Category Archives: Uncategorized

Dorchester Illustration no. 2200 Putnam Nails _____ The Dorchester Illustration is sent occasionally. If you receive this e-mail by mistake, please reply to be taken off the e-mail list. If you know others who would like to receive the daily … Continue reading →

  Dorchester Illustration no. 2199 Photograph showing truck and storefront for the Uphams Corner Vulcanizing Co. at 564 Columbia Road.  The proprietor of the business, Joseph Aloysius Sweeney is leaning against the lamp pole. _____ The Dorchester Illustration is sent … Continue reading →

Dorchester Illustration no. 2198 St. Gregory’s School appeared in American Architect and Building News, March 20, 1918. Francis X. Dolan became the pastor of St. Gregory’s in 1914. He undertook the construction of a grammar school which opened in 1915. … Continue reading →

Dorchester Illustration no. 2197 Irving Colpack Caption on verso: Dorchester Yout Wins Newsboys Harvard Scholarship.  Irving Colpack a newsboy of the Dorchester District of Boston was the winner of this year’s scholarship to Harvard University.  The scholarship was founded in … Continue reading →

Dorchester Illustration no. 2196 St. Matthew’s Church appeared in American Architect and Building News, March 20, 1918. In 1888 Father Fitzpatrick of St. Gregory’s bought a lot of land at the corner of Norfolk and Darlington Streets, and two years … Continue reading →

Dorchester Illustration no. 2195 Today we have a view of the gates of Cedar Grove Cemetery in 1885. The following is from the Cemetery’s website: http://cgcem.org/ CEDAR GROVE CEMETERY was organized three years after the end of the Civil War … Continue reading →

Dorchester Illustration no. 2194 Crusher Casey and Family This illustration is a press photo with the following caption on the back: July 13, 1957.  This is the lovely family of Jim (Crusher) Casey of Melville Ave., Dorchester.  They are shown … Continue reading →

May 29, 2015 The Dorchester Historical Society received an award from the Massachusetts Historical Commission for the renovation of the Clapp Family Barn.

Dorchester Illustration no. 2193   Third Dorchester High School  The third high school building is located at the corner of Talbot Avenue and Centre Street. Designed by Hartwell, Richardson and Driver and built in 1900, it later became Dorchester High School for … Continue reading →

Dorchester Illustration no. 2192 Second Dorchester High School The second high school, which was located at the corner of Dorchester Avenue and Centre Street, was used as the high school from about 1870 until 1900 when the high school in … Continue reading →