1881-1886
HAV-01-403-Z-K-202
GUSN-356755
This sketchbook contanis various pencil and ink sketches of buildings, mainly located within Massachusetts. Some drawings were of buildings in New Hampshire and Europe, and a small portion depicted unknown children, people, furniture, and landscapes. Unattached sketches were removed and stored in a separate folder. The sketches were completed between 1881 and 1886. Some sketches were on location and others were based upon prints. Locations of note depicted in the sketchbook include drawings of Chestnut Hill Station designed by H. H. Richardson, Birchbrow, the home of the successful Haverhill leather merchant Thomas Sanders, a Newton, Massachusetts house designed by architect William Ralph Emerson for Judge John Lowell, and St. John's Episcopal Church in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, which was designed by architect Alexander Parris. The sketchbook was owned by James. A Perkins, an architect who lived in Haverhill and worked for Perkins & Bancroft Architects. A small number of drawings in the sketchbook were completed by an unidentified descendant of Perkins.
Colonial Revival
exterior perspectives
interior perspectives
porches
roofs
arches
trusses (structural elements)
floor plans
architectural drawings (visual works)
gates
shingle
rocking chairs
landscapes (representations)
infants
railroad stations
sketchbooks
pens (drawing and writing)
pencils (drawing and writing equipment)
colored pencils
1 sketchbook : 10 x 14 inches
1 folder (sketches)
GC001
Original art collection
2018
GC001.USMA.General.779
Gift
Gift of Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr., 2018
Chestnut Hill (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)
Haverhill (Essex county, Massachusetts)
Bradford (Haverhill, Essex county, Massachusetts) [neighborhood]
Waltham (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)
Salem (Essex county, Massachusetts)
Marblehead (Essex county, Massachusetts)
Portsmouth (Rockingham county, New Hampshire)
Needham (Norfolk county, Massachusetts)
Yarmouth (Barnstable county, Massachusetts)
England (United Kingdom) [country]
Scotland (United Kingdom) [country]
France
Lake Saltonstall (Essex county, Massachusetts) [lake]
Newton (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)
Perkins, James A, 1858-1940 (Artist)
sketchbooks
pens (drawing and writing)
pencils (drawing and writing equipment)
colored pencils
Perkins, James A, 1858-1940
Parris, Alexander, 1780-1852
Sanders, Thomas, 1839-1911
Street, George Edmund, 1824-1881
Little, Arthur, 1852-1925
Emerson, William Ralph, 1833-1917
Lowell, John, 1824-1897
Richardson, H. H. (Henry Hobson), 1838-1886
Hartwell & Richardson
Colonial Revival
Art
Massachusetts
Architecture
Spine of sketchbook is heavily damaged and very fragile. Many pages are loose and have been removed from the sketchbook.
Item
HAV-01-403-Z-K-202
James A. Perkins was born in February 1858 in Georgetown, Massachusetts. He was the son of John H. Perkins and Sarah E. Perkins. He married Elfreda I. Davis on November 22, 1881. They had three children: one daughter named Valborg E. Perkins and two sons named Harold D. Perkins and Kenneth Perkins. Perkins worked as an architect in Haverhill, Massachusetts, for Perkins & Bancroft Architects, which he owned with James M. Bancroft. Some of his more well known projects included Intervale Factory and Haverhill (now Trinity) Stadium. Perkins died on November 28, 1940, in Haverhill, Massachusetts.
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