Archives Catalogue

3/4" scale details of furnishings for Medical Science Building

UA-9, OS Folder 25
File
April 1923

File contains 3/4" scale detail drawings of furnishings for Dalhousie Medical Science Building.

Addition to a Dalhousie University residence on the corner of Oxford Street and Coburg Road

UA-9, Box 1, Folder 8
File
July 29, 1925

File contains original drawings and blueprint copies of plans for an addition to a house owned by Dalhousie at the corner of Coburg and Oxford (possibly 6414 Coburg Road), that appears to have been used as a private residence: drawings include details for pantry and kitchen cupboards and built-in oak bookcases.

Additions & alterations to library for Dalhousie University

UA-9, Box 1, Folder 1, Item 15
Item
May 1, 1920

Part of Facilities Management

Item is a sheet containing construction details for alterations to a counter and balcony

Additions and alterations to a library for Dalhousie University

UA-9, Box 1, Folder 9
File
May 1, 1920

Part of Facilities Management

File contains the heating plan for the Macdonald Library stack room and second floor, drawn by architect Andrew R. Cobb and Chris Harrington, heating engineer.

Additions and alterations to the Medical Science Laboratory

UA-9, OS Folder 26
File
1921 ; Nov. 1929

Part of Facilities Management

File contains two sheets of drawings for a 1929 addition to the Medical Science Building. There is also a front elevation.

Andrew Cobb's drawings for a new Arts Building

UA-9, OS Folder 30
File
[ca. 1929]

Part of Facilities Management

File contains ground and second floor plans created by Andrew Cobb for a building (never constructed) for Dalhousie College to be located opposite the Macdonald Library. File also contains basement, ground, second and third floor plans for a new arts building, along with an elevation and site plan showing the building located across from the Archives.

Arts Building elevations

UA-9, OS Folder 4
File
1921

Part of Facilities Management

File contains 11 presentation drawings signed by Andrew R. Cobb, Architect, and dated between August and September 1921. There are six drawings of the north elevation and five of the south elevation, each featuring variations in window design, and some containing notes indicating suggestions or preferences of F.D. (Architect Frank Darling), A.S.M. (President Arthur Stanley MacKenzie) and G.F.P.

Arts building for Dalhousie University : attic plan of partitions and rail

UA-9, Box 1, Folder 6, Item 4
Item
September 15, 1920

Part of Facilities Management

Item is sheet no. 4 of an original set of ten construction drawings of Dalhousie's arts building (now the University Club), which was built on Studley Campus in 1921. The attic plan of wall partitions and rail was drawn, traced and checked by A.R.C. (Andrew R. Cobb) in pencil on tissue paper.

Arts building for Dalhousie University : basement plan

UA-9, Box 1, Folder 6, Item 1
Item
September 15, 1920

Part of Facilities Management

Item is sheet no. 1 of an original set of ten construction drawings of Dalhousie's arts building (now the University Club), which was built on Studley Campus in 1921. The basement plan was drawn by A.M.K, traced by P.K.A. and checked by A.R.C. (Andrew R. Cobb).

Arts building for Dalhousie University : cross section

UA-9, Box 1, Folder 6, Item 8
Item
September 15, 1920

Part of Facilities Management

Item is sheet no. 9 of an original set of ten construction drawings of Dalhousie's arts building (now the University Club), which was built on Studley Campus in 1921. The cross section was drawn by A.M.K, traced by A.M.K. and checked by A.R.C. (Andrew R. Cobb).

Arts building for Dalhousie University : east elevation

UA-9, Box 1, Folder 6, Item 7
Item
September 15, 1920

Part of Facilities Management

Item is sheet no. 8 of an original set of ten construction drawings of Dalhousie's arts building (now the University Club), which was built on Studley Campus in 1921. The east elevation was drawn by A.M.K, traced by P.K.A. and checked by A.R.C. (Andrew R. Cobb).

Arts building for Dalhousie University : first floor plan

UA-9, Box 1, Folder 6, Item 2
Item
September 15, 1920

Part of Facilities Management

Item is sheet no. 2 of an original set of ten construction drawings of Dalhousie's arts building (now the University Club), which was built on Studley Campus in 1921. The first floor plan plan was drawn by A.M.K, traced by P.K.A. and checked by A.R.C. (Andrew R. Cobb).

Arts building for Dalhousie University : longitudinal section

UA-9, Box 1, Folder 6, Item 9
Item
September 15, 1920

Part of Facilities Management

Item is sheet no. 10 of an original set of ten construction drawings of Dalhousie's arts building (now the University Club), which was built on Studley Campus in 1921. The longitudinal section was drawn by A.M.K, traced by A.M.K. and checked by A.R.C. (Andrew R. Cobb).

Arts building for Dalhousie University : second floor plan

UA-9, Box 1, Folder 6, Item 3
Item
September 15, 1920

Part of Facilities Management

Item is sheet no. 3 of an original set of ten construction drawings of Dalhousie's arts building (now the University Club), which was built on Studley Campus in 1921. The second floor plan was drawn by A.M.K, traced by P.K.A. and checked by A.R.C. (Andrew R. Cobb).

Arts building for Dalhousie University : south elevation

UA-9, Box 1, Folder 6, Item 5
Item
September 15, 1920

Part of Facilities Management

Item is sheet no. 6 of an original set of ten construction drawings of Dalhousie's arts building (now the University Club), which was built on Studley Campus in 1921. The south elevation was drawn by A.M.K, traced by P.K.A. and checked by A.R.C. (Andrew R. Cobb).

Arts building for Dalhousie University : west elevation

UA-9, Box 1, Folder 6, Item 6
Item
September 15, 1920

Part of Facilities Management

Item is sheet no. 7 of an original set of ten construction drawings of Dalhousie's arts building (now the University Club), which was built on Studley Campus in 1921. The west elevation was drawn by A.M.K, traced by P.K.A. and checked by A.R.C. (Andrew R. Cobb).

Basement plan

UA-9, OS Folder 1, Item 2
Item
Jan. 1932

Part of Facilities Management

Item is a 1932 presentation drawing by architect Andrew Cobb of the basement plan for an arts building at Dalhousie that was planned but never built.

Basement plan for proposed Dal Arts building

UA-9, OS Folder 1, Item 1
Item
April 1930

Part of Facilities Management

Item is a 1930 basement plan for an arts building at Dalhousie that was planned but never built.

Blueprint construction and heating plans for Dalhousie Arts Building

UA-9, Box 1, Folder 7
File
1920

Part of Facilities Management

File contains a set of construction and heating blueprints for the Arts Building for Dalhousie University (now the University Club), which was designed by Halifax architect Andrew R. Cobb with consulting architect Frank Darling of Toronto and engineer Charles Harrington. The file also contains an electrostatic print set reproduced on polyester, which is missing sheet no. 4.

Blueprints for new Arts Building

UA-9, OS Folder 31
File
1929 - 1932

Part of Facilities Management

File contains drawings created by Andrew Cobb for an arts building commissioned by the Board of Governors as part of their building plans during the late 1920s/early 1930s, which also included a gymnasium, power plant, men's dormitory, and extensions to the Science Building and Shirreff Hall. The planned site for the building, which was cancelled due to financial restraints, was adjacent to the temporary arts building, which had been built in 1921 to house the law school. Drawings include a preliminary sketch of the front (north) elevation; west, east, south and north elevations; skeleton section; and detailed floor plans.

Building for Dalhousie College

UA-9, OS Folder 3
File
1921

Part of Facilities Management

File contains two sheets containing drawings of a building designed to serve as Arts offices and lecture spaces before being converted to a law library and eventually to a university museum.

Building for Dalhousie College / Andrew R. Cobb, architect ; Frank Darling, cons'l't'g arch't

UA-9, OS Folder 3, Item 1
Item
[191-?]

Part of Facilities Management

Item is a drawing of the ground floor of a building designed to serve as office and lecture spaces before being converted to a law library and eventually a university museum. The plan includes notes regarding future additions and usages.

Building for Dalhousie College / Andrew R. Cobb, architect ; Frank Darling, cons'l't'g arch't

UA-9, OS Folder 3, Item 2
Item
[191-?]

Part of Facilities Management

Item is a sheet with two drawings of the second floor of a building designed to serve as office and lecture spaces before being converted to a law library and eventually a university museum. One plan shows the space partitioned into a lecture hall, faculty room and offices to serve current needs; in the second it is laid out as a law library. There is also a small inset aerial perspective of the new (temporary) Arts Building in relation to the Science Building and Macdonald Library.

Campus site plans

Subseries
1911 - 1926

Part of Facilities Management

Subseries comprises records created or collected by the Office of the Architect and Facilities Management at Dalhousie University related to the design and layout of the Studley and Carleton Campuses. Records include topographical maps, layouts

Construction blueprints for Dalhousie University's Medical Sciences Building and the Public Health Clinic

UA-9, OS Folder 27
File
1921 - 1922

Part of Facilities Management

File contains blueprints of plans for both the Medical School and the Public Health Clinic, including: furnishings detail plans; heating layout floor plans; early sketches; and construction drawings.

Construction drawings for Dalhousie Arts Building

UA-9, Box 1, Folder 6, Item , Item 9
File
1920

Part of Facilities Management

File contains an incomplete set of ink on waxed-linen construction drawings for Dalhousie University's arts building, which was designed by Andrew Cobb and Frank Darling and built in 1921 on Studley Campus. Sheet no. 5 is missing, but is extant in a set of blueprints located in Box 1, Folder 7. Sheet no. 4 is a version in pencil on tissue. Most of the drawings were made by A.M.K., traced by P.K.A., and checked by A.R.C. (Andrew Cobb).

Construction drawings for Dalhousie University's Medical Sciences Laboratory

UA-9, OS Folder 23
File
1921

Part of Facilities Management

File contains a set of construction drawings by architect Andrew R. Cobb for the Medical Science Laboratory, known as the Medical Science Building, which originally housed the departments of physiology, biochemistry, pharmacology and hygiene. Eventually it became home to School of Pharmacy and was renamed the Burbidge Building. The drawings are labelled Job No. K. 147, Sheet Nos. 1-20, and were drawn and traced by P.K.A. and C.W. Drawing types include a foundation plan, elevations, sections, gas, air, electrical and wiring plans. Framing and footing plans were created in partnership with Pickings & Roland, Engineers. There is also an electrostatic print set reproduced on polyester. Included in the file is an original excavation plan dated August 25, 1921 and a front elevation labelled Dalhousie Medical School.

Dalhousie Arts

UA-9, OS Folder 1, Item 16
Item
April 1930

Part of Facilities Management

Item is a sheet with drawings by Andrew Cobb of the west and east elevations of an arts building at Dalhousie that was planned but never built.

Dalhousie Arts Building

Subseries
1920 - 1930

Part of Facilities Management

Subseries comprises records created or collected by the Office of the Architect and Facilities Management at Dalhousie University related to the design, construction and renovations/additions to an arts building at Dalhousie, which the administration called the Law (Temporarily Arts) Building. It was occupied by arts faculty until 1952, when it did briefly house the law school; in 1967 it became the Faculty Club, which is now known as the University Club. The third building on Studley Campus, it was a part of the original campus plan drawn up by Toronto architect Frank Darling in collaboration with Halifax-based architect Andrew R. Cobb and Dalhousie's governors. The subseries also includes drawings for a later building planned as an Arts Building, which was never constructed.

Dalhousie Arts Building construction details

UA-9, OS Folder 5
File
1920 - 1921

Part of Facilities Management

File contains blueprint drawings of construction details, including window details; beam reinforcement; trusses; full-scale exterior masonry details; and the lettering for the cornerstone.

Dalhousie Medical School architectural plans

UA-9, OS Folder 8
File
1921

Part of Facilities Management

File contains architectural drawings by Andrew Cobb for a proposed medical school building: two sets of basement, first and second floor plans; and single drawings of the front, end and rear elevations; cross and longitudinal sections; and a proposed layout for a physiology dark theatre.

Dalhousie University's Medical Science Building

Subseries

Part of Facilities Management

Subseries comprises records created or collected by the Office of the Architect and Facilities Management at Dalhousie University related to the design, construction and renovations/additions to the Medical Science Building (renamed the Burbidge Building in 1970), designed by Halifax architect Andrew Randall Cobb and built between 1922-and 1924. Cobb's plans allowed for a third floor addition, which was built in 1978.

Drawing by Andrew R. Cob of the Plan for a garage at the New Glasgow exchange