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…be installing new canopy brackets to replace the wrought iron brackets. A mason repointed the front foundation with a traditional lime-based mortar and took great care replacing the damaged bricks….
Read MoreBy Michael Kenney, 2012 Along Cambridge Street one can spot a solid 1920s brick residence, now condominiums, known as Fox Croft Manor. The name, despite its fractured appearance, most likely…
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…feet, and was only 20 feet deep. In the early 1860s the wings were cut off and the house — which actually has a brick wall down the middle, dividing…
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…her mother, a housewife; the family lived in a modest rented brick rowhouse. According to Phyllis, the Wallaces were descended from free Blacks.3 Growing up in racially segregated Baltimore, Phyllis…
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…of senior researchers in Texas who insisted on their contradictory data. Over some years of controversy, Eva and David Clapham defended their case with data, despite the brickbats tossed in…
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…Georgian-revival style, the elegant brick “river houses” replaced coal and lumber yards on the riverfront without much resistance from the neighborhood. In the mid 1960s, Harvard pushed deeper into Riverside,…
Read More…large brick building seating 1200 people. In its time it was one of the leading Methodist churches in New England. Mr. Wheeler recalls the fact that it was called the…
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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…
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…
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,…
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