Title: Alfred A. Hahn Architectural Drawings, 1932-1933, n.d.
ID: RG 30/110
Extent: 3.83 Linear Feet
Forms of Material (links to similar genres)
Administrative/Biographical History
Administrative InformationFor a history of the Oberlin post offices, readers should consult the note on page 64 in Wilbur A. Phillips, Oberlin Colony: The Story of a Century (Oberlin, 1993).
The Electronic Oberlin Group website on the Post Office at http://www.oberlin.edu/external/EOG/NewsTrib1935/PostOffice.html, accessed April 7, 2017.
Oberlin Post Office, Ohio Historic Inventory, Ohio Historic Preservation Office, September 30, 2000, accessed from the Oberlin Heritage Center at http://www.oberlinheritagecenter.org/cms/files/File/inventory/mainsouth68.pdf, April 7, 2017.
The Hahn papers, mainly consisting of drawings, 1933-1934, include the following architectural materials relative to the post office at Oberlin: originals and photostats of floor plans, a dedication plaque, and a site plan. Also located here is a bound set of drawings on tracing paper, including one of the dedication plaque, a site plan, a basement plan, a first floor plan, a front elevation plan, the right side elevation plan, and a longitudinal section plan. On unbound tracing paper are two drawings of dedication plaques. Also included: A detail of a splash course lintel, a section drawing of the front stair, and a blueprint of a section detail of the location of support beams.
INVENTORY
All of the following plans are for the United States Post Office, Oberlin, Ohio branch.
Case I, Drawer 23
March 1932. Tentative plans. South Main Street elevation; Main entrance, loggia elevation with both stone/metal and all-metal designs; north elevation; south elevation; west elevation; longitudinal section; transverse section, through public lobby; transverse section, looking toward front; site plan; basement plan; 1st floor plan. Sketches on paper, 22" x 25". (11 bound pages).
3-3-1932. Longitudinal section. Photostat of sketch, 8" x 13".
3-18-1932. North elevation; front elevation. Photostats of sketches, 8" x 13".
5-5-1933. Detail of splash course lintel for openings. Sketch on paper, 11" x 9".
6-30-1933. Revised window opening heights and sill dimensions. Sketch on paper, 17" x 26".
n.d. Artist's rendering. Sketches on paper, 13" x 22". (2 copies)
n.d. "Cabinet Sketches for Oberlin Post Office." Site plan; basement plan; 1st floor plan; South Main Street elevation; right side elevation; longitudinal section.
n.d. First floor plan. Sketch and photostat, 9" x 10". (2 pages).
n.d. Sketches mounted on heavy paper, bound, 16" x 20". (7 pages with 5 photostat copies, 12" x 15").
n.d. "Cabinet Sketches" title page. Sketch on paper, 23" x 26". (2 copies).
n.d. Sections through stairs at swing room and through front stair. Sketch on paper, 11" x 9".
n.d. Detail of location of beam between columns. Blueprints, 14" x 13".
