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; enlargements (copies)
Image Measurements
width: 40 inches, height: 30 inches
Inscription
[typed label, bottom right:] JOHN NICHOLAS BROWN HOUSE, 1937-38 / Fishers Island, New York / Interior of Study. / Photo by Legere
Description
interior, study; 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