Drawing Toward Home: Designs for Domestic Architecture from Historic New England features one hundred drawings of New England houses dating from the eighteenth through the twentieth century, and depicting an array of building types-- estates, modest single-family houses, summer cottages, and even a typical three-decker Boston apartment building. The exhibition includes designs in the Federal, Victorian, Arts and Crafts, and International styles by both famous and little-known architects.

This exhibition was generously sponsored by The Boston University Humanities Foundation.

John M. Allen

Perspective of the cottage of the Reverend John Cotton Brooks, Marion, Massachusetts

Rev. John C. Brooks Cottage, Marion, Massachusetts

1882
Black and brown ink and watercolor on wove paper.
8 1/2 x 14 in. (irregular)

Historic New England, gift of Christopher Monkhouse.

Alexander R. Esty, architect

Unidentified house, c. 1855

Elevation of the "Front View of Dwelling" (one of a set of twenty-three sheets, originally bound), undated. 

No. 2 Change Avenue,  Boston. 

Ink, ink and/or watercolor washes, and graphite underwriting and emendations on wove (J Whatman Turkey Mill) paper

23 ­7/16 x 17 13/16 in.

Henry B. Hoover

Elevation of a house designed for Mr. and Mrs. Everett A. Black, Lincoln, Massachusetts

1968

(Black) Graphite on tracing paper.
17 1/8 x 22 in.

Historic New England, gift of the family of Henry B. Hoover. 

L. Briggs, Jr., architect. 

Details of Stairs for the P. D. Wallis. 

House on Chester Square (one of four sheets). 

1858

Brown ink, watercolor and/or ink wash, and graphite underdrawing and emendations on wove (J Whatman) paper

13 1/4 x 19 1/4 in. 

Gift of Elizabeth Huebner, 1937