Pioneer and Endicott buildings collection, 1888-1890.

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Pioneer and Endicott buildings collection, 1888-1890.

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The Pioneer Building collection consists of two sets of printed and bound copies of floor plans, 91 sheets of elevations and plans, of which 59 are hectograph prints, 31 are blueprints and one ink-on-paper original. These contain both architectural and structural drawings. The Endicott Building collection is a mixture of originals and prints, including sixty sheets of ink-on-linen originals, shop drawings for the iron and steel structural components drawn by the New Jersey Steel & Iron Company as their order #1487. Thirty-seven sheets are hectograph prints on heavy paper stock, backed with linen cloth; many are highlighted with watercolor. The remainder are ink on paper (61 sheets), pencil on paper (26 sheets), or blueprints (5 sheets). As with the Pioneer Building, all drawings contain elevations, floor plans and architectural and structural details.

6 linear ft.

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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Pioneer Building (Saint Paul, Minn.)

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Taylor, James Knox.

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Gilbert, Cass, 1859-1934

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Cass Gilbert was born on November 24, 1859, in Zanesville, Ohio, the son of General and Mrs. Samuel Augustus Gilbert. He received his education at MacAlester College, St. Paul, Minnesota and attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge after working in a St. Paul architect's office. Following graduation, he traveled throughout Europe and upon his return, entered the office of McKim, Mead, and White, Architects in New York City. A year later, in 1882, he established his own off...

Endicott Building (Saint Paul, Minn.)

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Beman, Solon S., 1853-1914.

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The Pioneer Press Building (now known as the Pioneer Building) was designed by architect Solon Beman of Chicago. It was erected in downtown St. Paul in 1888-1889 to house the offices and presses of the St. Paul Pioneer Press newspaper. Critic Montgomery Schuyler called the building an "uncompromising parallelopiped of brown brick [which] rears itself to the height of twelve stories" and was "eminent for the strictness with which the design conforms itself to the utilitarian conditio...