Architecture and planning

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  • SCA supports research, teaching and learning in the broad fields of architecture and planning with a variety of primary sources. Included are the personal papers and drawings of architects and architectural historians such as W.H.E. Schmalz, Arthur Gordon Shoosmith, Ross Dixon, John Ivan Rempel, and William Dendy. The department maintains collections focused on conservation efforts to preserve Ontario’s built environment, including the records of the Architectural Conservancy of Ontario: North Waterloo Region and the Breithaupt Hewetson Clark Collection, which also includes records documenting the development of Guildwood Village in Scarborough, Ontario.

    Collections focused on the development of the Region of Waterloo including maps and fire insurance plans, the papers of Herbert Johnston, a city engineer who work with local cities and townships, and the papers of Bill Thomson, an urban planner who worked extensively in the Region and served as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Waterloo in the School of Urban and Regional Planning are also available. These collections are supplemented by several acquisitions featuring plans and drawings of local buildings and homes, and a selection of rare books on architecture and design.

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            4 Archival description results for Architecture and planning

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            Architectural drawings for the Berlin Y.M.C.A.
            SCA303-GA339 · Collection · August 1895

            File consists of three architectural drawings of the building of the Berlin [Kitchener] Y.M.C.A. at 22 Queen Street North. Includes a side elevation, main and upper floor plans, and details of the locker room.

             Kitchener-Waterloo Young Men's Christian Association
            Architectural plans of the Bridgeport Casino.
            SCA434-GA539 · Fonds · 1903

            Contains nine architectural drawings of the Bridgeport Casino created by Samuel Hamilton Townsend for the Berlin and Bridgeport Electric Street Railway. Plans include elevation towards street, elevation towards the river, southerly elevation, cross-section, northerly elevation, floor plans of the first and second floors, drawings of windows and doors, drawings of a fireplace and surround, drawings of a decorative frieze possibly above the fireplace.
            Kitchener Park layout.
            SCA375-GA435 · Collection · ca. 1920

            One proposed plan for a home and 1/4 acre vegetable garden called Kitchener Park, designed by Landscape Architect John H. Melady.

             Melady, John H.
            Ontario gravel pit plans collection.
            SCA333-GA378 · Collection · 1972-2015

            Collection consists of 82 plans of gravel pits in Ontario. The plans have been collected by Wayne Caston, and he was involved in consulting in many of the projects. The records in this finding aid consist of information taken from an Excel spreadsheet created by Caston with details on each of the plans. A printout of the spreadsheet is also present in the collection. Plans are listed in the order originally provided by the donor on the spreadsheet.

             Caston, Wayne