Fall River Painted Ladies

Victorian Homes and City Buildings

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 work, porches, and architectural “gingerbread” elements are a visual feast.

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 to about Harvard Street.

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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 the Academy Building) in the Ruskinian Gothic Style, in 1872. It is the only church in Fall River which features gargoyles on its exterior facades.

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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 doors and roof corbels. The two pretty sisters side by side command the attention of passers-by!

The Dana Brayton house next door

Gingerbread Gems, The Hill and Historic Highlands

More on the Sanford House

2 Comments Posted by administrator 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 it was built, it was known as 34 Lincoln Ave. Arnold B. Sandford was treasurer of the Globe Yarn Mills and President of the Davol Mills.

Gingerbread Gems, House Tales, The Hill and Historic Highlands

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