Oliver Holden's house on Pearl Street
Item Information
- Title:
- Oliver Holden's house on Pearl Street
- Description:
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Oliver Holden's house on Pearl Street. For many years the garden behind this house reached nearly to Bunker Hill St. The house later became the home of Thomas Doane, engineer of the Hoosac Tunnel and founder of Doane College in Crete, Nebraska. This site is now occupied by the Oliver Holden School. "The Salem" apartment house at the corner of Pearl and High Streets occupies the site of the white wooden church built in 1801 by the Baptists and, after nine years, occupied by the Unitarians. In 1819, it was purchased by the Methodists who worshipped there for more than a quarter of a century. Later the steeple was taken down and the church became an armory for the Prescott Light Guard. Mr. Doane, who lived in the Holden house nearby, felt so badly when the former Church became a hall for dancing parties that he purchased the property, tore down the old church, and erected "The Salem" in 1882.
- Collector:
- Cutler, Wolcott, 1891-1965
- Date:
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[ca. 1850–1925]
- Format:
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Photographs
- Genre:
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Lantern slides
- Location:
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Boston Public Library
Charlestown Branch Library - Collection (local):
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Charlestown Lantern Slides
- Subjects:
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Houses
Holden, Oliver, 1765-1844
- Places:
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MassachusettsSuffolk (county)BostonCharlestown
High Street District
- Extent:
- 1 photograph : transparency
- Permalink:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/8k71p046c
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