Scrapbook, 1962-1964

Collection Type

  • Ephemera

Date

1962-1964

Location Note

Box 30

GUSN

GUSN-324337

Browse Collection

Description

Untitled scrapbook containing materials, primarily dated 1962 to 1964.The majority of the materials in the scrapbook are magazine and newspaper clippings featuring houses designed by Royal Barry Wills Associates with a particular emphasis on housing developments in Boxford, Massachusetts and New Seabury, Massachusetts. Also included are clippings announcing the firm's selction to design a house for the 1964-1965 World's Fair in New York. Earlier items include one page of clippings from 1926, 1937 and 1938 and a 1946 profile of Royal Barry Wills in Life magazine.

Details

Descriptive Terms

houses
architects
architectural firms
architecture (discipline)
world's fairs
scrapbooks
clippings (information artifacts)

Physical Descrption

1 scrapbook ; 17 1/2 x 14 x 2 inches

Collection Code

AR029

Collection Name

Royal Barry Wills Associates architectural collection, 1925-2013 (bulk 1920s-1980)

Date of Acquisition

2013

Reference Code

AR029.03.02.047

Dimensions

17 1/2 x 14 x 2 (HxWxD)(inches)

Places

Ashland (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)
Augusta (Kennebec county, Maine)
Boxford (Essex county, Massachusetts)
Colebrook (Litchfield county, Connecticut)
Egypt (Plymouth County, Massachusetts)
Flushing (Queens, New York City, New York state) [neighborhood]
Gardner (Worcester county, Massachusetts)
Hamilton (Essex county, Massachusetts)
Hollis (Hillsborough county, New Hampshire)
Homewood (Cook county, Illinois)
Lunenburg (Worcester county, Massachusetts)
Lynnfield (Essex county, Massachusetts)
Marshfield (Plymouth County, Massachusetts)
Medfield (Norfolk county, Massachusetts)
Melrose (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)
Needham (Norfolk county, Massachusetts)
New Seabury (Barnstable county, Massachusetts)
Norwell (Plymouth County, Massachusetts)
Plymouth (Grafton county, New Hampshire)
Portsmouth (Rockingham county, New Hampshire)
Stoneham (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)
Wellesley (Norfolk county, Massachusetts)
Winchester (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)

Record Details

Originator

Royal Barry Wills Associates (Compiler)

Material Type

scrapbooks
clippings (information artifacts)

Subjects

House
Architecture
World's Fair

Description Level

File

Location Note

Box 30

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