The William Bunker Tubby Jr. residence designed by his father William Bunker Tubby Sr. c. 1918 in Greenwich, Connecticut. This has been a bit of a mystery; Tubby Jr. is not mentioned in his father's 1944 obituary which also lists Tubby Sr. as residing on North Fifth Street in Greenwich which doesn't seem to exist today. Anyone have any ideas?
Photos from Architecture, 1919.
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Zach, In this wedding announcement from 1953, we find WB Tubby Jr. alive and living in Greenwich at the time of his son's, WB Tubby III's marriage
If Tubby Sr had been ill before he died, there's nothing surprising about him (and his wife) moving in with Tubby Jr. in Greenwich.
The Fifth Street address is more problematic.
WBT Sr. & wife seem to have had at least three sons---George Prentiss, Paul Bunker, and William Bunker, Jr.--at least that is what I piece together from the Times archives. No daughter so far. George Prentiss died young, leaving a son, Roger Wellington Tubby.
Love the house and the drawings.
Hi, the address was actually on North street. I have the Grand List with names of property owners. Fairfield Rd. interscts North street about 5 houses before the Tubby house, so maybe it was written to mean the fifth house after Fairfield Rd.
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