subject: Historic Dwellings

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Residence of George Albert Draper

description
  • – A postcard of the George Albert Draper House on 66 Addin Street in Hopedale, Massachusetts. It was torn down around 1930 and is now the site of the Benjamin Helm Bristow Draper Jr. house.
subjectcollectiondate
  • – 1900-1930?
publisherrelation
  • – Is part of the Bancroft Memorial Library Local History Collection, Hopedale, Massachusetts. http://www.hopedale-ma.gov/Public_Documents/HopedaleMA_Library/index
format
  • – image/jpg
language
  • – English

General William F. Draper House

description
  • – A photograph of the General William F. Draper House in the winter, with snow whitening the ground and trees. The house stood on Adin street in Hopedale, Massachusetts on what is now the site of the Hopedale Junior/Senior High School. The land was donated to the town by his daughter, Margaret Preston Draper, with the stipulation that the school be named the General Draper High School for fifty years. The High School was completed in 1927.
subjectcollectiondate
  • – 1920-1927?
publisherrelation
  • – Is part of the Bancroft Memorial Library Local History Collection, Hopedale, Massachusetts. http://www.hopedale-ma.gov/Public_Documents/HopedaleMA_Library/index
format
  • – image/jpg
language
  • – English

Residence of Bristow H.B. Draper, Hopedale, Mass.

description
  • – A photograph of the Bristow H. B. Draper House on Adin Street in Hopedale, Massachusetts. Built in 1914, the house is called the Crossways.
subjectcollectiondate
  • – 1914-1940?
publishercreatorrelation
  • – Is part of the Bancroft Memorial Library Local History Collection, Hopedale, Massachusetts. http://www.hopedale-ma.gov/Public_Documents/HopedaleMA_Library/index
format
  • – image/jpg
language
  • – English

George Otis Draper house, The Larches

description
  • – A postcard showing the George Otis Draper house, The Larches, on Williams street straddling the Hopedale-Milford Massachusetts line. The Larches was named for the Larch trees that can still be seen on the grounds today. The original house was destroyed by a fire in 1909. The house was eventually rebuilt, and today The Larches is the Community Clubhouse, a rehabilitative community offering opportunities and support in employment, education and housing for adults with mental illness.
subjectcollectiondate
  • – 1900-1909?
publisherrelation
  • – Is part of the Bancroft Memorial Library Local History Collection, Hopedale, Massachusetts. http://www.hopedale-ma.gov/Public_Documents/HopedaleMA_Library/index
format
  • – image/jpg
language
  • – English

Ruins of the George Otis Draper house, The Larches

description
  • – A postcard showing the ruins of the George Otis Draper house on Williams street straddling the Hopedale-Milford Massachusetts line after the mansion was destroyed by a fire in 1909. In the picture only the wrap around porch is still standing. The house was eventually rebuilt, and today is the Community Clubhouse, a rehabilitative community offering opportunities and support in employment, education and housing for adults with mental illness.
subjectcollectiondate
  • – 1909?
publisherrelation
  • – Is part of the Bancroft Memorial Library Local History Collection, Hopedale, Massachusetts. http://www.hopedale-ma.gov/Public_Documents/HopedaleMA_Library/index
format
  • – image/jpg
language
  • – English

Aerial photograph of the Larches

description
  • – An aerial photograph of the"new"Larches, the George Otis Draper house on Williams street, straddling the Hopedale-Milford Massachusetts line. The first Larches was destroyed by a fire in 1909. Today the Larches is the Community Clubhouse, a rehabilitative community offering opportunities and support in employment, education and housing for adults with mental illness.
subjectcollectiondate
  • – 1950-1960?
publisherrelation
  • – Is part of the Bancroft Memorial Library Local History Collection, Hopedale, Massachusetts. http://www.hopedale-ma.gov/Public_Documents/HopedaleMA_Library/index
format
  • – image/jpg
source
  • – Image is taken from page 67 of the Images of America: Hopedale book by Elaine Malloy, Daniel Malloy and Alan J. Ryan.
language
  • – English

Eddie Dean's sawmill at the Ward homestead, circa 1917, Main Street, Shrewsbury, Mass.

description
  • – Eddie Dean's Sawmill at the Ward homestead on Main Street, Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, circa 1917. This early tractor with its ironwheels supplied power for the sawmill. George Banister of Boylston ran the sawmill at the time of this photograph. Oscar Swenson worked forGeorge Bannister.
subjectcollectiondate
  • – ca. 1917
publishercreatorcontributor
  • – Harlow family, Shrewsbury (Mass.)
format
  • – image/jpg

Flint Farm, West Main Street, Shrewsbury, Massachusetts.

description
  • – Flint Farm, West Main Street, Shrewsbury (Mass.) Dr. Edward Flint was a surgeon in the French and Indian Wars. In the twentiethcentury, the home was owned by the Gage family and was known as Iristhorpe.
subjectcollectionpublishercontributor
  • – Harlow family, Shrewsbury (Mass.)
format
  • – image/jpg

505 West Main Street, Shrewsbury (Mass.)

description
  • – Historic home at 505 West Main Street. 1797 was the first mention of buildings on this property. Property used as harness shop, furniture shop and by saddle tree makers. Home onceoccupied by Henry Snow, mapmaker and first surveyor of Lake Quinsigamond. L.E. Colton had a pharmacy on the property. Sara M. Warren, Children's Librarian, Shrewsbury Public Library from 1923-1950, once lived here.
subjectcollectionpublishercontributor
  • – Brunell family, Shrewsbury (Mass.)
format
  • – image/jpg

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