This collection consists of an album compiled by Edwin J. Lewis, Jr. (architect), who worked at 9 Park St in Boston. The album contains elevations, perspective views, and plans rendered in ink and watercolor, and a few photographs and photomechanicals of residences, stables, and garages. The following commissions are identified: residence of Arthur W. Walker, Alpine St.; residence of Winfield S. Lemon, Tremont St.; sketch for a house for Francis S. Gilson, Esq., Charlestown, NH; elevation on Cumberland Ave.; proposed cottages at Plainsville, MA; sketch for a garage for P. Terrile, Esq., Winthrop Highlands; stable of Hon. J.M.Grosvenor, Jr., Swampscott, MA; sketch for a stable for Woodbury Melcher, Esq., North Attleborough, MA; stable for Harry L. Ayer, Esq., West Newton, MA. One of the previously unidentified commissions has been identified as the Massachusetts Pavilion at the 1907 Jamestown Exposition in Jamestown, Virginia. Also included is an application to the Massachusetts Historical Commission to register a home in Brookline that was designed by Lewis.
architectural elements
architectural drawings (visual works)
watercolor (paint)
houses
architectural drawings (visual works)
photographs
albums
1 album
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AR031
Edwin J. Lewis, Jr. Architectural Drawings Collection
1991
AR031
This collection contains one album of architectural drawings, mostly exteriors and floorplans, of houses designed by Edwin J. Lewis, Jr.
Gift
Gift of Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr., 1991.
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
New England (United States) [general region]
Lewis, Edwin J., 1859-1937 (Architect)
architectural drawings (visual works)
photographs
albums
Lewis, Edwin J., 1859-1937
This collection is available for research.
Collection
85M-01-314-Z-F-0405
Accruals are not expected.
Materials are entirely in English.
Item identification. Edwin J. Lewis, Jr. Architectural Drawings Collection. Historic New England, Library & Archives.
Stephanie Krauss, 2017
2nd-edition DACS compliant
Born in 1859, Edwin J. Lewis, Jr. was a Roxbury, Mass. native who attended first English High School and then Massachusetts Institute of Technology, graduating in 1881. Following graduation, he worked as an architect for prominent firm Peabody & Stearns until his departure in 1887 to enter private practice. Lewis designed many private homes, including several in the Ashmont neighborhood of Dorchester, Mass. Other known designs include the Dedham Historical Society building (1886-1887) in Dedham, Mass., the Wollaston Unitarian Church (1888) in Quincy, Mass., the Peabody apartment building (1896-1897) in Dorchester, Mass., the Unitarian Church of Houlton (1902) in Houlton, Maine, All Souls Church (1905) in Braintree, Mass., the Dearborn School (1905) in Roxbury, Mass., Second Unitarian Church (1916) in Brookline, Mass., and Hopedale Community House (1922-1923) in Hopedale, Mass., all of which are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In addition to his building works, Lewis served as secretary of the Boston Society of Architects for more than a decade and was a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. He was also a member of the Union Club of Boston, a life member of The Bostonian Society, and a member and president of the Dorchester Historical Society. Lewis died in 1937 in Milton, Mass.
Boston Public Library. Architects File: Edwin J. Lewis, Jr. Fine Arts Department.
Directory of Boston Architects, 1846-1970. Cambridge: Massachusetts Committee for the Preservation of Architectural Records, 1984, pg. 42.
Withey, Henry F. and Elsie R. Biographical Dictionary of American Architects (Deceased). Los Angeles: Hennessey & Ingalls, Inc., 1970, pgs. 370-371.
This collection is arranged in the order it was received.
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