1939
GUSN-331609
Set of thrity-two architectural drawings of house for Mr. and Mrs. Hollis P. Nichols in Needham, Massachusetts (commission #687) including four elevations, three plans, two framing plans, one plot plan, and twenty-two details. Most drawings are signed and dated by Merton Barrows.
****Some quite fragile - some retraced by C(?) in 1947, with original 1939 also shown.****
Drawings depict a two-story Colonial Revival house with front dormers, a asphalt shingle roof, and a clapboard exterior.
House has three car garage, living room with fireplace, study with fireplace, dining room with fireplace, kitchen, pantry, lavatory, maid's room and bathroom, shed, three bedrooms, three bathrooms, dressing rooms, and a rec room.
houses
dwellings
Tudor Revival
architectural drawings (visual works)
exterior elevations
plans (orthographic projections)
site plans
framing plans
32 architectural drawings: pencil on trace
AR029
Royal Barry Wills Associates architectural collection, 1925-2013 (bulk 1920s-1980)
2013-11-01
AR029.04.04.687
16 x 31 (HxW)(inches)
Needham (Norfolk county, Massachusetts)
Wills, Royal Barry, 1895-1962 (Architect)
architectural drawings (visual works)
exterior elevations
plans (orthographic projections)
site plans
framing plans
House
File part
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