Queen Anne - Shingle Style house blueprints, Historic Rhode Island Mansion

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Isaac Bell House, Newport, Rhode Island - 1882
The Shingle Style – New Englanders, seeking something less ornate than the typical Victorian dwelling often turned to the Shingle Style, with its colonial echoes, but less formal floor plans. McKim, Mead and White, the hugely successful and trendsetting New York architecture firm famous for many landmarks, as well as luxury homes, applied their panache to this graceful dwelling, building it in 1882 for Isaac Bell. Characterized by a free flowing floor plan, porches wrapping around, sheltering roofs, and above all by its beautiful weathered shingles, this house epitomizes the style.
The prints you are purchasing are crisp, high resolution black line copies on white bond paper. The original drawings were beautifully delineated in 1969. This extensive set of 8 drawing sheets includes a site plan, 2 floor plans, 2 elevations, 2 sections and a beautiful interior elevation. The original drawings rest in the Library of Congress.
As a work of art these prints are worth purchasing in their own right. For those of you interested in building a historically inspired house, these plans offer an excellent starting point. The ground floor consists of 4 large reception/dining rooms clustered around a central hall, with a kitchen wing containing another bedroom. The upper floor contains 4 large bedrooms as well as several smaller rooms which could serve as baths, a study and additional bedrooms.… Although ideal for a flat site, these plans would also work on a low sloping one. This house would be comfortable in a suburb or country setting. Including porches, the main house has outside dimensions of approximately 86’x106’.
Please visit my other auctions for many other drawings I am offering. I have house plans in wide variety of styles including Colonial, Craftsman, and Prairie, as well as plans of architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Irving Gill, Purcell & Elmslie and others.
Building name: Bell House
Designer/Architect: McKim, Mead and White
Date of construction: 1882
Location: Newport, Rhode Island
Style: Shingle Style, Queen Anne
Additional Information: Drawings prepared in 1969, Historic American Building Survey
Number of sheets: 8 sheets measuring 18”x24”
Sheet List
Cover sheet, information, Site Plan
First Floor Plan, 1/8”=1’-0”
Second Floor Plan, 1/8”=1’-0”
2 sheets of Elevations, 1/8”=1’-0”
2 Sheets of Sections,
Interior Elevation, 1”=1’-0”
If you enjoy this plan you may also want to see the other
Shingle Style homes
in our collection.
SHIPPING: Your drawings are shipped to you, rolled, not folded, in a Priority Mail tube. The pictures on eBay show a typical sheet with border, as well as other close up views of drawings. If you have any questions about these drawings or others that I am offering, please contact me. I will do my utmost to answer your questions.
IF YOU ARE PLANNING TO BUILD: These plans are not complete architectural drawings as might be required by your local permitting agency and do not contain all the structural, waterproofing and other details and information necessary for construction. But your local builder or architect should be able to adapt these drawings and add to them as necessary. What they do provide is accurate design information about a REAL Shingle style house, not a pseudo-shingle tract house as you will find in the house plan magazines on your supermarket shelf.
INTERNATIONAL BUYERS PLEASE NOTE: Orders shipped to addresses outside the USA may be subject to customs duties at their destination. The buyer is responsible for any such duties.
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