Fall River Painted Ladies

Victorian Homes and City Buildings

Monthly Archives: January 2008

The Shove House

  Miss Ellen M. Shove was one of Lizzie Borden’s lady companions for her Grand Tour of 1890.  Miss, Shove, from a prosperous Hill family, never married and never applied again for a passport after 1890.  This is the 1850 High Street home, where no doubt Lizzie was a guest at one time.  The Shove [...]

A Stroll down Rock Street

House Beautiful

The Sanford House on Lincoln Avenue The term “Painted Lady” has now become part of the American vernacular and describes a Victorian house of three or more colors.  The painting scheme is also called “polychrome”.  The term was first used for San Francisco Victorian houses by writers Elizabeth Pomada and Michael Larsen in their 1978 book Painted [...]

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