HGO-01-001-F-R-1
GUSN-167474
This interior view shows the upper hall of the William Bliss House at 25 Exeter Street in Back Bay, Boston, Massachusetts. A chandelier hangs from the ornately decorated ceiling of the town house. Chairs, a sofa, and tables are arranged around the hall. A copy of Giambologna's scuplture, Mercurio, stands on a pedestal with claw-and-ball feet. 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 house.
interior views
halls (interior spaces)
town houses
stairs
chandeliers (hanging lights)
reproductions
sculpture (visual work)
lighting
chairs (furniture forms)
tables (support furniture)
interior decoration
black-and-white prints (prints on paper)
photographs
ACCESS ID 2064
Old ID 2100.00
3 black-and-white prints
PC002
Domestic interiors photographic collection
PC002.USMA.Boston.047.02
Interior photograph of the upper hall 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 (prints on paper)
photographs
Bliss, William, 1834-1907
Boston and Albany Railroad Co.
Exeter Street (Back Bay, Boston, Mass.)
Mercurio (Sculpture)
Item
HGO-01-001-F-R-1
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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