Then and now: Warren and Dudley streets in Roxbury

In 1856 or thereabouts, A.H. Folsom photographed the northwest corner of the intersection of Warren and Dudley streets in Roxbury.

The view of that corner today:

The building there now is itself historic. As Historic Boston recounts:

Constructed in 1871, the former Dartmouth Hotel Building is a rare remaining example of a nineteenth-century apartment hotel in Roxbury. Designed by architect John Roulestone Hall for William M. Rumery, Co., the building is a Second French Empire style four-story building, replete with a mansard roof, seven Queen Anne Towers, bays and turrets.

The building fell on hard times in the late 20th century. In fact, the upper floors were abandoned for several decades. In 2003, Nuestra Comunidad Development Corp. bought the building and, over two years, converted the upper floors into 65 apartments, most rented to people making no more than 80% of the Boston area median income.

Photo (click on link to download even larger versions) from the Boston Public Library's Boston Pictorial Archive. Posted under this Creative Commons license.