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Marlborough St at Hereford
By downtown-anon
Mon, 05/08/2017 - 12:50pm
Looks vaguely like these houses. Time looks like after 1915 and looks like there may have been a fire.
https://www.google.com/maps/@42.3508366,-71.0862804,3a,64.2y,336.55h,111.83t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1stkzf_KoMkQxLAdumZau7aQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
Bonus Round
By Irma la Douce
Mon, 05/08/2017 - 12:53pm
What are the people in the photo looking at?
How about May 7th 1935. 353 Marlborough St
By downtown-anon
Mon, 05/08/2017 - 12:56pm
Might also explain why it isn't like the others on the street.
https://backbayhouses.org/353-marlborough/
Nice
By Nate
Mon, 05/08/2017 - 1:11pm
I love that site! Alternate pic of the damage: [img=250x350]https://backbayhouses.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/marl-353-1935-2.jpg[/img]
Third photo
By Irma la Douce
Mon, 05/08/2017 - 2:21pm
There is a photo at the bottom of the linked article that looks to have been taken in the same timeframe as the City Archives photo, you can just see the tail end of the Hood Truck.
Very sad and horrible
By anon
Mon, 05/08/2017 - 1:48pm
Five people died there. Two servants would have had their quarters on the top floor, and they probably never had a chance.
THE HILL
By SFPD12
Mon, 05/08/2017 - 1:05pm
LOOKS LIKE EAGLE HILL E BOSTON
MAYBE AROUND WHITE ST
The Answer
By Boston City Archives
Mon, 05/08/2017 - 4:13pm
Thanks for playing, folks! 353 Marlborough in May of 1935 is correct. The photo was taken to document fire damage - as one comment noted, the fire resulted in the loss of 5 lives.
Oh, Man!
By APB
Tue, 05/09/2017 - 7:46am
The ONE day I'm too busy to check out Universal Hub and you post an Archives photo that's ACROSS THE STREET from my apartment!
(Pretty sure I would have figured it out but it wasn't 100% guaranteed since the glass monstrosity really changes the look of that row of houses. What a mistake that was. Everyone who lives there blocks off their windows with curtains or Japanese screens because on Marlborouogh, we all have direct views into the windows across the street — and that place is nothing but window. And their stairwell seems to become a sweltering greenhouse whenever the weather is warm.)
I never saw these photos before and I must say I'm thrilled. It's so hard to find old photos of Marlborough Street. Keep 'em coming!
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