n.d.
HGO-01-001-F-R-1
GUSN-167475
This interior view shows the entrance hall at 25 Exeter Street in Back Bay, Boston, Massachusetts. Two columns with Ionic capitals support a large ceiling beam and stand before the staircase. Wainscoting lines the walls of the entrance hall. A chandelier hangs from the ornately decorated 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
entrance halls
stairs
handrails
wainscoting
chandeliers (hanging lights)
houseplants
beams (structural elements)
lighting
dwellings
interior decoration
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs
ACCESS ID 2065
Old ID 2101.00
3 black-and-white prints
PC002
Domestic interiors photographic collection
PC002.USMA.Boston.047.03
Interior photograph of the entrance 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 (photographs)
photographs
Bliss, William, 1834-1907
Boston and Albany Railroad Co.
Exeter Street (Back Bay, Boston, Mass.)
spider plants
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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