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A Drive Down Highland Avenue

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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

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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 [...]