1939 Rhode Island Architecture Exhibition
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Creation Date
1687
Photographer
Arthur LeBoeuf
Location
Lincoln, Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Worktype
historic houses
Style/Period
American Colonial
Image Type
photographic prints
Image Measurements
8 inches x 10 inches
Inscription
[verso, typed, top:] From the show called "RHODE ISLAND ARCHITECTURE", June, 1939- October / 20, 1939. At the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, / Providence, Rhode Island. / Exhibited Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, November and December, 1939. / Exhibited Lawrence College, Appleton, Wisconsin, [crossed out: February] [handwritten in pencil above cross out: JANUARY], 1940. / Selected examples exhibited Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, / March, 1940. verso, typed, bottom: ELEAZAR ARNOLD HOUSE? Great Road, Lincoln, Rhode Island. 1687. / About the finest extant seventeenth century room in Rhode Island. / Photo Le Boeuf.
Description
interior; 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); rocking chairs; hearths; spinning wheels