1931
Drawer 4 / folder 85
GUSN-326904
Set of twenty-five architectural drawings of house for William Henry McAdams in Newton, Massachusetts (commission #294) including four elevations, three plans, three framing plans, plot plan, and ten details. No drawings are dated or signed.
A sketch and three blueprints of plans are also present. Two details are signed "RBW." One drawing is dated 1942 and depicts a later alteration to the front door.
Drawings depict a two-story Colonial Revival-style house with a slate roof and a whitewashed brick exterior. House has a living room with fireplace, study, dining room, kitchen, breakfast room, lavatory, covered porch, maid's room and bathroom, three bedrooms, two dressing rooms, two bathrooms, and an attached two-car garage.
houses
dwellings
Colonial Revival
architectural drawings (visual works)
exterior elevations
plans (orthographic projections)
framing plans
detail drawings (drawings)
site plans
25 architectural drawings : pencil on trace and blueprints
AR029
Royal Barry Wills Associates architectural collection, 1925-2013 (bulk 1920s-1980)
2013-11-01
AR029.04.04.294
17 x 24 (HxW)(inches)
Newton (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)
Wills, Royal Barry, 1895-1962 (Architect)
architectural drawings (visual works)
exterior elevations
plans (orthographic projections)
framing plans
detail drawings (drawings)
site plans
House
File part
Drawer 4 / folder 85
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