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This drawing shows sketches for the North Elevation, South Elevation, East Elevation, and Floor Plan. Beneath the East Elevation sketch is a note: "N.B. West elevation is the same." A section drawing of the Longitudinal Section of Roof Edge shows the triangular roof strip. The scale for this detail is 1" = 1'. The floor plan shows the Mixing Room, Laboratory, Office, Moulding Room, Kiln Room with Kilns, and a Designing Room. There is also a detail drawing "A" that shows details and notes for the Roof Boards, Ends of the Roof Rafters, and a Swing Window. Detail drawing "B" shows details and notes for the Window Casement. No scale is given for these details. Warren Henry Manning (1860-1938) was a landscape designer, landscape architect, and regional planner from Reading Massachusetts. From 1901 to 1921, Manning corresponded and consulted with Presidents Charles D. McIver and Julius I. Foust about the landscape plans for the campus. He was named the official landscape architect of the college in 1909.