25 Exeter St., Boston, Mass., Entrance Hall

Item Information

Title:
25 Exeter St., Boston, Mass., Entrance Hall
Description:
This interior view shows the entrance hall at 25 Exeter Street in Back Bay, Boston, Massachusetts. Two columns with Ionic capitals support a large ceiling beam and stand before the staircase. Wainscoting lines the walls of the entrance hall. A chandelier hangs from the ornately decorated ceiling. Nathan Matthews helped to develop the Back Bay and built 25 Exeter Street in 1882-1884. William Bliss, president of the Boston and Albany Railroad, seems to have been the first resident. In the mid-1880s, his daughter and son-in-law, Elizabeth and Hamilton Perkins, moved into the residence.
Photographer:
Soule Photograph Company
Format:
Photographs
Genre:
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs
Location:
Historic New England
Collection (local):
PC002: Domestic interiors photographic collection
Subjects:
interior views
houses
entrance halls
handrails
wainscoting
chandeliers (hanging lights)
houseplants
beams (structural elements)
lighting
dwellings
interior decoration
Exeter Street (Back Bay, Boston, Mass.)
spider plants
stairs (series of steps)
Bliss, William, 1834-1907
Boston and Albany Railroad Co.
Places:
Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston > Back Bay
William Bliss House (Boston, Mass.)
Extent:
3 black-and-white prints; 7 1/4" in. x 9" in. (H x W)
Link to Item:
https://gusn.us/167475
Terms of Use:
Rights status not evaluated.
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Identifier:
167475
Call #:
PC002.USMA.Boston.047.03