Feb 23, 2011

Scan of Pruitt-Igoe Site-Plan

Pruitt-Igoe Blueprint

Courtesy of St. Louis Housing Authority

Here’s a site-plan for the Wendell O. Pruitt Apartments, and William Igoe Homes.  We had it scanned it from a copy at the St. Louis Housing Authority. If you want to get the full effect, you’ll have to head over to its Flickr page, where you can view it at its original size. I’ve always had a fascination with maps, and my academic training is as a cartographer, but despite their similarities, I’ll have to own up to not knowing my way around blueprints or architectural/surveying documents in any meaningful way.  I’m sure that several people who read this are quite familiar with the idiom.  If you’d like to point out any interesting features you find, I’d love for you to drop me an email. rss

1 Comment

  • Important to note this was a PROPOSED site plan dated 1964, ostensibly to rectify the problems then apparent with the built design.

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