By adamg on Wed., 8/14/2013 - 1:26 pm
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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McCormack Housing projects
By Kevin
Wed, 08/14/2013 - 1:37pm
McCormack Housing projects 1930's.
Blind, ignorant guess:
By Sarcastic Sam
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.
Yes Boston had many horses.
By anon
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
Another dumping ground for Whitey's victims ?
By anon
Wed, 08/14/2013 - 2:45pm
Since he's now been found guilty by a jury of his peers, we can certainly speculate
Dorchester
By MaybeIt's
Wed, 08/14/2013 - 3:28pm
Dorchester, 1918-1922
Agree - Dorchester
By Suldog
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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A Wild Guess
By Waquiot
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.
That looks like a
By Badger
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.
The Answer!
By Boston City Archives
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.
I never would have guessed.
By dmcboston
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.
That's Why It Looked Familiar To Me!
By Suldog
Fri, 08/16/2013 - 6:25pm
I attended Boston Tech for 3 years. D'Oh!
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