Kent Smith house, Nashua, N.H.

Collection Type

  • Architecture

Date

1952

Location Note

Drawer 27 / folder 385

GUSN

GUSN-330898

Browse Collection

Description

Set of twenty-one architectural drawings of house for Mr. and Mrs. Kent Smith in Nashua, New Hampshire (commission #1388) including five elevations, five plans, and eleven details. Some drawings are signed and dated by Merton S. Barrows, Warren J. Rhoter, or Richard Wills.

Drawings depict a two-story Cape Cod-style house with two front dormers and a clapboard and shingle exterior. House has a living room with fireplace, dining room, kitchen, covered breezeway, three bedrooms, two bathrooms, and an attached two-car garage. A playroom with fireplace is on the basement level.

Details

Descriptive Terms

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

Physical Descrption

21 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

AR029.04.04.1388

Image Dimensions

18 x 27 (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)
detail drawings (drawings)

Subjects

House

Description Level

File part

Location Note

Drawer 27 / folder 385

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