Monthly Archives: December 2011

Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 1694 Please note that the Dorchester Illustration of the Day will be interrupted for the holidays.  See you again after the first of the year.   The following appeared on Bostonglobe.com: Headline: Date:     Dec … Continue reading →

Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 1693   Postcard. Caption on front: Washington and Harvard Sts., Dorchester, Mass. Postally unused.  On verso: No. 1363. Pub. by Boston Post-Card Co., 12 Pearl St.  Circa 1910. ______ The Dorchester Illustration of the … Continue reading →

Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 1691   Today we have a close-up detail from John Foster’s headstone from 1681.  John Foster, the fourth child of Hopestill and Mary (Bates) Foster, was the earliest engraver in what is now the … Continue reading →

Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 1691   Built in 1901, the Roger Wolcott School was located at Norfolk & Morton Streets.  It seems to have been named for the 39th Governor of the Commonwealth who served as Acting Governor … Continue reading →

Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 1690   Located at the corner of Washington Street and Welles Avenue, the Dorchester Temple Baptist Church was designed in 1889 by architect Arthur H. Vinal. The building is an unusual Boston example of … Continue reading →

Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 1689   Today we have a personal favorite postcard: Postcard. Caption on front: Walter Baker’s Mill. Milton, Dorchester, Mass. 1493 Postally unused. On verso: Pub. by M. Abrams, Roxbury, Mass. Baker’s Chocolate is, of … Continue reading →

Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 1688   In 1885 a 26-foot high fountain was installed in memory of Theodore Lyman, Jr., Mayor of Boston in 1834-1835.  Lyman was called the first to introduce water into the city.  The fountain … Continue reading →

Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 1687  You could check out a radio program from WGBH about the rain garden at Peabody Square http://www.wgbh.org/articles/A-Garden-Where-Rain-Is-Always-Welcome-4976 and you can see new solar power panels if you drive by the gas tank on … Continue reading →

Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 1686   This old favorite view of many of you is still puzzling.  Whose sheep? Postcard. Caption on front: Winter home of the sheep, “Franklin Field,” Dorchester. No. 2 Pub. by Boston Post Card … Continue reading →

Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 1685   St. Mary’s Infant Asylum was founded in 1872 under the charge of the Sisters of Charity. It was first started by the “White Bonnet” Sisters on the old Seaver estate at the … Continue reading →