Angelo Zappala house,Lawrence, Mass.

Collection Type

  • Architecture

Date

1963-1964

Location Note

Drawer 58 / folders 1084, 1085, and 1086

GUSN

GUSN-332309

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Description

6 plans, 9 elevations, 2 detail drawings, 3 plot plans, 47 preliminary sketches, 1 rendering for a house for Mr. and Mrs. Angelo Zappala in Lawrence, Massachusetts (Commission #1953). Some drawings are dated. Some drawings are initialed or signed by Merton Barrows or John Howard.

Two-level Cape Cod house with colonial features and has a red cedar shingle roof and a clapboard exterior. House four bedrooms one with a dressing room and a bathroom. House has two additional baths, a mud room, a combined TV room and family room with a bbq, gallery, dumbwaiter, storage room, living room with fireplace, and a covered porch.

Details

Descriptive Terms

houses
orthographic projections (images)
plans (orthographic projections)
elevations (orthographic projections)
preliminary sketches (sketches)
renderings (drawings)
site plans
detail drawings (drawings)

Physical Descrption

68 architectural drawings: pencil on trace and photo static copy

Collection Code

AR029

Collection Name

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

Date of Acquisition

11/1/2013

Reference Code

AR029.04.04.1953

Image Dimensions

18 x 39 3/4 (HxW)(inches)

Places

Lawrence (Essex county, Massachusetts)

Record Details

Originator

Wills, Royal Barry, 1895-1962

Material Type

orthographic projections (images)
plans (orthographic projections)
elevations (orthographic projections)
preliminary sketches (sketches)
renderings (drawings)
site plans
detail drawings (drawings)

Subjects

House

Description Level

File part

Location Note

Drawer 58 / folders 1084, 1085, and 1086

Related Items

Renderings - Merton S. Barrows

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