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Exterior view of the Patrick Andrew Collins House, Dorchester, Mass., undated

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Collection Type

  • Photography

Location Note

Geo.: Large: Mass.: Dorchester: Modern: Residential: Unmounted: Folder 1 of 3

GUSN

GUSN-194919

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Description

This view from the driveway shows the Patrick Andrew Collins House in the Ronan Park area of Dorchester, Boston. Patrick Collins was mayor of Boston (1902-1905) and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1883-1889). From the Dorchester Athenaeum website: "He moved into his Ronan Park estate around 1894. This house was a cupola-topped Italianate mansion that stood south of the Harris-Capen House. Nothing remains of the Collins estate but his associations with Mount Ida represent an important piece of Ronan Park's history. In a way his legacy as a hard working man lives on in the three-decker housing that was built on his former estate at 45 to 69 Mt. Ida Road that was built from 1910 to 1918 for working class, mostly Irish commuters."

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Descriptive Terms

cupolas
houses
trellises
driveways
side (positional attribute)
Italianate (North American architecture styles )
exterior views
dwellings
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs

Additional Identification Number

DigitalID 000130
AccessID 230
Other identifier HNEDID-000130

Physical Description

1 photograph

Collection Code

PC001

Collection Name

General photographic collection

Reference Code

PC001.02.01.USMA.0790.0050.001

Date Notes

1916

Places

Dorchester (Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts) [neighborhood]

Record Details

Material Type

black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs

Other People

Collins, Patrick A. (Patrick Andrew), 1844-1905

Subjects

city life
Ronan Park (Dorchester, Boston, Mass.)
Architectural photography

Variant Title

Exterior view of the General P.A. Collins House, Dorchester, Mass.

Description Level

Item

Location Note

Geo.: Large: Mass.: Dorchester: Modern: Residential: Unmounted: Folder 1 of 3

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