Monthly Archives: January 2012

Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 1702   Article from newspaper (Boston Globe?) December 25, 1925 Dorchester Man Plays Santa 500 Children Will Receive Toys and Feast from Joseph A. Flynn Out of his love for the children in his … Continue reading →

Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 1701  Henry A. Clapp   [Material excerpted directly from introduction to Letters to the Home Circle: The North Carolina Service of Pvt. Henry A. Clapp, Company F, Forty-fourth Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, 1862-1863. Edited by … Continue reading →

Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 1700   Today I am hoping that someone has more information about the subject of the illustration.  Please let me know if you know anything about this. Siphon bottle.  Nozzle has words: Suffolk Bott. … Continue reading →

Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 1699   Organized in 1888, the Central Congregational Church at the corner of Waldeck and Tonawanda Streets was designed by Albert West, a Dorchester resident, in a local Gothic style derivative of All Saints’. … Continue reading →

Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 1698   The day before yesterday, we saw the Colonial Filling station on Washington Street.  In that picture, there was a bit of a house barely visible behind the filling station.  That house was … Continue reading →

Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 1697   Today’s illustration is a photo of an American Red Cross medal with the name Alice Taylor Jacobs on the back and Dorchester Branch ARC on the front. Alice Taylor Jacobs and her … Continue reading →

Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 1696   Today’s illustration from the July, 1926, issue of The Architectural Forum shows a small filling station (construction completed in 1924) located at the corner of Washington Street and Melville Avenue.  The Colonial … Continue reading →

Dorchester Historical Society, 195 Boston Street, Dorchester, MA   January 29, 2012  at 2 pm.  Stephen Puleo will talk about The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919.   On Jan. 15, 1919, a 50-foot-tall steel tank filled with 2.3 million gallons of molasses collapsed … Continue reading →

Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 1695   10 Alpha Road Postcard of 10 Alpha Road with handwritten note that the house was the home of Martha Dana Shepard, who died July 18, 1914.  Postally unused.  Martha Dana Shepard was … Continue reading →