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…the spire of the New Brick meeting house on Hanover Street, Boston. It is said that Cotton Mather preached the first sermon under it in 1721. The vane was taken…
Read More…handsome wrought-iron gate there now, with brick posts and “1879” on the lantern above it, but at the time I am thinking of the members of the Class of 1879,…
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…and carriage factories, and, after vast beds of clay were discovered, acres covered in the pugging-mills, chimneys, and kilns of a brickworks that turned out most of the bricks that…
Read More…Pfeiffer Nathaniel & Melissa Philbrick Joan Pickett Steve Pieper John Pitkin, in honor of Cambridge Civic View and Gregorio Leon Angelica Piz Sarah Pollard William & Lia Poorvu Virginia Popper…
Read More…– House in “Little France,” ca.1900 (reproduction from Emily Broussard Collection, CHC) 3|10|Raymond Street, New England Brick Company Yards, etc., ca.1860-1940 (5 photographs) ||1E.0016 CHS – Raymond Street in winter,…
Read More…front part of the house had been covered by later remodeling. He retained the long, narrow shape of the lean-to, laid down a brick floor when he found original bricks…
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By Beth Folsom, 2022 New England Brick Co. workers circa 1910. Since its beginnings as a colonial settlement, Cambridge has seen numerous shifts in its population, as waves of migrants arrived from…
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…Cambridge, including grammar school diplomas, a spelling bee trophy, books, photographs, pottery and – of course – bricks made by the neighborhood’s own New England Brick Co. A 19th century…
Read More…Venner, say, “In two or three years longer, I shall think of putting aside business and retiring to my farm. That’s yonder — the great brick house, you know —…
Read More…vary from pretentiously to outrageously Georgian revival. They are commonly of stucco or brick, some are half-timbered, and many make extensive use of heavily plastic ornamentation over the vast pediments…
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