Noyes Home Orphanage Project Correspondence, St. Joseph, 1931-1948

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St. Joseph Museums

Name/Title

Noyes Home Orphanage Project Correspondence, St. Joseph, 1931-1948

Entry/Object ID

2007.33.658

Scope and Content

Noyes Home Orphanage Project Correspondence, St. Joseph, 1931-1948. Files of Eckel & Aldrich Architects. Projects over the years for repairs and upgrades, such as heating, lighting, for orphanage on Noyes Boulevard, The Home for Little Wanderers, known more commonly as the Noyes Home. The Home was originally erected in 1895. There is also 1944 correspondence related to alterations to the building at the northeast corner of 3rd & Faraon Streets, which was to become the Noyes Norman and Company Shoe factory. The building was originally designed by Eckel and erected in 1901. File includes correspondence, agreements, contracts, proposals, specifications, sketches, bids, blueprints.

Collection

Eckel-Brunner

Lexicon

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Architecture, Orphanages

Search Terms

St. Joseph, MIssouri, Children's Homes, Orphanages, Noyes Home, Home for Little Wanderers, Noyes Boulevard, Lawhon Construction Company, Collier-Adams Manufacturing, St. Joseph Lumber Company, St. Joseph Structural Steel, Chandler Glass, Hesse-Rix Company, Waler E. Gillham Engineer, Morton Investment Company, Enterprise Furniture & Carpet, Armco Ingot Iron, Missouri Water & Steam, M.W. Cavan Painter, Townsend Wyatt & Wall Dry Goods, Brady Furniture, Stuebner Cleaning, Lehr Construction, Milwaukee Stamping Company, Henry Weis Manufacturing, Anderson-Stolz Supply Company, Western Plumbing, Sam Hotchkiss Contractor, Vos Brothers Wallpaper, C.M. Ballenger, Brazell Brothers, Courtine & Wood, Harry C. Korns Electric, Noyes Norman Shoe Company, Eckel & Aldrich Architects, Noyes-Norman Shoe Co., Nursing/Childrens Homes

Legacy Lexicon

Object Name

Envelope, Correspondence

Condition

Overall Condition

Good

Maintenance

Maintenance History

Date

Jun 19, 2009