Maurice A. Dunlavy house, Brookline, Mass.

Description

Set of eleven architectural drawings of house for Maurice A. Dunlavy in Brookline, Massachusetts (commission #279) including four elevations, three plans, two framing plans, plot plan, and one detail. No drawings are signed or dated.

Drawings depict a two-story Cape Cod-style house with slate roof and clapboard exterior. House has a living room with fireplace, library, dining room, kitchen, pantry, lavatory, covered porch, three bedrooms, dressing room, and two bathrooms.

Wills designed the house as a wedding present for Dunlavy who was a builder. Wills then won the gold medal in Herbert Hoover's 1932 National Better Home Competition with this design.