HGO-01-001-F-R-1
GUSN-167477
This interior view shows what is possibly a parlor or library at 25 Exeter Street in Back Bay, Boston, Massachusetts. A chandelier hangs from the ornately decorated ceiling. A desk stands near the fireplace. A three-paned mirror flanked by candle branches sits atop the fireplace mantel. Half bookcases line the wall on both sides of the fireplace. 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
overmantel mirrors
wainscoting
bookcases
chandeliers (hanging lights)
mirrors
lighting
dwellings
desks
interior decoration
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs
ACCESS ID 2067
Old ID 2103.00
3 black-and-white prints
PC002
Domestic interiors photographic collection
PC002.USMA.Boston.047.05
Interior photograph of 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
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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