The Winterthur Library

 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.:         Col. 247

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 Reading, Pennsylvania, where he adopted the surname Fritz.

 

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 Germany.  Two or three of the drawings represent structures built in Reading, Pennsylvania.  Highlights include a farm house with stables; residential buildings in Classical, Gothic, Renaissance, and Roman revival styles; a stone and brick bridge rendered in a landscaped setting; town halls for rural districts of Germany; a schoolhouse; and a Gothic revival style church.  Such details as Ionic capitals, cornice moldings, doorways, arches, staircases, a fireplace, windows, a roof balustrade, and construction drawings for brick walls, roofs, arches, and bridges are featured.  Most of the captions on the drawings are in German; some are in English.  The collection also includes some pages from a German language encyclopedia.

           

 

ORGANIZATION

           

The drawings are in accession number order.

 

 

PROVENANCE

           

Purchased from Schuylkill Book Service, Philadelphia, PA.

 

 

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 - Germany - Designs and plans.

            Dwellings - Pennsylvania - Reading - Designs and plans.

            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 N. Thailfingen

            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 N. Thailfingen

            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 Germany

 

 

.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 N. Thailfingen.

 

 

.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 Ludwigs Canal in Baiern.

 

            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       Black Forest area in rural district of Tubingen.  Project for an oblique tunnel at the Burgholzstaige; designed in the year l847.  Plan, elevation, and perspective renderings.

 

            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 Reading, Pa.

 

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:  Reading Pa, December l87l    Fr.  Friz.

 

            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 Munich.  Gothic revival style.

 

 

.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 Bonlanden.  A house to be built for the surgeon Raith, who is a local resident.

 

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 Tubingen.  Project for a new house to be built for Melchior Bauer, who is a local resident.

 

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 Ulm to Mengen--Dauphine Road.  Built in the year l830.

 

            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