Historic New England

Fauntleroy Hall, Roxbury, Mass.

A view of the front façade of Fauntleroy Hall of the Elm Hill Association at 42 Wenonah Street in Roxbury, Massachusetts. The building seems to have been used as a center for community and private events, such as concerts and weddings. Alice Collar Davis established Elm Hill in 1886 as a co-educatio...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195163

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.2540.0040.003

Twelfth Baptist Church, Warren St., Roxbury, Mass.

A view of the front façade of the Twelfth Baptist Church at 160 Warren Street in Roxbury, Massachusetts. This church appears to have housed several different congregations. The first floor sign reads the "Advent Christian Publication Society, booksellers, publishers, printers, and stationers." This ...

Date: 1900-1930

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195164

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.2540.0100.002

Eliot Congregational Church, Kenilworth St., Roxbury, Mass.

An exterior view of the side and front façades of the Eliot Congregational Church on Kenilworth Street in Roxbury, Massachusetts from a curve in the street and next to the sidewalk opposite the church. The church was completed and dedicated on November 25, 1835. Along the right side of the street op...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195165

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.2540.0030.001

Lowell House, Roxbury, Mass.

A view of the front façade of the Lowell House in Roxbury, Massachusetts from below the hill on which it sits. Two wide gabled bays punctuate the façade and alternate with narrower recessed sections. The entrance is nestled between the two bays, and wooden stairs with railings lead up to the front d...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195166

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.2540.0070.002

Stone Store, corner of Walnut Ave. and Warren St., Roxbury, Mass.

An exterior view of a two-story stone commercial building at Walnut Avenue and Warren Street in Ward 21 in Roxbury, Massachusetts. The first floor is occupied by various businesses including Peter A. Riley, plumber, 8 Walnut Avenue; Farley, plumber; and John Melville Haynes, upholsterer and cabinetm...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195167

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.2540.0050.001

Morse House, 145 Walnut Ave., Roxbury, Mass.

A view of the front façade of the Greek Revival Morse House at 145 Walnut Avenue in Roxbury, Massachusetts. Two-story Ionic columns support a pediment punctuated with a window surmounted by a fanlight. A picket fence on top of a stone wall fronts the property. A sign hangs on a tree in the front yar...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195168

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.2540.0050.002

Roxbury Gas Co., 39 Dudley St., Roxbury, Mass.

An exterior view from across Kenilworth Street of the Roxbury Light Gas Co. gasworks at 39 Dudley Street in Roxbury, Massachusetts. The Gothic Revival structure features a central tower with a lancet arched entrance and lancet arched windows above the front door and on the side walls. A group of chi...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195169

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.2540.0120.001

Buena Vista, 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. Trees partially hide the house, which is set on a small hill. The view seems to be from the house across the street as the ...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195170

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.2540.0290.001

Dudley St. at Warren St., Roxbury, Mass.

A view of the intersection of Warren Street and Dudley Street in Dudley Square, Roxbury, Massachusetts. A trolley car enters the intersection along Warren Street as another approaches from Dudley Street. The Second Empire-style Hotel Dartmouth occupies the northwest corner of the intersection at 144...

Date: 1901-1930

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195171

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.2540.0100.003

Roxbury Court House, Roxbury St., Roxbury, Mass.

A view from across the street of the front façade of the two-story, Beaux-Arts Roxbury Municipal Courthouse at 88 Roxbury Street in Roxbury, Massachusetts. Built in red brick with Indiana limestone trimmings, a two-level set of low steps lead up to the arched doorway. The second floor windows are pe...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195172

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.2540.0100.004

Little Sisters of the Poor, Roxbury, Mass.

An exterior view of the Home for the Aged Poor of the Little Sisters of the Poor at 424 Dudley Street in Roxbury, Massachusetts from the intersection of Dudley Street and Woodward Avenue. The building is four stories high, is designed in the Second Empire style, and is constructed of brick with gran...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195173

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.2540.0100.005

High School for the Practical Arts, Winthrop St., corner of Greenville St., Roxbury, Mass.

A view of the side and front façades of the High School of Practical Arts at 35 Greenville Street in Roxbury, Massachusetts. The school opened on December 1, 1913. It was designed by Julius Adolph Schweinfurth in the form of a central division with two side wings. The pediment of the entrance way is...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195174

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.2540.0100.006

Ralph Waldo Emerson School, Shirley St., Roxbury, Mass.

A view of the front façade of the two-story, brick Ralph Waldo Emerson Elementary School at 6 Shirley Street in Roxbury, Massachusetts. Completed in July 1924, the school was scheduled to open that fall. The doors are surmounted with pediments broken on the bottom that present figures reading books....

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195175

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.2540.0100.007

Exterior view of the Boston Young Men's Hebrew Association Gymnasium, Humboldt Ave., Roxbury, Mass.

A view of the front façade of the Boston Young Men's Hebrew Association (YMHA) gymnasium on Humboldt Avenue in Roxbury, Massachusetts. The two-story Colonial Revival structure is constructed of tapestry brick with limestone trimmings. A double staircase sweeps up to the first floor pedimented main e...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195176

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.2540.0100.008

House of the Angel Guardian, Vernon St., Roxbury, Mass.

An exterior view of the House of the Angel Guardian at 85 Vernon Street in Roxbury, Massachusetts. Rev. George F. Haskins established this orphanage and reformatory wayward boys in 1851 and, when the institution outgrew its original locations, purchased land at Vernon Street and built this structure...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195177

Ref. Code: PC001.04.01.USMA.1540.0010.004

Baptist Church, Roxbury, Mass.

An exterior view from across Dudley Street of the side of the Dudley Street Baptist Church in Roxbury, Massachusetts. The congregation was formed as the First Baptist Church in Roxbury in 1821 and built this church near Warren Street in 1852. The church is built in the Gothic Revival style of brick....

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195178

Ref. Code: PC001.04.01.USMA.1540.0010.005

House of Louis Prang, Centre St. near Gardner St., Roxbury, Mass.

An exterior view of the Louis Prang House at 45 Centre Street in Roxbury, Massachusetts. Built in 1856 in the Italianate style, two polygonal bay windows flank the front door, which is adorned with trellises. The columns of the entrance way support a balustraded balcony. A widow's peak crowns the th...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195179

Ref. Code: PC001.04.01.USMA.1540.0010.006

Hibernian Hall, 184 Dudley St., Roxbury, Mass.

Architects Edward T. P. Graham and Joseph M. Dolan designed Hibernian Hall, also known as the Hibernian Building, at 182-186 Dudley Street in Roxbury, Massachusetts. Several cars are parked in front of the building. An empty space with a Dudley Realty Co. sign in the window and what appears to be a ...

Date: 1965-03-31

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195180

Ref. Code: PC001.03.01.TMP.054

Corner of Warren St. and Palmer St., Roxbury, Mass.

A view of the intersection of Warren Street, Washington Street, and Palmer Street in Roxbury, Massachusetts. Various stores line the street, including Charles C. Doten & Co. Provisions at 2234 Washington Street and Ira P. Jefts' Pharmacy at 2224 Washington Street. A large billboard for the real esta...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195181

Ref. Code: PC001.03.01.TMP.055

Tremont St. at Texas St., Roxbury, Mass.

A view of the intersection of Texas Street and Columbus Avenue in Roxbury Crossing, Massachusetts. Trolley car tracks run down the middle of Columbus Avenue. Numerous businesses line the street, including the Plaza movie theatre (1120 Columbus Avenue, formerly the Criterion Theatre), Woolworth's (11...

Date: 1948-09-13

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195182

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.2540.0580.001

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

Exterior view of the Riedesel Mansion, corner of Brattle and Sparks Sts., from 140 Brattle St., Cambridge, Mass.

An exterior view from across Brattle Street of the house known variously as the Riedesel Mansion and the Sewall-Riedesel House at the corner with Sparks Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Baron Riedesel commanded the troops from Brunswick, Germany hired by the English to fight in the Revolutionary ...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195017

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0500.0160.001

Search Collections

Displaying: 78351 - 78400 of 224,499