1955-1956
Drawer 36 / folder 733 and 734
GUSN-330197
Set of thirty-one architectural drawings of house for Mr. and Mrs. Frank M. Beckerman in Brookline, Massachusetts (commission #1566) including four elevations, four plans, two topographic maps, one cross section, two framing plans, one rendering, and seventeen details. Some drawings are signed and dated by Royal Barry Wills, Ken Duprey, Robert E. Minot, or Warren J. Rhoter. Topographic maps were made by civil engineer J. R. Hennessey and the Brookline, Massachusetts firm of Olmsted Brothers.
Drawings depict a two-story Cape Cod-style house with a slate roof and a whitewashed brick, clapboard, and flush board exterior. House has a living room, study with fireplace, dining room, kitchen, breakfast room, lavatory, five bedrooms, dressing room, three bathrooms, and an attached two-car garage.
houses
dwellings
Cape Cod houses
architectural drawings (visual works)
exterior elevations
plans (orthographic projections)
detail drawings (drawings)
cross sections
topographic maps
framing plans
renderings (drawings)
31 architectural drawings : pencil on trace and photostatic copy
AR029
Royal Barry Wills Associates architectural collection, 1925-2013 (bulk 1920s-1980)
2013-11-01
AR029.04.04.1569
18 x 34 (HxW)(inches)
Brookline (Norfolk county, Massachusetts)
Wills, Royal Barry, 1895-1962 (Architect)
architectural drawings (visual works)
exterior elevations
plans (orthographic projections)
detail drawings (drawings)
cross sections
topographic maps
framing plans
renderings (drawings)
House
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Drawer 36 / folder 733 and 734
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