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…single female clients. Noted in CHC’s survey as “the best designed house in the square.” Of wood frame construction surfaced in hand-made brick, it has a hipped pyramidal green slate roof. It was…
…to waive the gold brick scheme.” I recall that the gold bricking was where the races were fixed so that the riders occasionally could bet on a sure thing. …
DIY: You can download a PDF of this walking tour here and follow along with Joe Galusha’s audio commentary below: http://historycambridge.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Walking-Tour-Audio.mp3 Thursday, July 13, 2017, 5:30 PM – 8:00 PM…
…of the workforce in the city’s clay pits, brickyards, and glass and furniture factories.[1] Although Cambridge was a welcome respite from their suffering at home, Irish immigrants were not uniformly embraced…
…to home. Adding to the push for a new parish was North Cambridge’s industrial development in the second half of the 19th century, especially the clay pits, brickyards and pottery…
…at Pairpont. The glass furnaces are built of brick and cement, and are cylindrical in shape, the proportions being not unlike those of a modern gas house, though necessarily much…
…Said Parish as also Large Quantities of Clay for making Brick &c. And it is thought by good Judges that If the Able and forehanded Gentlemen (wch sd Parish abounds…
…Avenue 1897 house. Additions plus “sleeping porch.” 1922* Frothingham 4 Gray Gardens West House for the independent woman. Georgian Revival, sited on triangular lot. Brick, hipped roof, pedimented porch. 8/12 window…
…gas holder – an imposing circular brick structure. On the west, a commercial wharf spanned the mudflat. However, this small riverbend parcel remained open, thanks to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882),…
…level of diversity than most people recognize.” After colonization, the area had Yankee farmers, then Irish brickyard workers replaced by French Canadian brickyard workers. Next in line were the upwardly…