1858
Vertical File 4A, Drawer 3
GUSN-202698
Architect Luther Briggs, Jr. designed this four-story row house in Chester Square in the South End of Boston, Massachusetts, in the Second Empire style. The ink and wash drawing presents a floor plan of the attic and a front elevation, with wrought iron railings on the first and second story balconies.
row houses
dwellings
Italianate (North American architecture styles )
Second Empire
attics (exterior stories)
front (positional attribute)
façades
mansard roofs
bow windows
brownstone (material)
ashlar
iron (metal)
balconies
newels
billiard rooms
black (color)
ink
watercolor (paint)
wove paper
floor plans
exterior elevations
architectural drawings (visual works)
P.D. Wallis. / House on Chester Square / (as originally intended) (handwritten)
(Set d.) (handwritten)
Attic Story (handwritten)
Front Elevation. (handwritten)
DigitalID 000207
AccessID 340
Other identifier HNEDID-000207
1 floor plan and exterior elevation on 1 sheet : black ink, watercolor and/or ink washes, and graphite underdrawing on wove paper ; 19 x 13 3/8 inches
AR002
Luther Briggs, Jr. architectural collection
1937
AR002.TMP.005.001
Gift
South End (Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts) [neighborhood]
Briggs, Luther, 1822-1905 (Architect)
floor plans
exterior elevations
architectural drawings (visual works)
Chester Square (Boston, Mass.)
bowfront
Included in the Drawing Toward Home: Designs for Domestic Architecture from Historic New England exhibition.
P. D. Wallis House, Chester Square, Boston, 1858
Component
Vertical File 4A, Drawer 3
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