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Henry Birks and Sons Cathcart Street (Montréal, Québec)
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New Birks Building

File consists of architectural drawings for office building and factory (basement, 10 floors; stone and terracotta; steel frame), including:
2 presentation drawings: interior and exterior perspectives
5 development drawings: floor plans, cornice
7 working drawings: floor plan, roof plan, elevations, section
57 detail drawings: interior and exterior elevations, wall sections, laboratories, lobby, corridor plans, lunettes, doors (including woodwork, ironwork and bronzework), stairs, windows, conveyor, plasterwork (including ornament), stonework, pier, walls, trims, finishes, terracotta, lighting plan, sills, fittings, ironwork (including lunettes, stairs, balusters)
8 shop drawings: elevator hall, window schedule, fire escape, corridor elevations, machine and hatchway location
6 consultant drawings: interior elevations, pipe tunnel, vents, entrance hall
18 photographs: 1 perspective; 6 finished exteriors; 2 finished interiors; 2 details; 7 others

Royal Garage

File consists of architectural drawings for commercial parking garage (basement, 6 floors; brick and stone; composite) and 3 photographs (1 perspective, 2 finished exteriors). Drawings include:
2 survey drawings: excavation plan, site plan
2 sketch drawings: street plan, plan
2 development drawings: floor plans, metal sills
8 working drawings: foundation plan, floor plans, roof plan, elevations, sections, structural diagram
32 detail drawings: metal sills, doors, exhaust system, grease/oil racks, basement floor, beams, stonework (including rondels), transoms, stair, boiler, coping, office layout and partitions, screen, sign, filling station
17 consultant drawings: floor plans, sign, stonework, elevator, foundation walls, ramp, finish, schedule of lacing, stairs, doors

Alterations to New Birks Building

File consists of detail drawings for office building and factory (wood screens, shop front, store, plans, elevations and details of offices, door, transom, partitions).

Alteration to New Birks Building

File consists of architectural drawings for office building and factory (alteration: connecting passage between penthouses), including:
1 measured drawing: penthouse plans and section
1 detail drawing: passage

Alterations to New Birks Building

File consists of architectural drawings for office building and factory (alterations to new mezzanine level in silver factory), including:
5 measured drawings: floor plans
1 development drawings: floor plans, section
1 working drawing: floor plans, section
2 shop drawings: stairs
2 consultant drawings: structure

Alterations to New Birks Building

File consists of architectural drawings for office building and factory, including:
8 development drawings: lettering, elevator shaft, plan, elevator, lobby
1 working drawing: floor plan
23 detail drawings: floor plan, hallway, elevators, doors, ironwork and bronzework (including entrance doors, screens of entrance vestibule), penthouse, lettering, office layout, marble work, stonework
6 consultant drawings: plans, section, elevator door, signal panel

Addition to New Birks Building

File consists of architectural drawings for office building and factory (addition: tenth floor; brick and stone), including:
1 survey drawing: property plan
11 measured drawing: floor plans
2 sketch drawings: roof coping, soffit of beam
1 development drawing: wall face
37 detail drawings: floor plan, elevations, section, stonework (including window bays, entrance doorway and door, haunch stones to window, tower, arch), windows, lintel, iron staircase, eaves, doors, picture moulding, trims, baseboard and door stops, lighting, corridor layout, copings, cornice
18 shop drawings: stairs, structure, elevator shaft, roof plan, floor plan, stonework, corridor layout, fire escape, sash layout, door buckets
2 record drawings: floor plans

Alteration to New Birks Building

File consists of architectural drawings for office building and factory (alteration to ladies' lavatory and restroom, 7th floor), including 1 development drawing (electrical plan), 1 working drawing (lavatory, restroom), and 1 detail drawing (woodwork for screen).

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