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BARTLETT, George Marble. Specifications for Fireproof Hangar Type "D". Printed by George M. Bartlett, Architect, 103 Park Ave., NYC. Reprographic (?) printing. 11"x 8.5", 61pp. Home-made manila binding with typed title on a section of titled stationery obviously this was not intended for distribution. GOOD copy. Provenance: Library of Congress, with their fading stamp on the title page. NOTE: the text of this work is half-faded away, as the paper and the manner of printing was definitely not designed for the ages, even though it was the business of the designer to do so. I suspect that this was meant for momentary, ephemeral use, and not for a document to stand the test of time. That said, the text is indeed legible, but with some difficulty. [++] Bartlett was described in his NYT obituary of 9 January 1936 as "well-known" and who "designed the hangars and depots for the nationwide system of airports of the Colonial and Curtis Flying Company". The aviation-related buildings that Bartlett designed though were surely made to withstand the coming modernity, but as it turns out airport architecture was one of the most changeable aspects of architecture of the 20th c. The hangars designed by Bartlett (1874-1936) were often hangars and terminals ("depots"), as airport traffic of the late 1920s was not demanding of anything approaching what we would see only 40 years later. Evidently there are only a couple examples of surviving structures. "In July 1929, The American Architect spotlighted several hangars that had been designed for the Curtiss-Wright Flying Service by the New York office of George M. Bartlett. Louis M. Steuber, who led design on these projects, proudly announced that the hangar has come into its own as a structure worthy of the architect‟s attention. He classified hangars into three types: depot hangars, service hangars and sales hangars. While the structure of each is very similar, they differ in the accessory accommodations housed in its lean-tos."-- "A History, Architectural History, and Preservation Plan for Owens Field's Historic Curtiss-Wright Hangar Columbia, South Carolina" by Jennifer Betsworth University of South Carolina Public History Program (online paper). Also: American Architect, July 20, 1929 (part I). [++] Rare. No copies located in WorldCat.
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