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Boston used to have a lot more horses

By adamg on Wed, 08/14/2013 - 1:26pm
Mystery horse in old Boston

The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can fix this photo in time and place. See it larger.

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By Kevin on Wed, 08/14/2013 - 1:37pm.

McCormack Housing projects 1930's.

By Sarcastic Sam on Wed, 08/14/2013 - 1:45pm.

Allston/brighton, not far from the railroad corridor where the Pike is now.

I especially enjoyed looking at a single photo that contains a steam shovel, a horse & cart, and an automobile.

By anon on Wed, 08/14/2013 - 2:15pm.

Yes Boston had many horses. My grandfather was a blacksmith when he came to this country. He must've done well enough to feed a growing family

By anon on Wed, 08/14/2013 - 2:45pm.

Since he's now been found guilty by a jury of his peers, we can certainly speculate

By MaybeIt's on Wed, 08/14/2013 - 3:28pm.

Dorchester, 1918-1922

By Suldog on Wed, 08/14/2013 - 6:04pm.

I have nothing to base it on, other than a sense of having seen the building on the left. Something about it is familiar to me, but maybe from a different view than the one in the photo.

Lower Mills?

(Now that I've said 'Dorchester', that makes it odds on to actually be Charlestown.)

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By Waquiot on Wed, 08/14/2013 - 4:07pm.

It is a roads project done by the City in the 1920s, so I'm going to guess American Legion Parkway in Roslindale.

By Badger on Wed, 08/14/2013 - 5:51pm.

That looks like a decent-sized building in the background ... I'll go with Boston State Hospital in Mattapan, 1920sish.

By Boston City Archives on Thu, 08/15/2013 - 10:09am.

Thanks for playing, folks.

This is the site of Roxbury Memorial High School on Townsend and Warren Streets, circa 1925-1926. Boston Latin Academy is now in the old Roxbury Memorial High building.

By dmcboston on Thu, 08/15/2013 - 4:02pm.

But for my two cents, that building, when it was Boston Technical High School, was five stories tall, solid masonry and didn't have a crack in it. They built it right.

By Suldog on Fri, 08/16/2013 - 6:25pm.

I attended Boston Tech for 3 years. D'Oh!

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