Collection UKC.ARCH - University of King's College Architectural Records Collection

Many of the drawings are in poor condition, having been heavily used by contractors, University Maintenance staff, and subsequent architects, engineers and trades contractors for renovations and system upgrades. Several drawings in the Cobb and Dumaresq series are fragile. Those in the worst condition have been removed from the collection and are awaiting the attention of a paper conservator; these drawings have not been arranged or described in this finding aid;

Some drawings are faded or reproduced in a manner that is not easy to read.

The Andrew Cobb blueprints were transferred from storage in the Main Building to the Archives at the time the new Library was opened. Most of the other architectural drawings were deposited in the Archives by University maintenance staff as construction and renovation projects were completed over several years. Some records were acquired by the Archives over a period of years from unrecorded sources.

Accession no. 2002.28 (2002) deposited by Drake Petersen, University Librarian and Archivist: 70 blueprints of University of King's College Halifax campus/ Andrew Cobb, Architect. 1928.

Accession No. 2003.12 (March 2002) deposited by Ken Newman, Director of Maintenance: 16 blackline prints of the New Academic Building / Duffus Romans Kundzins Rounsefell Architects Ltd.

Accession No. 2003.37 (Nov 2003) deposited by Ken Newman, Director of Maintenance: 70 blackline prints of the New Academic Building/ Duffus Romans Kundzins Rounsefell; Alexandra Hall/ J. Philip Dumaresq Nov 1961; Gymnasium / J. Philip Dumaresq Nov 1961.

Accession No. 2005.21 (June 2005) deposited by Ken Newman, Director of Maintenance: 3 thick rolls of architectural drawings from Dumaresq projects of the early 1960s (Alexandra Hall, Gymnasium); one roll of Duffus Romans Kundzins Rounsefell drawings for the renovation of the Alexandra Hall attic in the 1980s, when rooms in the fourth floor were added.

Accession No. 2006.3 (July 2006) deposited by Patricia Chalmers, Assistant Librarian, who found drawing inside a roll of Andrew Cobb blueprints: "Sketch for Memorial Building, King's College, Windsor"/ R.A. (Richard Arthur) Johnson (d. 1949), c. 1923; scale 1/8" to 1 ft; water color.

2006.70 (June 2006) deaccessioned by Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management: 25 blueprints of University of King's College, Studley Campus, Dalhousie, Job no.268 I Andrew R. Cobb September 1928

The records are arranged into series by architect in chronological order by date of first project built for King's. The series are:

UKC.ARCH.l (Charles Inglis architectural drawings ( c.1794-c. l854));
UKC.ARCH.2 (R. A. Johnson architectural drawings (c.1919-1920));
UKC.ARCH.3 (Andrew R. Cobb architectural drawings (1920-1942));
UKC.ARCH.4 (J. Philip Dumaresq architectural drawings (1960-1978));
UKC.ARCH.5 (Duffus Romans Kundzins Rounsefell Ltd. architectural drawings (1985-2002));
UKC.ARCH.6 (G. E. C. Brown Architect Ltd. - NAB proposal 1983);
UKC.ARCH.7 (Noel Fowler & Keith Graham Library proposal 1985);
UKC.ARCH.8 (Library proposal/ unidentified architect (c.1983));
UKC.ARCH.9 (Reinhardt L. Petersmann landscape plans (1991-1996));
UKC.ARCH.C (Cartographic materials (1922-2008));
UKC.ARCH.T (Architectural projects textual records).

The textual materials are arranged by architect (bibliographic information); by building (various information, e.g., Tidings articles); and by subject.

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Few of the architectural drawings in the collection are original drawings; most are blueprint or blackline reproductions. The location of the original Cobb architectural drawings is unknown. It is assumed that the originals of the Dumaresq and Duffus drawings are in those architects' offices, but time has not permitted research into the original drawings' locations.

Most records are open. Some records may be restricted because of fragility.

Copyright held by the architect or architectural firm of some of the architectural records, or by the University of King's College.

Reproduction of the drawings is not permitted.

Finding aid for the University of Kings College Architectural Records Collection available below, as well as in-person in the King’s Library Archives.

Photographs of most of the buildings are available in the University of King's College photographs collection.

UKC.A: University of King's College Board of Governors records fonds: deed and
abstract of title in Board of Governors records UKC.A.1.1.62

UKC.P8: University of King's College photographs collection buildings series

Tidings, the alumni newsletter, catalogued as a serial in the University Library's Special Collections at call number LH3 KS T52, has articles relating to the buildings.

King's College, Builder of Character (Appeal Committee, c.1925), has Andrew Cobb drawing of"The Future King's" and a view of a proposed Quad through the arch of a residence hall.

"The New King's" (picture of proposed campus), The Record, Feb. 1927, v. 48, p. 27.

Further Accruals expected, and accruals have occurred beyond the scope of the accompanying finding aid (post-2008).

The architectural history of the University of the University of King’s College is just as intricate as the history of the institution as a whole. The University of King's College was founded in Windsor, Nova Scotia, in 1789, by Anglican Loyalists who moved to the province after the American Revolution. King's, the oldest English-speaking Commonwealth university outside the United Kingdom, received its Royal Charter from King George III in 1802. From its humble beginning as a wooden college in Windsor, NS, to its main building burning down in 1920, to its subsequent relocation to Halifax and its current position adjacent to the larger campus of Dalhousie university, to the construction of the campus in the city and the buildings that have gone up since, the insight provided by the architectural drawings that comprise this collection provide invaluable insight about King’s.

A more detailed history of King's buildings can found in the file list linked above.

2022-09-02

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