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Enoch Robinson & Henry Whitney (1826) E. & G.W. Robinson & Co. (1837–1839) E. Robinson & Co. (1839–1905) Wm. Hall & Co. (1843–1921) G.N. Wood & Co. (1905–1914) John Tein Company (1883–1939) L.S. Hall & Co. (1914–1918) W.C. Vaughan Co. (1895-2000) Ostrander & Eshleman (1921–1992) Quincy Spindle Mfg. Co. ( –1999) (New England Lock and Hardware Co.) Edward R. Butler Company (1966–1990) & E.R. Butler & Co. (1990–) “STORROW RES.,” GROPIUS & BREUER ARCHITECTS BLUEPRINT W.C. Vaughan Co. Archives, Drawing No. 233-A, 1938 E.R. Butler & Co. Research Library WALTER GROPIUS HOUSE, LINCOLN, MA Ise Gropius Relaxing on Second Floor Terrace Photographed by Robert Damora, 1948 ROCKEFELLER APARTMENTS BREUER HOUSE, LINCOLN PEABODY PLYWOOD HOUSE FARNSWORTH HOUSE KNIFFIN HOUSE ZIMMERMAN HOUSE BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY CHAPELS EMBASSY OF THE UNITED STATES Wallace Kirkman Harrison, Architect Marcel Breuer, Architect Eleanor Raymond, Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Architect Marcel Breuer & Elliot Noyes, Architects Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect Harrison & Abramovitz, Architects Walter Gropius, Pietro Belluschi & The Architects Collaborative (TAC), Architects NEW YORK, NY LINCOLN, MA DOVER, MA PLANO, IL NEW CANAAN, CT MANCHESTER, NH Eero Saarinen, Master Plan ATHENS, GREECE 1936 1938–1939 1940 1945–1951 1949 1950 WALTHAM, MA 1961 1954–1963 NATHANIEL SALTONSTALL HOUSE UNKNOWN RETAIL STORE* PLASTICS, 1940 GELLER HOUSE I SCOTT HOUSE HOWLETT HOUSE SOCIAL SCIENCE BUILDING Saltonstall & Morton, Architects Eleanor Le Maire, Architect Robert Woods Kennedy, Curator Marcel Breuer, Architect Marcel Breuer, Architect The Architects Collaborative (TAC), Architects CHERMAYEFF COTTAGE & STUDIO* The Architects Collaborative (TAC), Architects MEDFIELD, MA 1938 INSTITUTE OF MODERN ART LAWRENCE, NY DENNIS, MA BELMONT, MA Serge Chermayeff, Architect BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY 1937 BOSTON, MA 1945–1946 1949 1950 WELLFLEET, MA WALTHAM, MA ARGENTINIAN PAVILION 1940 1954, 1958 1961 CHRIST CHURCH CRANBROOK Armando D'ans & Aymar Embury II, Architects GILBERT TOMPKINS HOUSE HOUSE IN THE MUSEUM GARDEN MENIL HOUSE Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue, Architect NEW YORK WORLD’S FAIR 9 ASH STREET HOUSE Marcel Breuer, Architect Marcel Breuer, Architect Philip Cortelyou Johnson, Architect BOWDITCH HOUSE BOSTON SAFE DEPOSIT & TRUST COMPANY 1938 NEW YORK, NY “THESIS HOUSE” HEWLETT HARBOR, NY MUSEUM OF MODERN ART (MoMA) HOUSTON, TX Eleanor Raymond, Architect The Architects Collaborative (TAC), Architects 1939 Philip Cortelyou Johnson, Architect 1946 POCANTICO HILLS, NY 1950–1951 CAMBRIDGE, MA BOSTON, MA WILLIAM P. BARTEL HOUSE CAMBRIDGE, MA 1949–1950 1955 1961 Eleanor Raymond, Architect FORD HOUSE 1941–1942 THE GLASS HOUSE PACK HOUSE WAYLAND, MA Walter Gropius & Marcel Breuer, Architects Philip Cortelyou Johnson, Architect THOMPSON HOUSE Marcel Breuer, Architect MOSLEY HOUSE* PHILLIPS ACADEMY 1938 LINCOLN, MA JOHN P. MONKS HOUSE NEW CANAAN, CT “WONDERWOOD” SCARSDALE, NY The Architects Collaborative (TAC), Alteration The Architects Collaborative (TAC), Architects 1939 George Holmes Perkins, Architect 1947–1949 Marcel Breuer, Architect 1951 1955 ANDOVER, MA PILLSBURY SUMMER HOUSE LINCOLN, MA LIGONIER, PA 1961 Eleanor Raymond & Sarah Pillsbury Harkness, Architects FISCHER HOUSE & STUDIO 1941 BREUER COTTAGE 1949 WOLFSON TRAILER HOUSE MONSANTO HOUSE OF THE FUTURE DUXBURY, MA “WALDENMARK” Marcel Breuer, Architect Marcel Breuer, Architect Richard Hamilton & Marvin Goody (MIT), Architects JOSEPH M. EDINBURG HOUSE 1938 Walter Gropius & Marcel Breuer, Architects CHAMBERLAIN COTTAGE WELLFLEET, MA SIX MOON HILL SALT POINT, NY TOMORROWLAND Saltonstall & Morton, Architects WRIGHTSTOWN TOWNSHIP, BUCKS COUNTY, PA Marcel Breuer, Architect 1948–1949 The Architects Collaborative (TAC), Architects 1951 DISNEYLAND, ANAHEIM, CA BROOKLINE, MA EXMOOR FARM RENOVATION 1939 WAYLAND, MA LEXINGTON, MA 1957 1962 Eleanor Raymond, Architect 1941 BREUER HOUSE I 1949–1950 FIVE FIELDS WESTON, MA LIFE MAGAZINE’S LIFE HOUSES Marcel Breuer, Architect The Architects Collaborative (TAC), Architects HOOPER HOUSE II NEW ENGLAND STATES EXHIBITION Ca. 1938 “TOWN OF TOMORROW” WEIZENBLATT HOUSE NEW CANAAN, CT MAYO HILL COLONY CLUB LEXINGTON, MA Herbert Beckhard & Marcel Breuer, Architects Campbell & Aldrich, Architects NEW YORK WORLD’S FAIR Marcel Breuer, Architect 1948 Saltonstall & Morton, Architects 1951–1957 BALTIMORE, MD NEW YORK WORLD’S FAIR GROPIUS HOUSE QUEENS, NY ASHEVILLE, NC WELLFLEET, MA 1958–1959 NEW YORK, NY Walter Gropius & Marcel Breuer, Architects 1939, 1940 1941 EDWARD E. MILLS HOUSE 1949 P.M. HERZOG HOUSE 1962 LINCOLN, MA Marcel Breuer (Addition), 1951 Huson Jackson, Architect MURCHISON HOUSE 1938 PENNSYLVANIA STATE EXHIBITION ABELE HOUSE Marcel Breuer (Alteration), 1954 WELLESLEY VETERANS HOUSING BOSTON, MA The Architects Collaborative (TAC), Architects CHERMAYEFF COURTYARD HOUSE NEW YORK WORLD’S FAIR Walter Gropius & Marcel Breuer, Architects NEW CANAAN, CT Hugh Asher Stubbins, Architect 1953 PROVINCETOWN, MA Serge Chermayeff, Architect MR. & MRS. G. HOLMES PERKINS HOUSE NEW YORK, NY FRAMINGHAM, MA 1948 WELLESLEY, MA 1959 NEW HAVEN, CT George Holmes Perkins, Architect 1939 1941 1949–1952 SCOTT RESIDENCE 1962 BROOKLINE, MA FISCHER GUEST COTTAGE Serge Chermayeff, Architect SAMUEL & MINETTE KUHN HOUSE 1938–1939 TERZAGHI HOUSE JACKSON HOUSE Marcel Breuer, Architect SMITH HOUSE WELLFLEET, MA Saltonstall & Morton, Architects EARTH SCIENCE BUILDING George Holmes Perkins, Architect Elliot Noyes, Architect NEWTOWN, PA Marcel Breuer, Architect 1954 WELLFLEET, MA Araldo Cossutta & I.M. Pei, Architects JOSEPHINE M. HAGERTY HOUSE WINCHESTER, MA George Holmes Perkins, Supervising Architect 1948 ASPEN, CO 1960 THE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (MIT) Walter Gropius & Marcel Breuer, Architects 1939–1940 DOVER, MA 1950 GAGARIN HOUSE CAMBRIDGE, MA COHASSET, MA 1941 KEPES COTTAGE Herbert Beckhard & Marcel Breuer, Architects ROYAL DANISH EMBASSY 1962 1938–1939 GRIFFEN HOUSE Marcel Breuer, Architect LAUCK HOUSE LITCHFIELD, CT Vilhelm Lauritzen Arkitekter, Architects Fordyce & Hamby and George Nelson, Architects NELSON ROCKEFELLER APARTMENT WELLFLEET, MA Marcel Breuer, Architect 1954–1956 The Architects Collaborative (TAC), Consulting Architect CLARK ART INSTITUTE SCARSDALE, NY 810 FIFTH AVENUE 1948–1949 PRINCETON, NJ WASHINGTON, DC Pietro Belluschi, Architect 1939 Wallace Kirkman Harrison, Architect 1950 FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH 1960 WILLIAMSTOWN, MA Jean-Michel Frank, Interior Design ROBINSON HOUSE Pietro Belluschi, Architect 1972 ALAN I W FRANK HOUSE NEW YORK, NY Marcel Breuer, Architect BOSTON, MA Walter Gropius & Marcel Breuer, Architects 1941 WILLIAMSTOWN, MA 1954–1957 PITTSBURGH, PA 1948

Source: E.R. Butler & Co Research Library: W.C. Vaughan Co. Archives. 1940 * Archival Record Incomplete. FALL 2018

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