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Upland Terrace Permanent Housing Project, [Upland, Pa.], project no. PA23-3, utilities plan, Delaware County Housing Authority [graphic] / Price and Dickey, AIA, Architects.

Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Visual Materials PAD*193*002
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Format:
Image
Author/Creator:
Price & Dickey.
Contributor:
Blandford, John B.
Emmerich, Herbert.
Edmundson, Cliff.
Brown, Robert.
McCoy, C. B.
Delaware County Housing Authority.
Savery, Scheetz, Gilmore & Assoc.
United States. National Housing Agency.
United States. Federal Public Housing Authority.
Philadelphia Electric Company. Morton Office (Morton, Pa.)
Visual Materials Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
public housing--Pennsylvania--Upland.
Furnaces.
4th St. (Upland, Pa.).
3rd St. (Upland, Pa.).
Front St. (Upland, Pa.).
Race St. (Upland, Pa.).
Griffith St. (Upland, Pa.).
Roop St. (Upland, Pa.).
Glenway Ave. (Upland, Pa.).
Upland Terrace Housing Project (Upland, Pa.)--Alterations & additions--1957.
War Housing Project (Tinicum Twp., Delaware Co., Pa.)--1942.
Local Subjects:
4th St. (Upland, Pa.).
3rd St. (Upland, Pa.).
Front St. (Upland, Pa.).
Race St. (Upland, Pa.).
Griffith St. (Upland, Pa.).
Roop St. (Upland, Pa.).
Glenway Ave. (Upland, Pa.).
Upland Terrace Housing Project (Upland, Pa.)--Alterations & additions--1957.
War Housing Project (Tinicum Twp., Delaware Co., Pa.)--1942.
Physical Description:
5 drawings : pencil & ink on paper ; 37 x 24.5 cm.
4 photomechanical reproductions : mixed media ; 71.5 x 103 cm. overall or smaller
1 drawing : ink on linen ; 71.5 x 105 cm.
Contained In:
Dickey, John M. Architectural drawings collection.
Place of Publication:
1957.
Notes:
No commission number. 6 larger items, site plans for utilities and five small drawings, numbers 1-5. Small drawings show different installation plans & isometrics for buildings A-E.
Price & Dickey site plans have note: "Redrawn by Price & Dickey, Architects, July 15, 1957, from site plan, sheet no. A1, dated Sept. 19, 1942." This 1942 drawing is not present in the collection, but present is a blueprint of drawing A1, "Site plan development", Dec. 30, 1942, War Housing Project, Tinicum Township, Delaware Co., Pa. 36269, National Housing Agency, John B. Blandford Jr., Administrator, Federal Public Housing Authority, Herbert Emmerion, Commissioner, Housing Authority, New York City, Savery, Scheetz, Gilmour & Assoc., Arch & Engrs., 21 S. 12th St., Phila., Pa., Douglas W. ??. This blueprint shows Wanamaker Avenue at the top an Westinghouse Village at the bottom, and is not the same as the Upland site plan, which shows streets as follows: Fourth St, Third St., Front St., Race St., Griffith St., Roop St. and Glenway Ave.
Forms part of: Dickey, John M. Architectural drawings collection.

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