1940
GUSN-328609
Set of nineteen architectural drawings of house for Edward E. Babb in Wellesley HIlls, Massachusetts (commission #754) including four elevations, three plans, one plot plan, two framing plans, and nine details. All drawings are dated; most are signed by Merton S. Barrows, Amelia Brooks Valtz, Robert E. Minot, or Nathaniel Perry Tufts.
Drawings depict a two-story Cape-Cod style house with a one-story wing, a cedar shingle gambrel roof, and a clapboard and flush board exterior. House has a living room with fireplace, study, dining room, kitchen, pantry, lavatory, covered porch, maid's room and bathroom, three bedrooms, and two bathrooms. A recreation room with fireplace is on the basement level.
houses
dwellings
Cape Cod houses
gambrel roofs
architectural drawings (visual works)
exterior elevations
plans (orthographic projections)
site plans
framing plans
detail drawings (drawings)
19 architectural drawings : pencil on trace
AR029
Royal Barry Wills Associates architectural collection, 1925-2013 (bulk 1920s-1980)
2013-11-01
AR029.04.04.754
14 x 33 1/2 (HxW)(inches)
Wellesley (Norfolk county, Massachusetts)
Wills, Royal Barry, 1895-1962 (Architect)
architectural drawings (visual works)
exterior elevations
plans (orthographic projections)
site plans
framing plans
detail drawings (drawings)
House
File part
Edward E. Babb house, Wellesley, Mass.
Renderings - Unidentified artists
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