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Prints: Boston, Ma.: Places or Streets: O-Z
GUSN-198779
"This was built by a descendant of Bernard Capen, who came to this country 1633, and settled in Dorchester. He was a very old man when he came to this country, as he died five years afterward, aged seventy-six. His gravestone is supposed to have been the oldest in New England.
"This house is on Union Street, corner of Marshall Lane, and was for several generations owned and occupied by the Capen family. It was once the great dry-goods store of Boston; and here Benj. Thomspon (afterward Count Rumford) and Samuel Parkman served as apprentices to Hopestill Capen." From "Homes of Our Forefathers in Boston, Old England and Boston, New England" by Edwin Whitefield, 1889.
exterior views
historic houses
houses
dwellings
line engravings (prints)
prints (visual works)
Prints and Engravings Collections number PR319
1 colored engraving
GC002
Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s
GC002.01.MA.3850.017
4.5 x 3.5 (HxW)(inches)
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Whitefield, Edwin, 1816-1892 (Author)
line engravings (prints)
prints (visual works)
Union Street (Boston, Mass.)
Marshall's Lane (Boston, Mass.)
Good with a stained margin.
Item
Prints: Boston, Ma.: Places or Streets: O-Z
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