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Overlea, Hyannis Port, Mass

Date

ca. 1900

Location Note

285

GUSN

GUSN-320841

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Description

A bound house album labeled Overlea on front cover. A Victorian era ( ca. 1900) shingle style home in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts at 41 Overlea Drive. Album has 17 black and white photographs ( 7 5/16” x 9 1/8”) mounted in album (12” x 14 1/4”). Photographs include exterior views of house and lawns, and interior rooms of first and second floors. Extensive classical columns, Palladian windows, carved mantels and cornices, and chair rail moldings throughout the house. Interior rooms are large with high ceilings and includes a 3 story tower. Notice the living room with 8 foot wide fireplace and beamed ceiling and the octagonal dining room with pocket doors. Also loose in album are two newspaper clippings from the real estate section of the Sunday Cape Cod Times, August 1, 1993, another undated real estate listing and a recent color snapshot ( 4 ½” x 6”). These have been removed to a folder in the album box.

Details

Descriptive Terms

Shingle Style
interior views
exterior views
historic houses
houses
photograph albums
black-and-white photographs

Additional Identification Number

album number 285

Physical Description

1 photographic album, 9 1/9" x 7 5/16” photographs mounted in 12” x 14 1/4” album

Collection Code

PC009

Collection Name

Photograph albums collection

Date of Acquisition

2016

Reference Code

PC009.285

Acquisition Type

Library & Archives Purchase

Places

Hyannis Port (Barnstable county, Massachusetts)

Record Details

Material Type

photograph albums
black-and-white photographs

Descriptive Terms

Overlea
Hyannis Port, Mass
Shingle style

Description Level

Item

Location Note

285

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