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…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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…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…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….
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…in the early 1900s, they were also among the first to assimilate, quickly replacing the Irish at the heart of North Cambridge’s brick industry. The Immigration Acts of 1924—federal laws…
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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…
Read More…not only amazingly successful financially, but were equally successful social events. By 1886 sufficient funds had been gathered so that it was possible to build a well-planned substantial brick building…
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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…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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…institutions Cantabrigians needed but wanted to push to the edges of the city’s boundaries. Slaughterhouses, tanneries and brickyards were all necessary industries, but those in the more densely populated (and,…
Read More…Garden, Santa Barbara (CA), 1887 [Stringfield] ||6.397 HVP – Old Spanish house, Santa Barbara (CA), 1888 [W.J. Rea] ||6.398 HVP – Mud-brick house with native woman, Santa Barbara (CA), ca.1888…
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