The
The
Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera
OVERVIEW OF THE
COLLECTION
Creator: Georg Friedrich Friz
Title: Architectural
drawings
Dates: 1843-1881
Call
No.:
Acc.
No.: 64x47
Quantity: 105 drawings
Location: Map Case E, drawers 6-10
BIOGRAPHICAL
STATEMENT
Georg
Friedrich Friz was an architect working in the Würtemburg District of
Germany. Sometime between 1867 and 1871
he emigrated to
SCOPE AND
CONTENT
The
collection consists of 105 pen and ink and watercolor drawings featuring
elevations, floor plans, and architectural details for a variety of private
dwellings and public buildings in rural areas of
ORGANIZATION
The
drawings are in accession number order.
PROVENANCE
Purchased
from
ACCESS POINTS
Topics:
Architectural drawing - Detailing.
Architecture
- Details.
Architecture
- Designs and plans.
Architecture,
Domestic.
Church
architecture.
Gothic
revival (Architecture)
Classical
revival.
Romanesque
revival (Architecture)
Renaissance
revival.
Farm
buildings.
Dwellings
-
Dwellings
-
Public
buildings - Drawings.
Room
layout (Dwellings)
Encyclopedias
and dictionaries, German.
Pen
drawing.
Watercolor
painting.
Architectural
drawings.
Architects.
DETAILED
DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION
Location: Map
Case E, drawers 6-10
.1 Principal
facade elevation and floor plans of a farm house, including living chambers
above and utility rooms and stables for cattle below.
Elevation: Symmetrical seven-bay plan. Ground floor (the
higher of the two) shows central entrance door approached by stairs, flanked by
narrow doors which are in turn flanked by windows, and these flanked by large
doors at each end. Second story, divided
from first by a belt course, has seven windows near eave line of hipped
roof. Chimneys rise above ridge at each
side. Flame-like forms are rendered in
the windows (Friz's convention for glazing).
Ground
floor plan includes: central hall (with staircase to second floor) leading to
rear door and a water closet. At left of
hall are a wood storage room and laundry room with equipment indicated. At right of hall are a cattle stable with
storage above, a storage room, and a scrub room. Second floor plan: a hallway off of which are
a study, living room, a bedroom, a child's room, kitchen, pantry, two small
storage rooms, and a water closet; heating and cooking fixtures are indicated.
Pen and ink and watercolor.
Signed:
Fried. Friz fecit a/n l843.
.2 Front elevation and floor plan of a
220-foot long residential building.
Elevation: three-story, hipped-roof building in
classical (Renaissance) revival style. Approached by stairs, the ground floor
bears the Doric order with columns at the advancing pavilions at each end and
pilasters and impost-moldings articulating the wall space between l7 arched
windows and a door at each pavilion; second story has same number of
rectangular windows and doors articulated by the Ionic order; and the attic
story bears l9 rectangular windows articulated by the Corinthian order.
Floor plan: Unidentified rooms; rendering of
tile floor pattern.
Pen and ink and watercolor. Scale.
Signed: Constructed by Georg Fried.
Friz.
A
Modern residence 9 March l843.
Watermark:
Vander Ley and a nude female figure on a sphere with fabric surround.
.3 Side
and front elevations and floor plan of a Roman revival style residence.
Side
elevation: of main center block with modillioned cornice and wing with chimney
and two windows; flower urn on a pedestal at front stair. Front elevation consists of temple-front main
block with deep porch and two Doric columns in antis, and central entrance
doorway with entablature. The entablature bears architrave, filet, and frieze
(probably with egg and dart motif) surmounted by a modillioned cornice. Each of the
flanking wings bears two square-headed windows framed with wide moldings,
a water table, and leaf-like cornice molding.
Floor plan:
includes a porch with entrance reception room behind it and four rectangular
rooms in each wing. Decorative floor
patterns are rendered for the porch, reception room, and the principal room in
each wing.
Pen and ink
and watercolor. Scale
Signed
at top: Made in Neuenhaus, February l844
Stamped
at bottom: G. Fried. Friz.
.4 Elevation and plan of an Ionic capital
for use at a building's corner.
Pen
and ink and ink wash.
.5 Elevation
and plan of a Corinthian order rendered in three parts:entablature and capital
with a small part of the shaft, plan, and base with a small part of the shaft.
Pen and ink and watercolor. Scale.
Signed:
Georg Friedrich Friz. in Sept. l844 in Neckar Thailfingen.
.6 Elevation and plan of Ionic capital
(with molding profiles delineated), base, and bead and reel detailing.
Pen and ink and watercolor.
Signed: Georg Fried. Friz. in August l844.
.7 Elevation and plan of a Doric order
rendered in three parts:entablature and capital with small part of shaft, plan,
and crepidoma with small part of shaft.
Pen and ink and watercolor.
Signed: G. F. Friz in July '44 in N.
Thailfingen
Watermark:
I D ROPE and a Fleur de lys.
.8 Two cross sections of scrolled and
foliated ancones.
Pen and ink and watercolor. Scale.
Signed: G. Fried. Friz in May l844.
Watermark: Britannia with scepter and crowned lion and
PRO PATRIA GJF
.9 Elevations and plans of two classical
revival doorways.
An open doorway
with surround detailed with cornice and rustication; door detailed with l2
roundels in rectilinear panels, framed
with moldings and surmounted by cornice molding.
Pen and ink and watercolor.
Signed: G. F. Friz. May l844
Watermark: PRO PATRIA [etc. as above]
.10 Vertical
sections of brick arches and plan in three parts: a double arch, a single arch,
and plan. Brick and centering
detailing.
Pen
and ink and watercolor. Scale.
Signed:
G. Fried. Friz in July l844
Watermark: PRO PATRIA [etc. as above]
.11 Two vertical
sections of brick arches and plan. Brick
detailing.
Pen
and ink and watercolor.
Signed:
G. Fried. Friz. in July l84_ (torn,probably l844).
Watermark: PRO PATRIA
[etc., as above]
.12 Brick
construction drawings in four parts: axonometric drawing of a wall laid up in English bond;
elevation of an arch with detailing of voussoirs and plans of alternating
courses; perspective of an arch with detailing of voussoirs and plans of
alternating courses; and two plans of unknown detailing.
Pen and ink and watercolor. Scale.
Signed: G. Fried. Friz in June l844
Watermark: PRO PATRIA
[etc., as above]
.13 Construction
drawings: elevations, vertical sections, floor and ceiling plans of arches,
windows, niche, and stair halls. Brick
and stone detailing.
Pen and ink and watercolor. Scale.
Signed:
G. Fried. Friz. in July l844 in
Watermark: PRO PATRIA [etc., as above]
.14 Elevation
drawings of three lunettes, each with different moldings, sills, and wall
surround treatments; a leaf- decorated bracket; two semi-circular-headed
doorways,one with rusticated voussoirs springing from an ogee-shaped console,
the other framed with wide, deep moldings; and a semi-circular-headed window
detailed with waterleaf moldings and sill.
Pen
and ink.
Signed:
G. F. Friz. May l844.
Watermark: PRO PATRIA [etc., as above]
.15 Elevation drawing of a classical door
surround.
Molding
details include: ogee curves, anthemion
and, bead and reel, egg and dart, waterleaf, rosettes, and an
anthemion-decorated pilaster. Plan of molding profiles.
Pen and ink. Scale and measurements of various parts.
Signed: Georg Friedrich Friz in June
l844.
Watermark: PRO PATRIA [etc., as above]
.16 Eleven
axonometric drawings of brick wall construction methods.
Pen and ink and watercolor.
Signed: G. Friedrich Friz in June l844.
Watermark: PRO PATRIA [etc., as
above]
.17 Vertical
sections of three arches and seven below ground level buttresses; diagram for
configuring an elliptical arch.
Pen and ink
in four colors to denote various building materials.
Signed: G. F. Friz in July l844.
Watermark: PRO PATRIA [etc., as
above]
.18 Ten
axonometric construction drawings for brick walls.
Pen and ink and watercolor. Scale.
Signed: G. Fried. Friz. in June l844.
Watermark: PRO PATRIA [etc., as above]
.19 Elevation and
ground plan of a semi-circular stone arch and axonometric drawings of
voussoirs. Several other axonometric
drawings of stone voussoirs for a flat arch.
Pen
and ink and watercolor.
Signed: G. Fried. Friz, in June l84- [torn off]
Labeled: Bl. III
Watermark: PRO PATRIA [etc., as above]
.20 Construction
drawings for staircases, in nine parts: ground plans and elevations for a
square stair in plan and a circular stair.
Details for shape and dimensions and joinery for risers and treads;
balustrade and bannister profiles.
Pen
and ink and watercolor. Scale.
Signed: G. Fried. Friz, fecit l844.
.21 Staircase
construction drawings in eleven parts: plan, elevation, and details for stair
and handrail construction. Titled: Staircase with two landings.
Pen
and ink and watercolor. Scale.
Signed: Fried. Friz. fecit, in Nov l844.
.22 Crossvault: vertical section and ground plan; detail of
bricks in vault; detail of cross section of ribs.
Pen
and ink and watercolor.
Signed: G. Fried. Friz. in July l844 in
Watermark: PRO PATRIA [etc., as above]
.23 Fireplace
arches [Inscribed title: Schertrechte Bogen Bl. I.].
Eight flat
arches described with variously shaped stone treatments in elevation. Five axonometric details for cutting
voussoirs.
Pen and
ink.
Signed: G. Fried. Friz in June l844.
Watermark: PRO PATRIA [etc., as above]
.24 Stair with a single landing.
Vertical
section and plan of staircase; Cross section details of tread and riser construction.
Pen and ink and watercolor. Scale.
Signed: Fried. Friz. fecit in October l844 in N. Thailfingen
Watermark: SVH
.25 Joinery
details for unspecified construction. Rendered in plan and axonometric
drawings.
Pen and ink and watercolor
Signed:
fried. Friz in December l844. N. Thailfingen
.26 An arch from Marsailles.
Elevation
and plan of arch. Axonometric drawings
of six shaped voussoirs. Inscribed:
Bl. IV.
Pen and ink and watercolor.
Signed: G. Fried Friz in July l844
in N. Thailfingen.
Watermark: Pro Patria [etc., as above]
.27 Four
identical flat stone arches rendered in elevation, each superimposed with
markings of unknown meaning (perhaps reinforcements).
Axonometric details of arch and
voussoirs.
Pen and ink and watercolor.
Signed: George Friedrich Friz in June l844 in N. Thailfingen
Watermark: Pro Patria [etc., as above]
.28 Elevation and
vertical section of a classical doorway surround.
The
pedimented over-door is supported by voluted-ancones decorated with anthemions. The doorway is framed with wide classical
moldings. Each of the double doors bears
five molded panels and twelve bosses.
The ensemble is approached by a flight of four steps.
Pen and ink. Scale.
Signed: G. F. Friz in May l844.
Watermark: Pro Patria [etc., as above]
.29 Goldersbach Bridge [Inscribed: No. 52].
Elevation
of a stone and brick bridge, rendered in a landscape; footings indicated.
Pen and ink and watercolor.
Signed: Georg Fried. Friz Glemser in Neuenhaus Jan.
l844.
Inscription:
not entirely legible but describes the length (roughly 8927(?) feet long) and
probably other features of the structure.
.30 Project
for a farmhouse.
Side and
front elevations, longitudinal and cross sections, and ground and second floor
plans. On the ground floor is a stair
hall, small room, a cattle stall, hayloft, and a partially floored barn. On the
second floor are a kitchen, larder, living room, hall, watercloset, and two
bedrooms.
Pen and ink and watercolor. Scale.
Signed: fecit Friz in May l845.
Watermark: J. Whatman
.3l Rural
District Office Nurtengen.
Grotzingen.
Project for a future town hall.
It is to be 50 feet long and 38 feet wide.
Six drawings
include a longitudinal and a cross section, elevations of facade and side, and
plans of ground and second floors.
Ground floor rooms consist of an entrance stairhall, a storeroom for
market-day equipment and a salt storeroom at the left and fire engine room and
wood storeroom at the right. On the
second floor are a townspeople's great hall, stairhall, notary's office, party
office, jail, and watercloset.
Pen and ink and watercolor.
Signed: Drawn in Oct. l845
.32 Project for a domestic dwelling.
Six
drawings include an elevation of principal facade, cross section, plans of
ground, second, and third floors, and framing plan for roof.
Pen and ink and watercolor. Scale.
Signed: fecit Friz in June l845 in
N. Thailfingen
Watermark: Rococo cartouche with fleur-de-lis at top and
bell flower at bottom. A monogram in center.
.33 Plan, elevation, and axonometric drawings
of a stone arch with axonometric drawings of the voussoirs.
Pen and ink and watercolor.
Signed: fried. friz. in August l845 in
.34 Oblique or diagonal entrance to a tunnel.
Five descriptive drawings for its
construction.
Pen and ink and watercolor.
Signed: Friz, fecit in l845.
Watermark: cut off
.35 Domed roof.
Three
drawings including elevation, plan, and vertical section.
Pen and ink and watercolor. Scale.
Approximation to the roof ridge in
straight lines.
Ten detail renderings.
Pen and ink.
Watermark: J. Whatman [others dated
l845]
.36 Technical
drawings of an arch.
Twelve elevation drawings of arches.
Pen and ink
and watercolor
Signed: fecit Friz in N. Thailfingen, l845.
Watermark: Cartouche
.37 Construction of a dome.
Fourteen
plans, elevations, and axonometric renderings of individual stones.
Pen and ink and watercolor.
Signed: fried. friz. fecit l845.
Watermark: Cartouche
.38 Roof framing with an oblique return.
Six construction drawings.
Pen and ink and watercolor.
Signed: fried. friz. in March l845.
Watermark: Cartouche
.39 Plans and elevations for three window
designs.
l. Opening with no moldings, projecting sill,
and triangular pediment with rusticated voussoirs.
2. Opening surrounded with a filet and fascia
molding, projecting sill, and pent hood.
3.
Recessed opening surrounded with filet and
cyma recta molding profiles, an over-window
frieze of a bell flower design in relief.
Flat stone arch and stone wall.
Pen and ink.
Signed: l845 _______[illegible].
Watermark: Pro Patria [etc., as above].
.40 A residence
for the lock-keeper at
Vertical section, elevation, ground
and attic
floor plans of a 33 x 35 metric foot
house.
The
elevation is detailed with modillioned raking cornices with antifixes at the
ridge and eaves; a rusticated stone base delineated from the upper brick facade
by a molded belt course; an arched central doorway (approached by stairs) with
lunette-window above and flanking arched windows detailed with moldings and
brick arches.
First floor
plan includes central hall, a sitting room, two bedrooms, a kitchen, stable,
water closet, a store room, and a stair.
The attic is divided into sitting room, two bedrooms, and a loft.
Pen and ink and watercolor. Scale in metric feet.
Signed: friz.
l845.
Watermark: J. Whatman
.41 Construction
drawings for a right-angled hipped-roof without roof framework; elevation and
plans.
Construction
drawings for a shifted-right-angled-hipped-roof; elevation and plans.
Axonometric joinery details.
Pen and ink and watercolor. Scale.
Signed: Fried. Friz. fecit l845 in N. Thailfingen
Watermark: Cartouche
.42 Church roof framework with two
construction plans.
Vertical section and back wall of a
church roof.
Axonometric construction details.
Pen and ink and watercolor. Scale in
metric feet.
Signed: Fried Friz fecit in March
l845 Necker Thailfingen
Watermark: Cartouche
.43 Oblique-angled hipped roof.
Construction plans for a
right-angled roof with a return.
Pen and ink and watercolor. Scale.
Signed: G.
Fried. Friz fecit in N. Thailfingen in February l845.
Watermark: J. Whatman
.44 Vertical
sections and plans of a back wall of a hipped roof.
Vertical section and plans of a
hipped roof.
Pen and ink and watercolor. Scale.
Signed: fecit Friz l845
Watermark: Cartouche
.45 Construction
plan, elevations, and axonometric details for a suspension system to support a
twisted, deteriorated roof.
Construction
plan and elevations for a lean-to roof with a return.
Pen and ink and watercolor. Scale.
Signed:
fecit Friz in N. Thailfingen in March l845
.46 Unidentified
construction details.
Pen and ink and watercolor. Scale.
Watermark: Cartouche (others are
l845).
.47 The riding school of the ducal palace in
Wisbaden.
Vertical section
showing construction, iron balcony design, doors and leaded glass lunette
window; detail.
Pen and ink in two colors.
Dated: November l846
.48 Project for a domestic dwelling.
Side and
principal facade elevations are delineated with stone details against stucco
wall surfaces as follows: stone foundation, arched windows with brackets and
sills and door springing from a belt course at the ground floor; rectangular
windows resting on belt course at second floor; small rectangular windows and triangular
vent in apex of gabled roof denoting the attic.
Entrance stair railing detailed with classical motifs.
Pen and ink and watercolor.
Signed: Proposed in August l846
Fried. Friz Thailfingen
Watermark: None, but laid paper.
Reverse side: Pen and ink elevation and floor plan of a
town hall [a variation on no. .31].
.49 Design for a private structure.
Vertical
section of end elevation, elevation of principal facade ("view toward the
street"), ground and second floor plans.
Ground floor includes: entrance hall, guest room, bedroom, room for
adult son, wooden tool shed, water closet, washroom, servant's room, room for
farmhands, room for grown son. Second
floor includes: stair hall, living room,
bedroom, workroom for the master, water closet, kitchen, pantry, guest room,
children's room, sitting room.
Pen and ink and watercolor. Scale.
Signed: Proposed in December l846. G. Fried Friz.
.50
Pen and ink and watercolor.
Signed: Sketched by Hofinspector Wahrln (?) and drawn
for F. Friz.
Watermark: Vander Ley
.5l Detail drawings of the roof balustrade
of house no. .49.
Vertical
section of balustrade and rafters, cross sections of molding profiles, and plan
of roof framing.
Pen and ink and watercolor. Scale.
Signed: Drawn in Jan. l847, F. Friz in Neckar
Thailfingen
.52 Plan for a
city hall to be built in a rural district town of 600 inhabitants. This building will have three floors made of
stone. 96.5 feet long by 45 feet wide.
Two
vertical sections, elevation view facing the marketplace, foundation plan, and
cellar.
A nine-bay,
classical revival, symmetrical plan with rusticated-stone ground floor with
quoin blocks at corners and at edges of slightly advancing gabled, central
pavilion. Arched doors and windows at
ground floor and at center of second floor. Square-headed windows at second and
third floors and in attic at apex of gable.
A double belt course divides ground from second floor and bears a
decorative balcony at the center.
Gabled-roof with cross gable on front with three chimneys and a hipped-
roof cupola.
Pen and ink and watercolor. Scale.
Signed: Sketched and drawn by the
applicant Fried. Friz from Neuenhaus to receive a master craftsman
certificate. March l853.
Watermark: Vander Ley and nude on globe with scarf overhead.
.53 Same title as
.52.
Ground,
second, and third floor plans. Ground floor: entrance hall and stair hall, room for
policemen and the sergeant-major, storeroom for market day, rooms for rural
district employees, waterclosets, room for making arrests, storage room for
city documents, room for storing fire extinguishers and firehoses, small wooden
room, workroom for city police employees, room for night watchman.
Second
floor: entrance hall, information
office, room for notary, room for his assistant, room for foremen, watercloset,
registrar, hall for the townspeople, workroom for clerk to administer debtors
rolls, storage spaces.
Third
floor: entrance, room for city
council's secretary, his archives, room for all other papers, jail, wooden
room, waterclosets, room for the foremen, rooms for rural administrators, and
storage closets.
Pen and ink and watercolor. Scale.
Signed: Sketched and drawn ______[missing] by the
applicant to receive a master craftsman certificate. Feb.-March l853. Fried.
Friz from Neuenhaus o/a Nurtingen.
Watermark: Vander Ley and putti on winged orb.
.54 Detail
drawing of a French two-turn lock in actual size; elevation of lock box,
axonometrics of key and latch.
Detail
drawing of a well designed stove for a large restaurant, with six cooking pots,
two large and two small casseroles, one oven, and one pot for warm water. Two
vertical sections, plan, and elevation.
Pen and two colors ink. Scale.
Signed: Drawn by the applicant for a master's
certificate. Friz from Neuenhaus o/a
Nurtingen l853.
Watermark: Vander Ley and Putti and winged orb.
.55 Elevation
rendering of a gothic revival altar showing tracery and moldings.
Pen
and ink and watercolor. Scale.
Signed: drawn in January '66. Altar in the church at Plattenhardt.
.56 Design
for a rural house.
Elevation view
towards the street; elevation of side view.
Ground and second floor plans.
Street view: High, longitudinally-gabled roof enclosing
attic story, symmetrical five bay plan with center door, rectilinear windows,
belt course, and high basement with windows.
Side view: three bays with
central door, rectilinear windows, belt course, rectangular and triangular
attic windows.
Ground floor plan: entrance stair hall, work room, washroom,
chamber, wood storage. Second floor
plan: stair hall, kitchen, pantry, water
closet, chamber, bedroom, living room, private room.
Pen and ink and watercolor. Scale.
Signed:
designed by Fr. Friz Neuenhaus
in January l867.
.57 Elevation
of principal facade; ground and second floor plans for a house in
Elevation: two and one-half stories, brick with stone
trim, mansard roof, three bays, rusticated basement. Renaissance revival details on window
surrounds, bracketed and paneled frieze moldings. Gothic revival details in paneled corner
pilasters, window muntins, door panels, iron- columned portico and hood,
basement window grills.
Plans: three rooms, a closet, two fireplaces, and
stairhall on each of the two floors.
Pen and ink and watercolor. Scale
Signed:
Reverse: Pencil drawing of an acanthus leaf on a
molding.
.58 Elevation
rendering and partial plan of a bridge. Rusticated stone superstructure, piers,
and abutments; three brick arches with stone keystones.
Pen
and ink and watercolor. Scale.
Signed: Drawn: Reading l February l880 G. Fred. Fritz.
Reverse: Elevation diagram for voussoirs and
axonometric drawings for cutting stones.
.59 Elevation,
plan, and construction details for a spiral staircase.
Pen
and ink and watercolor.
Signed: G. F. Friz fecit
.60 Elevation
renderings of a doorway and fireplace and overmantel. Classical revival moldings and brackets.
Profiles of brackets.
Pen
and Ink and wash. Scale.
Watermark: Pro Patria [others are l844]
.6l Elevation
rendering of a doorway [enlarged version of no. .60]; classical revival
details; profile of brackets.
Pen
and ink and wash. Scale.
Signed: G. Friz __________[illegible]
Watermark: Pro Patria [others are l844].
Reverse: Pen and ink elevation of a doorway;
classical revival details, profile moldings of brackets.
.62 Profile
renderings of eleven classical cornice moldings.
Pen
and ink and wash. Scale.
Watermark: Pro Patria GJF [others are l844].
.63 Rendering
of a Doric order in elevation and plan.
Pen
and ink and watercolor. Scale.
Watermark: Pro Patria GJF [others are l844].
.64 Profile
renderings of six classical cornice moldings.
Pen
and ink and wash. Scale.
.65 Elevation
and floor plan for a mausoleum in neoclassical style (French rationalist
influence).
Pen
and ink and wash. Scale.
.66 Two
elevations of Gothic window tracery.
Pencil sketch plan of one molding.
Pen
and ink and wash.
Signed: Friz.
.67 Construction
drawings for a staircase in a confined space.
Plan,
elevations, and axonometric details in eleven renderings.
Pen
and ink and watercolor. Scale.
Signed: fried. friz.
Watermark: Fleur-de-lis inside cartouche.
.68 Construction
drawings for a spiral staircase.
Plan, elevation, and axonometric
details in eleven renderings.
Pen
and ink and watercolor. Scale.
Signed: fried. Friz
.69 Construction
drawings for a U-shaped staircase.
Plan, elevation, and axonometric
details in eight renderings.
Pen
and ink and watercolor.
Signed: fried Friz, fecit
.70 Construction
drawings for three staircases--spiral, square, and rectangular.
Plans and elevations in nine
renderings.
Pen
and ink and watercolor.
Signed: Fried. Friz fecit.
.71 Construction
drawings for a pile driver using block and
tackle system (?). Longitudinal,
cross, and horizontal sections; plan.
Pen
and ink and watercolor.
Watermark: ______[cut off] HG and fleur-de-lis.
.72 Longitudinal
sections of ten high- and low-pitched trussed-gable roofs; longitudinal and horizontal
section of a steeple.
Pen
and ink and watercolor. Scale.
Watermark:
Cartouche with fleur-de-lis on top and monogram in middle [others are
l845].
.73 Construction
drawings for various roof types: dome,
gambrel, steeple, high- and low-pitched trussed-gable, apsical end, and
right-angle return. Longitudinal and horizontal
sections in thirteen renderings. Also, longitudinal
section of a bridge.
Pen
and ink and watercolor. Scale.
Signed: G. Fri___ (torn off).
.74 Project
for a dwelling house 40 feet long and 30 feet wide.
Longitudinal and cross sections; elevation
views toward the south-east and north-west.
The design is a five-bay, high gable, symmetrical plan with central
dormer on facade, and doors to both house and animal stall.
Ground
floor plan: cellar, entrance hall, and a
stable.
Second floor
plan: a stairhall, living room, bedrooms, a chamber, kitchen, and water closet.
Pen
and ink and three colors of ink.
Signed: designed by : Friz.
.75 Project
for a bridge.
Elevation,
plan, and section details.
Pen
and ink and watercolor.
Signed: Designed in the month of October l847 in
_____(illegible). F. Fritz, overseer.
.76 Bridge
design.
Angle
elevation and axonometric details.
Pen
and ink and watercolor. Scale.
.77 Floor
plans for an unidentified three-story public building.
Pen
and ink and watercolor.
.78 Floor
plans for an unidentified three-story public building.
Pen
and ink and watercolor.
.79 Elevation
of a two-story public building.
Classical
revival (Renaissance influence) style, symmetrical, stone, seven-bay, arched
eight-panel windows with rusticated stone surrounds, quoin blocks, wide belt course
below second-story windows, foundation delineated with rusticated stone panels,
paneled door, hipped roof.
Pen and ink and watercolor.
.80 Hipped
roof with an upright truss and a hipped roof with a recumbent truss.
Cross
sections, horizontal sections, and construction details in thirteen renderings.
Pen
and ink and watercolor. Scale.
Signed: Friz fecit
Watermark: Whatman [as early as late l8th century].
.81 Project
for a new church.
Gothic revival style. Symmetrical, stucco structure with polygonal
tower at center flanked by roundels and pointed-arch windows with tracery and
entrance portals below windows. Elevation and vertical section of principal
facade.
Pen
and ink and watercolor. Scale.
Signed: Bauh___[err?) Friz, translated: builder Friz.
.82 A
five-bay, two-story classical revival dwelling house with rusticated stone
ground floor, two belt courses enclosing a decorative metal balcony over-door,
high basement, arched windows springing from impost blocks on the ground floor,
flat-pedimented square-headed windows on
second floor, high hipped roof.
Elevation of principal facade, vertical section, ground and second floor
plans.
Pen
and ink and watercolor. Scale.
.83 Sculpture
design for a latin cross monument nine feet, two inches high. Elevation and plan.
Pen
and ink. Scale.
Signed: Drawn by Fr. Friz.
.84 Cross
section of the American church in
.85 A
Gothic revival style house. Elevation of
principal facade; ground and second floor plans.
Symmetrical,
gabled roof with crenelations at eave, Tudor- arched portico and door, pointed
arched windows at first floor with tracery, square-headed windows with tracery
at second floor, drip moldings, and crocketed-pinnacles at corners of house.
Pen
and ink and watercolor. Scale.
Watermark: C & I Honig
.86 Unidentified
design for a town hall (?). Longitudinal
section, elevation, ground and second floor plans.
Classical revival style. Symmetrical, two and one-half stories;
five-bay; rectangular windows with flat pediments over those at second floor;
wide belt courses; rusticated ground floor; gabled roof with rectangular,
hipped-roof cupola surmounted with a lightning (?) rod.
Pen
and ink. Scale.
Watermark: C & I Honig
.87 Office
in the rural district of Stuttgart, town of
Stylistically a
simple one and one-half story, rectangular, gabled-roof, stuccoed structure
with high basement (labeled first floor in plan) and rectangular windows; metal
stair railing at entrance bearing neo-classical detailing.
Cross section,
longitudinal section, north and east elevations, ground floor and second floor
plans. Ground floor includes a cellar, an ante-cellar, and a workshop. Second floor includes entrance hall, a shop,
sitting room and bedroom, kitchen, and water closet.
Pen
and ink and watercolor. Scale.
Signed: G. Fried. Friz fecit
.88 A
schoolhouse.
A simple
rectilinear, two and one-half story classical
revival structure with high basement, gabled roof, central chimney, belt course, siding, rectangular
windows. Elevations of rear view and end views.
Plans of ground floor includes: entrance hall and stair; sitting room,
bedroom and child's room for the school-master, and a room for the junior
teacher. The second floor includes a
stair hall, two water closets, and two classrooms.
Pen
and ink and watercolor. Scale.
Watermark: C & I Honig
.89 A
dwelling house (?)
Stylistically a simple two-story, five-bay,
gable-roofed, rectangular, stuccoed
structure. Rectangular-headed entrance
door and windows at ground floor; rectangular windows at second floor, attic,
and raised basement. Belt courses
delineate the floors. Elevation, cross section,
and plans of ground and second floors (rooms unidentified).
Pen
and ink and watercolor. Scale.
Watermark: Fleur-de-lis with tassel below.
.90
Heslach,
in the rural district
Simple two and
one-half story three-bay house plus barn, rectilinear doors and windows. Longitudinal elevation view toward the street. End elevation view toward the village.
Plans of ground
and second floors. Ground floor rooms
include: barn and threshing floor,
entrance and stair hall, stable, and workshop.
Second floor rooms include: upper part of barn, kitchen, sitting room and
bedroom.
Pen
and ink and watercolor.
Watermark: J. Whatman
.91 Bohnlanden,
in the rural district of Stuttgard.
Project for a house and barn to be built for [not completed].
A two and
one-half story, L-shaped, cross-gabled, stuccoed structure with rectangular doors and windows, a
line denoting stucco thickness at second
floor level. Longitudinal elevation of principal facade and end
elevations. Plans of ground and second
floors. Ground floor includes: barn, two stables, entrance and stair hall,
and cellar. Second floor includes: upper part of barn, stair hall, kitchen,
sitting room, bedroom, chamber and woodshed.
Pen
and ink and watercolor. Scale.
Watermark:
Cartouche with bell flower at bottom and "M"monogram within
[others are dated l845].
.92 An unidentified public building. Elevation of principal facade and cross
section.
A stone and
stuccoed three-story, hipped-roof, classical revival (Renaissance influence),
symmetrical building with advancing pavilions at each end of the hyphen. The six-bay center section has paired windows
at the center, the pavilions are of four bays each. The rusticated-stone ground floor has
round-headed windows (blind in the lower third) and doors which spring from a
continuous impost. Two spaced belt
courses separate the first floor from the second where the windows are
rectangular with flat stone lintels and molded casings. The third floor has rectangular windows with
molded casings and projecting sills only.
A molding suggests an architrave below the modillioned cornice.
Pen and ink and watercolor.
Watermark: Fleur-de-lis with crown above.
.93 The
Kanzach bridge near Unlingen. On the
road from
Elevation
of proposed sketch and the executed design.
Longitudinal
section. Cross section. Plan of pilings.
Pen
and ink and watercolor.
Watermark: C & I Honig
.94 Design
for a stone acanthus carving.
Pen
and ink and wash.
.95 Entrance
staircase, covered portico, and portals to an unidentified building. Elevation and plan.
Pen
and ink and watercolor.
Signed: Fried: Friz, fecit.
.96 Unidentified
plan and elevation for an oblique tunnel.
Pen
and two colors ink and two colors wash.
.97 Incomplete
elevation rendering of a Gothic revival church.
Pen
and ink.
Reverse: Cross-section, and detail drawing of floor
and window belt courses, stone wall, floor joists, and lath.
Pen and ink. Scale.
Signed: Drawn by the applicant for a master's
certificate. Friz from Neuenhaus.
.98 Detail
design of a front door and a second floor window.
Elevations,
plans, cross sections.
Pen
and ink. Scale.
Signed: Drawn by the applicant for a master's
certificate.
Friz
from Neuenhaus.
.99 Unidentified
construction plan for an angled hipped-roof.
Pen
and ink.
.l00 Elevation
of a window and axonometric rendering of a shutter.
Pen
and ink and watercolor. Scale.
Reverse: Pencil rendering of a robed- and bearded-man
holding a book. Drawn on a 5/8"
grid.
.101 Pen
and ink and watercolor rendering of two men talking over beer.
Pen
and ink perspective rendering of a small Tyrolean-style medieval stool.
.102 Floor
plans of an unidentified, large three-story, public building.
Pen and ink and wash.
.103 Descriptive
geometry renderings for variously shaped arches and vaults. Plans, elevations, details, and mathematical
diagrams in 34 separate illustrations.
Pen
and ink and watercolor.
Signed: Fried Friz, fecit.
Watermark: HAS and cartouche with fleur-de-lis within
and crown above.
.104 Rotweil
[Rottweil, in the district of Baden-Wurtemberg].
Project to
redesign the old brotherhood building into the official residence of a
religious establishment.
Cross
section and plans of ground, first, second, and third floors.
Ground
floor: wooden floor, horse stall, farm hand's day room.
First floor:
the official apartment consisting of pantry, kitchen, chamber, children's room,
bedroom, guest room and small auxiliary room, and water closet.
Second
floor: administrative offices consisting
of a room for a scribe, administrative offices, hall, registrar's office, and
water closet.
Pen
and ink and watercolor. Scale.
Signed: Naser (or Nasser)
Watermark: not legible, CEB, AU, and an anchor.
.105 Design
for a five-bay, hipped-roof house with two internal chimneys and shed-roofed
dormers. Rectangular door and windows,
foundation and cornice molding at eaves; no other detailing. Elevation of principal facade, cross section,
plans of ground and second floors.
Pen
and ink. Scale.
.106 pages from a German language encyclopedia,
no date, in Gothic type, includes pp. 201-208, 825-832, 853-854, 897-904; these
pages probably came in with the rest of this collection