Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 1987
In 1895 the James Blake House was moved to Richardson Park across Columbia Road from the Russell School. Built in 1661, it is Boston’s oldest extant house. Its original location was off Cottage a little north of Edward Everett Square., approximately in the parking lot for NStar on Massachusetts Avenue. When Massachusetts Avenue was constructed it ran very close to the house, and today’s photo was taken from the Massachusetts Avenue side of the property not long before the housed was moved by the Dorchester Historical Society to save it from demolition.
The house is generally open to the public on the third Sunday of each month.
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