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2010 Christmas House Tour

administrator — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 16:02:45 +0000

Filed under: Christmas House Tours, Gingerbread Gems, Highland Avenue, Historical Society, Preservation Society, Rock Street, The Hill and Historic Highlands Tagged: Fall River House Tour 2011

Preservation Society releases video

administrator — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 02:51:45 +0000

The Preservation Society of Fall River has just released a wonderful seven-minute society mission and projects film to youtube.

Filed under: Architectural Elements, Art & Architecture, Borden-Related Houses, Gingerbread Gems, Hidden Treasures, Highland Avenue, Preservation Society, Public Buildings, Rock Street, The Hill and Historic Highlands, The South End Beauties Tagged: Preservation Society of Fall River, videos

Fall River Historical Society Summer Garden

administrator — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 02:16:20 +0000

Posted in Garden Spots, Hidden Treasures, Highland Avenue, Rock Street, The Hill and Historic Highlands Tagged: Fall River Historical Society, Fall River Victorian Gardens

The Simeon Borden/ Sarah Brayton House

administrator — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 02:07:53 +0000

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 building for the city. This particular style was popular in the mid-1870′s and many of the city’s buildings which resemble this house were designed by Hartwell and Swazey, such as the Academy Building in the Borden Block and the Central Congregational Church on Rock Street.

Simeon Borden sold the residence to Sarah Brayton in 1895 and it was then christened “Broadview”. Sarah S. Brayton died in 1915 and willed the home to her niece, Nancy Jannett Bowers Brayton who married Judge James Madison Morton in 1955. Their heirs donated the mansion to the Christian Day School which closed in 1992. Since 2001, it has been the address for the Women’s Center/ OB-GYN.