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Egleston Substation

The Egleston Substation is a historic electrical substation building located at 3025 Washington Street in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, just north of Egleston Square. The brick Renaissance Revival building was constructed in 1909 by the Boston Elevated Railway (a predecessor to today's MBTA) during the extension of the Washington Street Elevated to Forest Hills. The building is 87 feet (27 m) long, 52 feet (16 m) wide, and 46 feet (14 m) high. Its most prominent feature is the massive archway that frames the main entrance on Washington Street. The building was designed by Robert S. Peabody of Peabody and Stearns. The building was use by the Boston Elevated and its successors to provide AC to DC conversion for streetcars and elevated trains until 1987, at which time it was one of the oldest such substations in the nation. The building was essentially abandoned and fell into disrepair, with its roof in failure in 2005. It was then acquired by local nonprofits, who have converted it for use as office and television studio space. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010. See also Roslindale Substation National Register of Historic Places listings in southern Boston, Massachusetts References External links Media related to Egleston Substation at Wikimedia Commons
Ellice School

The Ellice School is a historic two-room schoolhouse at 185 Pleasant Street in Millis, Massachusetts. The single story wood frame Greek Revival building was constructed c. 1849, when Millis was still part of Medway. It is sheathed in wood shingles, with wood trim, including corner pilasters. Its gable roof is clad in asphalt shingles. The building served as a public school until 1931. It was used during the Great Depression and the Second World War for community activities, but has stood vacant since then. It is the only remaining district school building in Millis. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2010. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Norfolk County, Massachusetts References
Farley-Hutchinson-Kimball House

The Farley-Hutchinson-Kimball House is a historic house and barn at 461A and 463 North Road in Bedford, Massachusetts. The property consists of a house whose oldest portions date to c. 1732, and an attached barn from the late 19th century that has been converted to residential use. The buildings were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012. The main block of the house, a 2+1⁄2-story five-bay timber-frame structure, was probably built c. 1732 by Christopher Page, for his daughter Joanna and son-in-law Benjamin Farley. It was on property Page subdivided to make the gift and probably already had a house on it. The newer building is surmised to have been built between 1728 and 1732. The Farleys did not stay long in the house, moving to Dunstable, Massachusetts (a part that is now Hollis, New Hampshire) in 1733, selling their farmstead to Benjamin Hutchinson. In the 19th century it passed through several hands, until it was purchased in 1911 by Charles and Edith Kimball, who established a poultry farm on the premises. In 1913 the Kimballs embarked on a major renovation and expansion project, giving the house its Colonial Revival character. From about 1920 into the 1930s the Kimballs also made and sold candy on the premises, adapting the 19th century barn for those purposes. In 1946 the Kimballs converted to barn to two residential apartments. The only major later addition to the property was a c. 1979 kitchen addition to the house, which was executed in a historically sensitive way. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Middlesex County, Massachusetts References
Fitch–Hoose House

The Fitch–Hoose House (also just the Hoose House) is a single-family house at 6 Gulf Road in Dalton, Massachusetts. The wood-frame house was built in 1846, and is a representative of housing of the African American community in Dalton in the 19th century. Now owned by the town and restored, the property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010. Description and history The Fitch–Hoose House stands on the northern fringe of the village of Dalton, in an area called The Gulf that was known to be settled by freed or escaped African Americans in the early 19th century. It is a small 1+1⁄2-story wood-frame structure, with a gable roof, brick chimney on one end, and clapboarded exterior. The ground floor of the main facade is three bays wide, with a slightly off-center entrance flanked by sash windows. The attic story is taller than often seen in mid-19th century houses, and is presently devoid of windows; surviving window openings have been covered by modern siding. A shed-roof ell extends to the rear; its roof is at a different pitch than that of the main roof, and the two are not joined. The house was built in 1848 by William Bogart, and immediately sold to Henry Fitch, a local African American. After a succession of owners, including local papermaking magnate Zenas M. Crane (who had acquired and foreclosed on Henry Fitch's mortgage), the property was purchased in 1868 by Charles Hoose, member of an African American family that had been resident in Dalton since at least 1830. The Hoose family occupied the house until 2001. The property then fell vacant, was taken by the town through tax foreclosure proceedings in 2004. Since then it has been the focus of restoration work by the local historic commission. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Berkshire County, Massachusetts References
First Presbyterian Society Meeting House

The First Presbyterian Society Meeting House (now the Millbury Federated Church) is an historic meeting house at 20 Main Street in Millbury, Massachusetts. The 1+1⁄2-story Greek Revival church was designed by Elias Carter and built in 1828 for a Presbyterian congregation that had been established the previous year. The main facade has a full-height portico with four columns supporting a triangular pediment. It is three bays wide, with long narrow round-arch windows in the side bays, and the main entrance in the center, topped by a half-round fanlight. The interior has retained much of its original woodwork, despite renovations in 1862 in which the main hall was reoriented from west to east. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Worcester County, Massachusetts References External links Millbury Federated Church
Fletcher Granite Company

Fletcher Granite Company was a granite quarrying company that opened in 1881 in Westford, Massachusetts, and ceased operations in 2010. The company was known for its famed Milford pink granite from Milford, Massachusetts, and also owned a granite quarry in Milford, New Hampshire, fifty miles to the north. History Fletcher Granite Company is a granite quarrying and fabrication company based in Westford, Massachusetts. The company was founded in 1881 by Herbert Ellery Fletcher and operated under Fletcher family ownership for more than a century. The company is associated with Chelmsford granite, a stone quarried in Westford since the nineteenth century and used in numerous construction projects throughout the northeastern United States. Fletcher supplied granite for a variety of public works, commercial buildings, bridges, and institutional projects, including portions of Quincy Market in Boston, the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, and the Supreme Court Building in Washington, D.C. During its history, the company expanded from dimension stone production into the manufacture of granite curb products used in transportation and infrastructure projects. Following several ownership changes after 1985, Fletcher was acquired by the owners of Structural Stone LLC in 2024. Today, the company operates a granite curb fabrication facility at its historic Westford site and continues to quarry Chelmsford granite. The facility also provides drafting and fabrication services related to curb production. References External links Official website
Gate Cemetery

Gate Cemetery is a historic cemetery on Ireland Street in West Chesterfield, Massachusetts. It is located just under one mile (1.6 km) south of the center of West Chesterfield, the junction of Main Road and Ireland Street. The 1/3 acre cemetery is on a plateau of land on the east side of Ireland Street, flanked to the east by the Westfield River and to the west by a steep hillside. It takes its name from a toll gate that was erected nearby when the area was settled in the late 18th century. The date of the cemetery's establishment is uncertain, but may be related to a deed transfer of land in the area to the town in 1794. The oldest grave marker, that of Joseph Gere, dates to 1808, while the latest (one of only three dated after 1959) is dated 1997. There are 121 full markers and 26 fragments, and there may be unmarked gravesites. The markers are laid out in 13 rows in the roughly rectangular plot. Most of the markers are marble, although there are number that are granite or slate. Five of the markers are obelisks; none of them exhibit any particular artistic sophistication. The plot is demarcated by fieldstone walls about four feet high; the entrance is marked by two granite posts, into which pockets are carved that hold wooden rails that must be removed to gain access to the grounds. None of the gravesites is fenced off, and there are no circulating paths or roadways on the grounds. The cemetery, along with the nearby Ireland Street Cemetery, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Hampshire County, Massachusetts References External links Media related to Gate Cemetery (Chesterfield, Massachusetts) at Wikimedia Commons
Great Brook Farm State Park

Great Brook Farm State Park is a day-use public recreation area featuring an active dairy farm in the town of Carlisle, Massachusetts, United States. The state park was established in 1967 and is managed by the Department of Conservation and Recreation. Activities and amenities The park has over 20 miles (32 km) of trails for hiking, mountain biking, cross-country skiing, dog-walking and equestrian use. Canoeing and fishing are offered on Meadow Pond. Tours of the dairy farm are available from May to October. An ice cream stand is open from April to October. From December to March, the Great Brook Ski Touring Center, located in the park, grooms the park's trails for cross-country skiing and rents skis and snowshoes. Gallery References External links Great Brook Farm State Park Department of Conservation and Recreation Great Brook Farm State Park Summer Trail Map Department of Conservation and Recreation Great Brook Farm State Park Winter Trail Map Department of Conservation and Recreation
Hillside Cemetery (Westford, Massachusetts)

Hillside Cemetery, also known as the North Burying Ground, is a historic cemetery on Depot and Nutting Roads in Westford, Massachusetts. The cemetery was established in 1753, and is the burial site of a number of people important in local history. It contains approximately 300 burials, and continues in active use. The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. Description and history Hillside Cemetery is a rectangular parcel about 1 acre (0.40 ha) in size, set at the northwest corner of Nutting Road and Depot Street in central northern Westford. Raised above the streets, its street-facing sides are lined with granite retaining walls topped by split capstones, with dry-laid fieldstone walls around the other two sides. A paved drive skirts around the northern and western sides, joining the two principal entrances; pedestrian access is also possible via stairs in the south wall. The cemetery is laid out in a typical colonial-period rectilinear form. Some family plots are bounded by granite curbing, varying in height. There are about 300 burials, the earliest labeled grave dating to 1761. The cemetery was established in 1753 with a gift to the town of its land by Ebenezer and Thomas Wright (the latter of whom is interred here). The oldest dated grave is that of Jacob and Abigail Wright, a married couple both of whom died in 1761. The earliest markers are typically slate, while granite and marble appear in the markers and memorials of the 19th and 20th centuries. There are several obelisks (including one with a triangular cross-section), all placed in the second half of the 19th century. There are two zinc burial markers, both manufactured by the Monumental Bronze Company of Bridgeport, Connecticut for members of the Keyes family. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Middlesex County, Massachusetts References External links Hillside Cemetery at Find a Grave
Hotel Agassiz

Hotel Agassiz is a historic building in Boston designed by Weston & Rand and built in 1872. It is located at 191 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay. The building was designed for Alexander Agassiz (son of Harvard University naturalist Louis Agassiz) and his brother-in-law Henry Lee Higginson (son of George Higginson who founded the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Alexander Agassiz was the developer and president of the Calumet Mine and Hecla Copper Mines. References
Ireland Street Cemetery

The Ireland Street Cemetery is a historic cemetery on Ireland Street in West Chesterfield, Massachusetts. The cemetery contains 185 stones, dating from 1772 to 1996, most of which date to the 18th and 19th centuries. It is one of the town's oldest cemeteries, and contains the work of three significant funerary carvers of the late 18th and 19th centuries. The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. Description and history The Ireland Street Cemetery is in southwestern Chesterfield, on a rise above the Westfield River which flows north-south to the east of Ireland Street, the town's major north-south route on its west side, and one of its oldest roadways. The approximately 1-acre (0.40 ha) plot lies on the west side of Ireland Street, surrounded by fields and orchards. The plot is demarcated by stone walls, the eastern one also acting as a retaining wall, because the plot is raised above the road. This wall is made of random fieldstones topped by several courses of flat stones and capped by a course of quarried granite. These are topped by urn-shaped fenceposts connected by a single iron rail. The entrance is in the center of the wall. Burials are arrayed in rows, oriented to face east. The cemetery was probably established sometime in the early 1770s, after the first white settlers arrived in the area in the 1760s. It is probably the town's second cemetery, after the Center Cemetery (1764), although documentary evidence is lacking. The oldest stone, dating 1772, was for Mrs. Mary Sylvester. It is possible that it was established first as a Sylvester family cemetery, as it was located on land belonging to that family. Many of the early burials were of people with Irish ancestry, who were involved in the founding of the town. Most of the burials in the cemetery took place before 1820, the height of Chesterfield's population, which declined until c. 1970. The oldest stones in the cemetery have been positively identified as the works of two well-known itinerant funerary carvers, Joseph and Elijah Sikes, a father and son who were active in the region through about 1820. Elijah Sikes was born c. 1772, indicating that the earliest stones were likely the work of his father. Stones carved in the mid-19th century, after Elijah's departure from the region, bear stylistically resemblance to his work, indicating that subsequent carvers, including Elijah Phelps, were influenced by his work. Several stones have been attributed in groups to other unnamed carvers. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Hampshire County, Massachusetts References External links Media related to Ireland Street Cemetery (Chesterfield, Massachusetts) at Wikimedia Commons
Jonathan Bourne Public Library

The Jonathan Bourne Public Library (est. 1891) is a public library in Bourne, Massachusetts. Prior to 1891, the town lacked a public library, as it was a part of the town of Sandwich. The town of Bourne was incorporated on April 2, 1884. The Bourne library was named in honor of Jonathan Bourne (1811–1889), who was a New Bedford alderman, major investor in the whaling business, member of executive councils of Massachusetts governors George D. Robinson and Oliver Ames, and namesake of the town of Bourne. Bourne's daughter, Emily Howland Bourne, donated the library's original building in 1897. The 1897 building, located at 30 Keene Street, served as the library until 1985. During those years, space was on a number of occasions an issue, and the building was repeatedly modified to make room for more books and services. In April 1985, the library was moved to the former Frances Stowell Grammar School at 19 Sandwich Road. The old building has been repurposed as the Jonathan Bourne Historical Center, housing town archives and the local historic society. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013. See also List of public libraries in Massachusetts New Bedford Whaling Museum, beneficiary of gift from Emily Howland Bourne, in honor of her father Jonathan Bourne. National Register of Historic Places listings in Barnstable County, Massachusetts References External links Jonathan Bourne Public Library Jonathan Bourne Historical Center
John W. McCormack Post Office and Courthouse

The John W. McCormack Post Office and Courthouse, formerly the United States Post Office, Courthouse, and Federal Building, is a historic building at 5 Post Office Square in Boston, Massachusetts. The twenty-two-story, 331-foot (101 m) skyscraper was built between 1931 and 1933 to house federal courts, offices, and post office facilities. The Art Deco and Moderne structure was designed in a collaboration between the Supervising Architect of the United States Treasury Department and the Boston architectural firm of Cram and Ferguson. It occupies a city block bounded by Congress, Devonshire, Water, and Milk Streets, and has over 600,000 square feet (56,000 m2) of floor space. The exterior of the building is faced in granite from a variety of New England sources, as well as Indiana limestone. It was built on the site of the 1885 United States Post Office and Sub-Treasury Building. The building also contained the National Security Agency's Northeast Recruiting Office in Room 406. This office was overseen by the Office of Administration segment within the NSA and officially opened on November 7, 1980. Charles Raduazo acted as the chief headhunter in an effort to scout and employ electrical engineers and mathematicians from New England's elite colleges. The building is named for John W. McCormack, a long-serving Boston Congressman who was Speaker of the House from 1962 to 1971. It was designated a Boston Landmark by the Boston Landmarks Commission in 1998 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011. See also List of United States post offices National Register of Historic Places listings in northern Boston, Massachusetts References External links Media related to John W. McCormack Post Office and Courthouse at Wikimedia Commons City of Boston, Boston Landmarks CommissionMcCormack Post Office and Court House
Long Plain School

The Long Plain School is a historic school building at 1203 Main Street in Acushnet, Massachusetts. The two story wood-frame building was built in 1875 to a design by New Bedford architect Caleb Hammond. The building has a hip roof and a projecting central pavilion that rises to a fully pedimented gable and is topped by a Gothic style turret. Entries to the building are on the sides of this projecting pavilion. The pediment and the roof cornice are studded with brackets, and the tympanum of the pediment has an oculus window. The building was originally four bays wide and was extended in 1924 to six. Other 20th century additions were made to its rear. When built, the building had two classrooms and served as an elementary school. The modifications in 1924 expanded it to four classrooms, two on each floor. The school was closed between 1947 and 1950 due to low enrollment numbers, and was taken out of service as a school building in 1972. It has served as the Long Plain Museum, operated by the Acushnet Historical Society, since 1975. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Bristol County, Massachusetts References External links Long Plain Museum
Lydia Pinkham House

The Lydia Pinkham House was the Lynn, Massachusetts, home of Lydia Pinkham, a leading manufacturer and marketer of patent medicines in the late 19th century. It is in this house that she developed Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, an application claimed to provide relief for "female complaints". Its address, 285 Western Avenue, was widely known, for women all over the country would write to her for advice and comment, and the company cultivated the idea that Pinkham created the compound in her home. Pinkham herself would answer such letters, and the practice was continued by the company in her name for some time after her death in 1883. House history The house was built in circa 1872 by either Charles Beede, the seller of the property in 1871, or Leander Berry, who purchased it. The house was built with Second Empire styling, including a Mansard roof, which was then in fashion. In 1876 Beede reacquired the property, which he then rented to Isaac and Lydia Pinkham. It was at the time the only Second Empire home in the neighborhood. The Pinkhams occupied the house until Lydia's death, during which time the company rose to national prominence. The basement of the main block has large storage areas and shows evidence that it once contained a large stove on which the Pinkham compound would have been produced. The original house had an ell that extended from the rear. In the years 1922 to 1928 a sleeping porch and several rooms were added to the second floor. Two fireplaces were added, from the outside. Around 2000 the building was given a major rehabilitation. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012. Two years later it was further designated a National Historic Landmark. See also List of National Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts National Register of Historic Places listings in Lynn, Massachusetts National Register of Historic Places listings in Essex County, Massachusetts References
Lydia Pinkham House

La Lydia Pinkham House est une maison américaine située à Lynn, dans le comté d'Essex, au Massachusetts. Résidence de Lydia Pinkham à la fin du XIXe siècle, elle est inscrite au Registre national des lieux historiques depuis le 25 septembre 2012 et est classée National Historic Landmark depuis le 25 août 2014. Liens externes Ressource relative à l'architecture : Registre national des lieux historiques Portail du Registre national des lieux historiques Portail du Massachusetts
The Meadowbrook School of Weston

The Meadowbrook School of Weston is a coeducational, nonsectarian, independent day school for students in grades from junior kindergarten through eight. Meadowbrook is located on a 36-acre campus in Weston, Massachusetts, US, enrolls approximately 300 students, and employs 76 faculty and staff. The faculty:student ratio is 1:7. History The Meadowbrook School was founded in 1923 by Robert Winsor on its current grounds in Weston, Massachusetts, following the Pigeon Hill School in the same area in 1903. Winsor donated the present land and collaborated with parents to design the school. Meadowbrook School founded a middle school in 2001 and expanded its curriculum to add a seventh and an eighth grade. References External links meadowbrook-ma.org