Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech
Joan Wood Architectural Collection
Wood, Joan
Ms.2001.039
7.92 Cubic Feet
1 half-document box and 15 telescoping boxes.
9.27 Cubic Feet
7 boxes and 6 oversized folders
1953-2000
This collection contains a mix of biographical information, project records, and architectural drawings. Records include drawings for 112 architectural projects from the architect Joan Wood and her Boston-based firm, Joan Wood Architects, along with some notes, correspondence, and project photographs. The later addition contains paper records, photographic materials, and design records for 73 named clients in the Boston area.
The materials in the collection are in English.
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use
The copyright status of this collection is unknown. Copyright restrictions may apply. Contact Special Collections and University Archives for assistance in determining the use of these materials. Reproduction or digitization of materials for personal or research use can be requested using our reproduction/digitization form: http://bit.ly/scuareproduction. Reproduction or digitization of materials for publication or exhibit use can be requested using our publication/exhibition form: http://bit.ly/scuapublication. Please contact Special Collections and University Archives (specref@vt.edu or 540-231-6308) if you need assistance with forms or to submit a completed form.
Preferred Citation
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Joan Wood Architectural Collection, Ms2001-039, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.
Source of Acquisition
Riosaria Piomelli donated one folder of biographical material in 2000. A large additional donation was made in 2011 by Joan Wood's estate.
Processing Information
The processing, arrangement, and description of the Joan Wood Architectural Collection began in July 2023 and was completed in October 2023.
Biographical Note
Joan Wood, née Klawans, received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Chicago and a Bachelor of Architecture degree from M.I.T. in 1960. Following graduation, Wood established her own firm, Joan Wood Architects, in Boston in 1962. Most of the firm's work can be found in New England and is primarily residential, with some commercial and institutional work. Joan Wood Architects is now owned by her son and has since been renamed to "Rose-Wood Architects." Wood's most notable work includes: Lodging House for the Working Homeless in Dorchester, the South End Community Health Center in Boston, and the "Ice House" in New Hampshire. Wood was a board member and vice-chair of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Design Selection Board, an alternate on the Boston Zoning Board of Appeals, building committee member and design review committee member for numerous urban projects and institutions, and was featured in the AIA Women in Architecture traveling exhibit and Boston Society for Architecture's (BSA) Women in Architecture exhibits yearly from 1987.
Scope and Contents
This collection contains personal papers and biographical materials, professional papers, office records, and project records. Personal papers include student work and thesis work. Professional papers include slides of Wood's exhibits and lectures for the AIA. Office records include color slides and portfolio sheets for Joan Wood Associates. Project records include project notes, photographic materials, paper records, and drawings organized by client name.
Arrangement
The Joan Wood Architectural Collection is organized into two series: Biographical Information and Project Drawings. Project records are ordered alphabetically by client last name, with a few exceptions ordered by street number/address where no client name is given. Project photographs corresponding to a drawing file are stored separately with the other manuscript material.
The Joan Wood Architectural Accession is organized into the series: Personal Papers, Professional Papers, Office Records, and Project Records. The series are recorded chronologically with a project index.
Related Archival Material
See also: Box 16, folder 94, "Many More: Women in Architecture, 1978-1988," Exhibit Files and Panels. Finding aid available online.
Rights Statement for Archival Description
The Guide to the Joan Wood Architectural Collection by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/).
International Archive of Women in Architecture (IAWA)
Women-owned architectural firms
Architectural drawing -- 20th century
Architectural drawings (visual works)
Women -- History
History of Women in Architecture
Personal Papersc. 1953-199411Box 22Box 23Joan Wood Architects PortfolioResumeBoston Globe article, "How One Man Has Made a Better Boston"1992Boston Globe article, "Icehouse Warms Into an Idyllic Getaway"1994Joan Wood Architects postcardStudent Work (1953-1960)Box 22Box 23Folder 1BibliographyVariant name: Klawans, Joan.
Project Drawings1961-1999English.Street number/address1980-1990English.21592 Tremont St: Boston19884 Groche St: Unknown Location1990425 Shawmut Ave: Boston19805 Melrose Street Condominiums: Boston1983683 Tremont Street: Boston1988A-B1961-1999English.3Adams Street: Dorchester1999Almeida: Boston1974Bates: Plainfield1961Batson: Boston1973Biddle: Jamestown1980Blake: Boston1971Bowers: Boston1981Braddock Pharmacy: Boston1997Buckley: Boston1984CA-CL0.45 Cubic Feet4.25x4.5x40.5 inch boxRolled drawings1964-1997English.4Cantwell: Groton1964Carpenter: Boston1986Casa Myrna Vazquez: Boston1980Children's Art Centre: Boston1997Claff: Canton1987Claff: Milton1987CO1971-1993English.5Cofield: Boston1972Cohen: Boston1984Conley: Waban1971Coolidge: Beverly1978Coolidge Ice House: Squam Lake1993Coolidge/Henderson: Cambridge1990Coughran: Boston1986D-E1970-19946Dodson: Boston1973Doerfer: Boston1970Doerfer: Brookline1982Doerfer: Cambridge1987Doerfer Farm House: Hardwick1978Donovan: Boston1970Earls: Cambridge1991Earls: Cambridge1994F1968-19997Feldman: Boston1977Feldman: Boston1980FKM Trust 21 Union Park1989Flaherty: Cambridge1968Fontanez: Boston1988Foulke: Boston1987Frankl: Brookline1999GA-GRECK1964-19928Gadish-Nathanson: Boston1992Garrity: Boston1984Goldberg: Newton1979Goldman: Brookline1987Goldman: Natick1969Gorman: Boston1987Groves Kucharski: Boston1979Greck: Boston1964GREENWOOD-HARTNETT1979-19969Greenwood: Cambridge1996Gregory-Wiedman: Boston1989Harney: Hyde Park1987Hartnett: Cambridge1979Hartnett: Cambridge1985Hartnett project photograph [1 print]198512HATHAWAY-HO1980-198410Hathaway: Cambridge1984Hathaway: Pocasset1980Haughey-Higgins: Walpole1981Hernandez: Boston1983Hoffman: Boston1983K-L1980-1989English.11Kelley: Unknown Location1989Kiley: Unknown Location1981Kirchheimer: Truro1982Kirk: Boston1980Kosmos: Boston1988L'espalier Egress: Boston1988ArrangementPictures corresponding to L'espalier are stored with biographical files in seperate sleeve
L'Espalier project photographs [2 prints]198812Liberty Tree Mall: Danvers1984LMS Development: Boston1986M-O1970-1996English.12Malcom: Jamestown1976Martin-Scott: Jamaica Plain1996McNulty: Roxbury1987Meeting Hill Lodging House: Dorchester1989Metz: Boston1979O'Neil: Jamestown1970P-R1970-1985English.13Peters: Brookline1982Potter: Unknown Location1979Quamina: Boston1972Ratner/Wood: Dorchester1985Rawls: Boston1983Readdy: Boston1970Rich: Boston1979Roberts: Boston1980Rodriguez: Boston1984Rogers: Boston1977SA-STOLL1980-1995English.14Sammons: Boston1980Sass: Boston1994Sass: Truro1990Selfridge: Lexington1986Slavet: Weston1995Sorensen/Rossell: Brookline1983South End Community Health Care Center: Boston1991Stoll: Brookline1988STONE-T1965-199615Stone: Cambridge1986Swett: Brookline1976Tayer: Brookline1971Taylor Investment Corp: Cambridge1965Tenant Alterations: Boston1996Tiffany: Boston1979Trefonides: Brookline1978V-Y1963-1984English.16Van Der Kolk: Boston1979Van Der Kolk: Boston1983Whitbeck: Cambridge1984Waters-Heistand: Watertown1977William Crane Properties: Cambridge1963William Crane Properties, Project Notes: Cambridge1963-1967William Crane Properties, Bent: Cambridge1963William Crane Properties, Carlton: Cambridge1963William Crane Properties, Computer Center: Cambridge1967William Crane Properties, Rogers-Binny: Cambridge1976William Crane Properties, Wesco: Cambridge1963Young: Boston1968Professional Papers (c. 1970-1983)Wood, JoanBox 23174-9ArchitectsArchitectural drawings (visual works)International Archive of Women in Architecture (IAWA)AIA Lecture on Open Space & Railroad Cover (c. 1970)
Box 23Scope and ContentsAIA Stone and Carpenter Exhibit (1981)Box 23Solar-Thermal Coolidge Addition (1977-1981)174-9Scope and ContentsFolder includes a paper written by Wright and Wright and Joan Wood on a thermal design for the Coolidge-Beverly project no. 77102. Attached to the paper are an AIA 'Better Living' Form and Award from 1981
Office Records (c. 1988-1991)Box 22Box 23Scope and ContentsSome clients listed in this series do not have corresponding paper records, and some only have accompanying photogrpahic materials.
Joan Wood Associates Card and Signature (c. 1991)Box 22Joan Wood 'Chromes JWA Old Slides' (c. 1988-1991)Box 23Recent Work PortfolioBox 22Project Records (1963-2000)Wood, JoanThe Joan Wood Project Record Series consists of six boxes and six oversized folders. Boxes 18-21 contain primarily paper records; boxes 22-23 contain photographic materials and portfolio sheets; and the oversized folders contain architectural and design drawings for clients and school work.English.Biographical / HistoricalJoan Wood and Henry Wood III, had a jointly owned architecture firm called 'Wood and Wood', which operated in the mid 1960s and 70s.
Biographical / HistoricalJoan Wood Associates was established in 1962
Scope and ContentsBox 22 and 23 are partially processed, and there are some photographic materials that exist for client projects which do not have corresponding paper records. Clients include the Malcom Residence, the Walsh Residence at Adams St., a Bent St. in East Cambridge MA, Children's Art Center U.S.E.S., the JWA offices, the Slavet Loft project, and one of the Doerfer projects, no. 77109.
International Archive of Women in Architecture (IAWA)History of Women in ArchitectureWomen -- HistoryArchitecture (discipline)Architectural drawing -- 20th centuryWomen-owned architectural firmsHibbett (Arlington MA; 1963-1964; 1019; Residential)171Box 22Box 23Folder 6Held (Boston MA, 1964-1966; ?; Residential)Folder 5Readdy (Boston MA; 1969-1970; 6903; Residential)172Coolidge (Beverly, Cambridge MA; Center Sandwich NH; 1972-1994; 7202, 77102, 90107, 93105, Residential)This series includes four projects completed for the Coolidge family. The Coolidge Ice House is among Joan Wood's biggest and most popular projects.173-21Box 22Box 23Coolidge (Beverly MA; 1972; 7202; Residential)173Coolidge (Beverly MA; 1977-1979; 77102; Residential)174-9Box 22Box 23Scope and ContentsReferred to as C-B and C-thermal in notes and document shorthand. See II. Professional Papers- Solar-Thermal Addition for more.
Coolidge-Henderson (Cambridge MA; 1990-1991; 90107; Residential)1710-11Box 23Coolidge Ice House (Center Sandwich NH; 1992-1994; 93105; Residential)1712-21Box 22Box 23Batson (Boston MA, 1973-1974; 7304; Residential)1722Rawls (Dorchester MA; 1976-1977; 76106; Residential)1723Doerfer (Cambridge MA; 1977-1988; 77109, 87123; Residential)1724-29Box 22Box 23Doerfer (Cambridge MA; 1977-1978; 77109; Residential)One envelope of color photos with the project no. 77109Box 23Doerfer (Cambridge MA; 1987-1988; 87123; Residential)1724-29Feldman (Boston MA; 1977-1986; 79114; Residential)1730-31Trefonoides (Brookline MA; 1977-1978; 77113; Residential)1732Van Der Kolk (Boston MA; 1977-1982; 77116, 82116; Residential)1733-36Van Der Kolk (Boston MA; 1977-1979; 77116; Residential)1733-35Van Der Kolk (Boston MA; 1982; 82116; Residential)1736Hartnett (Cambridge MA, 1978-1985; 78114, 83119; Residential)1737-38Box 23Hartnett (Cambridge MA; 1978-1985; 78114; Residential)1737Box 23Hartnett (Cambridge MA; 1983; 83119; Residential)1738Box 23Krancer (Brookline MA, 1978-1985; 85104; Residential)1739-40Biddle (Jamestown RI; 1979-1981; 79116; Residential)1741-44Box 22Box 23Carpenter-Warren (Boston MA; 1979-1987; ?, Residential)1745Box 23Folder 2Scope and ContentsCarpenter-Warren is used to distinguish between Carpenter-Durham. Warren is the street name.
Rich (Boston MA; 1979-1980; 79108; Residential)1746-47Tiffany (Boston MA; 1979-1994; 79111, 86129, ?; Residential)1748-51Tiffany (Boston MA; 1979-1980; 79111; Residential)1748-49Tiffany (Boston Ma; 1986; 86129; Residential)1750Tiffany (Boston MA; 1994; ?; Residential)1751Hathaway (Cambridge, Pocasset MA; 1980-1985; ?, 84113; Residential)1752-54Box 22Box 23Hathaway (Pocasset MA; c. 1980; ?; Residential)1752Hathaway (Cambridge MA; 1984-1985; 84113; Residential)1753-54Box 23Haughey (Walpole MA; 1981-1985; 81116, 85107; Residential)1755-58Box 23Haughey (Walpole MA; 1981-1985; 81116; Residential)1755Scope and ContentsConsulted with 'Jane Bernstein Associates' on this project.
Haughey 'Deck' (Walpole MA; 1982; ?; Residential)1756Haughey (Walpole MA; 1985; 85107; Residential)1757Haughey 'Car Shelter' (Walpole MA; 1996-1998; ?; Residential)1758Kirchheimer (Truro MA, 1981-1982; 81105; Residential) 1759Box 23Rodriguez (Boston MA; 1981-1988; ?, 83128, ?; Residential Multi-Family)1760-64Rodriguez (Boston MA; 1981; ?; Residential Multi-Family)1760Rodriguez (Boston MA; 1983-1985; 83128; Residential Multi-Family)1761-63Rodriguez (Boston MA; 1988; 88102; Residential Multi-Family) [Consult]1764Marshall (Boston MA; 1982-1983; 82111; Residential)1765Whitbeck (Cambridge MA; 1982-1990; 84101; Residential)1766-68Grohe (Boston MA; 1983-1984; 83117; Residential)Box 181-3Hoffman (Boston MA; 1983-1984; ?; Residential)Box 184Piraino, Conroy, Fletcher, & Pollard (Boston MA; 1983-1985; 83125; Residential Multi-Family)Box 185-6Scope and ContentsAlso called Melrose Apartments
Buckley (Boston MA; 1984; 84116; Residential)Box 187Cohen-Braddock (Boston MA; 1984; 84114; Residential Multi-Family)Box 188Garrity (Boston MA; 1984-1985l 84106; Residential Multi-Family)Box 189-11Gibbs (Boston MA; 1984-1987; ?; Residential)Box 1812Harel (Newton MA; 1984; 84104; Residential)Box 1813L'Espalier (Boston MA; 1984-1988; 88104; Commercial)Box 1814-16MIT ATRP (Davers MA; 1984-1985; 84120; Commercial?)Box 1817-21Box 23Carpenter-Durham (Boston MA; 1985-1987; ?; Residential)Box 1822-25Corley (Newton MA, 1985, ?; Residential)Folder 4Ratner-Wood (Dorchester MA;1985-1986, 1993; 85102; Residential Multi-Family)Box 1826-27Box 23Sabuk (Boston MA; 1985-1988; 85115, 87131; Residential Multi-Family)Box 1828-30Sabuk (Boston MA; 1985-1987; 85115; Residential Multi-Family)Box 1828Sabuk (Boston MA; 1987-1988; 87131; Residential Multi-FamilyBox 1829-30Selfridge (Lexington MA; 1985-1987; 85108; Residential)Box 1831-32Box 22Stone (Cambridge MA; 1985-1991; 86112; Residential Multi-Family)Box 1833-38Box 23Wetzner (Newton MA; 1985-1986; 85112; Residential)Box 1839-40Brennan (Belmont MA; 1986; ?; Residential)Folder 3Claff (Canton MA; 1986-1992; 86134; Residential)Box 1841-43Box 23Coughran (Canton MA; 1986-1989; 85120; Residential)Box 1844-49Box 22Box 23Kolick (Boston MA;1986-1987; ?, Reidential Multi-Family?)Box 1850Sass (Truro, Boston MA; 1986-1995; 87112, 90106, ?, 94112; Residential)Box 1851-55Box 191-6Box 22Box 23Sass (Brookline MA; 87112; 1986-1988; Residential)Box 1851-52Sass (Truro MA; 1990-1991; 90106; Residential)Box 1853-55Box 22Box 23Sass (Boston MA; 1993; ?; ?) [Consult]Box 191Sass (Boston MA; 1994-1995; 94112; Residential)Box 192-6Foulke (Boston MA; 1987; 87117; Residential)Box 197Goldman-Brink (Brookline MA; 1987-1988; 87107; Residential)Box 198-10Gorman (Boston MA; 1987; ?; Residential?)Box 1911McAnulty (W. Roxbury MA; 1987-1990; 87113; Residential)Box 1912-13Peters-Kurtz (Sharon MA; 1987-1988; 87119, Residential)Box 1914-15Public Facilities Department (Boston MA; 1987-1990; 87127, 89111, 89112; Commercial?)Box 1916-24Public Facilities Department 'Curtain' (Boston MA; 1987-1988; 87127; Commercial?)Box 1916-20Public Facilities Department 'Food Bank' (Boston MA; 1989; 89111; Commercial?)Box 1921Public Facilities Department 'Beck' (Mattapan MA; 1989-1990; 89112; Commercial?)Box 1922-23Public Facilities Department Notebooks 3-7 (Boston MA; 1989-1990)Box 1924PFD Proposals (Boston MA; 1987-1994) [Rejected]Box 1925-43PFD Urban Design Unit (1987-1989; 87114)Box 1925-27PFD Project 747 'Buildable Lots' (1987-1988; 87134)Box 1928PFD 'Murphy' (Roslindale MA; 1989; 89102)Box 1929PFD 'Sheedy' (Dorchester MA; 1989-1990; 89103)Box 1930PFD 'Multi-Vendor; (1989-1994)Box 1931-36PFD 'Contract 13071 Extension' (1989-1990)Box 1937PFD Information (c. 1993)Box 1938PFD 'Project 6235' (1994-1995)Box 1939-42PFD 'Restore Blue Hill Ave.' (1996)Box 1943Prager (Waban MA; 1987; 87120; Residential)Box 1944-45Shattuck Shelter (Boston, Jamaica Hill MA; 1987-1991; 87116, 88118; Institutional)Box 1946-54Box 201-12Box 22Box 23Shattuck 'Pre Church St' (Jamaica Plains MA; 1987-1990; 87116; Institutional?)Box 1946-47Shattuck 'Meeting House Hill' (Boston MA; 1989-1991; 88118; Institutional?)Box 1948-54Box 201-12Hale (Boston MA; 1988-1990; 88119; Residential)Box 2013Jaffe (Charleston MA; 1988-1992; 87115; Residential?)Box 2014-16Kosmos Market (Boston MA; 1988-1989; 88114; Commercial)Box 2017-21Box 22Box 23S. End Community Health Center (Boston, Quincy MA; 1987-2000; 87130, 90110, ?; Commercial)Box 2022-58Box 211-4Box 22Box 23SECHC 'Parking' (Boston MA; 1987-1988; 87130; Institutional)Box 2022SECHC 'Main Health Center' (Boston MA; 1989-1994; 90110; Institutional)Box 2023-28SECHC "Women, Infants, Children" Center (Boston MA; 1989-1994; ?; Institutional)Box 2029-51Box 23SECHC "Harbor WIC" (Mattapan MA; 1992-1993; ?; Institutional)Box 2052SECHC "Manet Community" (Quincy MA; 1992-1993; ?; Institutional) [Consult?]Box 2053SECHC InvoicesBox 2054-55SECHC Job Site SearchBox 2056SECHC Project NotebooksBox 2057-58Box 211-4Stoll (Brookline MA; 1988; 88105; Residential)Box 215-6Casa Myrna Vazquez (Boston MA; 1989-1994; 89109, 93104, 89116; Institutional)Box 217-13Box 22Box 23Casa Myrna Vazquez (Boston MA; 1989-1992; 89109; Institutional)Box 217-8Casa Myrna Vazquez "FKM Trust" (Boston MA; 1989-1992; 89116; Institutional)Box 219-12Casa Myrna Vazquez Daycare (Boston MA; 1993; 93104; Institutional)Box 2113CMV 'Consultation and Legal' (Boston MA; 1979-1994; 79119)Box 2114-18Casa Myrna Vazquez 'Legal' (Boston MA; 1979-1994; 79119)Box 2114-17Casa Myrna Vazquez 'Consult' (1986) [Consult]Box 2118Gregory-Wiedman (Beacon Hill MA; 1989-1990; 88129; Residential)Box 2119Box 22Box 23Hayes (Boston MA; 1989; ?; Residential) [Consult]Box 2120Wagman (Beverly MA; 1989-1990; 89115; Residential)Box 2121Blake (Boston MA; 1991-1993; ?; Residential)Box 2122Earls (Martha's Vineyard, Cambridge MA; 1991-1995; 91101, 91109, 94104; Residential)Box 2123-33Box 23Earls (Martha's Vineyard MA; 1991-1993; 91101; Residential Study)Box 2123-24Earls (Cambridge MA; 1991-1992; 91109; Residential)Box 2125-29Box 23Earls (Cambridge MA; 1994-1995; 94104; Residential) [Consult]Box 2130-33Kuhn (Cambridge MA; 1991, ?; Residential)Box 2134Scope and ContentsThe Kuhn Residence is at the same address as the Doerfer Residence at 985 Memorial Dr, Unit 303.
Gadish-Nathanson (S. End Boston, MA; 1992-1994; 92105; Residential)Box 2135-37Box 22Box 23Garfield-Netsky (Cambridge MA, 1992-1993, ?, Residential) [Consult]Box 2138Hass (Cambridge MA; 1993; 93101; Residential) [Consult]Box 2139-40Morgan (Milton MA; 1994; 94101; Residential)Box 2141-42Labeck HBI (Boston MA; 1995-1996; 96102, 96106; Commercial)Box 2143-45Box 23Scope and ContentsKept as one project unit rather than separating because 96102 and 96106 are stages 1 and 2 of the project.
Charles (Dorchester MA; 1996-2000; 96110; Residential)Box 2146-48Obemeyer (W. Newton MA; 1997-1998; 97108; Residential?)Box 2149Sorrentino (Boston MA; 1997; 97102; Residential?)Box 2150Frankl (Brookline MA; 1998-1999; 98109; Residential?)Box 2151-58