Purcell and Elmslie, Architects Firm active: 1907-1921 Minneapolis, Minnesota :: Chicago, Illinois Philadelphia, Pennsylvania :: Portland, Oregon

Images

• Drawings
• Archival Images (b&w interior and exterior, 1913-1915; pre-restoration)
• Exterior Images (circa 1950s, and post-restoration)
• Glimpses of the restoration process

Interior Images (circa 1950s-1980s, and post-restoration)

Living room, circa 1994	circa 1985	Stairwell, from dining room, circa 1994
Fern stand and chair	Living room, window seat	East living room windows
Writing nook	Detail, fireplace mural	Fireplace sawed wood finial
Fireplace rake glazing	James Purcell bedroom, circa 1994	Leaded glass panel
James Purcell bedroom, leaded glass panel	Stencil in upstairs landing, showing before and after restoration effect	Detail, surprise point chair

The following images are available from the "William Gray Purcell Job Files" digital images database served by the IMAGES system at the University of Minnesota Libraries.  These thumbnail links go directly to their access and use statements for each image.  A (usually) higher resolution image can be downloaded from the citation display page; such files may show highly useful detail, but are often 200-300K in size.  Because their web site is a separate resource, the links here open new browser windows.