1956, undated
Drawer 39 / folder 781
GUSN-330974
Set of fifteen architectural drawings of house for Mr. and Mrs. J. Bell Baster in Weston, Massachusetts (commission #1625) including four elevations, three plans, one rendering, and seven details. Some drawings are signed by Royal Barry Wills, Merton S. Barrows, Warren J. Rhoter, or Richard Wills; no drawings are dated.
Drawings depict a two-story Cape Cod-style house with a saltbox garage wing, an asphalt shingle roof, and a clapboard and flush board exterior. House has living room with fireplace, study, dining room, kitchen, breakfast room, two lavatories, covered porch, three bedrooms, dressing room, two bathrooms, and an attached two-car garage.
houses
dwellings
Cape Cod houses
architectural drawings (visual works)
exterior elevations
plans (orthographic projections)
detail drawings (drawings)
renderings (drawings)
15 architectural drawings : pencil on trace and photostatic copy
AR029
Royal Barry Wills Associates architectural collection, 1925-2013 (bulk 1920s-1980)
2013-11-01
AR029.04.04.1625
18 x 38 (HxW)(inches)
Weston (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)
Wills, Royal Barry, 1895-1962 (Architect)
architectural drawings (visual works)
exterior elevations
plans (orthographic projections)
detail drawings (drawings)
renderings (drawings)
House
File part
Drawer 39 / folder 781
J. Bell Baster house, Weston, Mass.
John Skillman house, Weston, Mass.
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