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War Memorial Museum
File
137 drawings: 2 ink on linen; 1 ink on paper; 6 ink on card; 2 pencil on linen; 81 pencil on paper; 2 pencil on card; 4 watercolour on card; 23 blueprints; 1 black line, 15 sepia
20 photographs
textual records (1 folder)
Memorial museum; stone; composite.
3 survey drawings: site plan, planting
23 sketch drawings: site plan, floor plans, elevations, sections, lettering, panels, wall niche, coat of arms, sculpture, stairs, hall, interior perspective
8 presentation drawings: exterior perspectives, interior elevations with mural paintings, longitudinal section with mural paintings, staircase window, interior perspective from vestibule
56 development drawings: foundation plan, site plan, floor plans, roof plan, interior and exterior elevations, sections, finial/vase, wall detail, window, stairs, floor pattern, wall niche, duct, ironwork (incl. railing, gates), entrance, vestibule, fanroom, skylight
32 working drawings: floor plans, roof plan, elevations, sections
3 detail drawings: marble columns, obelisks, wood case
7 consultant drawings: floor plans, elevator shaft, site plan by J.A. Mawson and Sons
5 record drawings: floor plans, roof plans, elevations, sections, entrance
20 photographs: 8 models; 4 elevations; 2 plans; 2 sections; 1 perspective; 3 others
1 file folder: correspondence
Winning competition design. Unexecuted.
In 1919 a design competition was held on an invitational basis for the War Memorial Museum. Ramsay Traquair and Septimus Warwick were invited to act as assessors of the designs. The following architects were invited to submit design plans; R.G. Bunyard, Moose Jaw, Brown & Vallance, Montreal, Emile Delay, Regina, E & W.S. Maxwell, Montreal, Nobbs & Hyde, Montreal, J.H.G. Russell, Winnipeg, Storey & Van Egmond, Regina, and David Webster, Saskatoon. The design by Nobbs & Hyde won the competition. --“The winning design provides for an excellently planned building and together with the other schemes illustrated, show the individual conception of the contestants for a building which with, perhaps, certain modifications will likely be duplicated in the other provinces.” --“War Memorial Museum, Regina, Saskatchewan,” Construction 12 (September 1919) : 269. -- --Correspondence indicated that working drawings and specifications were ready on January 16, 1920.On October 29 a meeting was held to set up a Committee on Inscriptions for the War Memorial Museum, external and internal decorations and inscriptions. However, on January 26, 1924, a letter from the Deputy Minister to Nobbs & Hyde, informed the architects that the Saskatchewan Government was unable to see its way clear with the construction of the War Memorial Museum. --