Addison Gage house, social event, tea

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Title:
Addison Gage house, social event, tea
Description:
Further description from "Catalogue of Articles in the Collections of the Arlington Historical Society", which reads: " Photograph; Addison Gage house, Pleasant Street, framed" It was likely the 1863 "Pleasant Street Fair for Benefit of the Soldiers of the Civil War." Many of the people are identified index card - see relation This summer scene and the mansion locale was made possible by the icy water of New England lakes and ponds, such as Spy Pond. It was the home of Addison Gage who was in the ice business. He initially worked for other firms, but eventually went into business with his son Charles. Together they shipped ice near and far -- to the vendors at Boston's Faneuil Market to ports in a multitude of destinations in the southern States. It was such a lucrative business that it paid for the building of this beautiful mansion near Spy Pond, but would surely have been beginning to suffer without the loss in business to those warmer States to the south. Gage was born in Pelham, NH in 1807. He married Anna Harrington in Charlestown. When he died in 1868, he passed the business along to his son. The mansion was moved closer to Spy Pond in the 1890s and then torn down in the early 20th century. Sections moved to Addison Street when the grounds of the Addison Gage estate were subdivided for residential development by the Arlington Finance Club in 1890. The double house at 30-32 Addison Street stands as the most recognizable section of the mansion, although it had numerous alterations in its conversion. Larger copy of photo located with other oversized photos. Size: 16" x 13"
Date:
1863
Format:
Photographs
Genre:
Print, Photographic
Location:
Arlington Historical Society
Collection (local):
Arlington Historical Society Collection
Subjects:
Benefits (Fund raising)
Building
Fairs
Houses
Social life
Stages (Platforms)
Streets
Tea
Clark, James F.
Field, William
Gage, Addison
Hart, Henry
Hopkins, Reuben
Hopkins, Ruth
Locke, George Henry
Osborn, Horace
Richardson, Ellen
Richardson, Mary
30 Addison Street
32 Addison Street
94 Pleasant Street
Addison Gage House
Addison Street
Arlington Finance Club
Civil War
District 2A
Pleasant Street
Pleasant Street Fair for Benefit of the Soldiers of the Civil War
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Identifier:
1912.3.1
7119573D-83D8-42C5-A16A-649041271780