HGO-01-001-F-R-1
GUSN-167473
This interior view shows a bedroom at 25 Exeter Street in Back Bay, Boston, Massachusetts. The bedroom probably belonged to a woman. A dressing table and a couch are set in a bay window and a purse hangs on a cheval glass. The bed faces the fireplace, above which is a mirror. A chandelier hangs from the decorated coffered ceiling. Nathan Matthews helped to develop the Back Bay and built 25 Exeter Street in 1882-1884. William Bliss, president of the Boston and Albany Railroad, seems to have been the first resident. In the mid-1880s, his daughter and son-in-law, Elizabeth and Hamilton Perkins, moved into the residence.
interior views
houses
bedrooms
beds (furniture)
dressing tables
couches (reclining furniture)
coffered ceilings
overmantel mirrors
cheval glasses
purses (ladies' accessories)
mirrors
multiple-seating furniture
dwellings
tables (support furniture)
sleeping and reclining furniture
interior decoration
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs
ACCESS ID 2063
Old ID 2099.00
3 photographic prints
PC002
Domestic interiors photographic collection
PC002.USMA.Boston.047.01
Interior photograph of a bedroom at 25 Exeter St., Boston, Mass.
Back Bay (Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts) [neighborhood]
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Soule Photograph Co. (Photographic studio)
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs
Bliss, William, 1834-1907
Boston and Albany Railroad Co.
Exeter Street (Back Bay, Boston, Mass.)
Item
HGO-01-001-F-R-1
Sources: Boston City Directory, 1885, 1905; bosarchitecture.com/backbay/exeter/25.html; Waters, H. The New-England Historical and Genealogical Register, p. xcvi-xcvii.
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