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1941
Drawer 13 / folder 318
GUSN-330378
Set of seven architectural drawings of house for John Lyman in Springfield, Massachusetts (commission #834) including four elevations, two plans, and one detail. All drawings are dated but are not signed. John Raymond Lester was the builder.
Drawings depict a one-story Gambrel Cape Cod-style house with an asphalt shingle roof and a clapboard, shingle, and flush board exterior. House has a living room with fireplace, dining area, kitchen, breakfast room, two bedrooms, one bathroom, and an attached one-car garage. A room with fireplace is on the basement level.
Drawings are fragile
houses
dwellings
Cape Cod houses
gambrel roofs
architectural drawings (visual works)
exterior elevations
plans (orthographic projections)
detail drawings (drawings)
7 architectural drawings : pencil on trace
AR029
Royal Barry Wills Associates architectural collection, 1925-2013 (bulk 1920s-1980)
2013-11-01
AR029.04.04.834
13 1/2 x 14 (HxW)(inches)
Springfield (Hampden County, Massachusetts)
Wills, Royal Barry, 1895-1962 (Architect)
architectural drawings (visual works)
exterior elevations
plans (orthographic projections)
detail drawings (drawings)
House
File part
Drawer 13 / folder 318
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