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Box 6
GUSN-358797
Plan book for house designs published by The Boston Post. The first half of the plan book contains articles for house construction and maintenance, as well as the house designs. Each house design comes with a floor plan, an illustration of the house (provided by either Boston-based architects Robert Louis Stevenson or Byron E. Porter), and a paragraph describing unique features of the house. The latter half of the plan book contains advertisements for businesses selling housing or construction products, mostly Massachusetts-based.
floor plans
houses
articles
advertising
newspapers
business (commercial function)
construction (assembling)
maintenance
architects
illustrations (layout features)
building materials
pattern books
printed ephemera
1 plan book : illustrations, plans ; 10 1/2 x 7 7/8 inches
EP005
Richard Cheek architectural plan book collection
2019
EP005.428
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
The Boston Post (Publisher)
pattern books
printed ephemera
Stevenson, Robert L. (Robert Louis), 1883-
Porter, Byron E.
The Boston Post
Advertisement
Architects and builders
House
Architecture
Item
Box 6
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