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Read the full The Story of the Bee by Mary Towle Palmer (1924) as a PDF here Read the finding aid for The Bee Records, 1861–1934 here Cambridge Proceedings, Volume…
Read More…away in a beautiful, well-lit, old brick warehouse on a dead-end street in North Cambridge. When Jack Emerson started the company, in 1928, it was located at 15 Brattle Street,…
Read More…Fall 2017 Symposia: “Made in Cambridge: What’s Happening in Kendall Square?” Symposia 2017 2017 What does Cambridge Make? History Cafés and Walking Tours: July 2017: “Clay, Bricks, Dump, Park” History Café…
Read More…St., Cambridge, below Lafayette Square. This “incubator of invention” is still standing, a plain three-story brick affair. It was then called the Palm Beach Hat Factory, later Howe’s Spring Bed…
Read More…Walden Square, and Jefferson Park. Sadly, hidden pollution often went hand-in-hand with urban fill. Besides ash and cinders, bricks, cars, refrigerators, tires, and even industrial waste were buried. Lead and…
Read More…the bars and restaurants grouped around the open brick-paved space. Hard to believe, but it was even more bustling a century ago, when shifts of workers came and went at…
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…and Walter Gopius in the late 1930s, it was constructed in warm red bricks recycled from a demolished Beacon Hill residence. The house turns its back on the street to…
Read More…But less than a hundred years ago the city was a major industrial center:- a manufacturing mecca of brick buildings and smokestacks. The Boston Daily Globe boasted in 1927, “Factories,…
Read More…high above the street as it is in Elmwood Avenue. This was cut down when the brick sidewalk was laid — about 1890. James Russell Lowell says in “Sunthin’ in…
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…agent for the Boston Bricklayers’ Union expressed their support for a six-day workweek of six hours per day, which “[h]e fully believes would also allow women to retain their present…
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