Monthly Archives: July 2012

Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 1828   Remember the photo of the longest wooden stairway in the city we saw the day before yesterday? Here’s a comment: I lived on Jerome St. from 1941 to 1971 and went to … Continue reading →

Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 1827 Today’s illustration is a mystery.  Can anyone identify this house?  Is that a cross in a building behind the house?  This house seems to have another house quite similar to it situated at … Continue reading →

Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 1826   I have heard about the hundred steps—a stairway leading from Hancock Street up the side of Jones Hill, but I had never seen a picture.  Does anyone have more information? _____ The … Continue reading →

Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 1825 Postcard. Caption on front: The New Dorchester High School.  T.C. Cushing, Dorchester, Mass.  Postally unused. This postcard has an undivided back, so that indicates it is earlier than the run-of-the-mill cards from about … Continue reading →

Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 1824   Today’s illustration is an advertisement in The Architectural Record, January, 1955, from The Bryant Electric Company incorporating a picture of Columbia Point. The following is from: University Press of New England description … Continue reading →

Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 1823   Card for primary nomination of Daniel J. McLaughlin as the Democratic candidate for state representative from Ward 16 in 1932.  I can find no indication of whether he won or not. _____ … Continue reading →

Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 1822   A good day to sit in the park.  Postcard. Caption on front: 212487 In Franklin Park, Boston, Mass. Postmarked Roxbury Station with one-cent stamp. On verso: Published by the Valentine & Sons’ … Continue reading →

Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 1821 Scan of drawing on front page of All Saints’ Chronicle, August, 1892, showing the proposed new All Saints Church. 209-211 Ashmont Street, The Parish of All Saints Source: Codman Square House Tour Booklet … Continue reading →

Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 1820   The City of Boston will officially re-name Wainwright Park or Cronin Playground as the Rev. Loesch Family Park tomorrow.  The land that is now the play ground was part of the 17th … Continue reading →

Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 1819   The Associated Press reported that a rare original copy of President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation sold for more than $2 million.  This brought to mind a painting in the collection at the … Continue reading →