Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 1881
Photograph of Parson T and Deacon B, a pair of family roadsters, owned by W.L. Terhune– Published in The Dorchester Gentlemen’s Driving Club. Year Book 1905. The 1904 Dorchester Blue Book shows Terhune’s address as 18 Melville Avenue, and the house in the photo is presumably 18 Melville. The City of Boston inspectional services dept online shows that a permit was issued in 1918 to change the porch. That may be when the pediment and columns were added, turning the house facade into Classical Revival style. The Codman Square House Tour booklet described its present appearance as a portico with lotus-capital columns screening a double-bowfront façade with fanlit entrance.
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