iNTRODUCTION AND INDEX TO THE DRAWINGS OF

JOHN BLOOMFIELD JERVIS

Jervis Public Library

Rome, New York


INTRODUCTION | JERVIS MAIN

The drawings collections of the John B. Jervis collection comprises 367 items of which 38 have been digitized from slides and are available for viewing from this page.

In the fall of 1986 the New York State Education Department, Division of Library Development, awarded Jervis Library a $10,300 Conservation / Preservation Discretionary Grant for the preservation of the drawings and papers of John Bloomfield Jervis. Assistant Director Keith Kinna wrote the grant and was the project coordinator.

Project Consultant John Dean, Conservation Librarian, Cornell University, advised that Jervis’ drawings were in most urgent need of attention. Immediate flattening, cleaning, deacidification, and proper storage were required. This task was assigned to Patrick Reynolds, then Assistant Curator at the Rome Historical Society. Mr. Reynolds also annotated briefly, and classified, 378 of the drawings. Dr. F. Daniel Larkin, Jervis scholar and biographer at SUNY Oneonta, assisted Mr. Reynolds in classifying the drawings by project.

Jervis was the foremost civil engineer of the antebellum era, and supervised construction and design of canals, railroads, aqueducts, and locomotives. Projects featured in this collection include New York City’s Croton Aqueduct, the Mohawk & Hudson Railroad, the Delaware & Hudson Canal, other New York State canals and railroads, and various locomotive designs.

The drawings have since been featured in exhibits at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Hudson River Museum, and other institutions; and used to illustrate numerous books, articles, and brochures.

Slides and annotations of most of the drawings are available for inter-library loan. A digital index is available, and printouts from that are available upon request. For further information please contact the Assistant Director at Jervis Library.

Keith Kinna
Assistant Director
July 1999


1 -- Section of basement and cellar Jervis Home

2 -- Cistern cross sections sliding parlour doors glass door

3 -- Grounds layout for sewer and details

4 -- Sections of crosswalls in dwelling house

5 -- Details of walls for dwelling house by JB Jervis

6 -- Plan of foundations and basement with sections

7 -- Grounds layout for sewers

8 -- Sections of cross walls in Jervis Home

9 -- Details of walls for dwelling house

10 -- Cistern cross section and misc doors

11 -- Front elevation

12 -- Front elevation of Jervis Home

13 -- Plans for the grounds of the Jervis estate

14 -- Front elevation of Jervis Home

15 -- Rear elevation Jervis Home

16 -- Proposed grounds layout Jervis estate

17 -- North elevation of Jervis house

18 -- Section in elevation through center hall

19 -- South elevations with projections

20 -- Side elevation proposal for Jervis home, Italianate house design--not used

21 -- South elevation with projections

22 -- North elevations of Jervis Home

23 -- Rear elevation of Jervis Home

24 -- Plan of Basement floor

25 -- Railing details -- flower pattern

26 -- Fence details -- three versions

27 -- Railing--fleur-de-lis pattern

28 -- Master plan of proposed version of Jervis home

29 -- Master plan of optional Jervis Home

30 -- Design for door and window

31 -- Elevations of book cases

32 -- Elevations of book cases (tracing)

33 -- Elevations of front entrance and details

34 -- Elevations of front entrance and details

35 -- Plan of principal floor, depicting main living floor of Jervis Home with dimensions of windows and doorways

36 -- Floor plan of first story, depicting main living floor of Jervis Home with dimensions of windows and doorways

37 -- Details of Front Entrance/Columns and Piazzo

38 -- Details of Front Entrance/Columns and Piazzo

39 -- Ground Plan and Elevations of Piazzo and Columns

40 -- Ground Plan and Elevations of Piazzo and Columns (Tracing)

41 -- Veranda Detail

42 -- Main Entrance Detail

43 -- Detail on moulding

44 -- Unknown structure

45 -- "Section showing roof,  attic floor and observatory"

46 -- Plan of Second Floor

47 -- Floor Plan of Second Story

48 -- Floor Plan of Attic Floor

49 -- Roof Plan with Sectional View

50 -- No. 6 plan of planked roof and other numbered details

51 -- No. 6 plan of metal roof and other numbered details

52 -- Floor Plan - Optional - Jervis Home

53 -- Layout and description of woodhouse and privy of Jervis Home

54 -- Plan of sheep barn and shed

55 -- Explanation of positions of out buildings

56 -- Plot of the farm of John B. Jervis with explanations

57 -- Map of the acreage of the fields of John B. Jervis farm

58 -- "Lands of John B. Jervis in the City of Rome,  NY"

59 -- "Section drawing front cornice and 'panel' - full scale"

60 -- Cornice of observatory and top ornament

61 -- Floor plan of proposed Jervis Home

62 -- Plan of Canal Lock

63 -- General plan of lock connecting with the Susquehanna

64 -- Lock Irons

65 -- Lock 10 ft. list

66 -- Lock of 10 foot lift with Quoin Post

67 -- Plan of Waste Weir

68 -- Elevation of Aqueduct

69 --  Lock of eight-feet-lift

70 -- Hudson Brook Aqueduct

71 -- Plan of road bridge - 50 foot span

72 -- Plan of diagonal bridge - 60 foot span

73 -- Plan for canal bridge for unknown use

74 -- Iron suspension bridge on Reigate Hill

80 -- The Britannia tubular bridge over the Menai Straits

81 -- The suspension bridge over the Menai

82 -- The Conway tubular bridge and castle

84 -- Untitled English street scene

85 -- Plan of canal on the Schylkill River

86 -- Stop cock for 3 foot pipes

87 -- Details of device to move stone

88 -- "Distributing pipe system for Fairmont Waterworks,  left half (1840)"

89 -- "Distributing pipe system for Fairmont Waterworks,  right half (1840)"

90 -- Fairmont Waterworks and Vicinity

91 -- Roster of running 50 ton boats 1846-49 (Uncompleted) Date: 1849)

92 -- Freight platform for moving cargo from trains to canal boats

93 -- Plan of machinery for foot of plane no. 8

94 -- Plan of machinery for head of plane no. 8

95 -- Plan of machinery for head of plane no. 5

96 -- Express locomotive engine - sections of boiler & drive wheels

97 -- Sections of boiler of an express locomotive engineer

98 -- The Robert Fulton locomotive engine for the Mohawk & Hudson RR

99 -- Locomotive engine with double-decker coal grate

100 -- Elevation of the experiment

101 -- Mechanical valve - ? unknown function

102 -- Plan and elevations of railroad passenger car with brake

103 -- Longitudinal section of stone arch towpath for Erie Canal enlargement

104 -- Survey map of lands owned by John B. Jervis in Indiana

105 -- Plan of a wagon to carry 3 tons

106 -- Plan of a wagon to carry six tons

107 -- "Stationary engine built by Clute Brothers,  Plan III (1852)"

108 -- Untitled railroad related device

109 -- Flywheel axle and support

110 -- Linen tracing of passenger car (Hudson River Railroad)?

111 -- Profile of the New York and Erie Railroad

112 -- Profiles of the two routes surveyed by the Hudson River Railroad Co.

113 -- Profiles of the two great routes from N.Y.C. to Lake Erie

114 -- Water station Hudson River Railroad

115 -- Plan of iron work for round house

116 -- Map of proposed straightening of the New York Central

117 -- Plan for truck for freight cars

118 -- Sections and elevations of embankment - Halifax Water Works (1845)

119 -- Plan and elevation of swinging railroad bridge

120 -- Sections of waste gate & culverts - Halifax Water Works

121 -- R.L. & A Stuarts steam sugar refinery - N.Y. (Copy I)

122 -- "R.L. & A Stuarts steam sugar refinery,  New York (Copy II)"

123 -- Map of the Provinces of Canada (1846)

124 -- Map of the Georgia Railroad and several lines connecting with it (1839)

125 -- Map of profiles between the Delaware and Schylkill River

126 -- Track carriage on diagonal rollers

127 -- Ground plan of W. 23rd St. Presbyterian Church (Copy I)

128 -- Ground plan of the West 23rd St. Presbyterian Church (Copy II)

129 -- Ground plan of unknown church

130 -- Plan of the city of Halifax by C.H. Belcher

131 -- "Plan of the Town of Halifax,  including north and south suburbs (1845)"

132 -- Map of the New Haven water survey (Copy I)

133 -- Map of the New Haven water survey (Copy II)

134 -- Map of the New Haven Water Survey (Copy III)

135 -- Elevation of Arched bridge - 125 ft. span

136 -- Elevation of arch centering

137 -- Untitled arched bridge elevation

138 -- Plan and elevation of arched bridge

139 -- Plan of wooden bridge

140 -- Pumps for emptying the coffer dams - Potomac Aqueduct

141 -- Perspective view of the work - 1837

142 -- Condition of the work at close of 1837

143 -- Plan of iron bridge with cross bars

144 -- Detail of ironwork for unknown bridge

145 -- Plan for construction of railroad bed

146 -- Truck for 8 wheel coal car D.H.C. Co.

147 -- "Map of railroads in Massachusetts,  Connecticut and Rhode Island in 1846"

148 -- Map of the Croton River watershed (1858)

149 -- Sections for arch stones for bridge across 98th street

150 -- Accounting sheet for section 85 of Croton Aqueduct

151 -- Section of arched stones for bridges across 97th & 101st streets

152 -- Plan of bridge of Croton Aqueduct between 96th and 101st street

153 -- General plan and elevations of Croton Dam

154 -- Plan and elevation of Indian Brook Culvert

155 -- Profile and Ground Plan of the lower part of Croton Aqueduct

156 -- Section of arch-stones for bridge across 98th street

157 -- Plan & elevation of Croton distributing reservoir

158 -- "Plan of waste weir,  sewer,  and gatehouse of receiving reservoir - Croton Aqueduct"

159 -- Gates of influent gate chambre for receiving reservoir (Croton Aqueduct)

160 -- Bridge over 98th street

161 -- Transverse sections of Croton Aqueduct for the report of J. B. Jervis 12-23-1836

162 -- Gates of Gatehouse - Manhattan Valley

163 -- (No title)

164 -- Cornice of distributing reservoir

165 -- Roof for gatehouse - Manhattanville

166 -- Map of the city of New York - 1847

167 -- Map of the Fairmount Waterworks and Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad

168 -- Guard Gate - Halifax Waterworks (1847)

169 -- Gatehouse - Halifax Waterworks (1847)

170 -- Culvert of Halifax Waterworks (1845)

171 -- Plan of wheel for locomotive

172 -- Plan for stone bridges - S & S Railroad

173 -- Railroad viaduct over Celplace Creek

174 -- Plan of Mourning Kill Brige - S & S Railroad

175 -- Plan of Viaduct in Ballston Spa - S & S Railroad

176 -- Plan of bridge across Kayderossers Creek (S & S Railroad)

177 -- Survey for Saratoga and Schenectady Railroad

178 -- Bridge at Curtis (S & S RR)

179 -- Plan of land adjacent to rail line - Saratoga Springs

180 -- Plan of City Bridge - M & H RR

181 -- Plan of bridge work for locomotive

182 -- Plan of Fastening Plate

183 -- Plan of Railroad Termination House

184 -- Plan of wrought iron chair for locomotive rail

185 -- Rail and Chair - Copy I

186 -- Rail and Chair - Copy II

187 -- Rail and Chair - Copy III

188 -- Rail and Chair - Copy IV

189 -- Elevation of regulating gates for aqueduct at Croton Dam

190 -- General plan of aqueduct - six versions

191 -- Sectional drawing of aqueduct - alternate plan - Copy I

192 -- Cross section of aqueduct with calculations

193 -- Cross section of brick sewer in Manhattan Street

194 -- Plan of connecting pipe and waste weir well (1839)

195 -- Plan of part of waste sewer of receiving reservoir

196 -- General plan of aqueduct - five versions

197 -- Plan of gatehouse - North side of Harlem River

198 -- Plan of 4 ft. culvert with well fall

199 -- Method of construction on steep side hills (Tarrytown Division)

200 -- Sectional drawing of aqueduct alternate plan - Copy II

201 -- Culvert of four feet chord

202 -- Eight-feet culvert Requa's Brook

203 -- Plan of iron aqueduct (unfinished)

204 -- Clendinning Valley Ventilator

205 -- Section of the aqueduct with iron lining

206 -- Plan of supporting the Croton aqueduct across ravines/low grounds Copy I

207 -- Plan of supporting the Croton aqueduct across ravines/low grounds Copy II

208 -- Plan of supporting the Croton aqueduct across ravines/low grounds Copy III

209 -- "Plan of "six feet culvert"

210 -- "Plan of ""six feet culvert"" with dimensions"

211 -- General plan of 6 ft. culvert bottom of culvert level

212 -- Plan of small culvert with well fall

213 -- "Section of aqueduct 'Douglas Type'"

214 -- Mill River Culvert - Sec. 33

215 -- Plan of aqueduct in stone cut

216 -- "Eight feet culvert at Requas Brook,  large scale"

217 -- General plan for two ft. culverts with well fall

218 -- Culvert at Station 1683

219 -- Culvert near Station 1800

220 -- Plan of aqueduct section 96---

221 -- 8 ft. culvert at Lounsbury's Ravine

222 -- Sketch of 4 ft. culvert

223 -- Four feet culvert Sec. 38

224 -- Culvert 3 ft. span (Unfinished drawing)

225 -- Cross section of work over foundation wall - Section 94 (1841)

226 -- Plan of aqueduct in open rock cutting with calculations

227 -- Road Culvert Sec. 20

228 -- Plan of aqueduct with iron lining

229 -- Eight foot culvert at Lounsbury's Ravine (Unfinished drawing)

230 -- Plans and elevations of ventilators

231 -- Waste weir Sec. 33

232 -- General Plan of two foot culvert with well fall: Copy II

233 -- General plan of two foot culvert with well fall: Copy III

234 -- General plan of two foot culvert with well fall: Copy IV

235 -- "Plan of supporting Croton Aqueduct across ravines,  sheet 1 annexed to report of Dec. 27,  1836"

236 -- General plan of six feet culvert submitted by JBJ in report of Dec. 27th 1836

237 -- Untitled copy of general plan of six foot culvert for report (1836)

238 -- General Plan of aqueduct below grade

239 -- Sketch of small bridge over aqueduct

240 -- Stop cock for 36 inch pipes

241 -- Plan of centering and abutment Sing-Sing-Kill Bridge

242 -- Iron plates over aqueduct bridge at Sing-Sing

243 -- General plan for aqueduct bridge at Sing-Sing

244 -- General plan for aqueduct bridge at Sleepy Hollow

245 --  Viaduct near Sawmill River

246 -- Centering for Arch of Low Bridge

247 -- Plan of tunnel under the channel of the Harlem River

248 -- Effluent gate of northern div. & influent sluice channel of southern

249 -- Elevation of a high bridge for crossing Harlaem(sic) River

250 -- Plan of Croton Dam with sections

251 -- Minor structures of receiving reservoir

252 -- "Plan for bridge over 98th,  99th and 100th streets"

253 -- Gatehouse for four three-foot pipes

254 -- Centering for arches for bridge on 98th street

255 -- Waste weir Section 90

256 -- Manhattan Valley Waste weir

257 -- Plan of metal gates for aqueduct

258 -- Plan of centering and scaffolding for 112' span

259 -- Details for connecting iron for coffer dam

260 -- Effluent pipes & chambers of receiving reservoir

261 -- "Section of arch stones for bridge across 98th,  99th,  and 100th streets"

262 -- Stone arch centering

263 -- Effluent pipes of receiving reservoir

264 -- Pipes & sections of distributing reservoir

265 -- General plan of distributing reservoir (unfinished plans)

266 -- Plan of pipes at north end of distributing reservoir (Unfinished plans)

267 -- Gatehouse Manhattan Valley

268 -- Cut stone work of Manhattan Valley gatehouse - Copy I

269 -- Cut stone work of Manhattan Valley gatehouse - Copy II

270 -- Excavations in Manhattan Valley - 1840

271 -- Coping for top of well - 1841

272 -- Profile of centre of Manhattan Street

273 -- Pump for coffer dams

274 -- Pump for coffer dams with details

275 -- Detail of top portion of coffer dam pumps

276 -- Proposed influent gatehouse for receiving reservoir

277 -- Frame of coffer dam - Copy I

278 -- Frame of coffer dam - Copy II

279 -- Calculations for materials used in construction of archways

280 -- Flood level survey - Copy I

281 -- Survey map of spillway channel erosion

282 -- Concrete addition at tip of dam

283 -- Large Boom Derrick

284 -- Small derrick

285 -- Boom derrick no. 2

286 -- Influent Gatehouse Sheet No. 2

287 -- Elevation or Centre and Sections through spandrel of Sing Sing aqueduct bridge

288 -- Gatehouse with details of pipes

289 -- Profile of Woods bridge & flood of 1841

290 -- "Flood level survey,  Copy II 184"

291 -- Untitled survey of farmland

292 -- General plan of work Manhattan Valley gatehouse

293 -- Profiles of excavations of Coffer Dam

294 -- Profiles of Croton Dam Runoff Channel

295 -- Plan of 8 feet culvert at Regua's Brook

296 -- Elevation on main entrance to distributing reservoir

297 -- Elevation of Center Pilaster on 5th Avenue

298 -- Centering of vault of waste weir gate chambre

299 -- Vault sewer & discharge pipes in Fifth Avenue

300 -- Plan and sections of stone mouths for effivent pipes

301 -- "General plan of 4 ft culvert with well fall,  Copy I"

302 -- "General plan of 4 ft culvert with well fall,  Copy II"

303 -- "Stone details for arch 50 feet span,  1843"

304 -- Cost estimate drawings for cornice of distributing reservoir

305 -- Section of masonry in tunneling in rock

307 -- Plan of Effluent Pipes in the East side of receiving reservoir

308 -- Stone details for arch of 80 feet span

309 -- Elevation of ventilator with entrance way

310 -- 8 feet culvert at Requa's Brook

311 -- "Stone details for arch of 50 feet span,  1843"

312 -- Proposed plan for pipes under the Harlem River

313 -- Calculations for gatehouse construction

314 -- General plan for 6 ft culverts

315 -- General plan for three sizes of culverts

316 -- 10 ft culvert at Baileys Brook

317 -- Plan and elevation of Sing Sing bridge

318 -- Elevation of regulating gates

319 -- Details of Cornice

320 -- Details of Manhattan Valley gatehouse

321 -- Square opening of weir house

322 -- Section of aqueduct with stone arch

323 -- "Section of arch stones for bridge across 96th street,  Copy I"

324 -- "Section of arch stones for bridge across 96th street,  Copy II"

325 -- Untitled details of concrete work

326 -- Cross section of Croton Dam

327 -- Sketch of Regulating gates

328 -- Masonry calculations for Croton Dam

329 -- Details of Wooden Apron

330 -- General plan of distributing reservoir waterways

331 -- Plan of masonry structure of distributing reservoir

332 -- Section and arrangement of stairs for distributing reservoir

333 -- Proposed plan of dam and gatehouse

334 -- Influent gatehouse receiving reservoir

335 -- Profile of walls of receiving reservoir

336 -- Details of masonry conduit

337 -- Effivent pipes and waste weirs

338 -- Sections of various size pipes

339 -- Detail of iron gate and iron pipe joint

340 -- Stone work of influent gatehouse

341 -- Untitled waste weir of gatehouse

342 -- Section and details of distributing reservoir

343 -- Wooden centering for 80 foot span

344 -- Section of arch stones for bridge across 98th street

345 -- Bond of stone at waste weir

346 -- Untitled rectangular object

347 -- "Elevation of low bridge for crossing Harlem River,  Copy I"

348 -- "Elevation of low bridge for crossing Harlem River,  Copy II"

349 -- Elevation of facade of distributing reservoir

350 -- Profiles of ground level survey at distr. reser.

351 -- Canal aqueduct over the Mohawk River at Little Falls

352 -- Canal aqueduct with sections

353 -- Plan of swinging bridge over canal

354 -- Plan of abutments for swinging and stationary bridge over canal

355 -- Map of New England 1839 Part I

356 -- Map of New England 1839 Part II

357 -- Transverse section and plan of third floor of optional Jervis home

358 -- Ground plan of the west 23rd street Presbyterian Church

359 --  Tracing of pitched roof with metal supports

360 -- Sketch showing proposed location of Albany bridge

361 -- Section of Hadley Falls Co. dam

362 -- Elevation on 40th street

363 -- General plan for 6 ft culverts

364 -- Unfinished sketch of low bridge across Harlem River

365 -- Profile of survey of Harlem River crossing

366 -- Plan elevation and sections of aqueduct between 96th and 101st street

367 -- Rear elevation of optional Jervis home

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