[Dwelling for] Sears, Roebuck & Co., Philadelphia, Pa. [graphic] / Atlantic Terra Cotta Company, Plant no. 2, Perth Amboy, N.J. ; Geo. C. Nimmons & Co., archt.

Format:

Image

Author/Creator:

Atlantic Terra Cotta Company.

Contributor:

George C. Nimmons & Co.

Sears, Roebuck and Company.

Visual Materials Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Houses--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Philadelphia (Pa.).

Local Subjects:

Philadelphia (Pa.).

Physical Description:

5 drawings : ink & pencil on linen ; 52.5 x 92.5 cm. or smaller

Contained In:

New York and New Jersey architecture collection.

Place of Publication:

Nov. 12, [ca. 1920]

Notes:

Identification is from drawing NIM*001*001 only, which has the Atlantic Terra Cotta Co., drawing no. 53. Title block is that of the subcontractor, Atlantic Terra Cotta Company. This sheet has "Order no. 5550-5551-5552". No verification has yet been found to document this house as one of Sears "Honor Bilt Modern Homes", or of Nimmons as a member of the "Architects' Council" as given on p.19 of Sears, Roebuck catalog of houses, 1926.

Withey (1952) lists Nimmons as a Chicago architect, working on larger commercial buildings there with William K. Fellows from 1897 to 1910. One of these buildings was the Sears & Roebuck plant. This may have begun Nimmons association in Sears. Nimmons is given in Dickson, A hundred Pennsylvania buildings (1954), p.88, as the architect in 1920 of the Sears , Roebuck Eastern Store building, which until 1994 stood on Roosevelt Blvd. in Philadelphia. Withey lists Nimmons practicing on his own from 1910 to 1917, and organized as the George C. Nimmons & Co. from 1917-1933. If this is accurate, then the date "11/12" on the drawing may be Nov. 12th of an unspecified year, estimated here from Nimmons known Philadelphia building date.

Set includes floor plans and exterior elevations for a three-story house with basement, and front & back porch.

Forms part of: New York and New Jersey architecture collection.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Gift of William H. Tietjen,

Cited in:

Laverty, v.1, p.156, NIM*001/005