Research

Scope and Content Note

The series consists of four sheets of ink drawings, with few pencil annotations, of floor plans and sections for an unnamed New York State Arsenal, presumably in New York City. Provenance is unclear, but Henry Storms was commissary general from 1842-1848, and armory construction would be under his jurisdiction according to law. Notes on one of the sheets appear to confirm the project ("as approved July 24, 1847") and indicate either an architect ("by C. Pollard, NY") and possible location (("No. 14 Pine St. NY")-- or, perhaps, the official who approved the project.

Sheets measure approximately 29 inches by 21 inches. They show the first, second and third story plans (1/8 scale); the basement plan; the basement plan and rear elevation; and longitudinal and transverse sections of the proposed arsenal.

A3243-05: This accretion consists of an architect watercolor design or plan for a State arsenal. Caption information indicates that the plan was submitted to the Legislature of New York in 1841 by Adoniram Chandler, Commissary General, in pursuance of an act of the Legislature. Martin E. Thompson is indicated to have been the architect.