Walter L. Barker house, Nashua, N.H.

Collection Type

  • Architecture

Date

1939-1940

GUSN

GUSN-330251

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Description

Set of twenty architectural drawings of house for Walter L. Barker in Nashua, New Hampshire (commission #713) including six elevations, four plans, one plot plan, and nine details. Drawings are signed and dated by Merton S. Barrows or Nathaniel Perry Tufts. House was never built.

Drawings depict a two-story Colonial Revival-style house. House has a living room with fireplace, study with fireplace, dining room, kitchen, pantry, covered porch, lavatory, maid's room and bathroom, three bedrooms (one with fireplace), dressing room, two bathrooms, and an attached two-car garage. A recreation room with fireplace, dark room, and blueprint/photo room are on the basement level.

Details

Descriptive Terms

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

Physical Descrption

20 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

AR029.04.04.713

Image Dimensions

30 x 36 (HxW)(inches)

Places

Nashua (Hillsborough county, New Hampshire)

Record Details

Originator

Wills, Royal Barry, 1895-1962 (Architect)

Material Type

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

Subjects

House

Description Level

File part

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