Robert W. Ladd house, Dover, Mass.

Collection Type

  • Architecture

Date

1939

GUSN

GUSN-328290

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Description

Set of twenty-seven architectural drawings of house for Robert W. Ladd in Dover, Massachusetts (commission #699) including three elevations, six plans, three framing plans, one heating plan, and fourteen details. All drawings are dated; many drawings are signed by Royal Barry Wills, Robert E. Minot, or Nathaniel Perry Tufts.

Drawings depict a two-story Cape Cod-style house with one front dormer, a cedar shingle roof, and a clapboard, shingle, and flush board exterior. House has living room with fireplace, study with fireplace, dining room, kitchen, pantry, lavatory, covered porch, two maid's rooms and one maid's bathroom, four bedrooms, two bathrooms, and an attached two-car garage.

Details

Descriptive Terms

houses
dwellings
Colonial Revival
architectural drawings (visual works)
exterior elevations
plans (orthographic projections)
heating plans
framing plans
detail drawings (drawings)

Physical Descrption

27 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

AR029.04.04.699

Image Dimensions

18 x 31 1/2 (HxW)(inches)

Places

Dover (Norfolk county, Massachusetts)

Record Details

Originator

Wills, Royal Barry, 1895-1962 (Architect)

Material Type

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

Subjects

House

Description Level

File part

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