House of Good Taste/Home Builders Program/World's Fair house, Manhattan, N.Y

Item Information

Title:
House of Good Taste/Home Builders Program/World's Fair house, Manhattan, N.Y
Description:
79 architectural drawings for The House of Good Taste, Home Builders Program, World's Fair House in New York, New York (commission #1991). Gordon H. Kunz, Merton S. Barrows, R. J. P., Frederick Ward Crombie, Charles H. Crombie, House has 2 bedrooms and 2 baths Multiple sketches and designs within commission. Plans contain a "List of Participating Manufacturers" Contained in the commission is an additional 1981unnumbered commission for a house and garage for Mr. and Mrs. Edward P. Bliss in Sherborn, Mass. It is not known if these unnumbered plans are from the original World's Fair plans.
Architect:
Wills, Royal Barry, 1895-1962
Date:
1964–1965
Format:
Drawings/Illustrations
Genre:
orthographic projections (images)
plans (orthographic projections)
elevations (orthographic projections)
detail drawings (drawings)
electrical plans
site plans
preliminary drawings (drawings)
renderings (drawings)
Location:
Historic New England
Collection (local):
AR029: Royal Barry Wills Associates architectural collection, 1925-2013 (bulk 1920s-1980)
Subjects:
houses
dwellings
House
Places:
New York > New York > Manhattan
House of Good Taste, Home Builders Program, World's Fair (Manhattan, N.Y.)
Extent:
79 architectural drawings: pencil on trace, coated linen, and photo static copy
Link to Item:
http://gusn.us/334589
Terms of Use:
Rights status not evaluated.
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Identifier:
334589
Call #:
AR029.04.04.1991