Name/Title
Morsell ResidenceEntry/Object ID
2014.018.0064Scope and Content
1 folder ;
4 blueprint sheets, 16 1/2"h x 24 3/8"w, for the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Morsell at Point-No-Point drawn by E. Burton Corning of Washington, D.C. There are many handwritten corrections to Mr. Corning's concept. After examining the plans, this may not have been meant as a full time residence, but more a summer home. There are only sheets for two of the four elevations. There are no electrical, mechanical, or detail sheets for the house. Two of the sheets have sketching on the verso.
Sheet 1 First Floor Plan There was a large living room in the center with a big fireplace with two bedrooms and the kitchen on the sides. The bedroom on the left was positioned so that the occupant had to walk through the living room to the bathroom. One correction was to move the bedroom to the back wall so its door could be into the back hall near the bathroom. The original space was to become a porch. There was a bunk room on the right front, a U-shaped kitchen with almost no counter space in the center, and the maid's room in the back. There were illegible corrections that were trying to figure out how to get space for a bathroom for the maid. Originally, there was a large porch in front of the living room, but corrections changed the shape of that porch to long and narrow.
Sheet 2 Second Floor Plan The building had a gable roof with dormers, so there was some space upstairs, but not a lot. The stairs were at the back of the house and opened onto a small hallway and sitting space, possibly with a window seat. There were two bedrooms which each had access to storage space under the eaves. There was no bathroom on this floor.
Sheet 3 Side Elevation The house was on piers on a slab. Clapboard was selected for the exterior finish. The house had several roof lines and dormers. The roof line over the kitchen and maid's room appeared to be flat. The screened porch on the left had a shed roof. The gable end on the left had a sizable louver in the peak and a single eight over eight light double hung window in the center of the space. The was a pair of windows in the kitchen: six over six light double hung. The maid's room had one eight over eight light double hung window. The upstairs gable had a single six over six light double hung window to the right of center of the space. The chimney loomed out of a dormer on the back of the house; a note says to make it smaller.
Sheet 4 Bay Elevation The house was on piers on a slab. Clapboard was selected for the exterior finish. The house had several roof lines and dormers. There were two closed pediment dormers on the second floor, carefully placed on each side of the first floor front door. Each dormer had a six over six light double hung window. On the first floor, there was a single eight over eight light double hung window in the left bedroom. To the left of the front door was another eight over eight light double hung window. A pair of fifteen light doors was in the center of the space and another eight over eight light double hung window on the right. One more eight over eight light double hung window provided light for the bunk room. The porch roof encompassed all the living room windows. The roof was supported on pairs of pillars to form three bays. One pair of pillars was directly in front of the entry door to the house, so that door was not meant to be the primary entry to the house. Handwritten notes changed the double door to one door and the porch shape had been changed on Sheet 1. There is a note about no guttering, which seems odd in this climate.Collection
County Trust Company CollectionArchive Items Details
Date(s) of Creation
May 27, 1938Location
Folder
County Trust Collection, Folder 2Drawer
Drawer 8Cabinet
Map CaseRoom
BasementBuilding
Tudor HallFolder
County Trust Collection, Folder 2Drawer
Drawer 8Cabinet
Map CaseRoom
BasementBuilding
Tudor HallRelationships
Related Person or Organization
Person or Organization
Morsell, William S.