Dorchester Illustration 2691 Northwood and Dorchester apartment hotels
At the corner of Columbia Road and Stoughton Street, there is now a one-story building housing Santander Bank.
From the early 1880s to at least 1933, the site was occupied by the Northwood and Dorchester apartment hotels. The apartment hotels provided fully-furnished suites for rent.
The top image in today’s illustration shows the Northwood Hotel (left portion of the four-story brick building) and Dorchester Hotel (right portion).
The lower image is from the 1884 atlas showing the location of the hotels. Jones Hill was just beginning to be developed, with only one new house at the corner of Cushing Avenue and Wilbur Street. The large house, labeled Julia Dyer, was an old house formerly owned by a branch of the Clapp family. It is now the location of the Strand Theatre.