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Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 2010 Mayor White was a proponent of placing a as stadium for the Patriots in Dorchester. Today we have a photograph by Frank Kelly of a sketch of a proposed stadium for Neponset.  Photograph … Continue reading →

Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 2009 C. B. Lovewell Company. Scan of illustration in Blue Book of Roxbury and Dorchester 1915.  The shop was located on the west side of Washington Street north of Codman Square between Southern Avenue … Continue reading →

Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 2008 Candlestick on tray made by Roswell Gleason pewter manufacturing company on Washington Street about 1840. The following is from American Series of Popular Biographies.MassachusettsEdition.  This Volume Contains Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens of … Continue reading →

Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 2007 Postcard. Caption on front: All aboard and away we go for Dorchester, a real live town. Postmarked Dorchester, Oct. 3, 1913. ____ The Dorchester Illustration of the Day (DIOTD) is sent weekdays. If … Continue reading →

Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 2006 Williams Motor Co., used car company whose business card says they are  located at 815 Gallivan Boulevard at Neponset Circle about where the parking lot for Staples is today.  The photo above seems … Continue reading →

Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 2005 Photograph of 10 Radford Lane looking up at the backs of houses on Carruth Street. The house at the very left is 33 Carruth Street at the corner of Carruth and Radford Lane.  … Continue reading →

Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 2004 Photograph of the yard of the Nathan Carruth House, formerly at the top of the hill between Beaumont and Elmer Streets. ____ The Dorchester Illustration of the Day (DIOTD) is sent weekdays. If … Continue reading →

Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 2003 Scan of advertisement for Winthrop Hall in Dorchester Woman’s Club Cook-Book 1897. Winthrop Hall was located at 570-572 Columbia Road where the Citizens Bank building is located today.  In the scan the stone … Continue reading →

Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 2002 Residence of City Alderman Charles V. Whitten at 321 Centre Street.  Scan of clipping from Boston of To-day, published in the 1890s.  The building was later used as a sanatorium by a Dr. … Continue reading →

Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 2001 Scan of photograph published in the 1890s of 2157 Dorchester Avenue (now across from the driveway entrance to Carney Hospital, although the Hospital was not there at this time).  Built between 1889 and … Continue reading →