HGO-01-001-O-C-307
GUSN-283424
This album of photo-mechanicals of "Old Houses, Doorways and Windows" was compiled by Eva R. Greeley, ca. 1919-1926. Thematically arranged, the album was created to study the evolution of American architecture, and Greeley's notes accompanying the illustrations give a sense of the state of the scholarship in the field in the early 1920s. The illustrations are taken from magazine and newspaper clippings, postcards, and other sources, and have been carefully dated by the compiler. It includes views of the Hancock House in Boston and many other important buildings in Eastern Massachusetts.
Greeley was an antique collector and an early membor of SPNEA, who operated a tea room from her home, Ledgemont Studio, in Abington, Massachusetts. This scrapbook was probably a part of her bequest to SPNEA, which came to the society at her death in 1939.
modern North American architecture styles and movements
scrapbooks
One scrapbook; 11 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches
MS004
Scrapbooks collection
1939
MS004.037
Gift of Eva R. Greeley, 1939
New England (United States) [general region]
Greeley, Eva R. (Compiler)
scrapbooks
Item
HGO-01-001-O-C-307
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