Drawing

Title:

Sanborn Seminary

Object Name:

Drawing

Object ID:

1956.100.02

Creator:

Snow, Stanley W. (1901-1957)Artist

Place of Origin:

Rockingham County, NH

Date:

circa 1950

Description:

Drawing of Sanborn Seminary, by Stan Snow (d.1957), c. 1950. Pen and ink on paper. Large brick building, partially hidden behind trees. Rectangular windows arranged in pairs, at basement level; pairs of arched windows on main level; arched windows, in groups of three, on second story; dormers projecting from roof above. Relatively narrow central pavillion with pedimented entrace porch having a pair of columns at each side. Rising above central pavillion is a town with steeply hipped roof having gables projecting from its sides near base and a "bell gable" at the top. All gables steeply pitched and terminating in decorative finials. Sign in gable of entrance porch reading: "Sanborn / 1883 / Seminary." Road passes in front of building, on the near side of which are two large trees at sides with a smaller one at center. Signed lower right: "Stan / Snow." Blue ink inscription on reverse: "Sanborn Seminary - Kinston Was not used. No text / Kingston".
Below that in pencil: "Printed Not used-no text / Sanborn Seminary - Kingston, N. H." Unframed.

Material:

Paper

Dimensions:

H-14.5 W-11.5 inches

Provenance:

One of a set of 22 drawings of historic buildings in Rockingham County, NH, drawn by Stan Snow (d. 1957) of Hampstead, NH, and published in the Haverhill (Mass.) Gazette, 1955-56.

Credit Line:

Gift of the Haverhill Gazette

People:

Snow, Stanley W. (1901-1957)