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

These facsimile letters in PDF format are selected from the correspondence file for this commission in the William Gray Purcell Papers.  The documents are a subset of the correspondence present in the job file, and are not to be taken as a complete list of the available documentation.  All permission to quote or other use of these electronic facsimiles rests with the Northwest Architectural Archives. The PDF facsimiles are provided only for research use in the context of this site, as a test of the underlying automation system (HyperFind™).

Correspondence, 1915

The citation in the Purcell Papers for the original documents is AR:276/B1a191.2; Box 14, Folder 3]

• William Gray Purcell to John Burke [Treasurer of the United States] (January 3, 1915)
• George Grant Elmslie to William Gray Purcell (February 9, 1915)
• George Grant Elmslie to William Gray Purcell (February 16, 1915)
• William Gray Purcell to Gutzon Borglum (February 18, 1915)
• Gutzon Borglum to William Gray Purcell (February 20, 1915)
• William Gray Purcell to William L. Steele (February 23, 1915)
• William Gray Purcell to William L. Steele (February 23, 1915) [separate letter from one above]
• William Gray Purcell to George Grant Elmslie (February 23, 1915)
• William Gray Purcell to George Grant Elmslie (March 4, 1915) [Lengthy response annotated by Elmslie]
• William Gray Purcell to Gutzon Borglum (March 8, 1915)
• William L. Steele to William Gray Purcell (March 15, 1915)