McLean Asylum - Charleston, Boston Mass.
McLean Asylum. Opened Oct. 6, 1818, on Miller's or Cobble Hill, which had been a highly important fortified position in winter of 1775. The hill has now been almost removed for the B. & M. R.R. freight switchya... More
Document no. 3 regarding surrender of lands for new street along N.E. ...
Document no. 3 regarding surrender of lands for new street along N.E. side of Bunker Hill, November 10, 1835. Refers to Medford Street apparently and asks that it be 50 feet wide and removed from the Mystic Riv... More
McLean Asylum in 1835 - Charleston, Boston Mass.
McLean Asylum in 1835. "It is situated on one of the most beautiful spots in the vicinity of Boston, which was formerly the estate of a gentleman of great wealth and was selected by him on account of the salubr... More
Staircase from Barrell mansion - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Staircase from Barrell mansion. After the Barrell mansion was demolished and the land became railroad property, the hill was reduced to a small fraction of itself and made into a freight yard called the "hump,"... More
Barrell Mansion on Cobble Hill - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Barrell Mansion on Cobble Hill. Built by Joseph Barrell in 1792 on land that had been heavily fortified during the Revolution. Designed by Bulfinch, and surrounded by extensive private grounds known as Poplar G... More
Tide mill of Nathan Tufts - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Tide mill of Nathan Tufts. Mr. Tufts lived in the house later occupied by Dr. Thomas R. Lambert on Chelsea Street (Sawyer, pp. 167-68). He was originally a packer of beef, and also a tenner whose sole leather g... More
Staircase from Barrell mansion (upper view) - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Staircase from Barrell mansion (upper view). Photographed when set up in the Francis Shaw mansion in Wayland. The Shaw mansion has now (1941) been demolished and the stairway is again for sale. Courtesy of Bost... More
Barrell mansion (south side) - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Barrell mansion (south side). In 1842, this part of Charlestown was set apart as Somerville, but it was 1895 before the new hospital buildings in Waverly were ready to accommodate the patients and the transfer ... More
Fountain at Sullivan Square - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Fountain at Sullivan Square. Governor Alvin Fuller was born and lived as a boy in this vicinity. Two or three houses in this neighborhood were not burned by the British after the Battle of Bunker Hill -- one of... More
Poster advertising sale of land on "Quincy Street" in 1853 (the presen...
Poster advertising sale of land on "Quincy Street" in 1853 (the present St. Martin Street). The oration printed on the poster is a ponderously humorous declaration in spread-eagle style, mingling fact with fict... More
Sullivan Square in 1899 - Charleston, Boston Mass.
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Showers at Dewey Beach, then called "Charlestown Park Beach" - Charles...
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Dewey Beach when it was called "Charlestown Park Beach" - Charleston, ...
Dewey Beach when it was called "Charlestown Park Beach." In the background stand the tall furnaces of the Edmands & Hooper Pottery Works. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
New bath house, Dewey Beach, built in 1912 - Charleston, Boston Mass.
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Raft at Dewey Beach - Charleston, Boston Mass.
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Color postcard of Sullivan Square - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Color postcard of Sullivan Square. Courtesy of Boston Public Library Public domain scan of the vintage Boston Massachusetts postcard, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Sullivan Square playground - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Sullivan Square playground. Looking south-west toward el-terminal. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
Charlestown Heights park - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Charlestown Heights park. Looking northward, Aug. 26, 1901. Bathing beach in middle ground and Boston Gas and Electric Co. in Everett. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
Charlestown Heights playground - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Charlestown Heights playground. Looking southeast. St. Francis deSales Church and parochial school in background. Tree only just set out. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
Sullivan Square playground - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Sullivan Square playground, looking northeast toward Mystic River showing Boston Gas and Electric Company in Everett. Photograph taken Aug. 26, 1901. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
Revere Sugar Refinery - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Revere Sugar Refinery. The Revere Sugar Refinery began on the East Cambridge shore of the bay, west of Charlestown, on the bank of Miller's River, in 1867, in the buildings shown in this picture, which had orig... More