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

[typed:] DATE: 1937-1938. / EXHIBITIONS: / DESCRIPTION: 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

verso of photograph; 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

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