Detail working drawing of the Head House, Marine Park, South Boston, Mass., 1898
Description:
Boston city architect Edmund March Wheelwright designed these working drawings for the Head House at Marine Park in South Boston, Massachusetts. This is plate 89 from the publication, "Municipal Architecture in Boston by Edmund M. Wheelwright, City Architect, 1891-1895", volume II, edited by Francis W. Chandler, published by Bates & Guild Co. in 1898 in Boston. The drawings are of a front elevation and two front sections. Wheelwright designed the building in a German-inflected Tudor Revival half-timbered style, said to have been influenced by the German Pavilion at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. The Head House, which opened on June 17, 1896, served as the entrance to the pier and contained various facilities including dressing rooms for bathers and a restaurant.
