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Tank's a lot

By adamg on Fri, 03/30/2018 - 1:50pm
Dorchester gas tank from the air

See it larger.

After a week away, Chelsea's own Matt Frank winged back into Logan yesterday. He shows the great view of Dorchester he got as the plane was getting ready to land.

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Comments

By Roberto Rodriguez on Fri, 03/30/2018 - 3:08pm.

I can see your house from here!

By anon on Fri, 03/30/2018 - 3:30pm.

why Morrissey Boulevard floods at high tides.

By anon on Fri, 03/30/2018 - 10:56pm.

Jumped off that bridge for many summers.

Surprising whatever the current-utility-name is hasn't sold that property for development. Ships don't dock there to deliver the gas so it seems they could find another spot and sell the land.

(Preemptive note: Yes, I know sea levels are rising. This is prime real estate. They can build for that eventuality and still make a killing.

Think seawalls and pumps and buildings with open ground floor plazas except for protected core stacks. Utilities well above ground floor.)

By Will on Sat, 03/31/2018 - 6:31am.

The utility is National Grid, and that tank is critical to keeping gas flowing to Boston in the winter. There is no way they would ever be able to site a new tank in the downtown Boston core, so that tank is likely there for the foreseeable future.

By John Costello on Sat, 03/31/2018 - 12:04pm.

They are not going anywhere and they have been doing a lot of work there recently beyond the solar panels.

I can't find them online but someone actually went up in a tethered balloon in the 1880's or 1890's and took photos of the neighborhood that was there before the tank.

It was a collection of Federal Homes like you would see in Salem, only more spread out.

Here is a painting of the area from the perspective from roughly Mother's Rest on Washington Street.

http://www.dorchesterhistoricalsociety.org/blog/?p=2824

Here is a map of the point from about 1850. The tracks are still there in the same place.

http://www.dorchesterhistoricalsociety.org/blog/?p=3098

By Ron Newman on Sat, 03/31/2018 - 2:29pm.

and if not, how did they successfully displace an entire neighborhood?

By John Costello on Sat, 03/31/2018 - 5:44pm.

I assume they used cash.

By anon on Mon, 04/02/2018 - 10:27am.

The tank and Morrissey Blvd. and many other pieces of this are on filled in areas.

By anon on Sat, 03/31/2018 - 7:03pm.

Are you from Savin Hill? Went to BLA with some Costellos.

By John Costello on Mon, 04/02/2018 - 9:58am.

Only Costellos I'm related to here are second cousins who have been in Norwood since the 1890's

By dmcboston on Sat, 03/31/2018 - 8:30am.

Looks exactly like Ho Chi Minh from this angle.