.
Cite as Academy of Natural Sciences (Philadelphia, Pa.) architectural drawings collection on loan the the Athenaeum of Philadelphia, with the support of the Pew Charitable Trusts through its Museum Loan Program.
Individual holding records for this collection are available on the
Philadelphia Architects and Buildings
website.
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