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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 [...]

Architectural Elements, Borden-Related Houses, Founding Families, Gingerbread Gems, House Tales, The South End Beauties ,

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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More on the Sanford House

2 Comments Posted by on February 14, 2008

 A little more information today on what may be the most beautiful of the Painted Ladies at 218 Lincoln.  Thanks to the Fall River native and Victorian house enthusiast for this addition.  Please send information about any of the houses featured here to Revdma@aol.com!   Arnold B Sanford House c1884. Before the addresses were changed, when [...]

Gingerbread Gems, House Tales, The Hill and Historic Highlands

House Beautiful

Leave a Comment Posted by on January 10, 2008

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 [...]

Architectural Terms, Gingerbread Gems, House Tales, Not Quite Painted Ladies, The Hill and Historic Highlands, The South End Beauties, Uncategorized, What are Painted Ladies?

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