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Christmas House Tour 2009

Leave a Comment Posted by on December 12, 2009

The weather cooperated this year, with clear blue skies, lots of sun and just a chill in the air to remind us Christmas is two weeks away.  This year decorated trolleys made the round of houses, which helped speed things along and spare weary feet as they climbed the hills of The Hill section of [...]

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Underwood Street

Leave a Comment Posted by on February 17, 2009

Although Mapquest does not even show Underwood Street on its map of Fall River- it does exist and is a charming street which begins at the corner of French with the Hooper House, crosses Lincoln and Pearce streets and terminates at the intersection of President’s Avenue.  There are a good many styles of houses, but [...]

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Spring, Third & Fourth Streets

Leave a Comment Posted by on August 10, 2008

Students of the famous Borden case have studied the properties on Third and Fourth Streets with some interest.  Third Street, directly behind the Borden House once was the address for Crowe’s barn, an orchard and Dr. Chagnon’s house and offices. Men in Crowe’s yard, as well as a young girl named Lucy Collette, watching out for [...]

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The Simeon Borden/ Sarah Brayton House

1 Comment Posted by on July 14, 2008

This elaborate  High Victorian Ruskinian Gothic residence was built in 1875 for Simeon Borden. He was a prominent civil engineer and land surveyor who was deeply involved in Fall River’s expanding street system following the Civil War.    The residence was built of brick instead of wood, which at that time made this an unusual [...]

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