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View from a Turret Window of the Fenno-Gendrot House "Buena Vista," Roxbury, Mass.

Collection Type

  • Art

Date

Before 1936

Location Note

HGO-01-001-O-G-402-ORAS08

GUSN

GUSN-165695

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Description

Drawings have notations on prominent sites, such as the Lexox Hotel, Stickney and Poor Mills, the Larz Anderson and Sears estates, the Resovoir, and Boston Rock. Six of the views are numbered.

Details

Additional Identification Number

ACCESS ID 4269
Old ID 4310.00

Physical Description

[uncounted] pencil applied to verso of trade cards and paper scraps

Collection Code

GC001

Collection Name

Original art collection

Reference Code

GC001.USMA.Roxbury.635

Places

Roxbury, Mass.
Jamaica Plain, Mass.
Brookline, Mass.
Melrose, Mass.
Somerville, Mass.
Wyoming, Mass.

Record Details

Originator

Gendrot, Almira Torrey Blake Fenno, 1834-1924 (artist)

Restrictions

Good.
Pencil on verso of trade cards and other scraps of paper

Description Level

Item

Location Note

HGO-01-001-O-G-402-ORAS08

Historical/Biographical Note

Historical/Biographical Note

The artist is Almira Torrey Fenno (Mrs. Isaac Fenno/Mrs. Felix Gendrot).

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