Cluster of houses in Prospect Heights, Milford, Massachusetts

Negative no.B107. ca. 1905. Image depicts the end of a row of two-story brick buildings on the left. Another row of buildings can be seen behind it. These buildings were designed to accommodate two or more families. The building features include multiple chimneys, shutters at each window (all the shutters are closed on the end house on the left), and small lawns in front. A freestanding clothesline can be seen in the side yard in the center. Note the multiple stairways in the rear of these buildings as well. Several small boys sit or lie on the grass in the center. Open space is visible in the foreground. Prospect Heights was built as housing for Draper Company employees, but most houses in Prospect Heights were brick, as opposed to the wooden housing found in Hopedale, Massachusetts The houses are believed to have been designed by Peabody & Stearns. See Box 22, Negative 335 for a view of the entire row of houses on the left. Original photograph taken by the Draper Company. 8 x 10 in. See Collection 6612 P, Box 12, Folder 4, Item 107 for print of this negative.