Dorchester Historical Society

Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 1605

Postcard. Caption on front: Lawleys from Tenean Beach, Dorchester, Mass.  Postmarked Boston, Mass. Nov. 5, 1918?.  With one cent stamp.  On verso: The Royal Blue card Pub. by Putnam Art Co., Grove Hall, Boston.

The Lawley Shipyard on Port Norfolk was a fixture on the Dorchester scene from the 19teens till after World War II.

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Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 1604

Petition from 1835:

The undersigned, women of Dorchester, in the County of Norfolk, respectfully pray you, immediately, to repeal all laws in this state, which make any distinction among its inhabitants on account of colour.

You should be able to zoom in on the picture to read it more easily.

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Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 1603

The Convalescents Home was located where the Boston Home is now located at the corner of Dorchester Avenue and Gallivan Boulevard.

Postcard. Caption on front: Convalescents Home, Dorchester, Mass. Postmarked May 19, 1910. Dorchester Center Station, Boston. With one cent stamp. On verso: No. B 13528 Published by The New England News Company. Boston, Mass. Leipzig-Berlin.

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Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 1602

Please note that due to modem replacement and other work, there will be no Illustration tomorrow, but I hope that we will resume on Monday.

The Isaac Newcomb Field House, which is located directly behind the O’Hearn Storage Building in Fields Corner and connected to it, is a two story hip roof brick building (c.1820) that served as home to the Field family and as the headquarters of the currying business he built up.  Though changed, the building’s symmetry and building material make it an important part of the area’s early nineteenth-century development.  The exterior of the building is now brick.

The O’Hearn Moving and Storage Building at 1444 Dorchester Avenue was built about 1886 at the location first occupied by the Isaac Newcomb Field House.  The building was expanded in the 1890s and acquired additions to the rear in the 20^th century.  Isaac Newcomb Field’s grandson Henry moved the house to the back of the lot to make room for the “fine block containing the post office and stores.”   The Dorchester Music Hall occupied the top floor.  Today the building continues to host stores and Post Office on the first floor but has storage space above.  A large business advertisement stencil was applied to the side of the building c. 1920 and can still be seen, especially from the Red line trains entering the Field’s Corner Station.  You can also see the impressions of the filled-in arched windows that allowed light into the Music Hall. 

Don’t forget to sign up for the teen-led tours:

Teen guides will present free tours of Field’s Corner 

Saturday August 6^th and 13^th at 11am and

Sunday August 7^th and 14^th at 4pm.

20 attendee-maximum at each tour – RSVP today!

To RSVP with your preferred tour date and time,

email mydottour@gmail.com

http://www.mydottour.org

www.facebook.com/mydottour

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Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 1601

Today’s photo shows a kiosk-like building on what is now Hero’s Square in Fields Corner.  The only map that show a structure in that position is from 1910.

Don’t forget to sign up for the teen-led tours:

Teen guides will present free tours of Field’s Corner 

Saturday August 6^th and 13^th at 11am and

Sunday August 7^th and 14^th at 4pm.

20 attendee-maximum at each tour – RSVP today!

To RSVP with your preferred tour date and time,

email mydottour@gmail.com

http://www.mydottour.org

www.facebook.com/mydottour

@mydottour    |    (617) 855-8687

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Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 1600

The Robinson Building behind Hero’s Square in Fields Corner at the apex of the angle formed by Dorchester Avenue and Adams Street looked much different when it was first built about 1872.  Next time you are Fields Corner, please try to compare the enlarged, stucco-covered building with the original.

Don’t forget to sign up for the teen-led tours:

Teen guides will present free tours of Field’s Corner 

Saturday August 6^th and 13^th at 11am and

Sunday August 7^th and 14^th at 4pm.

20 attendee-maximum at each tour – RSVP today!

To RSVP with your preferred tour date and time,

email mydottour@gmail.com

http://www.mydottour.org

www.facebook.com/mydottour

@mydottour    |    (617) 855-8687

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The Dorchester Illustration of the Day (DIOTD) is sent weekdays. If you receive this e-mail by mistake, please reply to be taken off the e-mail list. If you know others who would like to receive the daily e-mail, please encourage them to join the group by going to http://groups.google.com/group/dorchester-historical-society. You may contact Earl Taylor at ERMMWWT@aol.com

If you value receiving the DIOTD, please express your appreciation by making a donation to the Dorchester Historical Society, either by regular mail at 195 Boston Street, Dorchester, MA 02125, or through the website at www.DorchesterHistoricalSociety.org

Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 1599

Designed by Charles R. Greco for Patrick Finnegan, 1396 Dorchester Avenue was constructed in 1909-1910 and was always intended to be occupied by stores on the first floor with tenements above.  The building permit shows that the cornice is terra cotta and the façade is brick and terra cotta. Some of Greco’s other works in Massachusetts are listed in Wikipedia:

• 145 State Street, Springfield, Massachusetts
• Blessed Sacrament Church Cambridge, Massachusetts
• Blessed Sacrament Church, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts
• Cambridge Theatre, Cambridge, Massachusetts
• Charles Bulfinch School, Boston, Massachusetts
• Elks Temple, Cambridge, Massachusetts
• Our Lady of Pity Church, Cambridge, Massachusetts
• Sacred Heart Church, Middleboro, Massachusetts
• St. Mary’s Church, Quincy, Massachusetts
• St. Matthew’s Church, Dorchester, Massachusetts
• St. Patrick’s Church, Brockton, Massachusetts
• Temple Emanuel, Worcester, Massachusetts
• Thorndike School, Cambridge, Massachusetts
• Wyeth Square Fire Station, Cambridge, Massachusetts
• Central Square Post Office, Cambridge, Massachusetts

There are rumors that the Fields Corner Community Development Corporation may be making improvements to this building in the near future.

Meanwhile the Corporation has allowed the teen guides of MyDotTour to advertise their tours with posters in the storefront.  

Teen guides will present free tours of Field’s Corner 

Saturday August 6^th and 13^th at 11am and

Sunday August 7^th and 14^th at 4pm.

20 attendee-maximum at each tour – RSVP today!

To RSVP with your preferred tour date and time,

email mydottour@gmail.com  

http://www.mydottour.org

www.facebook.com/mydottour

@mydottour    |    (617) 855-8687 

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Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 1598

Scan from glass negative of automobile at the Wales family property at 93 Olney Street provided by Philip Wales.  Joe Gildea believes that the car is an air-cooled CORBIN built in New Britain, Connecticut about 1906.

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Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 1597

Postcard. Caption on front: Blaney Memorial Baptist Church & Parsonage, Dorchester Lower Mills, Mass. Postmarked Dorchester Center, Boston, July 25 ?. On verso: No. H 12793 The Robbins Co., Boston, Mass. and Germany.

Located at 60 Richmond Street, the Blaney Memorial Baptist Church was organized November 13, 1882, with a membership of twenty-five.  Miss Mercy Blaney died in 1886, leaving $20,000 for the building of a church, which was erected at the southeast corner of Richmond Street and Dorchester Avenue in 1887. The church was representative of the Carpenter Gothic style of the mid 19th century. The parsonage next door still stands as a private residence, but the church building was taken down in the 1980s when the land was sold for the construction of the Meeting House Cooperative Bank building.  The church stood where the parking lot is now located.

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Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 1596

Postcard.  [Farrier’s Shop]  Postally unused.  On verso: Published by Henry W. Osgood, Pittsfield, N.H.  Written in pencil: Dorchester, MA in front of Farrier’s Shop 1910.

Possibly the scene is on Columbia Road with the photographer on the east side of Columbia Road opposite Ceylon Street.

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