Category Archives: Then & Now

Glimpses. 314 Danforth Street

Built in 1919 for Sydney St. Felix Thaxter. Design by Burnham and Higgins Architects.

A colonial revival home in the West End.

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Glimpses. 16 Storer Street

Built prior to 1860 for Dependence and/or Henry Furbush (Furbish). Possibly designed by Charles A Alexander.

A fascinating brick Italianate on the Waynflete Campus.

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Glimpses. 51 Tyng Street

Possibly built ca 1810 for Elijah Hossack.

A tattered but solid Federal between Danforth and York Streets

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71 Bowdoin Street

Built in 1906-07 for Herbert & Sally Payson. Design by John Calvin and John Henry Stevens.

A large brick Colonial Revival in the West End Historic District.

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Glimpses. 40 Deering Street.

Built ca 1876 for Harrison Tyler Whipple. Simon Libby builder

A Stick Style home in the Deering Street Historic District.

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96-100 India Street

Built ca 1867 by the heirs of Dudley Cammett. Designed by George B Pelham.

A brick Second Empire in the India Street Historic District.

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171-175 Danforth Street

Built ca 1849-50 ‘on spec’ by Horace B Richards

A simple, and slightly quirky, Greek Revival double house between State and Brackett Streets

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80-84 Pine Street

Built in 1865 for George Gilman. Remodeled in 1895 for Holman S Melcher

A large brick Italianate on the corner of Pine and Lewis Streets.

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154-156 Danforth Street. By request

Built ca: 1850-51 for Charles H Green by Charles Frost and Edward P & Sewall C Chase.

A brick Greek Revival between State and Brackett Streets.

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