H. Leland Hoar house, New Britain, Conn.

Description

Set of thirteen architectural drawings of house for H. Leland Hoar in New Britain, Conn. (commission #509) including four elevations, five plans, and four details. No drawings are signed or dated.

Drawings depict a two-story Cape Cod-style house with a wood shingle roof and a clapboard and shingle exterior. House has a living room with fireplace, library, dining room, kitchen, breakfast nook, lavatory, covered porch, three bedrooms, dressing room, two bathrooms, and an attached one-car garage. A recretion room with fireplace is on the basement level.

House is based on one Wills designed the house as a wedding present for builder Maurice A. Dunlavy (commission #279). Wills then won the gold medal in Herbert Hoover's 1932 National Better Home Competition with this design.