LINCOLN PUBLIC LIBRARY Bedford Road, Lincoln, Massachusetts ARCHIVES/ SPECIAL COLLECTIONS Hoover House Photograph Collection 2003.043 Processed by William F. Carroll, CA September 2003
TABLE OF CONTENTS Series Subseries Page Box Collection Information 3 Historical/Biographical Notes 4 Scope and Content 4 Series Description 4 1 Photographs 5 1, 2 2 Negatives 8 2
Collection Information Abstract : Photographs and negatives of houses designed by Henry Hoover, modern architect and Lincoln resident, in Lincoln, Massachusetts. Finding Aid : Finding Aid in print form is available in the Repository Preferred Citation : Archives/Special Collections of the Lincoln Public Library, Lincoln, Massachusetts. See also : Lincoln Buildings Collection, 2002.001 Provenance : Unknown. MARC Access: Collection is catalogued in MARC under the following subject headings (lcsh, aat, gmgpc, etc.) Architecture, Modern -- 20th century -- Photographs. Architecture, Domestic -- Massachusetts -- Lincoln (Town) -- Photographs. Photographs -- Massachusetts -- Lincoln. aat Photograph collections -- Massachusetts -- Lincoln. lcsh Color photographs. aat Lincoln (Mass. : Town) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- Photographs.
Historical/Biographical Notes Henry B. Hoover was a Lincoln resident, on Trapelo Road in the 1960s, employed as an architect. He designed a number of houses in Lincoln between the late 1930s and early 1970s in the style know as modern architecture, made famous by Frank Lloyd Wright and locally by Walter Gropius. Scope and Content The collection comprises color prints and negatives of houses designed by Henry Hoover between the 1930s and 1970s in Lincoln, Massachusetts. The houses are of the type commonly known as modern architecture. The collection is arranged by format. Series 1: Photographs, 1979. (31 items) Series 2: Negatives, ca. 1979. (19 frames) Series Descriptions
Hoover House Photograph Collection 2003.043 Series 1, Photographs Box # Folder # Identification # Description 1 1 2003.042.1.1 Hoover house, 1937 : color photographic print, 8 x 10 in. / Phyllis Swift, 1979. 1 1 2003.043.1.2 Gilboy/Solar house, 1939 : color photographic print, 8 x 10 in. / Phyllis Swift, 1979. 1 1 2003.043.1.3 DeNormandie/Nickerson house, 1947 : color photographic print, 8 x 10 in. / Phyllis Swift, 1979. 1 1 2003.043.1.4 Fitts/Todd house, 1949 : color photographic print, 8 x 10 in. / Phyllis Swift, 1979. 1 1 2003.043.1.5 Heck house, alteration, 1949 : color photographic print, 8 x 10 in. / Phyllis Swift, 1979. 1 1 2003.043.1.6 Adler house, 1955 : color photographic print, 8 x 10 in. / Phyllis Swift, 1979. 1 2 2003.043.1.7 Unidentified house : color photographic print, 8 x 10 in. / Phyllis Swift, 1979. 1 2 2003.043.1.8 Satterfield house, 1956 : color photographic print, 8 x 10 in. / Phyllis Swift, 1979. 1 2 2003.043.1.9 Ritsher house, 1971 : color photographic print, 8 x 10 in. / Phyllis Swift, 1979. 1 3 2003.043.1.10 Unidentified house, nd. : photographic print, 5 x 7 in., mounted / Phyllis Swift, 1979 (?). 1 4 2003.043.1.11 Black house, 1968 : color photographic print, 8 x 10 in., mounted / Phyllis Swift, 1979. 1 5 2003.043.1.12 Ritsher house, 1971 : color photographic print, 8 x 10 in., mounted / Phyllis Swift, 1979. Series 1, continued 5
1 6 2003.043.1.13 Hoover house, 1937 : color photographic print, 8 x 10 in., mounted / Phyllis Swift, 1979. 1 7 2003.043.1.14 Rand house alteration, 1954 : color photographic print, 8 x 10 in., mounted / Phyllis Swift, 1979. 1 8 2003.043.1.15 Flint house, 1954 : color photographic print, 8 x 10 in., mounted / Phyllis Swift, 1979. 1 9 2003.043.1.16 MacLaurin house, 1961 : color photographic print, 8 x 10 in., mounted / Phyllis Swift, 1979. 1 10 2003.043.1.17 Witherby studio, 1968 : color photographic print, 8 x 10 in., mounted / Phyllis Swift, 1979. 1 11 2003.043.1.18 Gilboy/Solar house, 1939 : color photographic print, 8 x 10 in., mounted / Phyllis Swift, 1979. 1 12 2003.043.1.19 Wales/Ford house, 1953 : color photographic print, 8 x 10 in., mounted / Phyllis Swift, 1979. 1 13 2003.043.1.20 DeNormandie/Nickerson house, 1947 : color photographic print, 8 x 10 in., mounted / Phyllis Swift, 1979. 1 14 2003.043.1.21 Fitts/Todd house, 1949 : color photographic print, 8 x 10 in., mounted / Phyllis Swift, 1979. 1 15 2003.043.1.22 Satterfield house, 1956 : color photographic print, 8 x 10 in., mounted / Phyllis Swift, 1979. 1 16 2003.043.1.23 Unidentified house, 1955 : color photographic print, 8 x 10 in., mounted / Phyllis Swift, 1979. 1 17 2003.043.1.24 Heck house alteration, 1949 : color photographic print, 8 x 10 in., mounted / Phyllis Swift, 1979. 1 18 2003.043.1.25 A. Wales house, 1951 : color photographic print, 8 x 10 in., mounted / Phyllis Swift, 1979. Series 1, continued 6
1 19 2003.043.1.26 Neumann house alteration, 1950 : color photographic print, 8 x 10 in., mounted / Phyllis Swift, 1979. 1 20 2003.043.1.27 Giese house alteration, 1974 : color photographic print, 8 x 10 in., mounted / Phyllis Swift, 1979. 2 21 2003.043.1.28 Adler house, 1955 : color photographic print, 8 x 10 in., mounted / Phyllis Swift, 1979. 2 22 2003.043.1.29 John house, 1951 : color photographic print, 8 x 10 in., mounted / Phyllis Swift, 1979. 2 23 2003.043.1.30 Tunnell house, 1954 : color photographic print, 8 x 10 in., mounted / Phyllis Swift, 1979. 2 24 2003.043.1.31 Moore house, 1954 : color photographic print, 8 x 10 in., mounted / Phyllis Swift, 1979. 7
Hoover House Photograph Collection 2003.043 Series 2, Negatives Box # Folder # Identification # Description 2 25 2003.042.2.1 Color positive negatives of nine houses on 19 frames / February 3, nd. 2 25 2003.043.2.2 Envelope with notations relating to negatives. 8