East Side of Winthrop Square looking across the Training Field, April, 1944
East Side of Winthrop Square looking across the Training Field, April, 1944
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East Side of Winthrop Square looking across the Training Field, April, 1944
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East Side of Winthrop Square looking across the Training Field, April, 1944. Two chief houses are the Hay Mansion, 16 Common Street, and Number Fourteen Common St., with Putnam Street running between them. Sawyer, ps. 379, refers to the Hay Mansion as the residence of Captain Matthews Rice. Hay Mansion was built as Putnam's Tavern, later the Salem Turnpike, and for many years the house of respected civil servant Matthews Rice (See Timothy Sawyer's "Old Charlestown" pp 139-142) Dowhouse (14), "The first Mrs. Frank Dow was an Arnold whose family had lived on or had a relation to that house for over one hundred years. The second Mrs... [description ends].