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Dorchester Illustration 2226 Boys with Blocks
Dorchester Illustration no. 2226 This photograph was taken at Franklin Park photographers. Presumably the boys shown were residents of the surrounding area. Can anyone help identify them? _____ The Dorchester Illustration is sent occasionally. If you receive this e-mail by … Continue reading
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Dorchester Illustration 225 Market at Mt Bowdoin Station
Dorchester Illustration no. 2225 Here is the store at Mt. Bowdoin station, the second of two deisgned by Architect W. Whitney Lewis in the 1880s. _____ The Dorchester Illustration is sent occasionally. If you receive this e-mail by mistake, please … Continue reading
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Dorchester Illustration 2224 Ashmont Market
Dorchester Illustration no. 2224 Architect W. Whitney Lewis designed two suburban stores in the 1880s: the market at Ashmont that became O’Brien’s Market and another market at Bowdoin Station at 200 Washington Street. Elevations of the two markets were featured … Continue reading
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Dorchester Illustration 2223 Dorchester wins baseball trophy
Dorchester Illustration no. 2223 Photo of an award ceremony from 1920s or 1930s. Boston baseball trophy award ceremony (Boston Twilight League?). The two teams pictured are Dorchester and the South Boston All Stars. Dorchester took the trophy. _____ The Dorchester … Continue reading
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Dorchester lllustration 2220 Strand Theatre program 1929
Dorchester Illustration no. 2220 Strand Theatre program 1929 Clara Bow appears in The Saturday Night Kid, November, 1929, at the Strand Theatre. The Strand Theatre was constructed on the site of the former Dyer mansion. The Strand opened on November … Continue reading
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2015 November 8, 2 pm Dorch Hist Soc program at All Saints Church
Dorchester and the American Pipe Organ: Restoring E.M. Skinner’s Opus 708 for All Saints, Ashmont Sunday, November 8, 2015, 2 p.m. A talk by Skinner organ expert Jonathan Ambrosino and a demonstration of the organ by All Saints’ Organist Andrew … Continue reading
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Dorchester Illustration 2218 Syria Temple
Dorchester Illustration no. 2218 St. Matthew’s Church In 1888 Father Fitzpatrick of St. Gregory’s bought a lot of land at the corner of Norfolk and Darlington Streets, and two years later opened a temporary church on the site at … Continue reading
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Dorchester Illustration 2217 Upham’s Corner
Dorchester Illustration no. 2217 Upham’s Corner Today we have a view of Upham’s Corner showing Winthrop Hall on the left. The Dorchester Savings Bank building replaced Winthrop Hall. _____ The Dorchester Illustration is sent occasionally. If you receive this e-mail … Continue reading
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October 18, 2015 Archaeology of Dorchester’s Industrial School for Girls
A Pleasant Home for the Neglected: The Archaeology of Dorchester’s Industrial School for Girls. October 18, 2015, 2 pm, at the William Clapp House, 195 Boston Street City Archaeologist, Joe Bagley, shares early results from his team’s archaeological survey behind … Continue reading
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Dorchester Illustration no. 2216 Andrew Oliver
Dorchester Illustration no. 2216 Andrew Oliver Andrew Oliver appears at the right in this copy of a painting at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. Oliver was Lieutenant Governor of the Massachusetts leading up to the Revolution and was a … Continue reading
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