Historic New England

Tremont St. at Douglass Square, Roxbury, Mass.

A view of Tremont Street at Frederick Douglass Square in Roxbury, Massachusetts. Trolley car tracks run down the middle of Tremont Street. Numerous businesses line the street, including the Douglass Square Pharmacy and Slade's Restaurant. Billboards advertise Sunoco and H. P. Hood products. Politica...

Date: 1950-10-26

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195183

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.2540.0110.001

Tremont St. and Whittier St., southbound, Roxbury, Mass.

A view of Tremont Street from number 1165 near Whittier Street in Roxbury, Massachusetts. Trolley car tracks run down the middle of Tremont Street. Numerous businesses line the street, including Murray's Café, Bell Auto Parts, and Wales Weatherproofing (1165 Tremont Street). Murray's Café opened in ...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195184

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.2540.0580.003

Thwing House, 175 Highland St., Roxbury, Mass.

An exterior view of the three-story, Italianate home of merchant Supply Clap Thwing at 175 Highland Street in Roxbury, Massachusetts. A central tower containing the main entrance projects from the front façade of the house and extends its crown beyond the roof line. Three people stand at the front d...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195185

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.2540.0570.001

Hotel Park, Dale Street, Roxbury, Mass., undated

The four-story Hotel Park is seen at 101 Dale Street at the intersection with Regent Street in Roxbury, Massachusetts. Built in 1884, probably by the contractor Melville C. Grant, this was an apartment hotel that accomodated long-term residents and provided services such as a dining room. John P. S...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195186

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.2540.0060.007

Methodist Church and playground of Roxbury Latin School with view of burial ground off Kearsarge Ave., Roxbury, Mass.

A view of the Warren Cemetery on Kearsarge Avenue and the rear and side of the Winthrop Street Methodist Episcopal Church on Winthrop Street in Roxbury, Massachusetts. After a fire in 1868, the First Church of Roxbury built this church on Winthrop Street, which was dedicated in 1869. The Boston Lati...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195187

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.2540.0060.001

Robert McCullagh, grocer, 2706 Washington St., Roxbury, Mass.

An exterior view of the mercantile building that houses several businesses and lodgings at 2700 to 2714 Washington Street at the intersection with Dale Street in Roxbury, Massachusetts. The photographer, Henry L. Hadcock, included his own pharmacy at 2704 Washington Street in the photograph. Robert ...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195188

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.2540.0060.002

Casey's Market, 2677 Washington St., Roxbury, Mass.

The New Roxbury Market, known also as Casey's Market, at or near 2677 Washington Street in Roxbury, Massachusetts is seen in the image. Workers in aprons, children, and onlookers stand on the sidewalk looking toward the camera. Signs in front of the store promote the groceries and provisions on sale...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195189

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.2540.0060.003

Marble Block, Cedar St., Roxbury, Mass.

An exterior view of a block of Second Empire marble row houses at 28-46 Cedar Street, between Hawthorn Street and Thornton Street, in Roxbury, Massachusetts. The three-story buildings are designed in pairs and have double entrances. The window frames are incised with floral tracery and decorated wit...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195190

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.2540.0060.004

Huse House on Moore St.[?] and Dale Street, Roxbury, Mass., undated

An exterior view of a three-story, Second Empire house and two matching three-story, folk Victorian houses on Dale Street in Roxbury, Massachusetts. The edge of Washington Park, now Malcolm X. Park, can be seen across Dale Street.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195191

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.2540.0060.005

John Lew's House, corner of Waumbeck St. and Warren St., Roxbury, Mass.

A view of the front and side façades of the John Lew House at the corner of Waumbeck Street and Warren Street in Roxbury, Massachusetts. The house is a two-story saltbox with an attic. Short shrubs line the front of the house and flower baskets sit on the railings at the front door. A street lamp st...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195192

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.2540.0030.002

Warren St. Presbyterian Church, Roxbury, Mass.

An exterior view of Roxbury Presbyterian Church at 328 Warren Street in Roxbury, Massachusetts. The cornerstone was laid on July 17, 1891 and the services were first held on April 6, 1892. The church is constructed of Roxbury puddingstone excavated from the site with red granite trimmings. A gabled ...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195193

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.2540.0100.009

Nahum Ward House, corner Ward and Parker Streets, Roxbury, Mass., undated

The 1895 Bromley map gives the owner as Francis J. Ward. A person by that name was president of the N. Ward Co., a glue manufacturing concern, and member of the City Council. The house is two stories high and has an entrance with two doors. A picket fence surrounds the property with vines covering ...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195194

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.2540.0590.001

William House, Walnut Ave., Roxbury, Mass.

An exterior view of the William House on Walnut Avenue in Roxbury, Massachusetts. The house is two stories high with a gambrel roof. The projecting doorway is upheld by two Doric columns, at the sides of which trellises support vines. The corner of the front porch of the neighboring house can be see...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195195

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.TMP.009

Buena Vista, Buena Vista St., Roxbury, Mass.

An exterior view of Buena Vista, the mansion of Isaac Fenno and his wife Almira Blake Fenno on Buena Vista Street (also known as Buena Vista Avenue) in Roxbury, Massachusetts. The three-story Queen Anne home has several turreted towers and a side porch with balcony. The stable can be seen behind th...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195196

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.2540.0290.002

Southwest view of the Old State House as it looked in 1793, Boston, Mass.

The image is a photomechanical print of an engraving by Samuel Hill of the Old State House in Boston. This image was issued in the periodical, "The Massachusetts Magazine", in July 1793. The view is from the southwest. The streets are bustling with pedestrians, carts, and wagons.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195198

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0340.7520.001

Exterior view of Porter's Hotel, 1974-1980 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, Mass.

An exterior view from across Massachusetts Avenue of Porter's Hotel in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Also known as Porter's House, Zachariah B. Porter's hotel became famous as the home of the Porterhouse steak. The building is three stories high and has two entrances. Several workers repair the shingles...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195199

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0500.0060.001

Birth place of Franklin, in Milk St., Jan. 6, 1705-6, O.S., as reproduced at the Fair of the Boston Young Men's Christian Association, Decr. 25, 1858

A lithograph of the historical re-creation of Benjamin Franklin's birthplace at 17 Milk Street in Boston, Massachusetts, which was exhibited as part of a benefit fair for the building fund for the Boston Young Men's Christian Association that was held on December 21 to 30, 1858 at the Boston Music H...

Date: 1858

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 195200

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.2550.001

Exterior of Old Ship Church, Hingham, Mass., with horse and carriage

A stereograph of the exterior of the Old Ship Meeting House in Hingham, Massachusetts, the only surviving 17th century meeting house in the United States. The view is from across the street up the driveway to the side of the church. A cupola with a spire and weathervane crown the hip roof. A man hol...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195202

Ref. Code: PC001.04.01.USMA.0790.0010.006

Exterior view of Old Ship Church, Hingham, Mass., with Rev. Joseph Richardson in foreground

A stereograph of the exterior of the Old Ship Meeting House in Hingham, Massachusetts, the only surviving 17th century meeting house in the United States. The view is from the beginning of the driveway up a rise to the side of the church. A cupola with a spire and weathervane crown the hip roof. A g...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195203

Ref. Code: PC001.04.01.USMA.0790.0010.007

Exterior view of Old Ship Church, Hingham, Mass.

A stereograph of the exterior of the Old Ship Meeting House in Hingham, Massachusetts, the only surviving 17th century meeting house in the United States. The view is from across the street up a rise to the side of the church. A cupola with a spire and weathervane crown the hip roof. A picket fence ...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195204

Ref. Code: PC001.04.01.USMA.0790.0010.008

Ruins of the Bank of North America, Devonshire St., after the Boston Fire

Two men sit on the ruins of the Bank of North America at 75 Franklin Street at the intersection with Devonshire Street that was destroyed in the Great Fire of Boston on November 9-10, 1872. The remaining sections of the structure are surrounded by rubble. Other devastated buildings can be seen in th...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195205

Ref. Code: PC001.04.01.USMA.0170.0470.001

Front elevation of an unidentified house designed by Joseph Hayward, ca. 1850

A slide of an elevation viewed from the east of a house possibly for the Ames family in North Easton, Massachusetts. The drawing is in ink and watercolor on heavy paper. Joseph Hayward designed the house in the Gothic Revival style with crenelated parapets and towers.

Date: ca. 1850

Collection: General architectural and cartographic collection

GUSN: 195206

Ref. Code: AR001.UNK.006

Christmas card, depicting a woman holding floral bouquets, undated

A young woman wearing a blue bodice, a yellow skirt, a hat with pink and blue ribbons, and pink shoes adorns the cover of this Christmas card. She holds a bouquet of flowers in each hand. Intertwined sprays of flowers decorate the edges of the card.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195211

Ref. Code: EP001.05.TMP.002

Christmas card, depicting a young girl sleeping on a purple pansy, undated

Christmas card with a design of a girl sleeping on a purple pansy with a background of clouds enclosed in a decorative border. The card bears the name of Marcus Ward & Co. in the lower left corner, which was a paper and stationary company that became succesful at printing greeting cards in the late ...

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195212

Ref. Code: EP001.05.TMP.003

Christmas card border design, undated

The design for the border of a Christmas card. In the center of the design is a child in red and white-striped swaddling clothes with outstretched arms within a blue circle with radiating lines that may be the figure of the Christ Child. Floral festoons extend on either side of the central figure. "...

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195213

Ref. Code: EP001.05.TMP.004

Christmas card, featuring string ties and floral designs, undated

A Christmas card cover decorated with two bouquets of flowers set in ovals surrounded by floral and paisley patterns.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195214

Ref. Code: EP001.05.TMP.005

Foss monument, Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.

A stereograph of the Jacob Foss monument in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The monument is in the form of a granite obelisk, surmounted by a religious figure holding a book or Bible. Masonic symbols are cut into the stone. There are two inscriptions on the front of the monument, ...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195215

Ref. Code: PC001.04.01.USMA.0280.0020.001

Exterior view of 25 Exeter St., Boston, Mass.

An exterior view of the recessed entrance at 25 Exeter Street in Back Bay, Boston, Massachusetts. A three-centered arch creates the area for a staircase leading to the front door. The arch is flanked by brackets with lion's heads that support an entablature on which rests a projecting mullioned wind...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195216

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0340.3700.001

Exterior view of 198 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, Mass.

An exterior view of the four-story, Richardsonian Romanesque row houses at 196 (on the left) and 198 Commonwealth Avenue (on the right) in Back Bay, Boston, Massachusetts. Peabody and Stearns designed 196, built in 1881, for Mrs. Elizabeth Elliot Torrey Spooner, the widow of merchant Daniel Nicolson...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195217

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0340.2800.001

Looking up Tremont St., Boston, Mass.

A view from near the intersection of Boylston Street and Tremont Street, looking up Tremont Street along Boston Common towards Park Street. Pedestrians walk along the Tremont Street Mall, and enter and exit from the Boylston Street subway station kiosks designed by Edmund March Wheelwright. The Stat...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195219

Ref. Code: PC001.03.01.TMP.057

Tremont St. and the Mall, Boston, Mass.

Pedestrians crowd the sidewalk of theTremont Street Mall on Boston Common and walk past a kiosk of the Boylston Street subway station. Park Street Church rises behind the Park Street Station.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195221

Ref. Code: PC001.03.01.TMP.058

Tremont Street, south from West Street., Boston, Mass.

A view down Tremont Street and along Tremont Street Mall on Boston Common from the intersection with West Street. Pedestrians crowd the sidewalks on both sides of the street. Automobiles line the Boston Common side of Tremont Street.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195222

Ref. Code: PC001.03.01.TMP.059

Garden front elevation of the Frick Mansion, Prides Crossing, Beverly, Mass., Oct. 9, 1904

This elevation drawing is for Eagle Rock, the summer mansion of Henry Clay Frick, in Prides Crossing, Beverly, Massachusetts. Little and Browne designed the mansion in the Neoclassical style and built the estate in 1906-1907. This is a garden front elevation drawing.

Date: 1904-09-04

Collection: General architectural and cartographic collection

GUSN: 195227

Ref. Code: AR001.USMA.0200.001

Perspective of entrance court of a house at Northeast Harbor, Maine, ca. 1929

This architectural drawing in soft graphite on paper is for a house designed by Bigelow, Wadsworth, Hubbard, and Smith.

Date: ca. 1929

Collection: General architectural and cartographic collection

GUSN: 195230

Ref. Code: AR001.USME.1300.001

One quarter plan and section of the second story hall of the Martha Codman House, Berkeley Villa, Newport, R.I., 1910

These two graphite on tracing paper architectural drawings are for Berkeley Villa in Newport, Rhode Island that Ogden Codman, Jr. designed for his cousin, Martha Codman. The drawing on the upper portion of the paper is a section of the second-storey hall, and that of the bottom portion is a one-quar...

Date: 1910

Collection: Ogden Codman, Jr. architectural collection

GUSN: 195232

Ref. Code: AR022.001.005.001.003.036

Rear perspective of the Dr. William Mauran House, Providence, R.I., 1972

1 perspective : graphite on tracing paper ; 19 x 23 5/8 inches

Date: 1972

Collection: Remmert W. Huygens architectural collection

GUSN: 195234

Ref. Code: AR012.TMP.001.001

Front elevation of an unidentified Greek Revival cottage, designed by Joseph C. Howard, location unknown, ca. 1846

A slide of an elevation drawing for a two-story Greek Revival cottage. A portico of six Doric columns forms the front of the first floor. A door is placed at the far right of the portico. Curtains cover four floor-to-ceiling windows on the first floor and two windows on the second floor. The second ...

Date: ca. 1846

Collection: General architectural and cartographic collection

GUSN: 195235

Ref. Code: AR001.UNK.025

Presentation perspective of the Colonial Apartments, Newtown, Conn., ca. 1960s

Architect Walter Percival Crabtree, Jr. designed this presentation perspective of the Colonial Apartments project. Planned for Main Street in Newtown, Connecticut, it is not clear whether the residential complex was ever built.

Date: 1955-1969

Collection: General architectural and cartographic collection

GUSN: 195236

Ref. Code: AR001.USCT.1775.001

Cemetery, Casey Farm, North Kingston, R.I., undated

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Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 195237

Ref. Code: PC006.CAS.01.001

Presentation perspective of the Islesboro Inn, Islesboro Island, Maine, 1888-1889

This presentation perspective drawing depicts the Islesboro Inn, designed by Edmund March Wheelwright of Wheelwright and Haven. Built between 1889 and 1890 on Dark Harbor bay on Islesboro Island, Maine, the architect combined elements of the Shingle style and Tudor Revival style. Delineator Robert C...

Date: 1888-1889

Collection: General architectural and cartographic collection

GUSN: 195249

Ref. Code: AR001.USME.0975.001

The ancestral cradle

Photographer Wallace Nutting staged this scene of a model in period costume rocking a cradle on the hearth of a fireplace and a girl in period costume peeling apples in the Rugg-Dennett House, also known as the Rugg-Gates-Dennett House, in Framingham, Massachusetts.

Date: ca. 1914

Collection: Wallace Nutting photographic collection, 1910s-1930s

GUSN: 195251

Ref. Code: PC039.USMA.10.003

Drawing of Bowdoin Square, Boston, Mass.

Pedestrians and horse-drawn vehicles are shown in this image of Bowdoin Square. Pedestrians stand on the corner of the Revere House hotel in the image.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195257

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0340.1460.001

Interior view of the restored south front interior of the Whitfield House, Guilford, Conn.

An interior view looking south of the main room on the first floor of the Henry Whitfield House, now the Henry Whitfield State Museum, in Guilford, Connecticut, after the restoration directed by architect John Frederick Kelly in the 1930s. The Puritan leader Henry Whitfield built the stone house in ...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195258

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USCT.0770.0050.012

Underpinning of Old State House, south side, Boston, Mass., February 3, 1903

Men and boys view the work site at the Old State House.

Date: 1903-02-03

Collection: Boston Transit Archive, 1895-1960s

GUSN: 195259

Ref. Code: PC017.02.TMP.037

Photograph of an architectural drawing depicting the front elevation of the Otis House, Boston, Mass.

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Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 195260

Ref. Code: PC006.HGO.01.005

Underpinning of Old State House, looking northerly, Boston, Mass., March 5, 1903

The underpinning work can be seen below the Old State House when the subway system was being constructed.

Date: 1903-03-05

Collection: Boston Transit Archive, 1895-1960s

GUSN: 195261

Ref. Code: PC017.02.TMP.038

Restored interior stair tower, Whitfield House, Guilford, Conn.

A view from the first floor of the interior stair of the Henry Whitfield House, now the Henry Whitfield State Museum, in Guilford, Connecticut, after the restoration directed by architect John Frederick Kelly in the 1930s. The Puritan leader Henry Whitfield built the stone house in 1639.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195262

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USCT.0770.0050.013

Discovered second story fireplace, north wall, Whitfield House, Guilford, Conn.

A view of the second story fireplace in the north wall of the Henry Whitfield House, now the Henry Whitfield State Museum, in Guilford, Connecticut, after the restoration directed by architect John Frederick Kelly in the 1930s. The Puritan leader Henry Whitfield built the stone house in 1639.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195263

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USCT.0770.0050.014

Restored interior stair, Whitfield House, Guilford, Conn.

A view from the second floor of the interior stair of the Henry Whitfield House, now the Henry Whitfield State Museum, in Guilford, Connecticut, after the restoration directed by architect John Frederick Kelly in the 1930s. The Puritan leader Henry Whitfield built the stone house in 1639.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195264

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USCT.0770.0050.015

North wall stone lintel, Whitfield House, Guilford, Conn.

An interior view of the north wall stone lintel of the Henry Whitfield House, now the Henry Whitfield State Museum, in Guilford, Connecticut, after the restoration directed by architect John Frederick Kelly in the 1930s. The Puritan leader Henry Whitfield built the stone house in 1639.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195265

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USCT.0770.0050.016

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