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Gift of Colonel and Mrs. Richard L. Shaw, 1999.100.69.1  © 2011 The Connecticut Historical Soci…
House for Leon P. Broadhurst, 235 Kenyon Street, Hartford
Gift of Colonel and Mrs. Richard L. Shaw, 1999.100.69.1 © 2011 The Connecticut Historical Society.

House for Leon P. Broadhurst, 235 Kenyon Street, Hartford

Architect (American, 1880 - 1948)
Date1916
MediumArchitectural Drawings; pencil, black, red, and yellow ink on trace and linen paper.
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions: 15 1/2 x 21in. (39.4 x 53.3cm)
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineGift of Colonel and Mrs. Richard L. Shaw
DescriptionPlans for a three-story Colonial Revival house, with detached garage. The house features a gable roof, brick coursing, enclosed veranda and side porch, decorative cornice detailing, pedimented attic level, dormer windows, and a large entryway.

A notable feature of the house is the large offset entryway, spanning three stories. The entryway features modillion coursed edges, doric column-flanked entry door with side lights, a detailed iron balustrade landing at the second story level, and a wooden balustrade landing at the large tri-part dormer window on the attic story level.

The windows are primarily double-hung louvred sash windows in either the eight-over-eight, eight-over-one, six-over-one, or four-over-one configurations. Large tri-part windows are featured on the east and west Elevations, with splayed lintels featured on the first and second stories.

Drawings included in the set are: north, south, east, and west elevations, as well as cellar, first floor, second floor, and attic plans. The cellar plans include: laundry, heat coal room, wood bin, hamper closet, work room, stove coal room, and toilet. The first floor plans include: rear porch, kitchen, pantry, butlers pantry, rear hall, dining room, side porch, lavatory, den, great hall, entry vestibule, entry porch, living room, and veranda. The second floor plans include: five chambers, two baths, toilet, rear hall, and hallway. The attic plans include: two maids rooms, bath, store room, hall, sewing room, and chamber. The west elevation shows outside in-wall access door for refrigerator box.


Plans for the detached garage show a two story garage featuring a gable roof, decorative cornice detailing, pedimented dormer windows on the second story, and twenty-four light carriage doors on the east elevation.

The second story dormer windows are double-hung sash windows in the eight-over-eight configuration, with spalyed lintel double-hung lourved shash windows featured on the end elevations, and west elevation in either a tri-part, eight-over-eight or six-over-six configuration.

Drawings for the detached garage included in the set are: east elevation / west elevation, end elevations, and first floor / second floor plans. The first floor plans incude: garage space, work bench, and stairs to second floor. The second floor plans include: storage, bath, closet, and "mans room."
Object number1999.100.69.1-.20
NotesImage Note: Drawings not scanned in this set include: elevations for veranda, staircase details, fireplace mantel details, butler and kitchen pantry layouts, and door details.
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