In the early twentieth century, the Tudor Revival rivaled the Georgian Revival in popularity for apartment house construction, with this example one of the finest in the Boston vicinity. Following the precedent of the Richmond Court apartments in Brookline (BR6; 1898, Cram, Goodhue and Ferguson), Newhall and Blevins organized this block around a central courtyard, ornamented with gables, turrets,
Keith N. Morgan, "Burton Hall", [Cambridge, Massachusetts], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MA-01-CS21.
Buildings of Massachusetts: Metropolitan Boston, Keith N. Morgan, with Richard M. Candee, Naomi Miller, Roger G. Reed, and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2009, 299-300.
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