Elmer Stennes house, Weymouth, Mass.

Collection Type

  • Architecture

Date

1938

Location Note

Drawer 10, folder 232, HAV-01-403-Z-C-111

GUSN

GUSN-327950

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Description

Set of seventeen architectural drawings of house for Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Stennes in Weymouth, Massachusetts (commission #615) including six elevations, five plans, one blueprint of presentation rendering, two framing plans, and three details. Many drawings are signed by Robert Minot and Nathaniel Perry Tufts; presentation rendering is signed by Royal Barry Wills. Two drawings are dated.

Drawings depict a two-story Cape Cod-style house with a one-story wing, a wood shingle roof, and a clapboard and flush board exterior. House has a living room with fireplace, dining room, kitchen, workshop with fireplace, lavatory, three bedrooms, one bathroom, and an attached one-car garage.

Details

Descriptive Terms

houses
dwellings
saltbox houses
Cape Cod houses
architectural drawings (visual works)
exterior elevations
plans (orthographic projections)
detail drawings (drawings)
framing plans
renderings (drawings)

Physical Descrption

17 architectural drawings : pencil on trace and blueprint

Collection Code

AR029

Collection Name

Royal Barry Wills Associates architectural collection, 1925-2013 (bulk 1920s-1980)

Date of Acquisition

2013-11-01

Reference Code

AR029.04.04.615

Image Dimensions

15 1/2 x 25 1/4 (HxW)(inches)

Places

Weymouth (Norfolk county, Massachusetts)

Record Details

Originator

Wills, Royal Barry, 1895-1962 (Architect)

Material Type

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

Subjects

House

Description Level

File part

Location Note

Drawer 10, folder 232, HAV-01-403-Z-C-111

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