Draper Corporation tenements, Jones Road and Dutcher Street, 1919

Negative no.B2275. September 1919. Image depicts a two-story wood-shingled house with attic. The house appears to be photographed from the side, and features a large porch on the first floor. The entryway seems to be on the opposite side. Two bay windows are on the front side second floor level. Shutters are at each window. Trees and shrubs enhance the grounds. Tenements in this context simply means employee housing and not the "slum" housing usually thought of in reference to the word tenements. Draper Company founders, brothers George and Ebenezer, believed that good houses made good workers and created a model self-contained company town with one of the best collections of architecturally significant double houses in the country. 8 x 10 in. See Collection 6612 P, Box 12, Folder 2, Item 2275 for print of this negative.