Plot Plan Showing Layout of Sanitary Sewer, Colonial Village Development for Dearborn Inn, January 1937

THF113182 / Plot Plan Showing Layout of Sanitary Sewer, Colonial Village Development for Dearborn Inn, January 1937
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Artifact Overview

By the mid-1930s, the Dearborn Inn, a popular luxury hotel, required additional accommodations to service travelers and visitors to the Edison Institute (later renamed The Henry Ford). The L.G. Treadway Service Corporation consulted with Edsel Ford about proposed upgrades that included a swimming pool, pool house, landscaping, and a "Colonial Village" of guest houses (replicas of homes famous in American history).

Artifact Details

Artifact

Design drawing

Date Made

15 January 1937

Subject Date

15 January 1937

Creator Notes

Drawing by architect Charles M. Hart for L. G. Treadway Service Corporation, manager of the Dearborn Inn for Oakwood Hotel Company.

Location

Not on exhibit to the public.

Object ID

59.13.4

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Charles M. Hart.

Material

Paper (Fiber product)

Technique

Drawing (Image-making)

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)

Dimensions

Height: 23.313 in
Width: 34.813 in

Inscriptions

Bottom right corner: LAYOUT OF SANITARY SEWER/...
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