Monthly Archives: May 2013

Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 2035 Illustration of the Columbia Road Automobile Station from 1910 Blue Book of Dorchester.  Located at 610 Columbia Road, Fred Edwards, proprietor. Telephone 693-3 Dorchester. The building was apparently demolished sometime after 1918.  The … Continue reading →

Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 2034 Postcard. Caption on front: You are invited to attend my 5th birthday party, December 10, 1908 … Mattapan Baptist Church.  Postally unused With view of Mattapan Baptist Church supposedly on Blue Hill Avenue … Continue reading →

Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 2033 Advertisement and 1906 postcard from Dr. Douglas who ran a sanatorium at 321 Centre Street.  This was formerly the Charles Whitten estate. Note the directions: “Take Ashmont and Milton” electric from Boston to … Continue reading →

Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 2032 Postcard. Caption on front: Camp Jos H Lyon, Franklin Field.  Postally unused.  On verso: Published by Putnam Art Co., 12 Pearl St., Boston. Franklin Field was host to an encampment of Knights of … Continue reading →

Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 2031 “Eddy and Sons made Refrigerators in Dorchester for 70 Years.”  By Anthony Sammarco. September 24, 1993. Few of us in Dorchester are without a refrigerator in the kitchen, and as last summers’ heat … Continue reading →

Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 2030 Photograph in the collection of the Dorchester Historical Society showing the Davenports who lived in the Samuel Davenport House – Martha, Josiah, Clarissa, Lucy, Elizabeth, Lydia, Hannah, Rebecca.  The house was at the … Continue reading →

Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 2029 Home of Robert Ball Hughes, sculptor, at 3 School Street, corner of Washington Street. Noted for his statues of New York Governor Clinton, of Alexander Hamilton and Nathaniel Bowditch, Robert Ball Hughes also … Continue reading →

Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 2028 Scan of photograph of Barry and Blanchard School with handwritten note: Barry & Blanchard School on School St. Dorchester about 1894-5.  Photo given to Dorch. Hist. Soc. by Philip Wales 1/15/2007 ____ The … Continue reading →

Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 2027 Postcard. Caption on front: Ye Olde Blake House, Dorchester, Mass. Postally unused. This card, from about 1920, shows the Blake House with a metal sign posted in the front yard.  Also note the … Continue reading →

Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 2026 Photo of Uphams Corner.  Uphams General Store stood at the corner of Columbia Road and Dudley Street until 1884, when it was replaced by a one-story brick and granite building.  Later three more … Continue reading →