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Washington St, South End
By mangycougar
Thu, 01/04/2018 - 9:55am
Washington St, South End
State Street?
By Lowermills02124
Thu, 01/04/2018 - 10:00am
State Street?
1241 washington
By Stevil
Thu, 01/04/2018 - 10:01am
Google is my friend
Yes, too easy.
By jmeltzer
Thu, 01/04/2018 - 10:10am
"W J Hurd Boston"
Pre-elevated
By anon
Thu, 01/04/2018 - 10:25am
Whenever you see high street numbers like that, it really limits it to a handful of streets.
Possibly 1896?
Currently Site of Peter's Park
By Stephen
Thu, 01/04/2018 - 11:19am
I'm guessing sometime around turn of century. Seems to have been a sort of auto-mile later in early 20th. One time location of importer of sponges and chamois for auto industry and older buildings across the street appear to be former auto-related businesses. https://books.google.com/books?id=J8syAQAAMAAJ&pg=...
Washington Street scene ca. 1915
By K Schauber
Thu, 01/04/2018 - 10:34am
The 1905 city directory lists William J. Hurd as a dealer in "fancy goods" at 1241 Washington Street and Charles P. Hurley & Co. as a liquor store at 1128 and 1251 Washington St.
Too simple
By Charles Bahne
Thu, 01/04/2018 - 10:39am
There aren't many streets in Boston with numbers that go up to 1200, and even fewer that would have been built up with architecture like this a century ago. As others have already pointed out, Washington St., South End, the site of Peters Park today. According to old atlases, the side street by the pharmacy was Medford Court. Probably one of a series of photos taken in the late 1890s to document what things looked like just before the Elevated railway was built.
I especially like the girl and her dog, and the woman looking out the third-floor window. Plus you can mail a letter right there at the lamppost.
that would be where Peter's
By Wafa
Thu, 01/04/2018 - 12:07pm
that would be where Peter's Park now stands in the So. End??
The Answer!
By Boston City Archives
Thu, 01/04/2018 - 8:11pm
Thanks for playing, folks!
This is indeed 1241 Washington Street. The date is October 11, 1899.
We really like this photo because there are Bostonians in it! Many of the photos in our collection don't include people. This particular photo is part of a set taken to document the city's streetscape. The photographers purposely photographed during times when there weren't many people present. They wanted a clear view of the city's built environment - and they didn't want people blocking that view!
Interesting
By adamg
Fri, 01/05/2018 - 12:03pm
One thing I've always found fascinating about Leslie Jones's photographs of car crashes is how many people there often are in them - bystanders just surveying the wreckage. Obviously, people today will stop and look, but it just seems more people did that back in the day.
But different photos for different purposes.
Beautiful Photo!!!
By Tilesbay
Fri, 01/05/2018 - 11:04am
Beautiful Photo!!!