Flint House doorway - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Flint House doorway. On Arrow Street, near junction of Bow. Mr. Simeon Flint was a tailor on Main Street. He was a deacon of the Winthrop Church; he died in 1857. He had five children. William, the Episcopal mi... More
Ancient cannon in Ordnance Park in the Boston Naval Shipyard
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Winthrop Church and G.A.R. Hall - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Winthrop Church and G.A.R. Hall. On Green Street, before the church lost its spire and, still later, changed its name to the First Parish. The present church building was erected in 1849. Its pastors have inclu... More
Corner of Phipps Street Burial Ground - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Corner of Phipps Street Burial Ground. The following five headstones, left to right: Faithful Rowse, 75 yrs., died in 1664; Mary Greene, age 14 yrs., died 1666; William Bartholomew, aged 78, died 1680; Joanna C... More
Phipps Street Burial Ground - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Phipps Street Burial Ground. In memory of Samuel Cary, Esquire, who deceased February 28, 1701 -- aged 58 years. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
Ordnance Park, Charlestown Navy Yard - Charleston, Boston Mass.
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Launching of U.S. steamer Merrimac - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Launch of the United States steamer Merrimac. From the Navy Yard, Charlestown. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
Parlor of George F. Chapin, looking toward front windows, 32 Chestnut ...
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First Meeting House, Hartford Conn. - Charleston, Boston Mass.
First Meeting House, Hartford, Connecticut. Built in 1635 when English settlers from Mass. drove out the Dutch settlers who had been there since 1633. Is no contemporary description of the building but town rec... More
Balfour residence, 30 Union Street - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Balfour residence, 30 Union Street. Mrs. Walter Balfour was Mary Devens, aunt of General Charles Devens, who was born in this house before it became the home of the David Balfour. This Gen. Devens was at one ti... More
First Baptist Church and spire - Charleston, Boston Mass.
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Phipps Street Burial Ground - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Phipps Street Burial Ground. Jonathan Lemmon, son of Mr. Joseph and Mrs. Elizabeth Lemmon, died July 16, 1724. AE tatis 15 months. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
Trinity Methodist Church - Charleston, Boston Mass.
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Waverly House built in 1867 - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Waverly House built in 1867. A large elegant building, with nearly 500 ft. front, including Abbottsford Hall, constructed in the most thorough manner built by Moses A. Dow at an expense of nearly $500,000. It e... More
Baldwin House, Main Street - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Baldwin House, Main Street. This house originally fronted on Main Street, between School and Salem Streets, having been built by James Harrison on about an acre of land extending back to High Street. In the gar... More
Unidentified church in Charlestown, Mass. - Charleston, Boston Mass.
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Monument Sq. Methodist Church interior - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Monument Sq. Methodist Church interior. This church was closed in 1899. Its records are believed to be in the Methodist Historical Library at Boston University. The custodian at present writing is Bishop Lewis ... More
Bird's eye view of street in Charlestown, Mass. - Charleston, Boston M...
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Kettell house parlor - Charleston, Boston Mass.
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First Church of Town Hill in winter - Charleston, Boston Mass.
First Church of Town Hill in winter. Probably in early 1900s. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
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Interior of Universalist Church at an early date - Charleston, Boston ...
Interior of Universalist Church at an early date. Before the organ was installed in the front and a window made behind the pulpit. In 1863, "the walls were carried up," a basement accommodation provided for the... More
Bunker Hill Monument from upper storey of house near corner of Chestnu...
Bunker Hill Monument from upper storey of house near corner of Chestnut St. Taken after Monument Square Methodist Church was replaced by apartment house (about 1900) and before a new high school was built in 19... More
Provision store of H.I. Nason - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Provision Store of H.I. Nason. Mr. George P. Nason, president of the Charlestown Five Cents Savings Bank, son of the owner of this provision store at the corner of Bartlett and Green Streets, is here seen as a ... More
St. John's Church exterior - Charleston, Boston Mass.
St. John's Church exterior. Showing a narrow Richmond Street to left of the church; and to the right of the church a hint of the old bake house where St. John's Parish House was erected as a chapel in 1873 or s... More
Gravestones in Phipps Street Burial Ground - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Gravestones in Phipps Street Burial Ground. Phineas Pratt, age above 90 years, died April ye 19, 1680, and was the son of ye first English inhabitant of ye Massachusetts Colony. Fugit Hora. [Bottom stone] Sarah... More
"School Room B" in state prison - Charleston, Boston Mass.
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U.S.S. Chesapeake at Navy Yard - Charleston, Boston Mass.
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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
Harvard Chapel on Edgeworth Street, 1856 to 79 - Charleston, Boston Ma...
Harvard Chapel on Edgeworth Street, 1856 to 79. Founded during the long ministry of Dr. George Edward Ellis for the missionary work of a "minister-at-large." The Rev. Oliver C. Everett served here for many year... More
The Simeon Flint house - Charleston, Boston Mass.
The Simeon Flint house. Located on what was then Bow Street, corner of what was then Arrow Street, now Rutherford Avenue, corner of present Washington Street. It was in this home -- the edifice on the left -- t... More
Interior of top of Monument without people in sight - Charleston, Bost...
Interior of top of Monument without people in sight. Circular chamber is 18" high and 11" diameter. Reached by two hundred ninety-four steps. Two Revolutionary cannon. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
Birthplace of Samuel F. B. Morse. - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Birthplace of Samuel F. B. Morse. Main Street, corner of Hathor Square. His father, Rev. Jedediah Morse, was pastor of the First Parish here from 1789 to 1819, and a leader in the founding of Andover Theologica... 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
Bunker Hill Baptist Church Charlestown, 1845-1910, Bunker Hill Street
Bunker Hill Baptist Church Charlestown, 1845-1910, Bunker Hill Street. In January 1850, the Bethesda Baptist Church was organized, called since 1851 the Bunker Hill Baptist Church, which built (1851) a plain wo... More
Vessel in Dry-Dock No. 1 - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Vessel in Dry-Dock No. 1. The dry-dock is especially worthy of notice. It was begun in 1827 and completed in 1833. The frigate Constitution was the first vessel that entered the dock for repairs. It is built of... More
Monument and First High School - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Monument and First High School. House on the east corner of Monument Street was built by Mrs. Henry Forster. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
First Masonic grave in America, 1680 - Charleston, Boston Mass.
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Doorway of Dr. Lambert's house, formerly Rydal Mount Ladies Boarding S...
Doorway of Dr. Lambert's house, formerly Rydel Mount Ladies Boarding School. Reverend Thomas R. Lambert, D.D., was chaplain in the Navy Yard for almost 22 years before he served as rector of St. John's Church, ... More
Bunker Hill Monument showing Monument Square Methodist Church - Charle...
Bunker Hill Monument showing Monument Square Methodist Church. Three At the left is the house occupied by John Wade Damon (Sawyer pp. 405-8) and purchased in 1863 or so by Capt. Washington Thomas, said to have ... More
Unsigned primitive painting of Charlestown Prison Yard showing granite...
Unsigned primitive painting of Charlestown Prison Yard showing granite octagonal structure of 1850. Possibly painted by an inmate; certainly an example of folk art. For the first sixty years in the life of the ... More
Bunker Hill Baptist Church - Charleston, Boston Mass.
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Oliver Holden organ and portrait - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Oliver Holden organ and portrait. Given to the Bostonian Society by the will of his granddaughter, Mrs. Fannie A. Tyler, in 1889. Oliver Holden was born in Shirley, Mass., in 1765, and came to Charlestown in 17... More
Interior of John Boyle O'Reilly home - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Interior of John Boyle O'Reilly home, at 34 Winthrop Street. He owned other houses in Charlestown, notably the Sargent-Hills house on the northwest corner of High and School Sts., and the Buddington house next ... More
The battery, cannon, etc., Charlestown Navy Yard - Charleston, Boston ...
The battery, cannon, etc., Charlestown Navy Yard. Some of the naval stores -- piles of shot neatly arranged and painted for preservation, and long rows of artillery of every description. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
The Hathaway and Worthin House - Charleston, Boston Mass.
The Hathaway and Worthin House at 69 Rutherford Avenue. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
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Phipps Street Cemetery showing Harvard Avenue shaded by many healthy e...
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Gravestone of Captain John Fowle - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Gravestone of Captain John Fowle. Died in 1711, aged 74 years. The coat of arms having a lion between three roses is that of the Fowle family in England where Captain Fowle himself was born, probably in 1637. C... More
First Quaker Meeting House of Salem, Mass. - Charleston, Boston Mass.
First Quaker meeting house of Salem, Mass. Erected in 1688, and retaining the original framework. Maintained by the Essex Institution on their premises. Until recently, this building was reputed to be the "Old ... More
Interior of guard room, Mass. State Prison - Charleston, Boston Mass.
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U.S.S. Vanderbuilt - Charleston, Boston Mass.
U.S.S. Vanderbuilt. A side-wheeler presented to the U.S. in 1861 by Commodore Cornelius (?) Vanderbuilt, a ship of 3360 tons, stout and swift, perhaps the most successful of the converted merchant ships. Equipp... 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
Trinity Methodist Church from roof of Main Street building - Charlesto...
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Interior of Trinity Methodist Church on High St. at Wood St.
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Interior of Harvard Church - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Interior of Harvard Church. The fine glass chandelier is probably the one presented by John Skinner, the master spirit of the building of a free bridge -- the Warren Avenue Bridge -- from Charlestown to Boston.... 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
Charlestown Female Seminary and First Baptist Church, 1850 - Charlesto...
Charlestown Female Seminary and First Baptist Church, 1850. This is said to have been the first boarding school for girls in the state, and almost the first in the country. The seminary was instituted in 1831 b... More
Bunker Hill Cemetery with many healthy young elms - Charleston, Boston...
Bunker Hill Cemetery with many healthy young elms. This cemetery was opened in 1803. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
Promenade lantern slide - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Promenade. Looking from lower end of ropewalk in the Boston naval shipyard. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
"Old Ironsides" with all her spars set and not covered
"Old Ironsides" with all her spars set and not covered. Last active cruise 1879-81. Maintained as a training ship till her centennial in 1897. Cruised the Atlantic and Pacific home ports 1931-34. In service but... More
St. Mary's Church interior - Charleston, Boston Mass.
St. Mary's Church interior. Altar and sanctuary of the first edifice, standing on Richmond Street (the present Rutherford Avenue) a few doors above Union Street, where the playground is now seen. Courtesy of Bo... More
Savings Bank Building and Masonic Hall - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Savings Bank Building and Masonic Hall. At this time, the Charlestown Five Cents Savings Bank and the Monument National Bank divided the second floor. On the ground floor were the shops or offices of: B.F. Stac... More
City seal and list of points of interest, 1850 - Charleston, Boston Ma...
City Seal and list of points of interest, 1850. The "Ice Houses" are the fourth item of interest, and were presumably near the end of Warren Bridge, where the Fitchburg R.R. ended until 1848. Courtesy of Boston... More
Charlestown Female Seminary and First Baptist Church - Charleston, Bos...
Charlestown Female Seminary and First Baptist Church. Many distinguished teachers and missionaries and leading educators graduated from this seminary, including Mary Livermore. The school in 1843 had 160 pupils... More
House of Herman S. Doane - Charleston, Boston Mass.
House of Herman S. Doane. Deacon of the Winthrop Church (who lived around 1837 on High Street) near the Col. Samuel Jaques house on Washington Street, over-looking the sea wall and Back Bay to Cambridge, and th... More
U.S.S. Constitution "Old Ironsides" - Charleston, Boston Mass.
U.S.S. Constitution "Old Ironsides." In 1830, a newspaper notice that the Secretary of the Navy had condemned her to be destroyed aroused a college student, named Oliver Wendell Holmes, just turned 21, to write... More
Three brick mansions at head of Winthrop Street - Charleston, Boston M...
Three brick mansions at head of Winthrop Street. They fill the short block between Wallace Court at the left and Adams Street at the right. Note the strongly built guards around each young tree -- they suggest ... More
View of the U.S.S. Wabash, the training ship in the Charlestown Navy Y...
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Entrance to Phipps St. Cemetery showing many healthy elms and Lawrence...
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Clearer Photo of old Town Hall - Charleston, Boston Mass.
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Dr. Houghton's house, 12 Cordis St. - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Dr. Houghton's house, 12 Cordis Street. Shows houses on lower end of Cordis St., Monument in center background. Dr. Henry Arvin Houghton occupied this house from about 1875 to 1895. In the center background of ... More
Comprehensive view of U.S. Navy Yard at Charlestown - Charleston, Bost...
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First Baptist Church of Boston - Charleston, Boston Mass.
First Baptist Church of Boston. Picture of the building of 1829 to 1853 with descriptive lines referring to beginnings in Charlestown in 1665. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
Bunker Hill Monument, approached from the South - Charleston, Boston M...
Bunker Hill Monument, approached from the South. Apparently when Monument Avenue was quite new, and only wooden houses stood at intervals along it. The avenue was not completed until 1871, according to Hunnewel... More
Harvard Church, Main Street from Green to Wood Streets. Built 1817
Harvard Church, Main Street from Green to Wood Streets. Built 1817. Built by the Unitarians who first organized here in 1816. The second minister of this congregation, Rev. James Walker serving here from 1818 t... More
Phipps Street Cemetery with young healthy elm trees and stumps of larg...
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Parlor of George F. Chapin looking toward the dining room, 32 Chestnut...
Parlor of George F. Chapin looking toward the dining room, 32 Chestnut Street. His father, Nahum Chapin, lived at 30 Chestnut Street, and had from 1840 to 1860 run the provision store, corner of Chestnut and Ch... More
Oliver Holden's house on Pearl Street - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Oliver Holden's house on Pearl Street. For many years the garden behind this house reached nearly to Bunker Hill St. The house later became the home of Thomas Doane, engineer of the Hoosac Tunnel and founder of... More
Floating lumber in Navy Yard - Charleston, Boston Mass.
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Dr. H.A. Houghton's house, 12 Cordis St. - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Dr. H.A. Houghton's house, 12 Cordis Street. Shows garden extending to Warren Street (Sawyer, p. 39). Monument in right background. This house and garden had been built and occupied for many years by Charles Th... More
Chain shop in state prison - Charleston, Boston Mass.
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Hallway of Kettell house - Charleston, Boston Mass.
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Bunker Hill Monument & Mystic River - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Bunker Hill Monument & Mystic River. Before erection by T. H. Gilman in 1874 of house on N.W. corner of Monument Street. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
Richard Frothingham house - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Richard Frothingham house, situated at 2 Eden Street, fronting toward Main Street, with three of the family beside the open gate. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
Massachusetts State Prison and warden's house - Charleston, Boston Mas...
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Building decorated with flags, Charlestown, Mass. - Charleston, Boston...
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Elias Craft's house - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Elias Craft's house. Dr. Craft's house had been the property of Mrs. Mercy Boylston, widow of Thomas Boylston and daughter of John Hay, who had built it on site of his homestead destroyed in 1775. Probably firs... More
Ordnance Park in the Boston Naval Shipyard - Charleston, Boston Mass.
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Postcard of the Winthrop Church - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Postcard of the Winthrop Church. Seen from lower Green Street with tall spire and pinnacles and a large maple tree in foreground. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
Charlestown Navy Yard in 1851 - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Charlestown Navy Yard in 1851. As seen from the north side of Copp's Hill, Boston, and "is correct in every particular." On the right, in the extreme distance, are seen the hills, trees and spires of Chelsea, f... More
View of the interior of the Navy Yard, Charlestown - Charleston, Bosto...
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Deck of an American Line of battleship - Charleston, Boston Mass.
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Minute representation of American Line of battleship, with explanation...
Minute representation of American Line of battleship, with explanations. This ship of war has 5 decks namely, from top to the water-line, lettered: S, spar or maindeck; T, berth-deck; U, upper gun-deck; V, lowe... More
Fire works on Bunker Hill - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Fire works on Bunker Hill. Exhibition arranged by Mr. James G. Hovey of Boston for June 17, 1851. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
East front elevation of prison - Charleston, Boston Mass.
East front elevation of prison. Shows Massachusetts State Prison building of 1826, and extension of 1850. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
First Church of Boston - Charleston, Boston Mass.
First Church of Boston. As it stood on Chauncy Street from 1808 to 1868. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
Old South Church of Boston - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Old South Church of Boston. Picture of structure of 1729, as it appeared in 1850. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
Royal mail S.S. America, leaving Boston - Charleston, Boston Mass.
Royal mail S.S. America, leaving Boston. These early steam vessels were built of wood and in the East India service were expected to last only 8 years (4 complete voyages). Iron had begun to be used by 1818 but... More
Hull of an American man-of-war cut open amidships from stem to stern
Hull of an American man-of-war cut open amidships from stem to stern. The sailors aloft, lined along the foot ropes of the main-yard are furling the mainsail. There are 5 decks running the length of the ship an... More