“The beauty and comfort of houses, dwellings, and abodes of citizens are important, because these are of an infinite number and they make up the city”
Alvise Coronaro
Venice, 1522
Category Archives: Architecture
26 Belmont Street
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Built ca 1906 for Captain Lincoln Jewett. Design by John Calvin and John Howard Stevens
A handsome Queen-Anne in the Coyle Park neighborhood. Continue reading
Glimpses. 136 Pleasant Street
Built ca: 1830. Probably built by Joseph Ilsley.
A simple, late period, Federal in the Park-Pleasant Street neighborhood Continue reading
West End Walks. 2 Thomas Street
Built ca: 1910 for Arthur and Frances Champlin. Design by John Calvin and John Howard Stevens.
A large brick Colonial Revival in the West End Historic District.
Glimpses. 14 Hanover Street
Built ca: 1849 by Ira Brett
A modest brick Greek Revival in the Bayside neighborhood. Continue reading
Glimpses. 18 Davis Street
Built ca: 1900 by the West End Land Company
A small Queen Anne in the Libby’s Corner neighborhood Continue reading
Glimpses. 22 Deblois Street
Built ca 1910 for Frederic Dudley. Design by Miller and Mayo.
An imposing Colonial Revival in the Longfellow Highlands neighborhood.
60-62 Hampshire Street
Built ca 1867 for John Barbour & Jane Barbour Staples.
A fine, if somewhat remuddled, Second Empire double house in the India Street neighborhood.
Glimpses. 108 Salem Street
Built ca: 1855 by John Neal
A pleasant, and substantially altered, Greek Revival on the harbor slope of the West End.
Glimpses. 88 Stevens Avenue
Built ca 1870 by Thomas W O’Brion for his son Edward.
A funky Second Empire in the Bradley’s Corner neighborhood
