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Dorchester Illustration 2262 Wrought at Mrs Saunders and Miss Beach’s Academy Dorchester

Posted on August 14, 2016 by earltaylor

Dorchester Illustration no. 2262    Wrought at Mrs. Saunders and Miss Beach’s Academy Eunice Bent made this piece of needlework at the school for young ladies operated in the first half of the 19th century by Judith Foster Saunders and Clementina … Continue reading →

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Dorchester Illustration 2261 Dorchester and Milton Bank

Posted on August 7, 2016 by earltaylor

Dorchester Illustration no. 2261    Dorchester and Milton Bank The subscribers to the stock of the Dorchester and Milton Bank met in April, 1832, and accepted the Act of Incorporation. John R. Chaffee, Pastor of the First Methodist Church, described some … Continue reading →

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Dorchester Illustration 2260 Calf Pasture Pumping Station

Posted on July 31, 2016 by earltaylor

Dorchester Illustration no. 2260    Calf Pasture Pumping Station Calf Pasture Pumping Station, photo from 2003 This building is located on Columbia Point in Dorchester surrounded by Harbor Point apartments, the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the Study of the United … Continue reading →

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Dorchester Illustration 2259 Mattapan Trolley

Posted on July 24, 2016 by earltaylor

Dorchester Illustration no. 2259    Mattapan Trolley Mattapan Trolley Type 4 Car 5286 is shown on the loop at the Peabody Square end of Ashmont Station as it looked on October 20, 1936. Photo by James A. Parsons, 4 Westmoreland Street, Dorchester. … Continue reading →

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Dorchester Illustration 2258 Holden House

Posted on July 17, 2016 by earltaylor

Dorchester Illustration no. 2258    Holden House near Upham’s Corner The house of the Holden family stood on Columbia Road opposite Albright Ct. (now Annabel Street). Between 1884 and 1889, the house was taken down, and the property was sub-divided to … Continue reading →

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Dorchester Illustration 2257 Pierce Building at Upham’s Corner

Posted on July 10, 2016 by earltaylor

  Dorchester Illustration no. 2257    Pierce Building at Upham’s Corner Anthony Sammarco has pointed out a mistake in last week’s Illustration. The house in the picture was not the Upham house but the Samuel B. Pierce House exactly across Columbia … Continue reading →

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Dorchester Illustration 2256 Columbia Road at Bellevue

Posted on July 3, 2016 by earltaylor

Dorchester Illustration no. 2256    Columbia Road at Bellevue Photograph of Roy Wilkes, bay pacing gelding. Owned by Solly Wolfson. Published in The Dorchester Gentlemen’s Driving Club. Year Book 1905. Edited and compiled by Ernest H. Morgan. The house in the … Continue reading →

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Dorchester Illustration 2255 A.T. Stearns Lumber Company

Posted on June 26, 2016 by earltaylor

Dorchester Illustration no. 2255    A.T. Stearns Lumber Company A.T. Stearns Lumber Company bronze paper-weight celebrating 75 years of business at Neponset. The company owned much of what is now the public property on Port Norfolk that is part of the … Continue reading →

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Dorchester Illustration 2254 Consumptives Home Grove Hall

Posted on June 19, 2016 by earltaylor

  Dorchester Illustration no. 2254   Consumptives Home Grove Hall  Scan of illustration from King’s Hand-Book of Boston. Boston: Moses King Corporation, 1889. 9th ed. The Text of King’s Hand-Book says that the Consumptives Home Grove Hall was incorporated in 1870, … Continue reading →

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Dorchester House Tour 2016: Ashmont Hill

Posted on June 7, 2016 by earltaylor

The Dorchester House Tour is back – come to see Ashmont Hill as it is today on Sunday, June 12th.  Visit a dozen delightful homes and carriage houses on Ashmont Hill.  Talk with their owners about the ways they have … Continue reading →

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