Scope and Content Note
Primarily architectural drawings by E. Jerome O'Connor for residential buildings, commercial buildings, educational buildings, religious buildings, and health care facilities in Washington, D.C., and surrounding suburbs. Among his designs represented in the archive are single detached houses; office buildings, including the headquarters for the National Grange; a building for the State Teachers College in Frostburg, Maryland; apartment houses, nursing homes, and a monastery; also present are competition drawings for the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial in St. Louis, Missouri. Materials document various phases of the design process, from preliminary sketches to working drawings, and include correspondence and specifications relating to building projects. The archive also includes some architectural drawings by other creators.
Specific media or processes represented include graphite, ink, diazo print, stat, blueprint, and photomechanical print.
Some ADE UNITs have additional materials to the drawings that are filed separately. If present, these series are noted at the end of the ADE UNIT's summary with the following options: specifications, photographs, and/or miscellaneous supplementary materials. These materials are not item inventoried but can be requested from a librarian while doing research in the Reading Room.