Purcell and Elmslie, Architects

Firm active: 1907-1921

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J. D. R. Steven cottage
 Purcell and Feick
 Eau Claire, Wisconsin  1909

Text by William Gray Purcell

Parabiographies entry, Volume for 1909

Parabiographies entry: JN 47

Job Date (in Parabiographies entry): 1909

J. D. R. STEVENS Cottage

W.G.P. design. A simple development in clapboards - nice plan. We tried here the monitor system instead of dormers for attic rooms. This idea had been germinating for several years--see #18A and #25. It proved very successful. I now wish we had used it more often.
 

Collection: William Gray Purcell Papers, Northwest Architectural Archives, University of Minnesota [AR:B4d1.3]
Research courtesy Mark Hammons