Design Sketches for a Memorial Library (recto and verso) (possibly the Winn Memorial Library, Woburn, Massachusetts)

Attributed to Henry Hobson Richardson American

ca. 1876

Not on view

Sketches on both sides of this sheet may record Richardson's preliminary ideas for the Winn Memorial Library, Woburn, Massachusetts, built 1876–79. As one of America's most influential nineteenth-century architects, the designer developed a style known as Richardsonian Romanesque, demonstrated most famously in Trinity Church, Boston. Developed sketches on the recto of the present sheet use pointed Gothic arches, however, which the clients then rejected. As built, the library uses rounded arched windows and colonnades and remains true to Richardson's signature style.

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Title: Design Sketches for a Memorial Library (recto and verso) (possibly the Winn Memorial Library, Woburn, Massachusetts)
Artist: Attributed to Henry Hobson Richardson (1836–1886)
Date: ca. 1876
Medium: Graphite
Dimensions: Sheet: 10 5/8 × 6 5/8 in. (27 × 16.8 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit Line: Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008
Object Number: 2018.839.101a, b
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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