Minnesota History Center Competition, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1984-1986 (unbuilt project)

[Conceptual Sketch], untitled. Blue ink sketch on tracing paper, 12 x 18 1/2 inches [from photographic copy by Lance Burgharrdt]

Minnesota History Center Competition, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1984-1986 (unbuilt project)

[Conceptual Sketch], untitled. Blue ink sketch on tracing paper, 12x13 inches [from photographic copy by Lance Burgharrdt]

Minnesota History Center Competition, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1984-1986 (unbuilt project)

[Conceptual Sketch], untitled. Blue and green ink sketch with yellow and green marker coloring on tracing paper, 18 x 20 1/4 inches [from photographic copy by Lance Burgharrdt]

Minnesota History Center Competition, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1984-1986 (unbuilt project)

[Conceptual Sketch of Structure], untitled. Blue ink sketch on tracing paper with notations, initialed, 12x16 inches [from photographic copy by Lance Burgharrdt]

Minnesota History Center Competition, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1984-1986 (unbuilt project)

[Conceptual Sketches], untitled. Ink sketches on graph paper, 8 1/2 x 11 inches [from photographic copy by Lance Burgharrdt]

Minnesota History Center Competition, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1984-1986 (unbuilt project)

[Conceptual Sketches], untitled. Ink sketches on graph paper, 8 1/2 x 11 inches [from photographic copy by Lance Burgharrdt]

Minnesota History Center Competition, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1984-1986 (unbuilt project)

[Facade Study], untitled. Blue ink sketch on tracing paper, 12 x 21 1/2 inches [from photographic copy by Lance Burgharrdt]

Minnesota History Center Competition, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1984-1986 (unbuilt project)

[Facade Study], untitled. Pencil and purple pencil drawing on vellum, 13 3/4 x 24 inches [from photographic copy by Lance Burgharrdt]

Minnesota History Center Competition, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1984-1986 (unbuilt project)

[Facade Study and Section], untitled. Pencil and red pencil drawing on vellum, 17 1/4 x 23 inches [from photographic copy by Lance Burgharrdt]

Schad Block, Ypsilanti

On verso: Ypsilanti Street Scenes, Schad Block Ypsilanti

Lighthouse Presque Isle, Mich.

attached letter: Dear Professor Lorch: At the suggestion of the July 31, 1953 Newsletter of the Michigan Historical Society I am sending you two photoes [sic] of the old lighthouse and adjoining building on Presque Isle, Michigan located on the shore of Huron lake, supposedly the oldest lighthouse on the Great Lakes. It is owned by Mr. F. B. Stebbins, 326 N. Capital, Lansing, Michigan. When through using the photos I would appreciate your returning them directly to him. The following information was given to me by Mr. Stebbins: Built in 1840, through a congressional appropriation of $5,000.- in Presque Isle county, described as, "Where a portage of 200 yards would save 4 miles of canoe trip." Jefferson Davis after graduation from West Point, was supposed to have built it. (According to careful historical investigation, this is not true. There is an article about this controversy in some back number of the Michigan History magazine. Mr. Stebbins feels very strongly about his. He prefers the legend, it sounds bigger). Francis Burgoyne Stebbins purchased from his Uncle Bliss Stebbins in 1930, who bought the property in 1930 from General Duffield of Dteoirt [sic], who had purchased it from the government a short time previously. This light-house was abandone [sic] upon the completion of a new lighthouse in 1872, one mile north from the present location. Adjoining house was used as a summer home. Condition restored in 1936. Lighthouse towe [sic] walls 3 feet thick with handhewn circular stone steps to the top. Signed, Lee H. Gregory

Governor Frank D. Fitzgerald

From "A Remembrance of Governor Fitzgerald of Grand Ledge" by Frank M. Fitzgerald (Grand Ledge Area Historical Society, Grand Ledge MI 1985)

Annals of the town of Keene, from its first settlement, in 1734, to the year 1790...

First published in the Collections of the New Hampshire historical society.

Description of the province of New Sweden. Now called, by the English, Pennsylvania, in America.

Published also in v. 3 [pt. 1] of the Memoirs of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.