Dorchester Historical Society

This Old Barn

Instead of a picture, today we have a link

http://www.dotnews.com/2014/old-barn-how-historical-society-salvaged-neighborhood-original

Please take a look at this article published by the Dorchester Reporter

Tickets to the Dorchester Historical Society’s “Dinner at Willow Court” are available through the website www.dorchesterhistoricalsocietyblog.org or by check sent to the Dorchester Historical Society, 195 Boston Street, Dorchester, MA  02125 or by cash or check at Cedar Grove Gardens.

Tickets are $150. Please see the Society’s website for a description of the event.

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Dorchester Illustration no. 2162

Scan of advertisement  in the collection of the Dorchester Historical Society, showing the Dorchester Fire-Proof Storage Warehouse behind the Humphreys House.

Jonas Humphrey purchased his land in 1637 from William Hammond who moved to Windsor, Connecticut.  The Humphreys house was built near what is now the corner of Dudley Street and Humphrey Street, just west of Upham’s Corner.  The illustrations of the house that are known to us show an 18th century alteration and additions to the original structure.

In 1917 the family sold the property and moved from the old house, allowing its demolition.  They had already apparently sold the back part of the property for the construction of the Dorchester Fireproof Storage Warehouse, so it is not surprising that they decided to move out of the old home.

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The Board of the Dorchester Historical Society

Requests That You Kindly Reserve the Date for “Dinner at Willow Court”

Friday, September 26, 2014

Commencing at 6 o’clock in the evening at DHS Headquarters.

A festive evening to recall the style and elegance of earlier times. Cocktails and seated dinner, live auction, with Master of Ceremonies Deb Farrar-Parkman.  Period attire, a la Downton Abbey, encouraged: Victorian, Edwardian, Roaring Twenties, upstairs or downstairs.  Proceeds to benefit the DHS Building Restoration.

Dorchester Illustration no. 2161

Postcard. Caption on front St. Anns Episcopal Church, Dorchester, Mass.  Postmarked Feb. 7, 1906 with one-cent stamp.

The building is located at 10 East Cottage Street near Dudley Street.  The building is currently owned by Defenders of the Faith Christian Church.

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Dorchester Illustration no. 2160

This announcement for the Dorchester Bicycle Club is one of the earliest postcards in our collection.

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The Board of the Dorchester Historical Society

Requests That You Kindly Reserve the Date for “Dinner at Willow Court”

Friday, September 26, 2014

Commencing at 6 o’clock in the evening at DHS Headquarters.

A festive evening to recall the style and elegance of earlier times. Cocktails, seated dinner, and live auction.  Period attire, a la Downton Abbey, encouraged: Victorian, Edwardian, Roaring Twenties, upstairs or downstairs.  Proceeds to benefit the DHS Building Restoration.

Buy tickets by clicking on the info about the Gala in the center of the home page of www.dorchesterhistoricalsocietyblog.org

Dorchester Illustration no. 2159 Dorchester High School Football Team

Dorchester Illustration no. 2159

October 11, 1974.  Praise for Team’s Rescue.  Boston Mayor Kevin White brings words of praise Friday to the football field at Dorchester High School in the city plagued with racial violence.  The school football team, mostly black, rescued twin white sisters who were being beaten by about 30 other black youths.

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Dorchester Illustration no. 2158

 Photograph of George N. Clarke.  Handwritten note on verso: George N. Clarke, Dorchester, MA.  Died in the war.

 A tinsmith from Dorchester, Massachusetts, George Clarke served with the 11th MA Infantry and died of disease at Falmouth,Virginia.

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Dorchester Illustration no. 2157

Joseph A. Hartin died in France in 1918 during WW I . He volunteered for a dangerous mission and was killed 5 days before the Armistice was signed. Awarded the Légion d’Honneur medal from the French government, he was given full military honors at burial after his body was exhumed from France.   

Dedicated in 1919, Joseph A. Hartin Square is in Fields Corner at the intersection of Adams Street and Dorchester Avenue.

His family home was at 28 Ditson Street, Meeting House Hill.  The woman standing in front of the caisson in the photo is his mother.  She grieved long and hard for him even though she had twelve other children.  She refused to go to the dedication of a square in his name but one daugher who was 15 at the time did go.  Another daughter who was only 10 stayed at home and said her mother sat in the parlor and cried all day.

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Dorchester Illustration no. 2156

Pennant postcard.

Postcard. Caption on front: It certainly pays to stop in Dorchester, Mass.  I’ll give you her address.  Postmarked Dec. 16, 1914 with one-cent stamp.

 The senders of the card (Frances and Herbert) seem to have written their own address 25 Mather Street on the front.

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