1939 Rhode Island Architecture Exhibition
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Date Range
1937-1938
Photographer
Adelard Legere
Location
Fishers Island, Suffolk, New York, United States
Worktype
summer houses (seasonal dwellings)
Style/Period
Modernist
Image Type
photographic prints
Image Measurements
8 inches x 10 inches
Inscription
[verso, typed:] DATE: 1937-38 / EXHIBITIONS: / DES CRIPTION[sic]: This is the largest and most elaborate modern house / in America, by one of the world's leading modern architects. Aluminum / painted wood sheathing.
Description
exterior; Destroyed by fire in 1973; 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); summer houses (seasonal dwellings); historic houses