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Design for a cottage for Henry C. Bowen, Esq.

Collection Type

  • Architecture

Date

ca. 1846

Location Note

Architectural Drawings / Transparencies: Architectural Drawings, Original Art, Plot Plans

GUSN

GUSN-195025

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Description

Architect Joseph Collins Wells designed Roseland Cottage in Woodstock, Connecticut for Henry Chandler Bowen. These north front and east front elevations and first and second floor plans were drawn in ink and pencil with watercolor on a single sheet.

Details

Descriptive Terms

houses
paper (fiber product)
ink
watercolor (paint)
Gothic Revival
pencils (drawing and writing equipment)
east
north
front (positional attribute)
dwellings
floor plans
exterior perspectives
architectural drawings (visual works)

Additional Identification Number

DigitalID 000155
AccessID 339
Other identifier HNEDID-000155

Physical Description

2 exterior perspectives and 2 floor plans on 1 sheet : ink, pencil, and watercolor

Collection Code

AR001

Collection Name

General architectural and cartographic collection

Reference Code

AR001.USCT.3350.001

Places

Woodstock (Windham county, Connecticut)

Record Details

Originator

Wells, Joseph Collins, 1813-1860 (architect)

Material Type

floor plans
exterior perspectives
architectural drawings (visual works)

Subjects

Historic New England properties

Description Level

Item

Location Note

Architectural Drawings / Transparencies: Architectural Drawings, Original Art, Plot Plans

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