Prints: Dorchester, Mass.
GUSN-198826
This is a very old house on Pleasant Street, in Dorchester, built in all probability at least 200 years ago, but by whom cannot be ascertained. Ebenezer Niles lived here in the early part of the century. He was a merchant on Central Wharf, Boston, of the firm of Newell & Niles; but whether an ancestor of his built the house is uncertain. It afterward came into possession of the Gardner family, and was sold very recently, and will either be taken down or moved to another place. The rounded corners of this house were added by Governor Gardner's father." From "Homes of Our Forefathers in Boston, Old England and Boston, New England" by Edwin Whitefield, 1889.
houses
historic sites
engravings (prints)
prints (visual works)
Prints and Engravings Collection number PR335
1 colored engraving
GC002
Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s
1945-04-12
GC002.01.MA.4600.005
Gift
4.5 x 3 (HxW)(inches)
Gift of Mr. W.S. Appleton, 1945
Dorchester (Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts) [neighborhood]
Whitefield, Edwin, 1816-1892 (Author)
engravings (prints)
prints (visual works)
Gardner, Henry J. (Henry Joseph), 1819-1892
Good
Item
Prints: Dorchester, Mass.
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