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Dorchester Illustration 2261 Dorchester and Milton Bank
Dorchester Illustration no. 2261 Dorchester and Milton Bank The subscribers to the stock of the Dorchester and Milton Bank met in April, 1832, and accepted the Act of Incorporation. John R. Chaffee, Pastor of the First Methodist Church, described some … Continue reading
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Dorchester Illustration 2260 Calf Pasture Pumping Station
Dorchester Illustration no. 2260 Calf Pasture Pumping Station Calf Pasture Pumping Station, photo from 2003 This building is located on Columbia Point in Dorchester surrounded by Harbor Point apartments, the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the Study of the United … Continue reading
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Dorchester Illustration 2259 Mattapan Trolley
Dorchester Illustration no. 2259 Mattapan Trolley Mattapan Trolley Type 4 Car 5286 is shown on the loop at the Peabody Square end of Ashmont Station as it looked on October 20, 1936. Photo by James A. Parsons, 4 Westmoreland Street, Dorchester. … Continue reading
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Dorchester Illustration 2258 Holden House
Dorchester Illustration no. 2258 Holden House near Upham’s Corner The house of the Holden family stood on Columbia Road opposite Albright Ct. (now Annabel Street). Between 1884 and 1889, the house was taken down, and the property was sub-divided to … Continue reading
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Dorchester Illustration 2257 Pierce Building at Upham’s Corner
Dorchester Illustration no. 2257 Pierce Building at Upham’s Corner Anthony Sammarco has pointed out a mistake in last week’s Illustration. The house in the picture was not the Upham house but the Samuel B. Pierce House exactly across Columbia … Continue reading
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Dorchester Illustration 2256 Columbia Road at Bellevue
Dorchester Illustration no. 2256 Columbia Road at Bellevue Photograph of Roy Wilkes, bay pacing gelding. Owned by Solly Wolfson. Published in The Dorchester Gentlemen’s Driving Club. Year Book 1905. Edited and compiled by Ernest H. Morgan. The house in the … Continue reading
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Dorchester Illustration 2255 A.T. Stearns Lumber Company
Dorchester Illustration no. 2255 A.T. Stearns Lumber Company A.T. Stearns Lumber Company bronze paper-weight celebrating 75 years of business at Neponset. The company owned much of what is now the public property on Port Norfolk that is part of the … Continue reading
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Dorchester House Tour 2016: Ashmont Hill
The Dorchester House Tour is back – come to see Ashmont Hill as it is today on Sunday, June 12th. Visit a dozen delightful homes and carriage houses on Ashmont Hill. Talk with their owners about the ways they have … Continue reading
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Dorchester Illustration 2251 View of Ashmont Hill 1880s
Dorchester Illustration no. 2251 View of Ashmont Hill View of Ashmont Hill from top of 34 Alban Street 1880s. Scan of photo donated to the Dorchester Historical Society by the widow of grand nephew of Frank Wood, first owner of … Continue reading
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Dorchester Illustration 2250 Alban Street Interior 1880s
Dorchester Illustration no. 2250 Victorian Interior Does your home look like this one on Alban Street as it was comfortably furnished in the 1880s? Do the homes on Ashmont Hill still look like this? Find out at the Dorchester House … Continue reading
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