Housing (rear yards?) in Prospect Heights, Milford, Massachusetts, 1903

Negative no.B193. May 11, 1903. Image depicts a row of connected townhouses in Prospect Heights, Milford, Massachusetts, with a total of six entrances. These are two-story brick buildings designed to accommodate multiple families. These buildings feature roofed entrances and shutters at all the windows (some closed). There are small lawns in front between the houses and the street. Open space is in the foreground. While it would appear that this view is of the front of these houses, the two clotheslines filled with laundry across the road suggest this may actually be a rear view of these buildings. Another clothesline filled with laundry can be seen between two buildings on the left. 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. Founders of the Draper Company, brothers George and Ebenezer Draper were responsible for creating an integrated, planned community with innovative employee housing and recreational spaces and events, in addition to employment. 8 x 10 in. See Collection 6612 P, Box 12, Folder 5, Item 193 for print of this negative.