By adamg on Thu., 2/5/2015 - 10:46 am 
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SoBo-Yuppie's
By bulgingbuick
Thu, 02/05/2015 - 11:11am
Condo?
Brighton, church steeple in
By TVC
Thu, 02/05/2015 - 11:52am
Brighton, church steeple in back is Boston College
It does have 2 parking spots.
By anon
Thu, 02/05/2015 - 1:00pm
It does have 2 parking spots.
baha!!!!
By Lmo
Thu, 02/05/2015 - 6:45pm
baha!!!!
Mansard style house on the
By TVC
Thu, 02/05/2015 - 6:30pm
Mansard style house on the right of picture, this could be Mission hill or West Roxbury.
Mission Church
By Eastie Resident
Thu, 02/05/2015 - 11:20am
Houses adjacent to the Mission Church in Roxbury Crossing.. I'd guess early to mid 1920s. Possibly in the vicinity of St. Alphonsus or Smith Street
Angle doesn't make sense
By Nick
Thu, 02/05/2015 - 2:04pm
I agree that looks 100% like Mission Church, but it looks like we're facing the front-left corner (you can see the center steeple just to the right of the spire), which would have to put the photographer up the hill from church, somewhere around Alleghany. Looks too flat though. Very confusing.
I agree that it looks like
By TiminCharlestown
Thu, 02/05/2015 - 2:19pm
I agree that it looks like the mission church, and I had the same thought as you in terms of the angle. I can't quite place what side of the church this could be from - it looks like the church is off in the distance quite a bit.
Old South Church?
By FredQuimby
Thu, 02/05/2015 - 11:32am
In the background?
Mission Hill Area?
By SBer
Thu, 02/05/2015 - 11:35am
Is that one of the Mission Hill spires in the background? This is a tough one!
http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/16256976.jpg
I think you are correct
By FredQuimby
Thu, 02/05/2015 - 12:08pm
Never been there but it looks like it from photos.
If the buildings in the
By bike nerd
Thu, 02/05/2015 - 1:13pm
If the buildings in the vacant lot were torn down...St Alphonsus
https://www.google.com/maps/@42.332439,-71.101597,3a,75y,83.87h,86.64t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sNLTzf6bkXFg0A23IKmI-7g!2e0
Yes, I think you're right.
By Rob
Thu, 02/05/2015 - 2:37pm
Yes, I think you're right.
Smith Street, at the path leading in to the Tobin School (next to the ball field)
If it's not that, it's further away on the same angle - try the intersection of Turqoise Way and Horadan Way.
In fact, playing around with
By Rob
Thu, 02/05/2015 - 4:17pm
In fact, playing around with Google street view - the last address on Turqoise before the current T intersection with Smith is #65. If that was the numbering then, and continued to a lane or alley on the other side of Smith, it could easily be #69.
If not, maybe the "69" means this photo is even more historic than we thought - first photographic evidence of someone putting out a space saver when there wasn't enough snow to justify it!
Old Colony Projects - Pre construction?
By John Costello
Thu, 02/05/2015 - 11:35am
That looks like the old St Augustine's steeple in the background. Might this be pre slum clearance photo of somewhere on East Ninth Street.
The Answer!
By City of Boston ...
Thu, 02/05/2015 - 4:08pm
Thanks for playing, folks! This is the rear of 39 Conant Street in Mission Hill in 1939.
Here is Mission church from
By Capecoddah
Thu, 02/05/2015 - 4:44pm
Here is Mission church from the same exact rear angle as the archives photo, but a bit closer.
http://www.boston.com/community/photos/raw/Mission...