Category Archives: Italianate

Glimpses. 749 Congress Street. Updated 11.16.2017

Built in 1881 for Mellen Bolster.20161030_124525.jpgDesign by John Calvin Stevens while in partnership with Francis Fassett.

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West End Walks. The Spring houses. Of details and decay

On the upper blocks of Danforth Street, at the corner of Emery Street, sits a pair of imposing brick houses. Built in the early 1850s for members of a mercantile family whose history is now a bit vague, they now present a dichotomy of care and neglect.

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