Drawing Toward Home: Designs for Domestic Architecture from Historic New England
Boston, Massachusetts
Washington, D.C.
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As the center of domestic life, the house is perhaps the most important building type in a democratic society. Historic New England’s exhibition, Drawing Toward Home: Designs for Domestic Architecture from Historic New England, showcases a variety of drawings of domestic building that range in date from the late eighteenth through the twentieth centuries, and depict an array of building types — estates, modest single-family houses, summer cottages, and even a typical Boston multi-family dwelling known as a three-decker. Drawing Toward Home illustrates changes in taste and technology and presents many of the drawings as works of art. The exhibition includes designs by both famous and little-known architects and houses designed in the Federal, Victorian, Arts and Crafts, and International styles. Home ownership is the American Dream. As products of the architect’s craft, the drawings in this exhibition bring these and other associations to the mind of the viewer.
View Drawing Toward Home: Designs for Domestic Architecture from Historic New England at:
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February 20 – August 15, 2010: National Building Museum, Washington, D.C.
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