Frank Bowes store and apartment, Melrose, Mass.

Collection Type

  • Architecture

Date

1929

Location Note

Drawer 2 / folder 48

GUSN

GUSN-326604

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Description

Set of seventeen architectural drawings ofbuilding for Frank Bowes in Melrose, Massachusetts (commission #236 including four elevations, three plans, three framing plans, plot plan, and six details. No drawings are signed; two are dated.

Drawings depict a two-story Cape Cod-style building with three dormers. A commerical store occupies the first floor; the second floor has a two-bedroom apartment with separate entrance.

Drawings are fragile

Details

Descriptive Terms

apartments
dwellings
stores
Cape Cod houses
architectural drawings (visual works)
exterior elevations
plans (orthographic projections)
detail drawings (drawings)
site plans
framing plans

Physical Descrption

17 architectural drawings : pencil on trace

Collection Code

AR029

Collection Name

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

Date of Acquisition

2013-11-01

Reference Code

AR029.04.04.236

Places

Melrose (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)

Record Details

Originator

Wills, Royal Barry, 1895-1962 (Architect)

Material Type

architectural drawings (visual works)
exterior elevations
plans (orthographic projections)
detail drawings (drawings)
site plans
framing plans

Description Level

File part

Location Note

Drawer 2 / folder 48

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