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Monthly Archives: February 2008

New Boston Road Gingerbread Gem

1 Comment Posted by administrator on February 29, 2008

Also in the north end of town, New Boston Road, which passes by the Charlton Hospital is peppered with charming smaller Victorian homes and storefronts. The former 1890 Leanna Barker grocery store is a captivating and nicely -restored storefront, now functioning as Dr. McDonald’s Primary Care office. The porch is an inviting spot to [...]

Gingerbread Gems, Not Quite Painted Ladies, The Hill and Historic Highlands Fall River Eateries, New Boston Road

Painted Ladies of Winter Street

Leave a Comment Posted by administrator on February 22, 2008

Winter Street was found quite by accident while driving west on Locust St. The entire street, for the most part, has been preserved almost intact, with few drastic modern interferences to the facades. It is easy to picture this street as it must have looked in 1890, for little has changed. Some of the trellis [...]

Gingerbread Gems, Winter Street

A Drive Down Highland Avenue

Leave a Comment Posted by administrator on February 19, 2008

Highland Avenue boasts many styles of glorious houses from Victorian to turn of the 20th century to the 1930′s. The drive portrayed in the slide presentation below represents both the east and west sides of Highland Avenue and begins just north of the Charlton Hospital , crosses over President’s Avenue and follows north on Highland Avenue up [...]

Gingerbread Gems, Not Quite Painted Ladies, The Hill and Historic Highlands

Gargoyles in Fall River

1 Comment Posted by administrator on February 19, 2008

It’s no wonder Lizzie Borden wanted to belong to the stylish Central Congregational Church at 100 Rock Street. Many of the fine mill owner families from The Hill were congregants there. Listed today on the National Register, the granite, Nova Scotia freestone and red brick edifice was designed by Hartwell and Swazey (also architects of [...]

Architectural Terms, Not Quite Painted Ladies, The Hill and Historic Highlands Central Congregational Church, Hartwell and Swazey, Ruskinian Gothic

Borden-Durfee House c. 1850

Leave a Comment Posted by administrator on February 14, 2008

At the very west end of Prospect Street, just before turning left onto Rock Street, there is an amazing home, a neighbor to the Dana Brayton House. The Italianate house received a facelift late last summer and now boasts gilded pillar capitals, stained walnut balustrades and a very impressive double set of stained wooden front [...]

Gingerbread Gems, The Hill and Historic Highlands

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