Northwood and Noffke, Elevations for Bank of Ottawa branch, 1906. National Archives of Canada, W.E. Noffke fonds, accession 7780317, job 142, item 2, NMC 115951.

Repository Name:	National Archives of Canada
Repository Geographic Location:	Canada     Ontario         Ottowa
Administrative Unit:	Cartographic and Audio-Visual Archives Division
Group/Item ID:	Noffke, W.E. 77803/7
Descriptive Title:	Architectural drawings relating primarily to residences and commercial and public buildings in Ottawa and area.

Catalogue Level:	group
Document Type:	architectural documents

Responsibility Description:	Office of Werner E. Noffke[2]
Name:	Werner E. Noffke
Role (Broad):	administrative origin
Descriptive Date:	1906–1962
Earliest Date:	1906
Latest Date:	1962
Locus/Location:	Canada     Ontario         Ottowa

Related Person/Corporate Body Description:	Werner E. Noffke
Related Person/Corporate Body Name Description:	Noffke, Werner E.
Related Role:	Architect

Descriptive Date:	1906–1962
Earliest Date:	1906
Latest Date:	1962

This collection of 2241 drawings representing 200 projects by Ottawa architect Werner E. Noffke reflects not only the breadth of one man's work but also one city's architecture over a 60-year period. Residences, offices and commercial buildings, exhibition halls, and many churches appear in the collection, along with projects as diverse as buildings for foreign legations. A great deal of Noffke's work was done for the Government of Canada. While Noffke's early work was typical of Ottawa building of the time, his later designs show an appreciation of modern architectural modes and an eagerness to experiment with new styles. Noffke's job book, in which are listed the project number, names of clients, and prices, complements the drawings in this accession.

Repository Name Description:	National Archives of Canada
Repository Geographic Location:	Canada     Ontario         Ottowa
Administrative Unit:	Cartographic and Audio-Visual Archives Division
Group/Item ID:	Noffke, W.E. 77803/7 Job. 142
Descriptive Title:	Architectural drawings relating to the Bank of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Catalogue Level:	group
Document Type:	architectural drawings

Responsibility Description:	Office of Northwood and Noffke
Name:	Northwood and Noffke
role (broad):	Administrative Origin
Descriptive Date:	1901–1908
Earliest Date:	1901
Latest Date:	1908
Locus/Location:	Canada     Ontario         Ottowa

Descriptive Date:	July 18, 1906
Earliest Date:	1906
Latest Date:

The architectural drawings in this project include elevations and floor plans of the bank.

Subject/Built Work Name:	Bank of Ottawa
Subject/Built Work Location:	Canada     Ontario         Ottowa             Bank Street                 186

Subject/Built Work Type (by function/form):

bank     temple banks

REPOSITORY NAME:	Centre Canadien d'Architecture/Canadian Centre for Architecture
REPOSITORY GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION:	Canada     Québec         Montréal
ADMINISTRATIVE UNIT LOCATION:	Prints and Drawings
GROUP/ITEM ID:	DR1986:0257-DR1986:0264
REPOSITORY TITLE:	Seven drawings, with a table of contents, for glass conservatories at the Château de Ciergnon, Belgium
DESCRIPTIVE TITLE:	Seven drawings, with a table of contents, for glass conservatories at the Château de Ciergnon, Belgium
INSCRIBED TITLE:	Château de Ciergnon / Serres de réception

CATALOGUE LEVEL:	group
GROUP TYPE:	project
EXTENT:	7 drawings, with a table of contents
DOCUMENT TYPE:	manuscript
	architectural drawings

RESPONSIBILITY DESCRIPTION:	Alphonse Balat
NAME:	Balat, Alphonse
ROLE (BROAD) :	maker

PURPOSE DESCRIPTION:	finished design drawings, some with graphite pentimenti
PURPOSE (BROAD) :	working drawings
PURPOSE (NARROW) :	design drawings

METHOD/VIEW (BROAD):

orthographic drawings plans elevations sections

Alphonse Balat, Elevation and longitudinal section for a proposed winter garden at the Château de Ciergnon, Belgium. Collection Centre Canadien d'Architure/Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, DR1986:0261.

Alphonse Balat, Site plan for glass conservatories at the Château de Ciergnon, Belgium. Collection Centre Canadien d'Architure/Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, DR1986:0258.

Alphonse Balat, Plan for the proposed winter garden at the Château de Ciergnon, Belgium. Collection Centre Canadien d'Architure/Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, DR1968:0259.

TECHNIQUE, MEDIUM, AND SUPPORT DESCRIPTION:	Table of contents is written in pen and black ink on blue laid paper; drawings are in various combinations of pen and black and blue ink and blue, pink or red coloured pencils, some with graphite, some with graphite pentimenti; all are on transparent wove paper laid down on transparent laid paper
TECHNIQUE :	pen coloured pencil pencil
MEDIUM :	ink coloured pencil graphite
SUPPORT :	wove paper
WATERMARK:	present (only on table of contents)
INSCRIPTION DESCRIPTION:	Table of contents: inscribed, by the draughtsman?, in pen and black ink, u.l.: "I. / Château de Ciergnon / Serres de réception''; c.: "Le projet / est exposé en sept feuilles de dessins / comme suit: / I Plan général / II Plan du hall-jardin-d'hiver / III Plan de la couverture. w[?] / IV Coupe et élévation longitudinale. w[?] / V Plan de la salle à manger / VI Coupe et élévation de dèto / VII Développement et coupe transversale, w[?] / (toiture doublés au dessus[?] la table.) / L'architecte de S[a]. M[ajesté]. / Alphonse Balat[?]''; l.l.: "Bruxelles le 31 mars 1894'' All drawings: inscribed, by the draughtsman ? in pen and brown ink, with drawing's number, title, date and signature; some with dimensions.
INSCRIPTION :	inscribed
SCALE DESCRIPTION :	inscribed scale on each drawing
SCALE:	scales
DIMENSIONS DESCRIPTION:	Sheets range in size from 28.3 x 41.2 cm to 35.9 x 66.4 cm

DESCRIPTIVE DATE :	1894
EARLIEST DATE :	1894
LATEST DATE:	1894

These seven drawings comprise a complete set of design drawings for a complex of "serres de réception'' (glass conservatories) at the Château de Ciergnon in Namur province, Belgium. The Château de Ciergnon, a 19th-century structure located on the right bank of the River Lesse, was a summer residence of the Belgian royal family.
The architect of this proposal was almost certainly Alphonse Balat (Willis, 16 February 1987). Although difficult to read, the signature that appears on each of the eight sheets matches well with his name. On the sheet bearing the table of contents, the signature is preceded by the title "L'architecte de S[a]. M[ajesté]."; Balat was architect to Leopold II, King of Belgium (1865-1909) until his death in 1895, one year after these seven drawings were signed and dated. Moreover, Balat is known to have performed work at the Château de Ciergnon (Clément, 67).
The question of attribution is, perhaps, put beyond doubt by the fact that Balat is best known as the designer of several such glass houses in Belgium (for a catalogue of Balat's executed glass houses, see Kohlmaier and Sartory, 208-214), the most important of which are located in the Royal Park at Laeken and were designed and built in several phases (1865-1895). The Laeken conservatories were among the most ambitious glass buildings constructed during the 19th century; they are linked by almost a mile of corridors and comprise ten acres of glass surface alone. In comparison, the Ciergnon project is much less monumental. The focus of the design, and the subject of six of the seven drawings, is a large axial complex consisting of a winter garden and a dining room (to seat 150 guests). The plan of this complex is similar to, though much smaller than, that at Laeken. A general plan shows the layout of the entire project, with its long glazed corridor, again similar to corridors at Laeken, linking the main buildings to a railroad line. There is, at present, no evidence that the project was ever built.

The Archives du Palais Royal in Brussels contain 11 sheets (LC, laisse 1) apparently related to the set of eight recorded here (Willis, 30 April 1987).
Other drawings by Balat can be found in the archives of the City of Brussels, and in the Royal Albert Library, Cabinet des Estampes, also in Brussels.

PROVENANCE DESCRIPTION :

Purchased, 1986

NOTE :	Catalogued by:	Richard Hemphill, 31. VII.1986
	Revised by:	David W. Booth, 6.VI.1991 (existing data reformatted and indexed, and fields in intellectual analysis added or corrected)
	Revised by:	Jennifer Trant, 8.I.1991 (record reformatted according to FDA Guidelines)
	Record Status:	fully catalogued
SOURCES:	Clément, Jules.Alphonse Balat, architecte du roi (1819-1895) (Brussels: Académie royale de Belgique, 1956).
	Dictionnaire biographique illustré des artistes en Belgique depuis 1830, 1989, s.v. "Balat, Alphonse". Kohlmaier, Georg and Sartory, Barna von.
	Houses of Glass: A Nineteenth-Century Building Type, transl. John C. Harvey (Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1986).
	Koppelkamm, Stefan. Glasshouses and Wintergardens of the Nineteenth Century, transl. Katherine Talbot (New York: Rizzoli, 1981).
	Macmillan, s.v. "Balat, Alphonse".
	Thieme-Becker, s.v. "Balat, Alphonse.
	Willis, A. Memo to Mimi Cazort, Curator of Prints and Drawings, 16 February 1987 (see object file; discusses attribution).
	Willis, A. Memo to Mimi Cazort, Curator of Prints and Drawings, 30 April 1987 (see object file; discusses related works).
	Woods, May and Warren, Arete Swartz. Glass Houses: A History of Greenhouses, Orangeries and Conservatories (New York: Rizzoli, 1988).
CREDIT LINE :	Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
RESTRICTIONS:	Available for consultation by qualified researchers.
REPRODUCTIONS :	Black and white photographs available of all drawings; some black and white details; some 35mm colour slides.

SUBJECT/BUILT WORK NAME :	Château de Ciergnon     Conservatory
ALTERNATE SUBJECT/BUILT WORK NAME :	Château de Ciergnon     Serres de réception
SUBJECT/BUILT WORK LOCATION :	Belgium     Namur         Ciergnon

SUBJECT/BUILT WORK DESCRIPTION:	This complex of "serres de réception" (glass conservatories) was designed by Alphonse Balat for the Château de Ciergnon in Namur province, Belgium, a 19th-century structure located on the right bank of the River Lesse, which was a summer residence of the Belgian royal family. The focus of the design, and the subject of six of the seven drawings, is a large axial complex consisting of a winter garden and a dining room (to seat 150 guests). The plan of this complex is similar to, though much smaller than, that at Laeken, the most important of the glass houses in Belgium designed by Alphonse Balat and built in several phases (1865-1895). A general plan shows the layout of the entire project, with its long glazed corridor, again similar to corridors at Laeken, linking the main buildings to a railroad line. There is, at present, no evidence that the project was ever built.
SUBJECT/BUILT WORK TYPE (BY FUNCTION/FORM) LOCATION:	conservatories greenhouses glass buildings axial plan dining room
MATERIALS:	glass
SUBJECT/BUILT WORK DESCRIPTIVE DATE:	designed 1894
SUBJECT/BUILT WORK EARLIEST DATE:	1894
SUBJECT/BUILT WORK LATEST DATE:	1894

RELATED PERSON/ CORPORATE BODY:	Alphonse Balat
RELATED PERSON/ CORPORATE BODY NAME DESCRIPTION:	Balat, Alphonse
RELATED ROLE:	architect
RELATED PERSON/ CORPORATE BODY DESCRIPTION:	Leopold II, King of the Belgians
RELATED PERSON/ CORPORATE BODY NAME DESCRIPTION:	Leopold II, King of the Belgians
RELATED ROLE:	client

REPOSITORY NAME:	Centre Canadien d'Architecture/Canadian Centre for Architecture
REPOSITORY GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION:	Canada     Québec         Montréal
ADMINISTRATIVE UNIT:	Prints and Drawings
GROUP/ITEM ID:	DR1986:0261
REPOSITORY TITLE:	Elevation and longitudinal section for a proposed winter garden at the Château de Ciergnon, Belgium
DESCRIPTIVE TITLE:	Elevation and longitudinal section for a proposed winter garden at the Château de Ciergnon, Belgium
INSCRIBED TITLE:	Château de Ciergnon / Serres de réception / Hall-jardin-d'hiver / Coupe longitudinale

CATALOGUE LEVEL:	item
DOCUMENT TYPE:	architectural drawing

RESPONSIBILITY DESCRIPTION:	Alphonse Balat
NAME:	Balat, Alphonse
ROLE (BROAD) :	maker
ROLE (NARROW) :	draughtsman

PURPOSE DESCRIPTION:	finished design drawing with graphite pentimenti
PURPOSE (BROAD):	working drawing
PURPOSE (NARROW) ):	design drawing

METHOD/VIEW (BROAD):	orthographic drawing section elevation
METHOD/VIEW (NARROW) ):	longitudinal section

TECHNIQUE, MEDIUM, AND SUPPORT DESCRIPTION:	pen and black and blue ink with blue and red coloured pencil and graphite pentimenti on transparent wove paper, laid down on transparent laid paper
TECHNIQUE DESCRIPTION:	pen coloured pencil pencil
MEDIUM:	black ink blue ink graphite blue coloured pencil red coloured pencil
SUPPORT:	wove paper
WATERMARK:	none
INSCRIPTION DESCRIPTION:	inscribed, by the draughtsman ?, in pen and brown ink, u.l.: "PL.IV. Château de Ciergnon / Serres de réception / Hall-jardin-d'hiver. / Coupe longitudinale. / 31 mars 1894. / Alphonse Balat [?]"; by the draughtsman, in pen and black ink, c.: with dimensions
SCALE DESCRIPTION:	inscribed scale, in pen and black ink, l.r.: "Echelle de 0.005 par me"
SCALE:	scale
DIMENSIONS DESCRIPTION:	sheet: 28.5 x 41.1 cm
HEIGHT:	28.5
WIDTH:	41.1
UNIT OF MEASUREMENT:	cm

DESCRIPTIVE DATE:	1894
EARLIEST DATE:	1894
LATEST DATE:	1894

A longitudinal section and an elevation for the proposed winter garden from a complex of "serres de réception" (glass conservatories) at the Château de Ciergnon in Namur province, Belgium.

The same winter garden is described in plan on DR1986:0259 and DR1986:0260.

PROVENANCE DESCRIPTION:

Purchased, 1986

NOTE:	Catalogued by:	Richard Hemphill, 31.VII.1986
	Revised by:	David W. Booth, 7.VI.1991 (existing data reformatted and indexed, and fields in intellectual analysis added or corrected)
	Revised by:	Jennifer Trant, 8.I.1992 (record reformatted according to FDA Guidelines)
	Record Status:	fully catalogued
SOURCES:	Clément, Jules. Alphonse Balat, architecte du roi (1819-1895) (Brussels: Académie royale de Belgique, 1956).
	Dictionnaire biographique illustré des artistes en Belgique depuis 1830, 1989,
	s.v. "Balat, Alphonse".
	Kohlmaier, Georg and Sartory, Barna von. Houses of Glass: A Nineteenth-Century Building Type, transl. John C. Harvey (Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1986).
	Koppelkamm, Stefan. Glasshouses and Wintergardens of the Nineteenth Century, transl. Katherine Talbot (New York: Rizzoli, 1981).
	Macmillan, s.v."Balat, Alphonse".
	Thieme-Becker, s.v. "Balat, Alphonse".
	Willis, A. Memo to Mimi Cazort, Curator of Prints and Drawings, 16 February 1987 (see object file; discusses attribution).
	Willis, A. Memo to Mimi Cazort, Curator of Prints and Drawings, 30 April 1987 (see object file; discusses related works).
	Woods, May and Warren, Arete Swartz. Glass Houses: A History of Greenhouses, Orangeries and Conservatories (New York: Rizzoli, 1988).
CREDIT LINE:	Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
RESTRICTIONS:	Available for consultation by qualified researchers
REPRODUCTIONS:	Black and white photograph; black and white photographs of details; 35mm colour slide

SUBJECT/BUILT WORK NAME:	Château de Ciergnon     Conservatory
ALTERNATE SUBJECT/BUILT WORK NAME:	Château de Ciergnon     Serres de réception
SUBJECT/BUILT WORK LOCATION NAME:	Belgium     Namur         Ciergnon

SUBJECT/BUILT WORK DESCRIPTION:	This winter garden forms part of a complex of "serres de réception" (glass conservatories) designed by Alphonse Balat for the Château de Ciergnon in Namur province, Belgium, a 19th-century structure located on the right bank of the River Lesse, which was a summer residence of the Belgian royal family. Along with a dining room (to seat 150 guests) it forms the focus of the large axial complex. There is, at present, no evidence that the project was ever built.
SUBJECT/BUILT WORK TYPE (BY FUNCTION/FORM):	conservatories greenhouses glass buildings winter garden glass
SUBJECT/BUILT WORK DESCRIPTIVE DATE:	designed 1894
SUBJECT/BUILT WORK EARLIEST DATE:	1894
SUBJECT/BUILT WORK LATEST DATE:	1894

RELATED PERSON/ CORPORATE BODY DESCRIPTION:	Alphonse Balat
RELATED PERSON/ CORPORATE BODY NAME:	Balat, Alphonse
RELATED ROLE:	architect
RELATED PERSON/ CORPORATE BODY DESCRIPTION:	Leopold II, King of the Belgians
RELATED PERSON/ CORPORATE BODY NAME DESCRIPTION:	Leopold II, King of the Belgians
RELATED ROLE:	client

DESCRIPTIVE NAME:	Alphonse Balat
NAME:	Balat, Alphonse
ALTERNATE NAME(S) :	Balat, Alphonse Hubert François

BIOGRAPHICAL/ CORPORATE DESCRIPTIVE NOTE:	Born Cognelée, Belgium, 1818 or 1819; died Ixelles-les-Bruxelles, Belgium, 1895. Clément gives Balat's birthdate as 1819; all others give the date as 1818. (See Clément, Jules. Alphonse Balat, architecte du roi (1819-1895) (Bruxelles: Académie royale de Belgique, 1956; Macmillan; Thieme-Becker; Dictionnaire biographique illustré des artistes en Belgique depuis 1830, 1987; not found in LC)
LIFE ROLE(S) :	architect
LOCUS/LOCATION :	Belgium
DESCRIPTIVE DATE OF EXISTENCE :	1818 or 1819-1895
EARLIEST DATE OF EXISTENCE :	1818
LATEST DATE OF EXISTENCE :	1895

DESCRIPTIVE NAME:	Leopold II, King of the Belgians
NAME:	Leopold II, King of the Belgians
ALTERNATE NAME(S) :	Leopold II, King of Belgium

BIOGRAPHICAL/ CORPORATE DESCRIPTIVE NOTE:	Born Brussels, Belgium, 1835; died Laeken, Belgium, 1909. (See LC, New Encyclopedia Britannica, 15th ed. 1989; Encyclopédie français, 1971.)
LIFE ROLE(S) :	king
	patron
LOCUS/LOCATION:	Belgium
DESCRIPTIVE DATE OF EXISTENCE:	1835-1909
EARLIEST DATE OF EXISTENCE:	1835
LATEST DATE OF EXISTENCE:	1909