[MassHistPres] ID that building

[Dennis De Witt]

All

I am putting together a list of buildings and projects by Edmund Wheelwright.  He designed the 1899 addition to the Waterworks Museum Building (as well as the Lampoon Castle, the Longfellow Bridge, and Horticulture hall among others).

I have a few loose ends -- see below.  These are all from the Wheelwright & Haven archive at the BPL, altho it's always possible that one or two might be admired work of someone else.  Perhaps some of you might be able help fill one or two of the gaps.

Thanks in advance

Dennis De Witt
Metropolitan Waterworks Museum 


This is a horticultural outbuilding on an estate.  It might be in one of the three estates listed below, none of which I have yet identified in terms of precise location or whether they survive.


1) A "Howe Residence," in Manchester cove .

2) The Frank Bemis estate house, its gardner’s and chauffeur’s double cottage, and stables -- with a Lord & Burnham greenhouse probably like that seen above -- in Beverly Farms.  The buildings may have all been stucco.

3)  Stable for the estate of S.D. Warren ("Bohemia Manor"), in Mattapoisett which I have also not yet identified.


I have no idea where this is.  It's the sort of big early '90s Colonial Revival that I could imagine being on the North Shore or in some inner suburb.  Might be one of the above.  The plan is typical of the period with semi-symetical wings at 45° angles -- one longer and the other round ended.



This might be a Boston School or might be a Hospital building of some sort.  That much glass on the second story is not typical of his many Boston schools





This is probably not in Mass but is too delicious to leave out -- someone may have an idea.  It includes a big Shingle Style house behind which -- probably added latter -- maybe in the '20s by Wheelwright's firm after his death in 1912, is a small round stuccoed building with a thatched roof, behind which is a clapboarded over-the-top picturesque horse barn, also with a thatched roof.  Both of these thatched buildings feel to me like the sort of "storybook" houses that flourished in the '20s and have been totally ignored ever since.





This big boathouse (and possibly ice house?) is on a lake.  possibly, it might have gone with the Shingle style house.  The size of the boathouse suggests some big lake like Winnipesaukee -- where the firm after Wheelwright's death did have some work on an estate that was in the '20s becoming a country club.



Lastly, if anyone knows of a Wheelwright building that's not on Macris, i'd be interested in hearing about it.  There are several in Boston and one in Cambridge.

Thanks again.
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