Window and door, Harrison Baldwin House, 16-18 School St., Charlestown

Description

This interior view of the Harrison Baldwin House in Charlestown, Massachusetts shows a room in disrepair. A window is boarded up. Refuse is heaped on the floor and plaster has fallen off to reveal the lath. A door leads into a room that appears to be in a similar condition.

Details

Descriptive Terms

houses
lath
plaster
window seats
deterioration
interior views
dwellings
public buildings
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs

Additional Identification Number

DigitalID 000203
AccessID 310
Other identifier HNEDID-000203

Physical Descrption

1 photograph

Collection Code

PC001

Collection Name

General photographic collection

Reference Code

PC001.02.01.USMA.0560.0030.001

Date Notes

1950s-1964

Places

Charlestown (Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts) [neighborhood]
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)

Record Details

Material Type

black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs

Other People

Baldwin, Harrison

Subjects

moldings
School Street (Charlestown, Boston, Mass.)
Architectural photography

Description Level

Item

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