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Marble Block, Cedar St., Roxbury, Mass.

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Collection Type

  • Photography

Location Note

Geo.: Large: Mass.: Roxbury: Hadcock

GUSN

GUSN-195190

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Description

An exterior view of a block of Second Empire marble row houses at 28-46 Cedar Street, between Hawthorn Street and Thornton Street, in Roxbury, Massachusetts. The three-story buildings are designed in pairs and have double entrances. The window frames are incised with floral tracery and decorated with pilasters and brackets under the sills. On the Bromley map of 1895, the name M. A. Dunn appears across the entire block of buildings.

Details

Descriptive Terms

mansard roofs
row houses
marble (rock)
Second Empire
exterior views
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs

Additional Identification Number

DigitalID 000335
AccessID 511
Other identifier HNEDID-000335

Physical Description

1 photograph

Collection Code

PC001

Collection Name

General photographic collection

Reference Code

PC001.02.01.USMA.2540.0060.004

Date Notes

1880s-1890s

Places

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

Record Details

Originator

Hadcock, Henry L., 1855-1931 (photographer)

Material Type

black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs

Other People

Dunn, M. A.

Subjects

Cedar Street (Roxbury, Boston, Mass.)
Hawthorn Street (Roxbury, Boston, Mass.)
Thornton Street (Roxbury, Boston, Mass.)
Architectural photography

Description Level

Item

Location Note

Geo.: Large: Mass.: Roxbury: Hadcock

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