1939 Rhode Island Architecture Exhibition
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Creation Date
1887
Photographer
Nicholas Romano
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States
Worktype
historic houses
Style/Period
Shingle Style
Image Type
photographic prints
Image Measurements
8 inches x 10 inches
Inscription
typed, portrait orientation:] DATE: 1887 / DESCRIPTION: W.G. LOW HOUSE, Bristol, 1887. By McKim, Mead and White. / A masterpiece among American summer houses, purged of the extreme / picturesqueness of the "Queen Anne", but not bound by the academic / discipline of the Colonial Revival. To be compared with Richardson's / and Wright's best wooden houses. (Rhode Island Architecture, / Hitchcock.)
Description
verso of photograph; Photograph exhibited in Rhode Island Architecture Exhibition, 1939, RISD Museum. Curated by RISD Museum Director Alexander Dorner (tenure 1938-1941) and architectural historian Henry-Russell Hitchcock.
Keywords
architecture (discipline)